Lifelong Impact. Limitless Rewards. Lasting Legacy.
Explore Your Most Rewarding Path Beyond the C-Suite as a Vistage Chair
Accomplished Coaches for Business Owners & CEOs
At the heart of each group is a Vistage Chair who, through facilitating peer advisory meetings and providing one-to-one mentoring, has the opportunity to significantly affect the lives of executive leaders in their community.
1,200 Chairs Coaching SMB Leaders and Business Owners to Greater Heights
If you’re inspired to help CEOs transform their businesses and become the best versions of themselves, consider the role that many regard as the pinnacle of their career.
Chairs form peer advisory groups of high-caliber business leaders from non-competing industries.
Each month, they facilitate candid, confidential roundtable discussions about their most pressing business and leadership decisions.
“It’s going to be the most rewarding commitment you’ll ever make.”
LIZA LECLAIR, Vistage Chair since 2017 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Choose a Proven Path Backed by a Global Brand
“As I was learning the art of Chairing, I had lots of help along the way — mentors from Vistage, other Chairs, Vistage staff; I had such great support.”
FRANK DAY, Vistage Chair since 2013 | Birmingham, Alabama
Preferred Chair Experience
Most Vistage Chairs have 10+ years of executive experience and have had P&L responsibility exceeding $5 million in addition to one of these professional backgrounds.
Current or recently retired CEOs or high-level executives
Current business coaches or executive coaches
C-Suite and VPs looking to grow their own business
Business owners with entrepreneurial attitudes and coaching spirit
High Integrity. Unique Qualities. A Prestigious Role.
Preferred Experience
- 10+ years of executive experience
- P&L responsibility exceeding $5 million
- Current or recently retired CEOs, C-Suite Execs
- Business coaches or executive coaches
- Business owners with entrepreneurial attitudes
- Team leadership experience
Preferred Skills
- Strong business acumen, communication skills,
- High EQ and passion for helping others
- Executive presence: confidence, maturity, assertiveness
- Strong connector and networker
- Entrepreneurial spirit and drive to build your own business
Not you? Learn the difference between a Vistage Chair and a Vistage Member.
“As a lifelong learner, the growth and challenges of Chairing are incredibly rewarding — keeping me sharp, engaged and better equipped to serve others.”
KATINA KOLLER, Vistage Chair since 2017 | Sedona, AZ
What it Means to Be a Vistage Chair
“When I reflected on retiring, I realized I still wanted to be involved in business.”
Experience:
- Longtime business owner and entrepreneur in the IT industry
- Vistage member for 10+ years
- Current founder and CEO of a cyber security company as well as a new carrot cake company
Ola Sage
Vistage Chair since 2019 | Former CEO of e-ManagementCEO of CyberRx, Inc. | Leading 3 Vistage Groups
“Vistage is my way to give forward by creating an ecosystem of growth-oriented, compassionate, intellectually humble and nimble leaders.”
Experience:
- Lifelong learner with two MBA degrees and executive education from Harvard Business School
- Former Chief Sourcing & Trading Officer
- Built a “jet-set global executive career” across six industries, three countries, and 35 countries traveled by age 30
- Former Vistage member
Vipon Kumar
2X Award-winning Vistage Chair since 2020 | Leading 6 Vistage groups
“When I was a CEO, I made an impact on one business. Now I impact 40+.”
Experience:
- Legal educational background
- Former CEO, advancing through multiple roles in her family’s steel service company
- Led cultural development efforts, earning the company recognition as a “Top Place to Work” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for four years
- Host of the podcast Beyond the Comfort Zone
Aviva Leebow Wolmer
2X Award-winning Vistage Chair since 2021 | Leading 3 Vistage groups
“I guided Fortune 500 companies around the world. But serving as an executive coach to midsize business leaders is my most fulfilling chapter yet.”
Experience:
- Former senior executive at IBM, Xerox and Gallup
- Professor of Organizational Leadership and MBA programs at Pepperdine and Chapman universities
- Author of The New Currency of Leadership
Dr. Maryam Malek
Vistage Master Chair since 2013 | Leading 5 Vistage groups
Run Your Practice. On Your Own Schedule. On Your Own Terms.
Own Your Business: You are an independent contractor who can build a practice that suits your ambition. The larger your groups, the greater your income stream.
Lasting Legacy: A deeply fulfilling opportunity to leave a legacy, elevate business leaders and lift up your community.
Sustained Income & Freedom: Earn well into your retirement years with more flexibility. You create a schedule that works best for your lifestyle.
World-Class Support: You use a proven approach to coaching and have all the support and resources you need to succeed.
Apply to Become a Vistage Chair
Vistage Chairs mentor high-integrity executives, helping them make better decisions, become better leaders and achieve better results. To learn more about this opportunity, complete this short form and upload your resume/CV/biography. Our Chair selection team will contact you.
Most Chairs have these qualities:
- P&L responsibility exceeding $5 million
- 15+ years of executive experience
- 25+ people leader
- Strong business acumen, communication skills, high EQ
- Availability and drive to build their own business
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are Vistage Chairs?
Vistage Chairs are an elite group of independent contractors who build and run private advisory groups of high-caliber business leaders from non-competing industries. Ideal Chairs are marked with years of executive experience, strong financial acumen, superb management skills and innate entrepreneurial spirit. Some text over here to answer the question
What are Vistage Chair responsibilities?
With Vistage’s support and assistance, Chairs build their first group, recruiting eight members in order to initially launch, and then grow and sustain the group to up to 18 members. Every month Chairs gather their members for candid, confidential roundtable discussion of their most pressing business issues. They also meet one to one with each member monthly to provide tailored executive coaching and guidance.
What are the requirements to become a Vistage Chair?
Generally, successful Vistage Chairs are former or transitioning C-Level executives, Chairman, President with at least $5M of P&L responsibility and the following attributes: possess an entrepreneurial spirit with bold leadership skills, have a passion for mentoring others, be experienced in leading a high-performing team, be a strong connector and networker, have the ability to listen to — and challenge — CEOs and senior executives, have achieved great success and are driven to give back.
Is Vistage a franchise model?
No. As a Vistage Chair, you operate as an independent contractor and can determine the scope of the Chair Practice you build. Should you move forward with exploring the opportunity to become a Vistage Chair, you will be asked to sign an NDA and then will have access to full compensation detail.
How much do Vistage Chairs make?
Should you move forward with exploring the opportunity to become a Vistage Chair, you will be asked to sign an NDA and then will have access to full compensation detail.
What will Vistage provide to help me build my groups?
Vistage invests heavily in helping new Chairs to be successful. The support provided includes a world-class, award-winning learning and development program, a support team from both the Support Center office and in the field, marketing campaigns and branding efforts, infrastructure and the strength of the Vistage brand.
What's next?
- Step 1. If you’re qualified, our Executive Recruitment team will contact you within two business days to determine whether Vistage Chairing is a good fit. You’ll be asked about your leadership experience, personal goals and learn more about Chairing.
- Step 2. After you’ll attend Chair Academy, our award-winning week-long training.
- Step 3. After graduating Chair Academy, you’ll receive robust sales and marketing support as you build your first Vistage group.