What is Vistage?

Speaker A My name is Rick Oppenheimer, and I'm from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Live in Lancaster for 40 years. My job is as a chair for Vistage International, which I've been doing for 16 years, and before that, I was a management consultant, so I'm a recovering management consultant. Before that, I did that for 30 years. I was an industrial engineer, so I'm recovering from that too. I have five groups in my Vistage activity. Two of them are the key executive groups, and three of them are chief executives. Many of my members have been with me for over ten years. The Divisage program is kind of a three pronged program of education, which comes in a monthly meeting. We have a monthly meeting. The first half of the day is as a speaker on a topical business subject. Then after lunch, we have what we call the executive session, where the members bring issues and they work to serve each other as, like, an advisory board. And then that's the second part of it. The third part of it is the coaching or mentoring. I sit down with each of my CEO members for an hour and a half in their office once a month. So we have education, advisory board, relationship, and mentoring. Visage is 51 years old, and at this time, there's about 15,000 Vistage members all over the world. About 80% of them probably are in the United States. We are the largest CEO organization in the world, and we have about, I think, five or 600 other chairs besides me. We are in about 16 countries besides the United States. My members are from companies that are over 5 million annual volume. That's kind of the threshold, and they range up to 125,000,000. Is the largest company that I have as a member. And the majority of them, the average, I would put it at around 2020, 5 million. So they're companies from all different directions. That is, manufacturers, they're distributors, they're specialty contractors. They're professional service providers. There's just a variety of different companies. They have employee employees. Usually, I think my smallest company has at least 30 employees, and they range up to the 500. Maybe there's a few companies I have that have sort of that many close sam.