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Membership in our Chief Executive Group gives you access to a vast range of experience, insights and wisdom from local and respected business leaders so you can make better decisions — and get better results.

65+ Years of CEO Leadership Success

The world's most trusted CEO coaching and peer group organization.

It’s still a human world where integrity, experience, and relationships matter. We’re here to connect the most successful CEOs of small and midsize businesses in NW Illinois and NE Iowa.

Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses. For more than 65 years, we’ve been helping CEOs, business owners, and key executives solve their greatest challenges. Today, more than 45,000 members in 35 countries rely on Vistage.

Our groups are designed for top business leaders who shoulder the weight of their company’s most important decisions. Together we can share expertise, challenge one another to think critically, and arrive at better decisions.

If you are the chief executive, consider the value a group of growth-oriented local leaders would provide to your most pressing challenges.

65+ Years of CEO Leadership Success

The world’s most trusted CEO coaching and peer advisory organization

It’s still a human world where integrity, experience, and relationships matter. We’re here to connect the most successful CEOs of small and midsize businesses in NW Illinois and NE Iowa.

Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses. For more than 65 years, we’ve been helping CEOs, business owners, and key executives solve their greatest challenges. Today, more than 45,000 members in 35 countries rely on Vistage.

Our groups are designed for top business leaders who shoulder the weight of their company’s most important decisions. Together we can share expertise, challenge one another to think critically, and arrive at better decisions.

VISTAGE by the Numbers

65+

Years

Vistage has been driving excellence leadership since 1957.

35

Countries

A global network of business leaders offers broader, more diverse perspectives.

45,000

Members

Our growing membership is attributed to one factor: results.

4.6%

Revenue Growth

In 2020, member companies grew revenue at 4.6%. Non-members saw a decrease of 4.7%.

Better leaders. Better decisions. Better results.

Vistage membership gives you access to a vast range of experience, insights and wisdom from respected business leaders so you can make better decisions — and get better results.

Through this ongoing collaboration, we build lifelong leadership excellence that elevates companies, strengthens communities, delivers meaningful results and fosters sustainable growth.

Ready to join us?

Membership in our Chief Executive Group gives you access to a vast range of experience, insights and wisdom from local and respected business leaders so you can make better decisions — and get better results.

Ready to join us?

Membership in our Chief Executive Group gives you access to a vast range of experience, insights and wisdom from local and respected business leaders so you can make better decisions — and get better results.

It Starts with the Group

RAPID GROWTH COMES FROM DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES

At the heart of the Vistage experience is the confidential peer advisory group Chaired by a former CEO fully committed to the success of each member. Once a month, you meet to work through challenges and opportunities with 12-16 high-caliber executives from non-competing organizations. These peers can help you vet solutions in ways your subordinates cannot.

AN ATMOSPHERE OF TRUST, SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT

Executives who have been carrying the burden of having to know all of the answers can finally let their guard down. They can put any issue on the table for their peers to tackle with them. No topic is off-limits. If you are willing to talk candidly about the decisions you face, fellow members will rally around you, listen, ask tough questions and bring to bear every resource they have to help you grow as a leader and improve your business.

In Our Group Ideas and Answers Start to Flow

Chief Executive Group Members Say...

CEO of Paylock IPT

Brian Lauducci

You cannot Google, ‘What am I not doing that I should be doing?’ This is the essential question that gets addressed at every Vistage meeting. … You can think you are doing a good job, but inevitably you will be missing something.

Attending Vistage meetings allows you to spend time working on and thinking about the items that do not regularly come across your plate.

President & CEO of Bernhardt Wealth Management, Inc.

Gordon J. Bernhardt

Vistage has been one of the best business decisions I have ever made.

Through the Vistage experience and coaching from my Chair I feel like I am a better leader… My only regret is that I didn’t join earlier.

President of Docuvault

Keith DiMarino

Vistage provided me with the personal growth and leadership development platform that I was unable to find on my own while running a fast-growing company.

I compared the cost of my membership dues to the associated growth Vistage has made in my company, and the results were over 50 times my initial investment.

Take the next step

Become part of a powerful community of high-caliber executives who share their perspectives to help you become a better leader, make better decisions and achieve better results.

Our unique approach to executive coaching helps executives grow their leadership skills to improve their companies, lives and communities.

Get an overview of our membership process, programs, our group members, and locations.

Take the Next Step

Become part of a powerful community of high-caliber executives who share their perspectives to help you become a better leader, make better decisions and achieve better results.

Our unique approach to executive coaching helps executives grow their leadership skills to improve their companies, lives and communities.

Get an overview of our membership process, programs, our group members, and locations.

You make decisions. Our Chief Executive group helps you make smarter ones.

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