Our Chairs
Guiding business leaders to reach their full potential
Vistage Chairs are experienced former CEOs, business owners and senior executives who have led organisations through growth, change and complex leadership challenges. Across Australia and New Zealand, they provide executive coaching and CEO peer advisory support designed to help leaders improve performance, strengthen decision-making and scale their businesses more effectively.
‘One of the most rewarding aspects of my work is seeing leaders recognise their potential and take clear steps to realise it. Helping them build confidence, gain clarity, and deliver meaningful results—both personally and professionally—is where I see real impact.’
Ron Gauci, Vistage Chair
What makes our executive coaches and mentors stand out?
Our Vistage Chairs are experienced former CEOs, business owners and senior executives who bring practical, real-world leadership expertise to every engagement. They understand the pressures of running and scaling a business because they’ve done it themselves.
Having led organisations at the highest level, they know what it takes to navigate complexity, make better decisions, and support other leaders to perform at their best.
For more than 65 years, this proven approach has helped CEOs and business owners improve performance, strengthen leadership capability, and achieve stronger business outcomes. Every Chair is trained in our proprietary Vistage methodology, designed to deliver consistent, high-impact leadership development.
Chairs are carefully selected through a rigorous recruitment process and continue to participate in ongoing professional development to ensure they deliver the highest standard of executive coaching and peer advisory support.
Meet our Chairs
New Chairs launching groups across Australia and New Zealand
If you’re a CEO or business owner looking to strengthen your leadership, improve decision-making and grow your business with the support of experienced peers, you may want to explore joining one of these new groups.
Big decisions get easier with the right person in your corner
Our peer advisory groups operate across major cities in Australia and New Zealand, bringing together carefully matched CEOs and business owners from non-competing industries. Each group is supported by a dedicated Vistage Chair who provides one-to-one executive coaching and facilitates focused, high-trust discussions that help leaders tackle challenges, strengthen decision-making and improve business performance. Explore our Chair profiles below to find the right peer group for you.
More confidence in your decisions. More impact in your leadership.
‘There’s an energy that comes from working with business leaders to generate surprising insights and solutions. At Vistage, we make this happen from within my group environment by embracing diverse viewpoints to solve each other’s challenges. In our coaching sessions, the power of curiosity unlocks transformational change for each member.’
Vistage Chair
‘Facilitating a process that can impact on my members’ lives both professionally and personally is extremely rewarding. As a Chair, I love guiding the group to challenge and explore a fellow member’s issue or opportunity and seeing the power of the group help that member pivot and see a new root cause.‘
Vistage Chair
Vistage Chairs – Inspiring better leadership. Delivering stronger results.
Frequently asked questions
Vistage Chairs are experienced business leaders who work closely with CEOs and business owners as facilitators and executive coaches. Most are former CEOs, founders or senior executives who have led organisations through significant growth, change and complexity. Chairs are selected for their leadership experience, communication ability and track record in business. They undergo a structured selection and training process to ensure they can effectively support senior leaders.
Vistage Chairs typically bring decades of leadership experience from running or leading businesses across a range of industries. This real-world background enables them to provide practical perspective grounded in experience, not theory.
Because they have sat in the same seat as the leaders they support. This shared experience helps them understand the pressures, trade-offs and complexity of senior leadership, allowing for more relevant and practical conversations.
A Vistage Chair provides a confidential space for CEOs and business owners to think clearly about their most important decisions. They help challenge assumptions, provide perspective and support better thinking through structured conversations and coaching.
Vistage Chairs help leaders slow down thinking, explore different perspectives and test assumptions before making important decisions. This helps improve clarity, reduce blind spots and increase confidence in execution.
Unlike traditional coaching alone, Vistage Chairs combine executive coaching with real-world leadership experience and the facilitation of peer advisory groups. This provides both individual perspective and collective insight from other senior leaders.
While leadership teams provide internal input, Vistage Chairs offer independent, external perspective. This helps CEOs test thinking without internal bias, pressure or organisational politics influencing decisions.
Yes. Experienced leaders with a strong background in business leadership and a passion for supporting other executives can apply. The selection process ensures alignment with Vistage’s standards, values and facilitation approach.
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Peer advisory groups that help CEOs make better decisions, solve real challenges, and unlock growth opportunities.