CEO Roundtables Program

Program Information

CEO Roundtables are self-directed peer groups of local CEO,s that meet on a monthly basis to discuss business strategies and tactics. Roundtables are cross industry, noncompetitive, and organized by business size. This diversity provides the CEO,s with a wide range of confidential and professional opinions and increases their network of advisors. Additionally, Roundtables provide a venue that encourages CEO’s to learn from their peers.

CEO Roundtables are sponsored by a community effort lead by a group of regional businesses that want to increase the success of local businesses by assisting in the development of world-class CEO’s. In addition to Softec, these sponsors include:

• Your People Professionals – Founding Sponsor
• The Economic Vitality Corporation of San Luis Obispo
• Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce

Softec would like to thank these companies for making it possible to deliver this program to the regional business community. If you are a regional business interested in sponsoring this program, please contact Bob Dumouchel at (800) 889-2922 or at bob@ypp.com.

Program Requirements

Each CEO Roundtable provides members with valuable support from their qualified peers. In order to participate in a Roundtable, the following requirements must be met:

• Member must be the CEO, general manager, or final decision maker for an organization
• Must agree to confidentiality of the meetings
• Must attend on a regular basis
• CEO Roundtables are not a marketing event

Softec reviews all applications to ensure that groups do not contain competitors and do represent a wide mix of industries. Once a Roundtable is established, new members interested in joining will require the approval of 100% of the active members within the group.

Start a CEO Roundtable Group

Each Roundtable must have a group leader. The group leader will be responsible for the following:

• Complete the CEO application screening
• Create a start-up plan
• Centralized administration
• Arrange room reservations at approved community locations
• Email notices of meetings
• Provide advisory services to the Roundtable as requested
• Consult contacts for various subjects based on Roundtable requests
• Attend annual meeting of all CEO Roundtables
• CEO Roundtable member size categories:
  • 5-10
  • 11-25
  • 25-50
  • Over 50

Members pay an annual administration fee of $300 to cover the cost of the program which is subject to change each year. At their own direction, groups may charge a mutually agreed upon fee to cover expenses or to pay for consultants or speakers for the group. CEO Roundtable groups may decide to use public facilities and the group will be responsible for its own operational expenses. Softec and other sponsors maintain an active roster of specialists in many fields who are available to present to the CEO Roundtables at the request of the members. The program publishes a newsletter for all the groups to assist in table to table networking.

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Program Benefits

Join a CEO Roundtable TODAY!!! Softec firmly believes that this program will cultivate confident and successful CEO's which in turn will stimulate the success of our local technology industry. Stronger CEO's create stronger companies and that is good not only for the technology industry but it’s vital for the prosperity of our local economy.

Here is what a member can look forward to:

Diversity

Since CEO Roundtables are designed with a cross industry strategy, the groups are comprised of CEO's from industries such as technology, manufacturing, distribution, retail, and services. This provides for a diverse experience pool giving each member a different prospective on various issues.

Confidentiality

Since each CEO must agree to the confidentially of the items discussed in the meetings, the trust that is established in this environment allows for open discussion on sensitive subjects.

Experience

Because the members must be a CEO, general manager, or final decision maker for an organization, each group comes with a wealth of experience. Each meeting ensures that you will walk away confident that you will always have someone to turn to.

Insight

Bring up any topic and you can bet that someone in your group has already dealt with a similar issue. Your peers can offer you advice on sticky situations, guidance when you’re unsure of what step to take next, and encouragement when you’re on the right track.

Share what you know!

CEO Roundtables are a terrific way to give back to your local business community. By joining a group, you can help champion the success of local company leaders.