For CEOs & owners · San Diego

You're the only one who can answer every question.

That’s the ceiling, not the badge. I help San Diego CEOs stop carrying it alone.

When you let great people do great work, great things happen. I found out I didn't need to work so hard to achieve amazing results.

I didn't read about this in a book

It doesn't have to be that way.

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U.S. Navy officer
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Pyramid Awards
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Hours a year with CEOs
Which room is yours?

Two groups. Openings in both.

Vistage Chair - Established CEOs & owners
Chief Executive · CE

Established CEOs & owners

Build a company that doesn’t run through you for every answer — with peers who get the weight of the seat.

Small Business Owners
Small Business · SB

Owners, $500K–$5M, growing

Turn a scrappy operation into a real company — and become a leader who isn’t carrying it alone.

We help each other see the blind spots.

You can’t read the label from inside the bottle. In the room, we shine flashlights into each other’s blind spots — real challenge from people who have your back. We call it carefrontation.

Most CEOs think the problem is time. It’s usually letting go. When you finally let great people do great work — great things happen. I’ve lived it.

Jim Ristuccia (10)

Serious work. Real friendships.

The people you’d actually want in your corner — and probably will.

Not sure where you stand?

Ten honest questions, 90 seconds, a straight read on where you're strong and what's worth working on. No email required.
In their words

"I didn't think I had time for this."

Mark was his firm’s top biller — sure he had no time for a peer group. Then he had to sell his business, and realized he didn’t want to decide it alone.

Not a fit for a group? Two other ways in.

Private, direct, built around the decisions in front of you now.

Retreats I design and facilitate — your team leaves with a plan they’ll run.

No leader makes it to the top alone.

One call, no pitch — just a straight conversation about where you are.