Program Description:
In 1727, Benjamin Franklin founded the Junto, a small society of tradesmen and aspiring thinkers who met weekly to debate questions of business, ethics, politics, and self-improvement, and to hold one another accountable for putting insight into action. It was not a social club. It was a working group of peers who trusted each other enough to be honest, and who used that trust to sharpen their judgment and advance their ventures.
The Franklin's Junto revives that model for today's senior executives. It combines the candor and intellectual rigor of Franklin's original circle with a structured, facilitated peer-advisory format in a confidential, non-competing cohort of CEOs, presidents, and C-suite leaders who meet regularly under the guidance of a professional facilitator to solve real business problems, challenge each other's thinking, and grow as leaders.
Who’s it for?
Membership is limited to sitting CEOs, presidents, founders, and C-suite executives who are actively running organizations and carrying the weight of final decisions. Each group is capped at a small number of members, and no two members from directly competing industries or overlapping markets are seated together, so that every conversation can be completely candid without commercial risk.
Join C-Suite Level Excutives of company’s generating over $1M in revenue for a special peer to peer group.
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Program Philosophy:
Monthly Full-Day Sessions The group meets once a month for a full-day session. Each meeting combines:
Structured issue processing, where one or two members bring a live business challenge to the group for real-time problem-solving
A facilitated discussion on a leadership, strategy, or governance topic chosen in advance
Open peer exchange, unscripted time for members to raise what's actually on their minds
One-on-One Facilitation Between group sessions, the facilitator meets individually with each member to work through specific challenges, review progress on commitments made to the group, and provide the kind of direct, experienced counsel a trusted advisor brings, someone with no stake in the outcome except the member's success.
Confidentiality as a Foundation Every member operates under a strict confidentiality agreement. What is said in the room stays in the room. This is what allows members to bring their hardest problems, their real numbers, and their genuine uncertainty to the table.
The Facilitator's Role
Each Junto is led by a professional facilitator with substantial business leadership experience of their own, someone who has built, run, or turned around an organization and understands the isolation of the top chair. The facilitator's job is not to lecture. It is to ask the right question at the right moment, hold the group to a standard of honest engagement, keep the conversation disciplined and productive, and ensure that every member leaves each session with clarity and a next step.
What Members Gain
A board you don't have. Many CEOs, especially founders and owners of privately held companies, have no genuine peer group to test decisions against. The Junto fills that gap.
Unfiltered outside perspective. Because no member competes with another, advice comes without hidden agendas.
Accountability. Commitments made in the room are revisited in the room. Members report on what they said they'd do.
Sharper judgment over time. Like Franklin's original circle, the value compounds. Members who stay engaged for years describe the group as the single most useful habit in their professional life.
Group Composition
10 to 16 members per group
No two members from directly competing businesses or overlapping trade areas
A deliberate mix of industries, company sizes, and leadership styles to widen the range of perspective in the room
Membership by application and facilitator interview, to protect the caliber and fit of the group