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Few people understand the challenges of leadership at the top like other CEO’s,

and that’s why confidential roundtable discussions provide a place to openly share your questions and concerns. The group gives executives the chance to hear from savvy, accomplished, and unbiased leaders from all parts of the country - and gain Space to Focus.

Purpose & Concept: Space to Focus is a facilitated peer learning group that meets to share ideas, successes, and challenges in a safe setting.  The groups also serves as a forum to analyze trends and current best practices in nonprofit leadership. The intention is to share what is happening in member organizations, discuss solutions, and receive feedback and ideas from others.

Membership & Structure

  • Meet monthly February thru November

  • 2-hours via Zoom

  • 10 - 12 participants who hold an executive position

  • Private coaching session with Bruce Scott ($250 value)

  • Personal Everything DiSC Work of Leaders assessment profile ($150 value)

  • Peer coaching after each case study (with an option for a private peer call)

*Members commit to confidentiality and agree to attend a majority of the sessions

Group facilitation by Bruce Scott, M.S.W., 12 years facilitation experience, 30 years executive leadership experience.

Program Model

We use a peer-learning model that splits each session into a topical exploration and individually shared case studies*. The topic-of-the-month allows the group to define and explore any pertinent subject, relying on member sharing and skilled facilitation to gain focus.  Structured discussion topics (supported by advance reading materials) have included: growing an executive leadership team, crisis management, benefiting from challenging board members, Vision/Alignment/Execution leadership model, and intuition as a leadership skill.

In ten-month groups we also use a book to guide the discussion (see examples below*).

*Case study reviews comprise at least half of each session.  Members bring their “cases” and use the group as “consultants” with this format:

  • The Headline – short and enticing.

  • The Nutshell – a concise statement of the issue.

  • The Background – the players, how long it's been going on, what’s at stake.

  • What’s been tried?

  • Clarifying questions from the group.

  • Peer Consultation.

  • Review - What are you taking back – what will you try? Arrange a peer-coach check-in.

*Books utilized in past groups (for example): Drive, Daniel H. Pink; Rest, Alex Pang; The One Thing, Gary Keller; The Work of Leaders, Julie Straw et al; The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni; Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott; The Four Disciplines of Execution, McChesney, Covey, Huling; The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier; Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan; Whole Brain Living, Jean Bolte Taylor, Trust & Inspire, Stephen M.R. Covey.

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2026 Roundtables

Space to Focus All Year - Convening Two Groups Monthly

  • Meeting February through November

  • Second week of the month

  • Thursday afternoon or Friday morning via Zoom

A monthly topic is supported with advance reading material and case studies are presented by members. It’s two-hours a month of shared experience and direct advice from other execs.

Before December 15th, $1700. Cost $1850.

(Partial scholarships may be available - contact Bruce for details)

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New Executive Directors Peer Coaching (sponsored by The Moran Company)

  • Six sessions, meeting January through November (2nd Thursday mornings), & the topics rotate so you can begin any month

  • Designed for Execs in their first year in a new role

  • Pertinent topics selected plus case studies

  • 10:00-11:30 a.m. CST via Zoom

*Contact for price

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  “For leaders to get results they need three kinds of focus.  Inner focus attunes us to our intuitions, guiding values, and better decisions. Other focus smooths our connections to the people in our lives.  And outer focus lets us navigate in the larger world.  A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.”

  Daniel Goleman, Focus – The Hidden Driver of Excellence, 2013