Why choose Vistage?
65+
Years of Experience
Over six decades of empowering leaders to achieve excellence
45k
Members Worldwide
Join a vast community of like-minded business leaders.
40
Countries Represented
Benefit from diverse perspectives and global insights.
What you will get as a Vistage Chair
Building a coaching or consulting business on your own isn’t easy. With Vistage, you’re in business for yourself, but not by yourself.
Lead with purpose
You’ve always enjoyed the pace of business and need to stay connected. As a Vistage Chair, you’re able to guide the decisions of executives and business owners using your past experiences.
Flexibility and recurring income
As a Vistage Chair you’re an independent contractor who can build a practice, suitable for a portfolio career, that suits your schedule and ambition.
World-class support
Be an entrepreneur with structure from day one. As a Vistage Chair, you’ll tap into a proven system, practical tools, and a powerful support network to focus on what matters most: inspiring and guiding business leaders.
Retire from corporate, not work
Having been a CEO, you know all too well the challenges. Now it’s your time to guide other CEOs and share your wisdom. Why should others reinvent the wheel when they can learn from someone who’s already been there?
Leverage your wisdom to mentor and support executives, helping them navigate challenges while staying connected to the business world.
Are you looking for purpose without the pressure of a full-time role?
Enjoy the flexibility to work on your time, facilitating discussions, guiding leaders, and making an impact without the demands of corporate life.
Do you thrive on peer learning and strategic conversations?
Engage with an exclusive network of seasoned leaders, exchanging insights and experiences that keep you challenged, inspired, and connected.
Would you like a fulfilling way to stay engaged with the business world?
Vistage provides the structure, resources, and community to help you step into a rewarding leadership role—without the need to build a new business from scratch.
Guide a Vistage group of local leaders
Vistage Chairs facilitate peer advisory groups for CEOs, business owners, and top executives across various industries. They have guided companies to greater heights. Now, they share that expertise with CEOs in their local Vistage group.
Vistage Chair requirements
Vistage Chairs come with strong business acumen, outstanding management skills and an innate entrepreneurial spirit. They want to share and leverage their experience. Does this sound like you?
Frequently asked questions
Vistage members are CEOs, business owners and key executives of small and midsize companies with $1M-$1B in annual revenue, representing nearly every industry. This diversity is key to furnishing advisory groups of members from non-competing industries and providing members with relevant expertise, regardless of their industry or company size.
Members participate in monthly, Chair-led confidential peer to peer advisory meetings, and have access to one-to-one executive coaching, expert resources, online industry-and-interest-based networks and proprietary content where they can ask questions of the global community. As a result, members make better decisions, achieve an improved work-life balance and grow their companies. In 2020, member companies grew revenue at 4.6%. Non-members saw a decrease of 4.7%.
Vistage Chairs are an elite group of independent contractors who build and run private advisory groups of high-calibre business leaders from non-competing industries. Ideal Chairs are marked by qualifications such as 15+ years of executive experience, strong business acumen, exceptional management skills and innate entrepreneurial spirit.
With Vistage’s support and assistance, Chairs build their first group, recruiting core members in order to initially launch, and then grow and sustain the group to up to 16 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.
Generally, successful Vistage Chairs are former or transitioning C-Level executives 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 grow their coaching practice.
No. Vistage Chairs are independent contractors operating their own Vistage Chair practices. Vistage provides the support, resources, learning and development, best practices, and a framework for success.
As a Vistage Chair, you operate as an independent contractor and can determine the scope of your Chair Practice. Should you move forward with exploring the opportunity to become a Vistage Chair, one of our team will be able to discuss compensation with you.
Vistage invests heavily in helping new Chairs to be successful. The support provided includes a comprehensive and ongoing learning and development program, a sales support team, marketing campaigns, branding efforts with the strength the Vistage brand.
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