Your personal board of eight vetted founders, meeting monthly in your city. Show up with your hardest challenge at noon, leave by dinner with a clear plan.
The private network where vetted founders and CEOs build unbreakable peer boards, tackle real challenges, and accelerate growth together.
Limited spots available for your city
Rebuilt go-to-market strategy with Core group feedback; doubled conversion rates and hit profitability milestone ahead of schedule.
Navigated a tough supply chain crisis — CEO Conclave peers shared vendor alternatives and negotiation tactics, saving $450K in costs within 60 days.
Hired a rockstar CTO through Slack referrals — onboarded in 21 days, cutting dev velocity bottlenecks immediately.
A tight-knit group of 8 fellow founders hand-matched for your stage and city. Connect face-to-face 10 times a year for deep, facilitated sessions tackling everything from growth roadblocks to personal pressures. Led by a professional Hampton moderator. This is the foundation of the experience—and the part that truly shifts how you lead and live.
From fireside sessions with billion-dollar CEOs and bestselling authors, to pro-guided surf retreats, local founder dinners, and one-of-a-kind adventures. More than 100 curated events yearly—some intimate, some epic—to build connections, spark fresh thinking, and break from routine.
Ask anything and get sharp, practical responses in under an hour through private Slack channels. Dedicated spaces for your industry, function, or interests. The kind of candid insights—cap table moves on $100M+ portfolios, navigating layoffs with humanity, or hidden scaling tactics—that never make it to public forums or search results.
Around the $5M mark, things shift – you suddenly outgrow your usual circle of friends and advisors.
Suddenly, you’re navigating massive, $10M-scale choices all by yourself. No one who really understands the weight of it. No one to push back on your ideas, spot the gaps, or keep you honest. The biggest danger isn’t crashing and burning – it’s quietly settling for “pretty good” and looking back years later, wondering why you didn’t aim higher.
That’s exactly why we created the CEO Conclave.
We carefully select just eight founders at a similar stage, right in your city, and form your own Core group.
You meet in person every month for open, honest conversations about growing your business and balancing life – guided by a skilled CEO Conclave moderator. Think of it as your personal board of directors, there for the real stuff.
In the CEO Conclave, everything’s on the table: tough hires, potential acquisitions, family priorities, handling big portfolios, even the hard conversations around layoffs or setbacks.
You’ll get the honest feedback, fresh viewpoints, and gentle (or not-so-gentle) nudges you need to keep leveling up – stuff that’s hard to find anywhere else. We vet every member rigorously – only about 4% make it in – and we curate each group thoughtfully. That’s what makes it special, and why people stick around.
Apply now. Groups fill in cycles, and once a seat closes in your city, it’s gone until the next.
We manually vet, research, and interview everyone who joins CEO Conclave. Otherwise we’ll just turn into another garbage community with non-serious operators.
Here’s how we vet our members:
London’s most versatile selector
Afro • Amapiano • Hip-Hop • R&B • House
Music isn’t just played. It’s felt, shaped, and commanded.
DJ Skyers doesn’t chase the moment – he creates it.
From bedroom mixes to packing out uni raves, nightclubs and cities across the UK (Hertfordshire, Leeds, Birmingham, Bedford, Luton and beyond), Skyers has built a reputation for one thing:
Complete control of the dance floor.
Venues that know:
SHAPES • Kabanas Bar • The Nile • The Mist • RS Lounge
What sets him apart isn’t volume or hype.
It’s depth.
Intricate layering, seamless genre switches, and an almost supernatural read of the room.
One minute the floor is locked into a rolling Amapiano groove, the next he flips it into a classic R&B cut that has the whole crowd singing, then drops a peak-time Afro-House bomb that detonates exactly when the energy demands it.
DJ Skyers doesn’t follow trends – he curates movements.
He doesn’t mix genres – he fuses them like they are from the same home. / were always meant to live together.
Whether it’s an intimate lounge vibe, a sold-out rave, a rooftop day party or a headline festival slot,
Skyers arrives with the same quiet confidence and leaves with the crowd begging for one more track.
This is precision. This is passion. This is next-level versatility.
This is DJ Skyers.
Ready for a night that feels tailor-made for your crowd?
Let’s make the dance floor remember your event forever.
Book DJ Skyers.
The energy upgrades the second he touches the decks.
All members must be the founder or CEO of a real estate, lifestyle, digital or tech-enabled startup doing at least $3M in revenue or $3M in funding or have had above a $10M exit. And, of course, live in a city where we have a network.
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Interview
If you look like a fit “on paper,” we set up a vetting call. This isn’t a sales pitch – it’s a conversation to hear how you think, what you’re building, and your energy.
Current CEO Conclave members can veto applications. This keeps the community high-trust and filters out bad actors or unethical founders.
Community Veto
Review
CEO Conclave founders review every single application and interview and approve/deny each member.
If approved, you’ll get the invite! Once you’ve paid your dues, you’ll get immediate access to the digital community. Invites usually come a few days after your interview.
Invite
Core Group Placement
Core group placement happens within 90 days of joining (it’s carefully curated and can’t be rushed).
Every member goes through a careful vetting process - we only invite people we’re genuinely excited to have in the room, because the right fit makes all the difference.
Your Core group is made up exclusively of CEO Conclave members in your city, and meetings happen face-to-face. After those powerful breakthrough moments, you’ll want to keep the conversation going over drinks or dinner - something Zoom simply can’t match.
Every city has its own CEO Conclave City Lead, who serves as your personal concierge - helping with thoughtful introductions inside your city or anywhere else in the network.
CEO Conclave is famous for its standout gatherings: intimate evenings with bestselling authors, fireside chats with founders of $100M+ companies, and more. Our events team hand-crafts unforgettable experiences tailored to each local chapter.
For certain events, we actively encourage you to bring your partner or family along - we know that building an incredible company (and an incredible life) ripples out to the people who matter most to you.
We keep each Core group to just eight members to preserve that intimate, high-trust dynamic. New groups form in set cycles, so if this feels right for you, apply now - once a seat in your city fills, it’s gone until the next cycle opens.
Waitlists are open for new chapters beyond our current 15 cities—we’d love to bring the CEO Conclave to more places soon.
We’re confident in what we’ve created, and we’re willing to put money behind it
CEO Conclave is an exclusive community for founders and CEOs.
Our main feature is your monthly Core group, which is a monthly meeting with eight other founders led by a CEO Conclave paid and trained moderator.
We also have plenty of IRL events in your city, on a chapter level, and a wider network of 1000+ other members that you can tap into via our digital community (AKA, get an answer to any question you have within 30 minutes… the stuff you can’t post online or ask others).
CEO Conclave is for actively operating founders, CEOs, or owners of businesses.
Your current business(es) must be generating >$1M in revenue, OR you must have raised >$1M in venture capital, OR you must have had a previously successful exit (>$5M).
And finally, you must live within one of our Chapter Cities.
Those are our bare minimum requirements.
We then interview potential members. Our founders watch each interview and make the final call whether to extend an invite or not.
Anyone can feel free to apply through this application.
After that, here’s what happens:
Step 1: First screen.
Our membership team reviews your application, LinkedIn, company site, Crunchbase – anything they can find. They’re checking:
Step 2: The interview.
If you look good on paper, we then move to the interview. This is a vetting interview to understand how you think, what you’re building, and your energy.
Step 3: Community veto.
After the interview, current CEO Conclave members can veto applications. Why? Because CEO Conclave is self-policing – if someone’s had unethical dealings with you, they can block you from joining. That keeps the community high-trust.
Step 4: The invite.
If there are no objections, our Core team reviews your file. Then our founders give the final green light. If approved, you’ll get an invite email. You’ll have ten days to accept and pay dues.
Step 5: You’re in.
You’ll get immediate access to CEO Conclave’s digital community and local chapter events. Core group placement takes ~90 days – it’s a meticulous process and can’t be rushed.
Yes, it’s a lot. But CEO Conclave only works because we’re obsessive about curation. It keeps churn low and trust high.
Your CEO Conclave membership covers everything that makes the community valuable:
In short: Core, Chapter, Network. Everything else ladders up to those three pillars.
Once you’ve secured an invitation and your membership starts, our membership and curation team will begin the process of forming your core group.
All Core members:
From there, we curate groups using the Mirror, Mentor, Mentee model:
It’s not a rigid ladder. Someone might be richer than you but never sold a company. Another might have smaller revenue but be ahead in balancing family or managing stress. Everyone is a mirror in some ways, a mentor in others, and a mentee in others. That mix makes the group dynamic powerful.
Each Core has ~8 founders and a professional facilitator. The goal: every meeting you’ll get perspective, give perspective, and stay accountable – not just as a founder, but as a person.
We can’t tell you all the members for privacy reasons (but we do have a member directory that you can see after joining), but here’s a snapshot of CEO Conclave:
Members are mostly tech-first or tech-enabled founders. If you make it to the interview round, we’ll happily answer more questions about the types of founders in your city and Core.
Our waiting list currently has over 500 registrations.
We’re so confident in our thorough vetting process and product that we’ll put our money behind it.
Members who attend their first three Core group sessions in their entirety can receive a refund of their Annual Fee. No questions asked. Read our CEO Conclave Guarantee – INCLUDE LINK
The annual membership dues are $15,000. Many members deduct their CEO Conclave membership dues as a business expense.
We priced CEO Conclave to make it a no-brainer because we know one connection or one breakthrough conversation will give members 10x value of the membership dues.
Some events, retreats, and adventures, like surfing with a professional surfer in Costa Rica or rally car racing, cost extra. We don’t make a profit on events.
A member who was part of YPO and EO said it best: “I loved those communities, but it was a lot of real estate folks. I wanna be around more people who have internet startups… not someone who owns 5 restaurants in surrounding areas.”
YPO, EO, and Vistage – they’re great!
But our members are a bit different. They’re younger and their businesses are mostly tech, digital, or internet related.
If you use Twitter, love deconstructing how different companies work, wanna talk with others about digital marketing, hiring talent, and, well, are still getting after it… AND you have a digital/tech/real-estate business… CEO Conclave’s your place.
Core groups meet 10 times per year – about three hours per month. Everything else (chapter events, retreats, Slack) is optional. Most members spend a few hours a month in CEO Conclave, but the ROI tends to compound far beyond the time investment.
Membership is billed annually, but CEO Conclave isn’t meant to be a one-year experiment. The value comes from staying with the same people for years – often a decade or more. These are relationships that compound over time.
If you move cities, we’ll help place you into a new Core so you don’t lose that continuity. The expectation is long-term membership and long-term accountability.
No. We have a strict no-solicitation policy. We monitor for this and encourage members to flag any infractions to the team. The first time anyone breaks this policy we send a friendly nudge, the second time there is an official warning, and the third time we remove the member from the community. Our full no-solicitation policy can be found here. – INCLUDE LINK
CEO Conclave only places members into in-person Core groups. If we’re not in your city yet, you’ll need to wait until we launch there.
Apply above so we have your information and we’ll let you know when we open new chapters!
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