Our Chairs
Guiding business leaders to reach their full potential
Vistage Chairs are accomplished former CEOs, business owners, and senior executives who have successfully navigated the complexities of leadership. With a wealth of real-world experience across diverse industries, they are uniquely positioned to guide others on their leadership journeys.
They bring a blend of strategic insight, emotional intelligence, and a passion for developing leaders, ensuring you have the support and perspective needed to excel.
‘I believe that people and purpose are the genesis of any organisation. Throughout my career I’ve experienced the power of open dialogue and embracing diverse viewpoints to solve challenges and having access to a confidential peer group takes leadership development up another notch.’
Kate Chalk, Vistage Chair
What makes our executive coaches and mentors stand out?
Our Chairs are former CEOs, business owners or senior executives with real-world experience.
They know what it takes to lead leaders and how to help you reach a new level of success because they’ve been there too.
Our unique approach has helped leaders succeed for more than 65+ years. All of our Chairs are trained in our proprietary method.
Our Chairs are selected through a robust recruiting process and continual participate in on-going learning.
Meet our Chairs
Meet some our coaches and mentors launching new groups
Vistage Chairs are hand-selected and rigorously trained, they’ve led companies to greater heights throughout their careers and have a desire to help other CEOs succeed at a higher level.
Big decisions get easier when you have the right person in your corner
We have peer-advisory groups across Australia and New Zealand and work hard to ensure the right group fit. Members are carefully placed in a peer group with other high-integrity business leaders from non-competing industries. Each group is led by a dedicated Vistage Chair who also provides one-to-one coaching and mentoring. Explore our Chair community below.
More confidence in your decisions. More impact in your leadership
‘There’s an energy that comes from working with business leaders to generate surprising insights and solutions. At Vistage, we make this happen from within my group environment by embracing diverse viewpoints to solve each other’s challenges. In our coaching sessions, the power of curiosity unlocks transformational change for each member.’
Vistage Chair
‘Facilitating a process that can impact on my members’ lives both professionally and personally is extremely rewarding. As a Chair, I love guiding the group to challenge and explore a fellow member’s issue or opportunity and seeing the power of the group help that member pivot and see a new root cause.‘
Vistage Chair
Frequently asked questions
This isn’t your typical networking group. It’s a confidential group of experienced executives dedicated to helping each other tackle tough challenges, assess opportunities, and develop effective strategies for improved professional and business performance. Whether the issue is operational, financial, or structural the group offers wisdom and other perspectives to help executives make better decisions and achieve their business goals.
Our executive coaches and mentors are former CEOs, business leaders, or owners from a diverse range of industries. 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.
Vistage members are CEOs, business owners and key executives of small and midsize companies 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 private advisory board meetings, and have access to one-to-one executive coaching, expert speakers, online industry and interest-based webinars and events. As a result, members make better decisions, achieve business goals, improve work-life balance, and grow their companies 2.2 times faster than the average small to midsize business.
Ready to take your leadership to the next level?
Find out why our members rely on their peer advisory groups to help them make critical decisions, face their greatest challenges and explore their biggest opportunities.