Success Stories

Chief executives share stories on how membership in Vistage has helped them grow their businesses and become better leaders, who make better decisions and achieve better results.

Kimberly Kleeman

Kimberly Kleeman

co-founder and president, Shakespeare Squared

Kimberly Kleeman asked a question about Requests for Proposals in her Vistage group meeting. The answers offered by her fellow CEOs moved Kimberly to change a fundamental practice in her business, resulting in significant cost savings and increased efficiencies. She's a firm believer in the collaborative Vistage process.

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Tom Robinette

Tom Robinette

president and CEO, Robinette Demolition, Inc.

A chief executive never stops learning, says Vistage member Tom Robinette, head of one of the country's largest demolition engineering firms.

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Carolyn Ascher

Carolyn Ascher

owner, Amlings Interior Landscapes

Carolyn Ascher joined Vistage in 2005 seeking help in structuring her interior landscape business. Since then, Amlings Interior Landscape has expanded its services to hotels, law firms, real estate offices and other commercial businesses.

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Frank Muscarello

Frank Muscarello

CEO, Vision Point of Sale

"My business was struggling," Frank Muscarello remembers, " and from day one as a Vistage member, all the group cared about was saving my business." Now the Chicago-based firm is the nation's leading supplier of products and services that support the point-of-sale marketplace.

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Chris Scott

Chris Scott

President and COO, Little Lady Foods

As leader of a quarter-billion-dollar enterprise with 1,000 employees, Chris Scott relies on his Vistage group to keep him "looking outward." He also values the "culture of accountability" that Vistage brings to his leadership in the fields of custom-made food and specialty frozen food manufacturing.

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Marsha Serlin

Marsha Serlin

CEO, United Scrap Metal, Inc.

A Vistage member since 1991, Marsha Serlin says her group members offer valuable feedback when she has to make major decisions affecting her successful metal scrap recycling business. And two of her direct reports are also Vistage members, helping to drive change throughout the company.

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Jeffrey Hughart

Jeffrey Hughart

President, Designed Equipment Corporation

As the leader of a prominent scaffolding sales, service and training enterprise, Jeffrey Hughart depends on his Vistage group for advice and counsel he can't find anywhere else.

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Torrie Flink

Torrie Flink

Executive Director, Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center

Torrie Flink has taken the "lessons learned" from her Vistage group and successfully applied them to the Zacharias Center. Thriving non-profits and small businesses, she's found, share many of the same fundamental operating principles.

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Darrell Jackson

Darrell Jackson

President, Personal Financial Services

In addition to serving as COO of a leading provider of investment management, asset and fund administration, Darrell Jackson always finds time to attend his Vistage group meeting.

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Laren Ukman

Laren Ukman

CEO, IEG Inc.

Laren prizes her Vistage group meetings as an opportunity to "step back from the day-to-day and focus on important leadership and strategic issues."

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