Leadership Forum
A unique, collaborative program for CEOs, executive leaders and business owners to meet in a moderated, professional and confiedntial environment to discuss big wins and common challenges.
Leadership Forum brings together experienced and emerging business leaders for collaborative learning, knowledge sharing and mutual growth.
Exclusive to Calgary Chamber members, participants will harness the expertise of seasoned leaders and enhance their decision-making capabilities, strategy formulation skills, leadership development capabilities and overall business leadership agility.
Leadership Forum provides a confidential and in-person monthly meeting for leaders to engage in meaningful discussions, guided by distinguished Master Facilitators and Professional Coaches with Bright Wire Leadership.
What is Leadership Forum?
Leadership Forum consists of individuals who come together to collectively share their challenges, successes, insights and resources. Unlike traditional mentorship, Leadership Forum draws from the collective intelligence of its members, allowing for diverse perspectives, creative problem solving and mutual growth. The value of Leadership Forum lies in Bright Wire’s tried and true model that ensures quality contribution, commitment, confidentiality and peer alignment on desired objectives.
FAQ's
What can participants expect?
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- Collective Wisdom & Problem Solving: Leverage the diverse experiences and backgrounds of multiple Leaders to address complex challenges that one might not be able to solve in isolation.
- Safe Environment for Vulnerability: Create a confidential space where leaders can candidly discuss failures, fears and uncertainties without judgment, leading to genuine insights and growth.
- Personal Leadership Development: While leaders are often concerned with the growth of their companies and teams, the forum should also focus on their personal leadership evolution, ensuring they remain effective leaders as their companies scale and change.
- Strategic Visioning: Assist leaders in crafting long-term strategic visions for their companies, taking into account potential disruptions, technological advancements and market shifts.
- Accountability Mechanisms: While leaders hold their teams accountable, they sometimes lack similar mechanisms for themselves. The Leadership Forum serves as an accountability enabler, ensuring leaders remain committed to their goals and growth objectives.
- Broadened Perspective: By exposing leaders to ideas and challenges outside their industry, the forum can foster lateral thinking and innovation.
- Emotional Support and Well-being: Address the often-overlooked emotional and mental toll of leadership, ensuring leaders have the resilience and well-being to lead effectively.
- Building a Legacy: Guide leaders in not just running successful businesses, but also in creating lasting legacies, ensuring their impact is felt beyond their tenure.
Who is the target audience?
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- CEOs: Visionary chief executives at the helm of companies, steering strategic direction and organizational growth.
- Top Executives and Emerging Leaders: Senior leadership personnel who drive key decisions and shape the strategic course of their respective departments or functions.
- Business Owners: Successful entrepreneurs and business owners who have established businesses and are responsible for both its successes and challenges.
- Not-For-Profit Leaders: Heads of organizations with responsibilities to a Board of Directors.
- Board Directors: Members of Boards looking to refine the connection between business and governance in a peer based network that inspires innovation and action.
- Emeritus: Former CEO’s, executives and senior leaders that are looking to invest and support others leaders.
- Professionals: Highly successful professionals that have worked at or with the executive and/or C-Suite.
How much time do I need to commit?
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Participants are required to commit to one 4-hour session each month. Leadership Forum requires a high degree of commitment to the forum and to each other’s success. There is allowance to miss a maximum of two in-person sessions per year under extenuating circumstances, and a process will support this accountability. This commitment ensures continuity, builds trust among members and fosters in-depth understanding. There will be 1-2 hours of work per month for preparation, reflection or reading.
How much do I need to invest?
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The preferred partner pricing offered exclusively to Calgary Chamber members is $3,499 per year. Participants of the program will receive a minimum of 20 hours of formal training which qualifies for the Alberta Job Grant. We encourage interested participants to take advantage of this grant to join the program. Please contact Bright Wire Leadership to discuss if the Leadership Forum is right for you at memberconnect@brightwireleadership.com.
How do I register?
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To learn more and be added to the waitlist for the first offering early spring 2024, connect with Bright Wire Leadership at memberconnect@brightwireleadership.com.
- Collective Wisdom & Problem Solving: Leverage the diverse experiences and backgrounds of multiple Leaders to address complex challenges that one might not be able to solve in isolation.
- Safe Environment for Vulnerability: Create a confidential space where leaders can candidly discuss failures, fears and uncertainties without judgment, leading to genuine insights and growth.
- Personal Leadership Development: While leaders are often concerned with the growth of their companies and teams, the forum should also focus on their personal leadership evolution, ensuring they remain effective leaders as their companies scale and change.
- Strategic Visioning: Assist leaders in crafting long-term strategic visions for their companies, taking into account potential disruptions, technological advancements and market shifts.
- Accountability Mechanisms: While leaders hold their teams accountable, they sometimes lack similar mechanisms for themselves. The Leadership Forum serves as an accountability enabler, ensuring leaders remain committed to their goals and growth objectives.
- Broadened Perspective: By exposing leaders to ideas and challenges outside their industry, the forum can foster lateral thinking and innovation.
- Emotional Support and Well-being: Address the often-overlooked emotional and mental toll of leadership, ensuring leaders have the resilience and well-being to lead effectively.
- Building a Legacy: Guide leaders in not just running successful businesses, but also in creating lasting legacies, ensuring their impact is felt beyond their tenure.
- CEOs: Visionary chief executives at the helm of companies, steering strategic direction and organizational growth.
- Top Executives and Emerging Leaders: Senior leadership personnel who drive key decisions and shape the strategic course of their respective departments or functions.
- Business Owners: Successful entrepreneurs and business owners who have established businesses and are responsible for both its successes and challenges.
- Not-For-Profit Leaders: Heads of organizations with responsibilities to a Board of Directors.
- Board Directors: Members of Boards looking to refine the connection between business and governance in a peer based network that inspires innovation and action.
- Emeritus: Former CEO’s, executives and senior leaders that are looking to invest and support others leaders.
- Professionals: Highly successful professionals that have worked at or with the executive and/or C-Suite.
Participants are required to commit to one 4-hour session each month. Leadership Forum requires a high degree of commitment to the forum and to each other’s success. There is allowance to miss a maximum of two in-person sessions per year under extenuating circumstances, and a process will support this accountability. This commitment ensures continuity, builds trust among members and fosters in-depth understanding. There will be 1-2 hours of work per month for preparation, reflection or reading.
The preferred partner pricing offered exclusively to Calgary Chamber members is $3,499 per year. Participants of the program will receive a minimum of 20 hours of formal training which qualifies for the Alberta Job Grant. We encourage interested participants to take advantage of this grant to join the program. Please contact Bright Wire Leadership to discuss if the Leadership Forum is right for you at memberconnect@brightwireleadership.com.
To learn more and be added to the waitlist for the first offering early spring 2024, connect with Bright Wire Leadership at memberconnect@brightwireleadership.com.
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