Vistage Peer Advisory Groups · Scotland
Better leaders. Better decisions. Better results.
Two confidential peer advisory groups for Scotland’s business leaders - one covering the West, one the East - each bringing together twelve leaders of businesses from £1m to +£100m turnover, across a genuine mix of sectors. Chaired by Julie Grieve.
What Vistage is
The world’s leading CEO peer advisory community
Since 1957, Vistage has been improving the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of business leaders by bringing together successful MDs, CEOs, executives and business owners into private advisory groups, and has been supporting the UK business community for over 25 years. In each group, around a dozen executives meet monthly to discuss their challenges, evaluate opportunities and solve strategic, operational and sometimes personal issues, as part of a worldwide community of more than 45,000 members.
1957
The year Vistage began. Over 25 years supporting UK business leaders.
45,000+
Members worldwide, sharing challenges and solutions through the Vistage community.
+4.6%
Average revenue growth for Vistage CEO members in Dun & Bradstreet’s 2020 survey, vs. −4.7% for comparable non-members.
The two groups
West of Scotland & East of Scotland
Both groups are deliberately diverse, no direct competitors, no two people from the same sector, and complete confidentiality in the room. A monthly coaching session with the Chair is included.
West of Scotland · V40
12 leaders
East of Scotland · V565
12 leaders
What’s included
Six ways the group keeps working on you
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Monthly Group Day
Issue Resolution
Each monthly meeting includes the Issue Resolution Process, a structured session tackling one member’s most pressing challenge, with the whole group contributing clarifying questions and suggestions, and the Chair holding everyone accountable for the actions that come out of it.
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Every Member, Every Month
1-2-1 Chair Coaching
A private coaching session with Julie every month, addressing what you want to focus on and what she feels you need to consider, and following up on actions from speakers, group meetings and previous sessions.
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Keep Up to Date
Expert Speakers
Thought leaders bringing new ideas, strategies and perspectives that are immediately actionable, topics chosen by the membership together with the Chair from Vistage’s extensive speaker network.
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24/7 Online
MyVistage Community
Access to the worldwide Vistage community of 45,000+ senior executives, post a challenge, get advice from peers facing the same thing, and draw on best-practice guides, webinars and member case studies.
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Several Times a Year
Vistage events/webinars
Free access to full-day, high-impact workshops bringing 200–300 CEOs together with Vistage’s highest-profile speakers, recent line-ups have included Steven Bartlett, Dr Stephanie Hare, Matthew Syed, Roger Martin-Fagg and Jim Powers.
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Independently Measured
Proven Results
Every year, Vistage commissions Dun & Bradstreet to independently evaluate member company performance. Vistage members consistently grow at approximately three times the rate of comparable companies in their sector.
Your Chair
Julie Grieve
Julie chairs two Vistage groups, and knows exactly why the room matters, because she sat in one herself. She was a Vistage member from 2004 to 2011 and found it transformational, which is exactly why she now chairs V40 (West of Scotland) and V565 (East of Scotland), bringing that same blend of support, challenge, learning and accountability to Scottish CEOs.
Before Vistage, she built and sold two businesses. As MD and eventually shareholder of Abbey Business Centres, she turned a loss-making serviced office business into one turning over more than £21m, selling to Regus (now IWG) in 2011, and chaired the Business Centre Association along the way. She then grew Lateral City’s serviced apartment business from nothing to £4m, before founding Criton in 2016: a hospitality tech company simplifying digital transformation for independent hotels, which grew fast through Covid and sold to Nonius in December 2021.
She’s at her best outside her comfort zone, and wants the same for the CEOs she works with, alongside her ongoing work supporting start-ups and scale-ups, including plenty of female founders, through Techscaler, Barclays Eagle Labs and AccelerateHER. Away from work she’s usually walking her two cocker spaniels on Elie beach, working on her golf handicap, or murdering a tune at the piano.
Vistage Chair · Founder, Quiet Fire
In their words
What members say about the room
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You get an opportunity to run ideas past people with no vested interests, which I think is fantastic.
We needed to invest, and we really needed to get our mojo back. Joining Vistage became a turning point, helping me systematically navigate the firm through issues to emerge stronger, wiser and better. We’ve won several prestigious awards in recent years.
Murray McColl, Managing Partner, Anderson Strathern“
It’s been eye opening and challenging. Exactly what I hoped it would be.
Fraser Campbell, MD, HM Raitt▶
Hear from Debbie Collins, CEO of Bield Housing & Care, on why she joined Vistage, and what it’s given her as a leader.
Video testimonial▶
Hear from Karen Trickett, CEO of Fractionauts, on her experience as a Vistage member.
Video testimonialInvestment
What membership takes - in time and commitment
Time
A day a month
- One day a month for the full group meeting
- Up to two hours a month for your 1-2-1 coaching session
Fees
Enquire for current rates
- A joining fee plus a monthly membership fee, in line with standard Vistage terms
- No notice period in the first three months; a three-month notice period applies after that
Get in touch below for current fees. Meetings are hosted on a rotating basis, at members’ own offices where feasible.
Enquire
Is there a seat for you?
Every enquiry starts with a confidential conversation, no pitch, just a chance to find out whether the West or East group is the right room for you.