Leading the business can be isolating. It does not have to be.

The Leadership Think Tank is for CEOs, Managing Directors, business owners, founders and senior executives who have genuine leadership responsibility and want a confidential place to test thinking. CEO groups are designed for the person who ultimately carries the organisation's decisions. Senior Executive groups are designed for leaders who report to the CEO or MD, such as CFOs, COOs, Chief People Officers, General Managers, divisional directors and senior functional leaders. What members have in common is responsibility, openness to challenge and a willingness to help other leaders. LTT works best for people who already take their leadership seriously and want to be held to a higher standard by peers who have no hidden agenda.

Executive coaching gives you a private conversation with a skilled Chair who can help you work through goals, leadership patterns and strategic decisions. That is powerful, and it is part of the CEO program. A peer advisory group adds something coaching alone cannot provide: the lived experience of 12-16 other leaders who are dealing with different versions of similar pressure. In the group, you hear how others have approached acquisitions, restructures, difficult hires, cash flow, board dynamics, culture change, risk and growth. You also hear what they would do differently. Coaching helps you go deeper into your own context. The group widens your perspective and keeps you accountable in public, but still confidentially, to the decisions you say you want to make.

Groups are deliberately built rather than filled. LTT looks at seniority, business context, industry, personality, experience and the likely contribution a person can make to the room. Members come from non-competing industries so they can speak openly. The diversity of the group matters because the best advice often comes from someone outside your sector who is not trapped by the same habits and assumptions. Each group has a dedicated Chair who facilitates monthly sessions and, in the CEO program, provides one-to-one coaching. Groups meet 11 times per year, with no formal January session. The structure is consistent enough to build trust, but flexible enough to respond to the issues members are actually carrying.

The core commitment is 11 half-day group sessions per year, meeting monthly with no formal January session. CEO program members also receive six one-to-one executive coaching sessions per year with their Group Chair. Senior Executive members can add optional quarterly coaching. There may also be quarterly industry-leading speaker sessions and community events such as our All In Day. Members who get the most from LTT treat the sessions as protected leadership time rather than another meeting to squeeze around operations. The point is to step out of day-to-day urgency long enough to think, test decisions and return with sharper priorities.

The Group Chair is the person who protects the quality of the room. They facilitate the monthly sessions, keep discussion focused, draw out quieter voices, challenge assumptions and make sure the group stays confidential, constructive and useful. A good Chair is an experienced leader and coach who knows how to get an honest conversation going - and keep it useful. In the CEO program, the Chair also provides one-to-one executive coaching, which means they come to understand each member's business and leadership context in detail. Over time, that combination of group facilitation and private coaching helps the Chair connect patterns, hold members accountable and keep the work practical.