JOIN AN MHI CEO NETWORK FORUM
Based on best practices from Young President’s Organization and Harvard Business school, MHI successfully piloted our CEO Network Forum in 2024. 12 leaders of our global community came together in two groups to connect deeply and help each other with our biggest challenges. We’re now taking it up a notch, with professional facilitation and a year-long program.
DISCOVER SOLUTIONS WITH OTHER HIGH-LEVEL EXECUTIVES
Find solutions to challenges you face with:
collective experience
A collective experience where you’ll start to build meaningful relationships, and have a safe space to talk about the tough stuff that comes with being as great as we believe you are.
11 Meetings
11 90-minute meetings in CircleSpace, a purpose-built online video platform for authentic human connection to deepen learning from the program by applying concepts at work.
Peer Group
A peer group of CEOs from the industry who want to get to know you and a Forum facilitator to help you get the most out of the experience and MHI network.
HOW IT WORKS
Start by filling out some basic info. When the call for candidates closes, the MHI team will match Forums across businesses, carefully considering how to best create powerhouse Forums of diverse peers. We’ll take care of everything.
- Forums will commit to each other for 1 year, meeting 11 times for 90 minutes.
- Travel for monthly meetings is not needed, but you will need a quiet space & strong internet.
- All meetings are professionally facilitated.
- A high level of concierge and logistical support.
Fees for this program will be covered by MHI which means participation will be free for all MHI members.
TIMELINE
October: Registration is OPEN
November: Registration
December: Sorting & Matching
January: Launch, virtual meetings until end of year
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
We’ll take it from here. Once you have confirmed your interest, representatives from MHI and Circl.es will curate your Forum and send invitations. You will have a few days to accept your spot. We’ll be here every step of the way to explain details and answer your questions live or via email.
ABOUT MHI
Supply chains are the invisible force that keep the world moving, ensuring products reach the right place at the right time, even amid disruptions. At MHI, an international material handling, logistics and supply chain trade association, we empower professionals to stay ahead in this ever-evolving industry. With over 1,000 members and 18 Industry Groups, we provide cutting-edge knowledge, strong connections, and industry leadership to drive innovation and optimize supply chains for the future.
ABOUT CIRCLeSPACE
Circles Learning Labs has partnered with MHI, YPO and other peer learning leaders like Harvard Business School and The Aspen Institute to build technology that makes it easy to scale a consistently great Forum experience virtually.
FAQ's
For many of us, the relationship with our Forum mates transcends the words “friend,” “colleague” and “advisor.” You will gain a circle of others who are deeply invested in their success. You will have a committed space in your busy calendar for reflection on your biggest leadership challenges. You will also experience the powerful leadership lessons members all have, around vulnerability, inclusion, presence, listening, blind spots, storytelling, diverse perspectives, learning itself — you will gain leaders around you who get this and become allies reinforcing those things in your own workplace.
This Forum is included as a benefit of your MHI Membership..
We recommend framing this as a Board Meeting. Because it is virtual, certain special norms, like being in a quiet stationary place with good internet, need to be practiced. At the end of the day, each Forum will determine its own norms but we strongly recommend you attend all meetings.
During the initial training meetings, Forums will spend time grappling with what this really means. We’re designing the first year as a gradual learning experience, where norms like this will be consistently revisited, with member’s understanding and skill deepening over time.
The matching process will rely on the Launchpad technology built by CircleSpace, which will survey participants and pull in some other key data about you. Then, representatives from MHI and CircleSpace curate the groups and send invitations. You will have a few days to accept your Forum, after which we will add others to the group until we have 8 members committed.
We will first be selecting members who will feel like peers. We’ll consider company size, sector, and years of experience. However, diversity fuels learning. Once we achieve a certain level of peeriness, we will diversify as much as possible. Forum is fundamentally about leadership, not about tactical job advice, although if we do get a great functional group they may have the benefit of both.
Maybe. We are planning for a certain level of churn, and do have a process to add members to a Forum when this happens.
Our target is 6-8. We’ll likely begin with 8 members and anticipate possible drop-off.
Circles Learning Labs has partnered with MHI, YPO and other peer learning leaders like Harvard Business School and The Aspen Institute to build technology that makes it easy to scale a consistently great Forum experience virtually. The video space itself has features that make running a great Forum easy. Years of hardening has made the space reliable. But the entire digital environment makes the launching and managing of Forums at scale eǫcient. Participants will have almost no learning curve; you’ll simply join your session and instantly learn the few features that matter for Forum. There will be live and instant 24×7 support, just in case.