2025 Forum – The Lending Forum

Keynote

The 2025 Small Business Lending Forum is thrilled to welcome leadership advisor and author, Diana Chapman as its keynote speaker.

Diana Chapman is an advisor to exceptional leaders who has worked with over 1,000 organizational leaders and many of their teams. As a founding partner at Conscious Leadership Group she has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer. In addition to facilitating forums in the Bay Area for founders, venture capitalists, and CEOs, Diana facilitates Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Forums and Chapters worldwide. Diana co-authored the best-selling book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, in 2015. She has been a speaker at TEDx, Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business, YPO, and Kauffman Fellows. Diana lives in Scotts Valley, CA with her husband.

2025 Forum

An Introduction to Conscious Leadership

In this interactive session Diana Chapman will introduce us to the meaning of Conscious Leadership and the key steps to be a more responsive leader versus a reactive one. You will get a chance to identify some of your own personal patterns that you can then be on the lookout as you lead yourself and others.

Registration

The Small Business Lending Forum is an invite-only event. If you received an invitation from Orion First, please click the link to register at Eventbrite. If you haven’t received an invitation and would like to attend please contact us.

Schedule of Events

Thursday, February 13

Opening Reception
› 6:00pm | Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass

Join us for a cocktail hour from 6pm – 7pm followed by dinner from 7pm – 10 pm.

Friday, February 14

Breakfast Buffet
› 7:30am – 8:30am | Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass

Small Business Lending Forum
› 8:30am | Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass

Our forum this year includes notable presentations and multiple breakout sessions focused on current issues facing our industry.

Evening Event
› 6:00pm | Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass

Saturday, February 15th

Optional Charity Golf Tournament
› 9:00am | Whirlwind Golf Club

This year’s tournament is hosted on site at the beautiful Devil’s Claw course, designed by Gary Panks. Surrounded by the natural beauty of the Gila River landscape, you’ll navigate through cottonwood, mesquite, saguaro, and palo verde trees, alongside native grasses and rolling terrain. Enjoy a day of friendly competition among colleagues and friends.

Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass

This luxury resort is just 11 miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), acting as the perfect gateway to Arizona attractions and the desertscape. Resort amenities are indigenous-inspired, from their Aji Spa treatments to their world-class Native American cuisine at Kai restaurant. Two championship golf courses were designed by renowned golf architect Gary Panks and feature original challenges with scenic desert vistas.