About Vistage

Helping leaders succeed in business and in life.

Helping high-integrity leaders make great decisions that benefit their companies, families and communities.

Vistage is the world’s largest executive coaching organization for small and midsize businesses. For more than 60 years we’ve been helping CEOs, business owners and key executives solve their toughest challenges through a comprehensive approach to success. At the heart of our proven formula is confidential peer advisory groups and executive coaching sessions.

The Vistage story: 60 years of cultivating success

It started simply enough: Businessman Bob Nourse brought together several Milwaukee-area executives in 1957 to help each other solve their businesses challenges. He made sure they were from non-competing industries and kept conversations confidential. He also brought in business experts to share their insights.

Nourse’s formula spurred such remarkable success that it wasn’t long before his Midwestern business became a thriving international company with 24,000 members in 20 countries.

The past 60 years have seen Vistage grow and evolve to serve our increasingly diverse and sophisticated member businesses. But we always stay true to Bob Nourse’s vision: To help high-integrity leaders make great decisions that benefit their companies, families and communities.

Vistage powers performance

Vistage member companies grew 2.2 times faster than average small and medium-sized U.S. businesses, according to a 2017 analysis of Dun & Bradstreet data.

“Mark and his team were able to turn around a business that had been written down to $0 and sell it for $63 million to investors of their choosing.”

Mark Marmo CEO, Deep Well Services

Our Members at a Glance

Vistage members represent nearly every industry across a range of small to large businesses. This diversity is key to furnishing advisory boards of members from non-competing industries, and providing you with relevant expertise, regardless of your industry or company size.