Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network

Discover the Inner Circle of Trusted Advisors You've Been Looking For

Discover the Inner Circle of Trusted Advisors You've Been Looking For

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For growth-minded executives, thought-leaders, and changemakers who want to maximize their effectiveness, create more value, and do work they're proud of.

For growth-minded executives, thought-leaders, and changemakers who want to maximize their effectiveness, create more value, and do work they're proud of.

The real problem facing top-level executives today is not loneliness. It is isolation.

If you're at the executive level or moving in that direction, it's not uncommon to feel trapped day in and day out, feeling isolated and alone in business.

At the highest levels of leadership, the things that become more scarce are honesty, transparency, and trust. There's a reason they say it is lonely at the top, and this is one of them.

To avoid this, you must go out of your way to develop support systems that provide candid and transparent dialogue. Otherwise, you risk living in a protected bubble - an echo chamber, stuck with blind spots and no one to confide in and work through challenges with.

That's why I created the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network (CEPAN) – a place where you can get dedicated time and space to focus on you and your most pressing issues with strategic confidants who understand what you're going through and aren't afraid to challenge you on a higher level.

You Don't Have To Go It Alone

Join the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network and once a month with like-minded executives, you’ll provide and receive feedback & support while forging valuable new relationships with lifelong strategic confidants.

Join the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network and once a month with like-minded executives, you’ll provide and receive feedback & support while forging valuable new relationships with lifelong strategic confidants.

Access a Trusted Network

Tap Into Valuable Resources

Avoid Mistakes & Save $$$

Accelerate Success & Increase Profits


Access a Trusted Network


Tap Into Valuable Resources


Avoid Mistakes & Save $$$


Accelerate Success


Increase Profits


the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network Provides

Enormous Benefits For Members

Benefit from the experiences and insights of a thoughtfully-vetted and carefully-curated network of leading executives who have been (or are going) down a similar path.

Each month, behind closed doors with leaders at your level, you'll engage in substantive dialogue designed to challenge you on a higher level – conversations you know you need to have with others in similar roles that will equip you for the psychological and relational issues that come with being an accomplished business executive.


Facilitating a powerful exchange of knowledge and expertise, these structured and candid conversations present you with a unique and rare opportunity to:

  • leverage the wisdom of other executives to tackle your goals and highest priorities
  • receive honest and unbiased feedback and insight
  • benefit from a safe and confidential space designed exclusively for self-reflection, exploration, and strategic thinking
  • test new approaches and develop actionable strategies to drive positive shifts in performance and obtain measurable results
  • share your insights, experience, and hard-won wisdom so that, collectively, as a group, you get smarter and make better decisions
  • forge valuable new relationships with lifelong strategic confidants

What You Get

60+ Hours of Tailored and Expertly-Facilitated Peer Group Discussions Annually

Quarterly Strategy Sessions

an opportunity to recharge and strategize while tackling the top issues that today's leaders face

You'll meet in-person four times a year for expertly facilitated closed-door gatherings to discuss and strategize on the top issues keeping you up at night while reflecting on your goals and recalibrating your action plans for achieving them. 

Monthly Advisory Roundtables

CONFIDENTIAL SPACE TO WORK THROUGH YOUR MOST PRESSING ISSUES WHILE NORMALIZING YOUR SHARED CHALLENGES

In these virtual sessions, you'll share one opportunity or challenge for which you would like the group's feedback, input, and advice. Then, the magic happens when we draw upon the group's wisdom to engage in thought-provoking discussion that yields best practices, actionable strategies, and resources for moving forward.

50% Discount For Your EA

I also convene peer advisory networks for Executive Assistants, and with your membership in the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network, your EA can join an Executive Assistant's Peer Advisory Network for 50% off the annual fee.

On-Demand Executive Coaching

When you are a member of the network, I am your coach all year long, and you will have access to just-in-time coaching with me to address urgent questions or situations that require immediate attention and support.

A Tight Community of Top-Tier, Vetted Peers

This network of like-minded executives will quickly become an inner circle you can lean on to:

  • serve as an unbiased sounding board,
  • confront and challenge you in ways others won't,
  • say things that need to be said,
  • help hold you accountable, and
  • celebrate your accomplishments and successes with you.
Premium Content & Resources

Be the first to receive early access to premium content, business tools, and resources.

Read What Members Have To Say

"There is a need for executives who have achieved career success to continue their professional growth in an environment of peers where the exchange of candor is fresh and reliable. In our forum, we are provided with a structure that holds us accountable for goal-setting and honoring our commitments. The sum experiences across the executive forum are deep and rich and span industries and geographies. We regard each other’s strengths and vulnerabilities in a way that is safe and non-threatening and over time has produced for each of us a professional, and also personal, evolution."

Tamra / Operations

"Participating in the Executive Women's Peer Advisory Forum has revolutionized my very approach to life. What I’ve gained has changed the trajectory of every aspect of my life - my law practice, my personal life, the way I evaluate my successes and set goals for the future - for the better."

Amie / Founding Partner

Membership Privileges

60+ Hours of Tailored and Expertly-Facilitated Peer Group Discussions Annually

Quarterly Strategy Sessions

an opportunity to recharge and strategize while tackling the top issues that today's leaders face

You'll meet in-person four times a year for expertly facilitated closed-door gatherings to discuss and strategize on the top issues keeping you at night while reflecting on your goals and recalibrating your action plans for achieving them. 

Monthly Advisory Roundtables

CONFIDENTIAL SPACE TO WORK THROUGH YOUR MOST PRESSING ISSUES WHILE NORMALIZING YOUR SHARED CHALLENGES

In these virtual sessions, you'll share one opportunity or challenge for which you would like the group's feedback, input, and advice. Then, the magic happens when we draw upon the group's wisdom to engage in thought-provoking discussion that yields best practices, actionable strategies, and resources for moving forward.

50% Discount For Your EA

I also convene peer advisory networks for Executive Assistants, and with your membership in the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network, your EA can join an Executive Assistant's Peer Advisory Network for 50% off the annual fee.

On-Demand Executive Coaching

When you are a member of the network, I am your coach all year long, and you will have access to just-in-time coaching with me to address urgent questions or situations that require immediate attention and support.

A Network of Top-Tier, Vetted Peers

This network of like-minded executives will quickly become an inner circle you can lean on to:

  • serve as an unbiased sounding board,
  • confront and challenge you in ways others won't,
  • say things that need to be said,
  • help hold you accountable, and
  • celebrate your accomplishments and successes with you.
Premium Content & Resources

Be the first to receive early access to premium content, business tools, and resources.

Read What Members Have To Say

"There is a need for executives who have achieved career success to continue their professional growth in an environment of peers where the exchange of candor is fresh and reliable. In our forum, we are provided with a structure that holds us accountable for goal-setting and honoring our commitments. The sum experiences across the executive forum are deep and rich and span industries and geographies. We regard each other’s strengths and vulnerabilities in a way that is safe and non-threatening and over time has produced for each of us a professional, and also personal, evolution."

Tamra / Operations

"Participating in the Executive Women's Peer Advisory Forum has revolutionized my very approach to life. What I’ve gained has changed the trajectory of every aspect of my life - my law practice, my personal life, the way I evaluate my successes and set goals for the future - for the better."

Amie / Founding Partner

What I Promise

Joining a mastermind group for executives provides you with a platform for collaboration & support, accountability, access to resources, and personal and professional growth. It's an opportunity to accelerate your results and achieve your goals with the help of a supportive tribe of trusted advisors and strategic confidants.

As a member of the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network, you will gain valuable access to:

New Business Connections & Friendships

with executives at your level and beyond dedicated to advancing their careers and helping others do the same

New Ideas, Strategies, Approaches, Tools, and Resources

designed to directly impact your results, both short-term and long-term

Personal, Professional, and Business Growth

safe and confidential space for self-reflection, exploration & strategic thinking + monthly discussions that create opportunities to focus on your whole self as a leader

The Latest Research & Executive Briefings plus Special Guest Advisors

relevant research, data, and special guest advisors to help drive business growth and profits

Real Business and Life Discussions

no politics, singular agendas, or any other BS that wastes time, lowers the group’s IQ, or hinders progress

Don’t miss out on this critical next step to surround yourself with a powerful tribe of executives who will challenge and push you beyond the amazing success you’ve already achieved.

They’re ready? Are you?

Let’s take this journey together!

To explore whether this network is right for you, complete the application below.

  • Recharge Your Thinking
  • Learn From Colleagues
  • Become Better Resourced
  • Drive Positive Shifts in Your Performance
  • Obtain Measurable Results

Frequently Asked questions

Here are the questions executives just like you have asked.

What is the time commitment?

The Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network is a good fit for you if you can commit to being present and fully engaged for 90% of the network's monthly and quarterly meetings.

Accountability is a vital feature of the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network. It is about making a commitment to you and other top-performing professionals for four hours once a month and eight hours every quarter. Attendance is expected unless extraordinary circumstances require otherwise.

Each member will attend virtual monthly roundtables scheduled for four hours each and quarterly in-person strategy sessions in Indianapolis, IN, for eight hours each. In addition, members are expected to be available for questions or brief discussions with other members by email or phone on an as-needed basis and as your schedule permits.

How can I be sure everything we share and discuss is kept confidential?

Members are asked to sign a confidentiality agreement that requires them to keep confidential information in their groups and not share it with others without explicit permission from the member. We don't place competitors in the same groups to ensure no conflicts.

What are the requirements for membership?

In addition to curating a group of executive-level members with similar experiences and ambitions, I look for members who are bright, intellectually curious, self-aware, emotionally intelligent, open to learning from others, and willing to share experiences, help their peers, and abide by our confidentiality agreement and code of ethics.

Will I have input into who is in my group?

I take the curation of high-performing networks very seriously to ensure a high ROI for everyone involved. So yes, as new members are considered, you will have an opportunity to interact with them during their trial session and provide feedback. Ultimately, the decision to add a new member resides with me, but rest assured, your feedback will weigh heavily on my decision.

What's the fee for this investment in me?

The annual membership fee is very affordable (less than $1,000 per month). We've never had any complaints about the investment of time and money, given the high ROI and success members enjoy due to their engagement in the network. You'll receive more information about the fee after you complete your application.

When can I join the network?

You may join at any time since it is a rolling twelve-month membership.

What are the next steps? How do I join?

Complete the form below, and we'll set up a call to discuss the network and explore if there's a good fit. If both parties agree, we'll invite you to participate in a meeting as a trial member to experience the Chief Executive Peer Advisory Network benefits & privileges.

Interested? Get In Touch.

Complete the form below to request an informational interview and full details on this opportunity.

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Succeed More and Struggle Less

No single experience builds a stronger leader than a well-run peer group.

Succeed More and Struggle Less

No single experience builds a stronger leader than a well-run peer group.

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