becomE A VISTAGE Chair
Turn your leadership experience into a powerful legacy
As a former CEO or business owner, you understand that the path to genuine leadership is not easy. It’s a daily commitment filled with hurdles and setbacks, as well as moments of opportunity and great success. As a Vistage Chair, you’ll commercialise your expertise, mentor top executives, lead high-impact peer groups, and shape the future of business. Are you ready to make a lasting impact?
‘Being a Vistage Chair is the single most profound thing that I have done in my professional career. The ability to assist people on their journeys and to help them become the best leaders and people that they can be is very rewarding. I am quite proud when they accomplish their goals and achieve success in whatever way they measure it.’
Vistage Chair
Could this be the highlight of your career?
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
Unlike coaching on your own, you’re supported with all the resources you need to succeed AND a structured learning program to grow your Vistage Chair practice.
Role of a Vistage Chair
Chairing is a combination of listening and coaching and a blend of nudging and motivating. You’ll help drive business development and connect members to the right people to aid their success. It’s your job to cultivate the best group dynamic and foster group connection that drives impact for its members.
Do you have the experience and insight to lead those who lead?
Vistage Chairs are seasoned executives who bring depth, insight, and heart to the table. With decades of real-world experience, strong financial acumen, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Here’s what defines a Vistage Chair:
An inside look at being a Vistage Chair.
Once you’ve secured at least 8 members as part of your first peer advisory group, you’ll set up monthly group meetings. In addition to processing the issues and opportunities that members bring to the table, most meetings will also feature a presentation by an expert speaker on a topic of interest to your members. You’ll also meet with each member of your group every month for a private one-to-one session.
APPLY TO BE a VISTAGE Chair
Ready to leverage your experience?
Enjoy the flexibility to create your own work schedule, facilitating discussions, guiding leaders, and making an impact without the demands of corporate life. To learn more about this opportunity, complete this short form. Our Chair selection team will be in touch shortly.
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.