GO DEEPER WITH YOUR GROUP OF CEOS TO DRIVE IMPACT IN THEIR LIVES AND BUSINESSES.

“In a room of CEOs, Cooper knows how to cut to the chase and talk about the most important thing in an accessible way. I’ve seen conversations get to a whole other level after he asks a question. He really understands people and groups.”

-Sharon Emek, CEO of WAHVE and Vistage Member

CEO Forum Chairs and event coordinators of executive leadership organizations like YPO, Vistage, and business school alumni forums all have a big responsibility: to maximize impact for the CEOs they serve. Convening10 CEOs in one room for a day can translate into $100,000 of opportunity cost, and CEO Forum Chairs and event coordinators can not waste their time. Guest speakers, facilitators, content, and logistics should be top notch. Values such as trust, respect, confidentiality, challenge, and growth must be held sacred. The experience needs to be personal and relevant, so that CEOs walk away from each day knowing their time was well spent and that the community enriches their life and business.

We understand these communities because we are members of them, and also serve them as speakers and facilitators. The strength of these groups lies within the peer sharing, wisdom and experience within the membership base. While speakers and facilitators should challenge groups to consider powerful ideas and frameworks, member talk time and engagement must remain paramount to achieve the high impact these groups promise. Within this approach, we help CEO forum members:

  • Learn how to minimize destructive conflict while courageously creating productive conflict to maximize results

  • Create powerful retreat experiences with a focus on rest, refreshment, reflection, relationships, and resetting forum expectations

  • Develop deeper, more vulnerable and transformative relationships that last a lifetime

  • Achieve greater alignment on their expectations for each other and the forum as a whole

  • Access a Leadership Fundamentals toolkit that will help them fast track company performance, enhance communication, and align leaders

  • Access DiSC, a highly validated, sophisticated and amazingly accurate cognitive behavioral assessment based on values and motivations. DiSC helps leaders better understand themselves, forum-mates, their executive teams, and their family, and offers strategies for how to improve communication and relationships

  • Leverage PXT Select, a pre-hire assessment used in the talent selection process to evaluate candidates’ intellectual capacity, behavioral inclinations, and natural passions, and a highly accurate predictor of candidates’ fit for the role

  • Build awareness around the Greater Narratives that exist in their lives and businesses, and how these narratives—sometimes deeply rooted and intergenerational in nature—can be rewritten.

  • Conduct a self-audit and create an action plan regarding various aspects of a healthy and flourishing life

  • Learn how to cultivate an esprit de corps within their company executive team

  • Identify and create an action plan to resolve emotional pain and dysfunctional conflicts that might be preventing them, their family, or their company from achieving greatness

Over the past 20 years, we have built a proprietary and easy to understand executive leadership paradigm—designed specifically for CEOs—through which all of these topics can be explored in great depth. If you are CEO Forum Chair or event coordinator who believes exploring these questions could drive impact in your group, we welcome a conversation to discuss how we can help as a speaker or facilitator.