About Vistage

A model for success that CEOs have relied on for 65 years.

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 65 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: 65 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 45,000 members in 35 countries.

The past 65 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 CEO members grew their annual revenue on average by 4.6% in 2020, while nonmembers with comparable small and midsize businesses saw revenue decrease by 4.7% according to an analysis of Dun & Bradstreet data.

Mark Marmo

CEO, Deep Well Services

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 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.