What’s next for you?
As a former CEO or business owner, you’ve logged a lifetime of experiences and successes. Perhaps you’ve sold your company, retired or left your previous position. Now, you’ve spent time off in retirement and you’re contemplating what’s next.
This may be an unfamiliar place for you. You’re no longer climbing the same ladder of success. You’ve already proved yourself and achieved a measure of financial security. You’ve run and grown companies. You’ve worked long hours, perhaps with significant sacrifices in your personal and family life. You’ve walked the path of leadership. You’re now ready to own your own practice with the flexible schedule and good income you’ve always wanted. CEOs or SMB owners are preferred. This is an opportunity for very experienced CEO professionals. Director or VP level executives, need not apply.
As a former business leader, you’ve logged a lifetime of experiences and successes. You’re no longer climbing the same ladder of success. You’ve run and grown companies and walked the path of leadership. What’s next? Own your own practice with a flexible schedule and good income you’ve always wanted.
Make big impact as a Vistage Chair
Our Vistage Chairs are some of the most prestigious and renowned CEO coaches in the world. As a Vistage Chair, you have the rare opportunity to guide top business leaders through their greatest challenges, so they can make better decisions to benefit themselves, their companies and their communities. What you do matters, and the impact you make ultimately creates a better world.
Our Vistage Chairs are some of the most prestigious and renowned CEO coaches in the world. As a Vistage Chair, you have the rare opportunity to guide top business leaders through their greatest challenges, so they can make better business decisions.
Benefits of having a Chair practice
Help leaders succeed
Create an impact that ripples from the C-Suite, through company ranks and into your community.
Earn recurring income
There’s no limit on the number of groups you can launch. Chief executive members stay 5+ years on average.
A Flexible schedule
As an independent contractor, you can build a practice that suits your schedule and ambition.
Stay local
Travel is minimal as your monthly meetings and one-to-one sessions are all local. *Virtual meetings & protocols are in place during quarantine to use at your discretion.
Learn from the absolute best CEO coaches & subject matter experts in the world
Chair Academy is conducted by a faculty of successful, high-performing and long-tenured Master Chairs, as well as subject-matter experts in leadership, communication, coaching and business development. Facilitators use a variety of methods and tools to fully engage participants in the principles and behaviors of being a Chair. This includes small breakout sessions, live demonstrations, role plays and lectures. The curriculum also covers problem-solving and skills practice.
Learn from the absolute best CEO coaches in the world.
Chair Academy is conducted by a faculty of successful, high-performing and long-tenured Master Chairs, as well as subject-matter experts in leadership, communication, coaching and business development. There are small breakout sessions, live demonstrations, role plays and lectures.
Attend the next Virtual Chair Academy
There are two upcoming training events now accepting qualified applicants.
• Virtual Chair Academy: September 14 – 18
This week long, highly engaging executive-level program equips new Chairs with tools, skills, and best practices for sourcing and leading Vistage members and groups. If you are interested in Chairing and think you qualify, please save your spot.
Everything in store for you at Virtual Chair Academy
- How to implement business development practices to build a new group.
- Steps to help identify and select your group members.
- How to conduct effective one-to-one selection conversations.
- How to speak to Vistage’s proprietary Issue Processing model.
What actual Vistage Chairs have to say
Tonya Twitchell
Vistage Chair since 2018
First as a Member, and now as a Chair, Vistage continues to be the place where I am “seen”, challenged, and championed at a level that is consistently higher and more rigorous than any other area of my life.
Arturo Lopez
Houston, Chair since 2014
Chairing is one of the most difficult things I have done so far in my life and it is also the most rewarding to date. The impact as a guide for our Members is exceptional.
Ozzie Gontang
San Diego, Chair since 1986
Chairing is a calling. It has been the most rewarding work I’ve done in my life and also the most challenging. The community helped me grow, develop, and become a life-long learner. The foundation of Trust allowed for the Growth to take place because of the Care and Challenge of the Chair Community.
Christiaan Vandenberg
Denver, Chair since 2008
The Vistage community continues to inspire my personal and professional growth. It keeps my mind sharp and challenges my own ideas and bad habits. It keeps me young and vibrant and supplies one of the reasons to get out of bed, out of my house, out of my office, and mostly out of my comfort zone.
Frequently asked questions
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Vistage Chair Application
Vistage Chairs mentor high-integrity executives, helping them make better decisions, become better leaders and achieve better results.
To learn more about this role, complete this short form and upload your resume/CV/biography. Our Chair selection team will be in touch shortly.