becoming a Vistage Member
You make decisions. Vistage helps you make smarter ones.
With our unique framework for executive development, CEOs and business owners benefit from a three-fold approach. Firstly, you gain access to invaluable perspectives derived from a trusted group of peers, fostering a supportive environment for growth and learning. Secondly, your experienced Vistage Chair, an accomplished business leader, provides professional guidance tailored to your individual goals and challenges to achieve results. Lastly, you gain deep insights from subject matter experts, empowering your professional and personal growth as a leader.
1. Peer advisory groups offer diverse perspectives.
At the core of the Vistage experience is the confidential peer advisory group. Once a month, you meet to work through challenges and opportunities with like-minded executives from non-competing businesses. These peers provide a structured forum for unbiased feedback and guidance you can trust.
2. A CEO coach and mentor (Vistage Chair) facilitates the group.
As a member, you have access to your own executive coach and mentor (Vistage Chair) for confidential one-to-one sessions. Chairs also facilitate group discussions keeping them on track and focused whilst using our proven time-tested framework for issue-processing.
3. Thought leaders to unlock new levels of success.
Our expert speakers provide real-world expertise and insights that challenge your thinking and provide new ideas and takeaways to implement into your business and achieve your goals.
Frequently asked questions
A Vistage peer advisory group consists of carefully selected CEOs and business owners from non-competing industries. Led by a Vistage Chair, an experienced executive coach and mentor, the group provides a confidential sounding board for unbiased feedback, testing ideas, identifying blind spots, and addressing business challenges, while enhancing leadership development and decision-making clarity.
Vistage peer groups bring together CEOs and business owners to focus on both strategic vision and immediate business challenges. Guided by a Vistage Chair using a structured facilitation method, members collaborate to vet ideas, troubleshoot strategies, and find effective solutions. This approach leverages peer insights, enhances decision-making, supports leadership development, and helps members build relationships and grow their business network—all within a confidential, collaborative environment.
Yes. Vistage has supported over 250,000 CEOs and executives globally since 1957, including 45,000+ members today. Members benefit from peer advisory groups, executive coaching, gaining valuable insights and best practices that help them make better decisions, grow their businesses faster than comparable non-members, and achieve measurable personal and professional development.
Vistage blends peer advisory groups with personalised coaching, delivering more than standard networking. Members build relationships, expand their business network, gain insights, challenge assumptions, and enhance leadership skills—leading to smarter decisions and measurable business results. Groups meet across Australia and New Zealand, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland, and Christchurch.
A Vistage Chair has a proven track record and previous leadership experience as an accomplished business leader. They facilitate peer advisory group meetings and provide one-to-one executive coaching, guiding members through complex decisions, helping set strategic goals, offering unbiased feedback, and holding members accountable. This supports leadership development, stronger decision-making, and measurable business results.
Vistage empowers CEOs and business owners to navigate challenges and seize opportunities. Through confidential peer advisory groups, personalised executive coaching, members gain diverse perspectives, access valuable insights and best practices, refine decision-making, and enhance leadership capabilities. This collaborative environment fosters strategic clarity, accountability, and measurable ROI, including accelerated business growth and improved operational performance.
Vistage peer advisory groups include leaders from a wide range of industries, ensuring diversity while maintaining a non-competing environment. Members come from sectors such as professional services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, finance, retail, construction, and family-owned businesses. While industries differ, CEOs often face similar challenges—strategy, sustainability, talent, innovation, and digital transformation—allowing peers to provide fresh perspectives, actionable solutions, and proven strategies relevant across sectors.
Members bring real-world business challenges such as growth strategy, financial performance, team leadership, operational efficiency, market expansion, innovation, family business issues like succession planning and governance, and preparing to sell a business. Peer advisory groups provide confidential guidance, diverse perspectives, and the collective wisdom of experienced peers, helping members develop actionable solutions and achieve better outcomes for both their business and leadership goals.
Yes. Vistage supports small and medium-sized businesses with tailored guidance, strategic insights, and peer connections. Members gain clarity by learning from peers’ proven strategies, avoiding costly mistakes, and leveraging shared experiences to navigate challenges, seize growth opportunities, and strengthen both leadership capabilities and professional network.
Beyond coaching, Vistage membership provides continuous learning, access to expert speakers, exclusive events, and a global network of leaders. Members gain actionable insights, accountability, and a supportive community that fosters personal development, strengthens leadership, and drives measurable business growth.
Deep dive into the Vistage experience
Our Programs
Leadership development made for CEOs, business owners, and senior executives who want real results.
Our Chairs
Every Vistage group is led by a Chair with real-world leadership experience and a deep commitment to helping members thrive.
Our Members
Growth, confidence, and clarity—hear directly from members on how Vistage made the difference.