Private CEO Strategy Council
(Invitation only. Screening required.)
A curated, confidential co-thinking space where select C-suite executives collaboratively clarify complexity to elevate your thinking and expand your capacity.
Context: It’s Lonely at the Top
Your mind is an echo chamber. At the highest levels of leadership, your most complex, consequential decisions have no safe place to be fully explored with credible mentors who have no personal stake or agenda: Boards carry governance constraints. Employees carry dependence. Advisors bring functional lenses. Suppliers transact. Spouses carry biases. CEOs need a qualified, trusted council of expertise to think aloud about the matters that matter most. Get out of your head and get optimized.
Purpose: Real Guidance in Real Time
The Private CEO Strategy Council exists to provide a confidential, private environment where senior leaders can engage in rigorous co-thinking with others who are walking the same path to have the strategic conversations you don’t have anywhere else. It’s your personal brain trust.
Vision: Sacred Wisdom; Different Smarts
This council is designed as a multi-year advisory body. Over time, it becomes a trusted circle of leaders who know one another’s context, patterns, and pressures, enabling deeper candor and more meaningful exchange as complexity evolves. Hard-earned wisdom shared within a sacred value-space elevates the collective. While the first year requires an in-person commitment to coalesce council trust, future years are designed by the council and could include hybrid, virtual reality, retreats, or immersive events.
Why This is Different: Strategically Relevant & Meaningful Exchange
- Invitation-only, curated, fixed cohort (8-12 leaders) meets 8 times in the first year; in person, in a private home, for a half day
• Think together about what matters and untangle real, unresolved, complex knots - Screened for different ways of thinking (neuro-spicy welcome!), this group gives you access to brilliance that’s not your own, allowing you to see what you can’t otherwise see.
• Engage in strategic inquiry, challenge each other to greatness, expand capacity, elevate your thinking, break through blind spots - Collaborative, co-crafted conversations are stewarded with care
- No visibility-seeking content-delivery, solicitation, or posturing
• Absolute confidentiality and continuity
Strategic Catalyst: Consciously Cultivates Council Culture
Suzi Pomerantz is the optimal steward: a global top 1% executive leadership coach who brings three decades of expertise to serve as the council’s curator, providing safe space, conversational clarity and strategic insight to navigate complexity and amplify impact. Her role is to catalyze expansive, value-add conversations while surfacing patterns, exposing and interrupting blind spots, holding the integrity of the space, and culling forth differentiated, high-caliber thinking between councilmates to elevate your excellence.
Operating Principles: Councilmates share a commitment to:
- Integrity in thinking — saying what is true, even when it is uncomfortable or incomplete
- Confidentiality and trust — protecting the discretion of the room without exception
- Respectful challenge — engaging difference without dominance or withdrawal
- Responsibility for impact — considering the human and systemic consequences of decisions
- Presence and commitment — showing up prepared, engaged, and accountable to the group
Value: Strategic Infrastructure Scaffolding; Exquisite Support
You get:
- A reliable place to think clearly (and have your thinking challenged) about complex, high-stakes decisions
- Peer perspective from leaders who understand the costs of leadership
- Early visibility into risks, patterns, and unintended consequences
- Reduced isolation at the top during chaos and unexpected uncertainty
- Truly seen in a trusted advisory to quantum leap results each year it evolves
STEP 1: Download the screening and follow the instructions. Submitting the screening determines if you qualify for an invitation to join the next cohort. Please note we carefully curate the group to ensure optimal thought-elevation for all.
CEO Cognitive Diversity Assessment