Vistage International

They may just try to run your play, which, you know, again, if you sell a private equity, it could be a complete disaster because they got all kinds of plans for you.

Now, again, if you're thinking 10 years ahead and you know that you're either a daughter or son or even a key employee, I mean, there's things like... you know, Vistage or get a coach or a young YPO or like entrepreneurs

organizations.

There's exactly.

but I am comfortable with that on feeling that I lose too much by doing it virtually.

And then in the last 18 months, because I've had such a great experience through Vistage and how it had helped me develop as a person and as a leader, I wanted to develop something myself in the peer-to-peer space.

And again, I backed myself.

I had started a financial services business I'd started a coaching business.

So we have a number of entrepreneurs and founders and senior leaders listening to the podcast.

I know that for a fact.

So if they've not heard of Vistage or heard of a peer-to-peer type setup, could you tell us a little bit more about what they might experience and what they might get from it? And obviously you've got your own personal experience with Vistage on this as well.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

who are focused on the book as the framework they coach to.

And then we're building a set of AI tools that really help the founder build out their data room and build out their model and understand how do I track the enterprise value of my company? And am I doing the things today that will really help me impact what it calls total enterprise value or TEB that helped me impact the total enterprise value of the enterprise over time? So giving example versus just regular coaching, there's a lot of there's thousands of certified coaches out there in the in the ecosystem, right? Whether it's on the EO, YPO, Vistage side or whether on the innovation economy side, there's not a lot of coaches.

And one of the things I noticed consistently, there's not a lot of coaches who prepare you to exit.

So, for example, I don't necessarily need to build a new product.

Yeah.

And so where do you go? What do you do? I think it's part of why

EO and YPO and Vistage have such huge retention rates.

Because going back to something I said earlier, once you find your tribe, you don't want to leave them.

Um, but I would say a huge part of it is mostly a lot of the communities.

I'm in a lot of like, uh, founder, like, uh, like Hampton, I don't know if you're familiar with Hampton or like Vistage.

Oh, that's like a paid membership community, right?

Yeah.

Have you heard of Tech Canada?

Tech Canada? I don't think so.

It's, uh, it's similar to Vi- you know what Vistage is? Or YPO maybe?

TEC? Tech-

So I absorbed all the strategy books.

I joined an institution called Vistage.

At the time it was called Tech.

I had mentors.

And then thirdly, joining a peer group.

In America, those are YPO and Vistage.

In the UK, it's the organization that I run called Business Leader for businesses that are turning over between 3 million pounds and 100 million pounds.

And we match up a founder or a CEO with nine others.