CEO FORUM RETREATS

GO DEEPER WITH YOUR CEOs

TO GROW YOUR IMPACT

Purpose

Executive leadership organizations like Vistage, YPO, EO, and business school alumni forums 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 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. We understand these communities because we are members of them, and also speak and facilitate at their monthly forum meetings, annual retreats, or chapter events with the goal of strengthening member relationships, offering new questions and ideas, and providing practical tools CEOs can put to immediate use.

When to Invest in a Retreat Facilitator

CEO Forums invest in speakers to generate novel questions and powerful ideas, or revisit leadership and life fundamentals in a new and creative way. Facilitators can be particularly helpful at moments of forum transition: in the midst of forum formation, crisis, or complacency, a well-equipped facilitator can supercharge the group to deeper bonds and functionality. Facilitators can also unlock memorable forum retreat experiences. In alignment with the group’s needs (a pre-retreat survey is usually sent ahead of time), facilitators offer compelling programs that enable forum moderators to enjoy the retreat, participate objectively, and minimize their administrative responsibility before and during the retreat.