NEED LEADERSHIP Development FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION?
Comprehensive Leadership Development for Your Organization
An “MBA-Lite” for your future leaders, our “Emerging Leader” program will help your organization cultivate your best talent.
Vistage Emerging Leader Program
Dynamic group lessons, workshops, expert speakers, mentorships, online community, and more!
About the Emerging Leader Program
The Vistage Emerging Leader Program prepares your rising stars to become your next generation of senior leadership. Under the guidance of your local Vistage Chair Perry Maughmer, an accomplished business leader and master facilitator in and around central Ohio, participants develop core leadership competencies and confidence, empowering them to deliver on company goals.
Unlike other leadership programs that squeeze material into a few back-to-back days and leave implementation at risk, Vistage emerging leaders focus on one topic at a time to encourage mastery. Participants will be challenged to advance their careers within your company, rather than seek outside opportunities. Develop a proven team of senior leaders equipped to take your company to the next level.


A Message from Perry
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Mr. Twain was correct and my “why” became clear to me early in my career. I serve others. I am a passionate believer that none of us is smart as all of us and that is why I joined Vistage International as a facilitator & coach in the central Ohio area.
The bottom line is that our members become better leaders, make better decisions, and get better results while enhancing their overall quality of life. They gain fresh perspectives and find real solutions to their most pressing challenges and opportunities.
Benefits to emerging leaders
- Core leadership competencies: Training in 12 leadership competencies within four key areas: personal, inter-personal, team and organizational leadership.
- Career advancement: The confidence and proficiency to take on a greater leadership role.
- Networking: Valuable opportunities to expand their sphere of influence and gain professional contacts.
Benefits to your organization
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Bench strength: Fill mission-critical leadership roles with trusted employees.
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Employee retention: Incentivize top talent to seek advancement in-house through a culture of leadership development.
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Improved execution: Improve the competency of all levels of leadership to develop an organization that is effective, adaptable and empowered.
Vistage Emerging Leader Topics:
Emerging Leader members will receive training in 12 core leadership competencies over a two-year period. The topics will span Personal, Interpersonal, Team, and Organizational leadership.
Self-Awareness
Leadership Assessment | Leadership Style | Personal Growth | Stress Management
Identify your strong suits and blind spots in order to develop a management style that maximizes your impact and reflects your unique personality. See yourself and others in a new way that will accelerate your effectiveness in communication and bring out your highest potential.
Execution
Focus | Results-Orientation | Time Management | Productivity
Develop excellence in execution by learning how to effectively link people, strategy and operating plans together while navigating through the complexity that can derail your plans. Cultivate habits that support, rather than hinder, your concentration and productivity.
Communication
Meaningful Conversations | Presentation Skills | Motivating Others
Enhance your influence by projecting confidence and articulating a clear leadership point of view for maximum impact. Confidently motivate others to accomplish your company’s goals.
Performance Management
Performance Reviews | Mentoring | Goal Setting | Conflict Resolution
Learn to recognize the potential in others, match talent to task, define and align performance goals, and handle difficult management situations with greater certainty.
Team Management
Building Effective Teams | Delegation | Empowerment | Meeting Facilitation
Gain a broader understanding of team dynamics, managerial best practices and the role of the manager. Learn the principles that will motivate employees, strengthen trust, and build a cohesive and constructive team.
Business Finance
Financial Objectives | Key Metrics & Ratios | Financial Drivers | Key Performance Indicators
Understand the key metrics and financial drivers for your business. Learn new ways to think about strategy and how to communicate financial objectives more clearly with financial professionals. Learn how to track leading and lagging indicators as KPIs.
Executive Presence
Credibility | Authenticity | Clarity | Professional Influence
Learn to align your body language and word choice to articulate the greatest clarity of message and degree of influence. Identify your natural tendencies that distract from your message and obtain greater vocal variation, power and authenticity to enhance your leadership standing.
Personal Accountability
Resilience | Courage | Ownership Mentality | Efficacy
Identify victim thinking and adopt strategies for developing a personal accountability formula for success. Learn to communicate more effectively with internal and external clients in order to demonstrate professionalism, reliability, courage, and dedication to your work and to the people around you.
Emotional Intelligence
EQ vs. IQ | Empathy | Listening Skills | Adaptability
Finding success in leadership requires emotional intelligence, and the higher you go in an organization, the more it matters. Learn techniques, strategies and an action plan to develop the emotional intelligence necessary to achieve maximum personal and business results.
Change Management
Leading through Change | Continuous Improvement
Learn the stages of concern that individuals experience when dealing with change and the reason why people resist change. Gain the tools needed to help make change comfortable or even exciting for your team.
Business Strategy
Vision | Design Thinking | Innovation | Strategic Planning
Learn to identify company strengths and weaknesses, evaluate competitive threats and opportunities, and develop sustainable competitive advantages. Understand the importance of strategic positioning and building a learning culture within your organization.
Customer Focus
Customer-centric Approach | Sales Management | Brand Ambassadorship | Customer Service
Identify steps to improve customer satisfaction by seeing your business through the eyes of your customers. Learn how to increase brand loyalty by embracing a customer-centric approach in the design of your business processes.
The Vistage peer group experience
- Facilitated by a Vistage Chair, group meetings are held every other month, with each meeting focusing on a single leadership competency to encourage mastery.
- Top-performing managers and individual contributors collaborate with peers from inside and outside their companies toward the common goal of preparing for greater leadership roles.
- Expert Vistage speakers lead interactive workshops on the 12 core leadership competencies.
Reinforced through mentorship
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The Vistage Mentorship Framework empowers in-house senior managers to guide participants in on-the-job application of leadership competencies.
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Participant’s Vistage Chair and peers serve as a sounding board for new work challenges and opportunities.
Vistage Emerging Leaders Program Overview & Cost
Dynamic Group
Meetings
6 all-day meetings per year, held every other month
Expert
Speakers
An expert Vistage speaker presents on a leadership competency at every meeting
Online
Community
24/7 access to 22,000+ Vistage members across 20 countries
Program
Duration
The Emerging Leader Program spans 2 years
Program
Cost
$5,100 per year, per participant
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