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Member Experience Session

Experience what it feels like to have the right people in the room.

Some leadership challenges cannot be solved with more information. Sometimes what you need is perspective from people who understand the responsibility you carry.

Spend some time alongside CEOs and business leaders who understand the responsibility you carry. Bring your perspective, hear theirs, and experience what happens when experienced leaders think through real business challenges together. 

That is what our Member Experience Sessions are designed to let you experience first-hand.

Join fellow CEOs and business leaders for a morning of candid conversation, different perspectives and practical thinking. Step outside the day-to-day, test an idea, challenge an assumption and hear how other experienced leaders would approach the decisions in front of you.
 
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Some decisions are too important to make in isolation 

When you lead an organisation, there are fewer people you can speak with completely openly. 

Your team looks to you for direction. Your Board expects answers. Advisers bring valuable expertise, but often through the lens of their particular discipline. 

And some of the questions occupying your thinking do not have a simple answer. 

• Is this the right strategy? 
• What am I overlooking? 
• Am I moving too quickly, or not quickly enough? 
• How have other leaders approached something similar? 

The CEO Institute creates trusted, Chair-led peer environments where leaders can explore those questions with people who understand the realities of leading an organisation.

A Member Experience Session gives you a chance to experience that environment before deciding whether membership is right for you.
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Be a Member for a morning

This isn't a networking breakfast. It's an experience. 

You can read about how a CEO Syndicate works. But the best way to understand its value is to experience the conversation for yourself. Each Member Experience Session is designed to give prospective members a genuine introduction to the way The CEO Institute brings leaders together.

 

What you'll experience

A room of experienced peers

Sit alongside CEOs, Managing Directors and business owners carrying many of the same responsibilities you are, but bringing different industries, experiences and perspectives.

A conversation you may not have anywhere else

Talk openly about the decisions, challenges and opportunities occupying your thinking, in a confidential environment designed for honest discussion and constructive challenge.

An experienced Chair

See how an accomplished Chair asks the questions others may not ask, draws different perspectives into the room and keeps the conversation focused on what matters.

Different thinking

Hear how leaders from outside your business and sector see the issue. Challenge their thinking. Let them challenge yours.

Something useful to take away

Leave with fresh perspectives, sharper questions and potentially a clearer view of the decision in front of you.
 

 

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Is a Member Experience Session right for you? 

These sessions are designed for CEOs, Managing Directors and business owners carrying significant responsibility for the direction and performance of their organisation.

It may be particularly valuable if you:

  • Carry decisions that are difficult to discuss openly within your organisation

  • Would value an impartial sounding board outside your business

  • Want broader perspectives before making significant decisions

  • Find yourself absorbed in operational demands with too little time to step back

  • Value constructive challenge rather than simply having your thinking reinforced

  • Want to experience the people and the conversation before deciding whether The CEO Institute is right for you.

You don't need to arrive with a problem to solve. Come ready to contribute, listen, ask questions and experience what can happen when experienced leaders think together.

Why The CEO Institute?

Where no Business Leader walks alone 

For more than three decades, The CEO Institute has brought business leaders together to share perspective, challenge thinking and support better leadership decisions. 

Our Syndicates bring together non-competing peers and experienced Chairs in professionally facilitated environments designed for open discussion, practical insight and constructive challenge.
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Years of operation
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Members & alumni
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Experience it yourself

Your next perspective might already be in the room. 

If you are curious about what changes when you have the right people around the table, join us for an upcoming Member Experience Session and experience the room for yourself.


There is no expectation that attending means you will become a member. It is an opportunity to experience the environment, meet the people behind it and decide whether this kind of peer support could add value to the way you lead. 

Places are complimentary for eligible business leaders and numbers are limited to protect the quality of the discussion. 

Register your interest and our team will contact you to confirm your place.
Hear from our Members

Perspective is different when it comes from someone who understands the role. 

The value of a Syndicate is best understood through the leaders who experience it. Hear from members about the role peer perspective, constructive challenge and trusted conversation have played in their leadership. 
I always look forward to our Syndicate meetings and come away from them invigorated. Attending the meetings with a small list of discussion points provides an opportunity to obtain different perspectives from an otherwise unavailable CEO talent pool.
Shane
Chief Executive Officer
The Syndicate is a place of trust and respect. It’s the only place I can openly test ideas, solve real problems, and come away with practical solutions.
Vincent
Chief Executive Officer
When you are at the top of your organisation, the people you can talk to that understand what are you are going through, are limited. The CEO Institute provides me with other leaders who I can talk to, share problems with and getting another perspective on how they would deal with it. I see The CEO Institute as an advisory board - it stops you from being fixated and one dimensional.
Binh
Chief Executive Officer
The Syndicates provide you with a level of comfort. We all carry different burdens and different issues at certain times, and to be able to share that and find some common ground of being a CEO is of real benefit.
Craig
Chief Executive Officer
Having access to a discreet, experienced network across industries has been invaluable to my leadership and my business.
Riana
Chief Executive Officer
Sandy (Syndicate Chair) was an amazing mentor for me. Very insightful, with an ability to make the complex sound simple. So much so that I’ve put my Corporate Services Manager through The Executive Syndicate program.
Bryan
Managing Director
It is good to hear from people from other industries. I have been in the same industry for so long, that it is beneficial to see how other CEOs deal with issues, concerns, and share milestones. This is already benefiting the business and has expanded my role.
Shammi
Chief Executive Officer
Being around a table with people like me but also different from my industry. There was a lot of diversity at the table which I enjoyed. I came from a strong government background most of my career in particular the education sector and I hadn’t spent a lot of time outside of that. I found that very enriching.
Wendy
Board Member
The diversity of thinking, real-world experience, and sheer calibre of the people around the table - it's unlike anything else. It’s a privilege to learn in this environment.
Pat
Chief Executive Officer