Why Women Building Expert-Led Firms Need a More Relevant Peer Circle On June 10, we hosted 29 women at Verity Women’s Club for our VIBE CEO Firm Builders lunch. The group was made up of women building professional services businesses (including consulting, advisory, coaching, training and other expert-led businesses). Some were solopreneurs. Some were founders. Some were growing small firms. Some were very happy building a strong, vibrant practice and wanted to do that with more clarity and...

There comes a point in business where the very things that made you successful - start to get in your way. Your drive and work ethic. Your instinct. Your ability to figure things out.Your willingness to be the one who carries the weight. Even the habit of making it happen, even the path is messy. Those things matter. They probably got you here. But they may not be enough for where you are going next. And that is not because you are doing anything wrong. It is because the business changes....

Most women CEOs are not under-networked. They know people, attend events, and belong to groups. But many still lack the one thing that actually changes the quality of their decisions: a trusted room of peers who understand the weight of leadership. This article explores why women CEOs need better rooms, not more networking.