Stack the Deck: Achieve Your Goals with 5 Research-Backed Moves

You just set your goals. This is the room where you workshop the five moves that actually help you reach them, backed by research, alongside a group of founders doing the exact same thing.

Why this room exists Here's the uncomfortable truth about goals: setting one is the easy part. Almost everyone who falls short didn't fail because they picked the wrong goal; they failed in the gap between deciding and doing.

That gap isn't a willpower problem. It's a method problem, and decades of behavioral science have quietly figured out what actually closes it.

In 45 minutes, we'll put five of those methods to work on your goals, so you leave with a plan that's built to survive contact with a real, busy, founder's week.

The five moves

We won't spoil the whole event, but here's the deck you'll be stacking:

01 · Get specific. Turn a fuzzy ambition into a target you can measure. (And no…we're not going to repeat the famous "3% of Harvard grads wrote their goals down" study. It never happened. We'll show you what the real research says instead.)

02 · Name the obstacle. Why "just visualize success" quietly backfires, and the simple contrast that re-energizes you instead.

03 · Make it automatic. The single move researchers found roughly doubled follow-through. It takes one sentence.

04 · Bank a small win. The fastest, most reliable way to build momentum that actually lasts.

05 · Time your restart. How to use a "fresh start" to make your goal stick, and why the timing matters more than you'd think.

Why this is different

Research, not recycled advice. Every move draws on real behavioral science, from researchers at NYU, Wharton, and Harvard Business School – not the motivational myths that get passed around founder circles.

Data from millions of actual business owners. Learn what we’re seeing across our Hello Alice community of millions of business owners. These are the patterns you can't get anywhere else.

A working session, not a webinar. You won't just listen. You'll leave having done the work on your own goal, in real time, with the group.

Founder to founder. This is founder led, from our Hello Alice CEO, reading the moment, taking live questions, and working real goals on the spot.

Who it's for

This roundtable is for founders who've just set their goals and are ready to actually move on them. Any stage, any industry, whether you're chasing your first $10K month or your next big hire, the five moves work the same way. Come with at least one goal in mind, and leave with a plan.