MEETING 4+:

Monthly Core Themes & Peer Advisory

📝 SUMMARY 📝

In order to increase the connection between the Core experience and the larger Chief experience, we’re launching monthly themes designed to provide additional structure and direction for timely Core meeting discussions and peer advisory. These themes are in response to recent member feedback asking for more leadership development takeaways in Core:

  • "It’s hard to gauge if I’m getting value from my Core Group when the topics feel disconnected from my work."

  • “Have [a] methodology to guide conversations. Feels more like a 'what's on your mind' approach and unguided.”

The approach to Core is largely staying the same, with the primary focus and structure in meeting 4 and beyond being peer advisory. Through this structure, members can tap into the collective wisdom of the group to address challenges and seize opportunities when they need it most. The Core themes are designed to provide flexible, not rigid, structure and create a Core experience that is more integrated into the larger Chief experience.

Below you will find the monthly theme facilitation guides. We encourage you to use them as is or adapt them to meet the needs of each of your unique groups. If you don’t have a meeting during one of the months, you have some flexibility to choose the meeting content you’d like to facilitate. For example, if you don’t have an April meeting but you have one in May, choose between the April and May themes and deliver one or a mix of the two.

🔖 Q4 2025 monthly CORE themes facilitation guides 🔖

October 2025 - AI Ready Leader

November 2025 - Digital Mindset: The 30% Rule

December 2025 - End of Year Reflection

🔖 Past monthly CORE themes facilitation guides 🔖

September 2025 - Learning Agility

August 2025 - Emotional Agility

July 2025 - Strategic Agility: Awareness, Adaptability, and Action

June 2025 - Leading in the New Era of Business

May 2025 - The Change-Ready Leader: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity

April 2025 - Embrace the Shift: Navigating Change with Resilience

🤝 peer advisory resources 🤝

Materials and Resources

Video Walkthroughs

➡️ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ⬅️

📧 Meeting 4+ || 7-day Reminder

  • This email is sent automatically by Chief 7 days prior to M4+. The email includes a brief description of what to expect in M4+ as well as meeting date/time reminders, how to report an absence ahead of time, how to add the meeting to their calendar, and how to view their Core Group on Chief.com.

📧 Meeting 4+ || 2-day Reminder

  • This email is sent automatically by Chief 2 days prior to M4+. The email includes a very brief description of what to expect in M4+ as well as meeting date/time reminders, how to report an absence ahead of time, how to add the meeting to their calendar, and how to view their Core Group on Chief.com. This email is shorter than the 7-day reminder.

FAQ

  • We understand that transitioning your groups can take some time so we recommend making small incremental changes each meeting. For example, adding 10 more minutes of Peer Advisory each meeting for a few months until Peer Advisory becomes the majority of your Core meeting. 

    We also understand that members enjoy discussing specific topics relevant to executive women and we encourage you to utilize thought provoking topical discussions rather than a series of slides to present specific materials. We’re not saying that you cannot use slides to aid in discussion, however, we recommend they are used minimally and you unshare your screen before moving into discussion.

  • We have sunset the previous Peer Advisory materials, and strongly recommend that you use the updated materials above. However, if you want to refer back to the previous materials for your own personal reference, you can view them here: [Archived] Peer Advisory Board Intro, [Archived] Peer Advisory Board One-Sheeter, and [Archived] Peer Advisory Board Facilitation Guide.