Introducing, Your Personal Board of Directors
Sidebar is peer-driven professional development for a highly-vetted group of founders and senior leaders.
We’re excited to announce a pivotal moment in our Sidebar journey: the launch of our public waitlist.
Until today, we've operated exclusively through referrals from our trusted members, meticulously curating a community of top senior leaders. Our focus has been to create something our people truly love: a highly-vetted network that harnesses the collective power of the world's top professionals, propelling each other toward extraordinary success.
With the launch of our waitlist, we welcome the next wave of exceptional senior leaders to apply for pre-launch access to Sidebar.
What is Sidebar?
Born from a mission to connect leaders and catalyze extraordinary success, Sidebar is more than just a network - it's a force multiplier for your career.
Humans have always relied on their closest relationships and their shared experiences to guide decision-making and growth. However, leaders today often find themselves on a lonely journey of navigating professional pitfalls without a sounding board. Sidebar addresses this with peer-driven professional development.
Sidebar members meet in curated small groups to share focused advice, perspective, and critical feedback to achieve their goals, better and faster. Our ethos is built on the principle that extraordinary growth requires meaningful exchange, which we support and multiply with systems and structure to drive tactical value and measurable results.
Our Three Pillars:
1. Core Group Sessions:
Bi-weekly small group sessions are the heart of the Sidebar experience.
We’ve developed an advanced matching engine to group peers based on similarities in career stage and goals, while emphasizing diversity of backgrounds, abilities, and perspectives. Using this technology, we meticulously curate groups of 8 peers—your Personal Board of Directors. By understanding your goals, superpowers, and skill gaps, Sidebar matches you with the right people to push you forward.
Led by a world-class Sidebar facilitator, each 90-minute virtual session concentrates on gathering the advice, perspective, and critical feedback essential to catalyze your success.
2. A Continuous Feedback System:
Leadership is a practice, not a position. With this in mind, Sidebar is built to support your entire professional journey. Our end-to-end platform streamlines the process of gathering insights across the ecosystem, offering real-time messaging access to the entire community, and targeted resources for your short and long-term objectives. With a supportive group by your side, you're armed with continuous access to crucial perspectives to confidently face any challenge that arises in your journey.
3. A Diverse Community of Experts:
Each Sidebar member becomes part of a growth-oriented community of dynamic leaders dedicated to shared knowledge and mutual progress.
Each of our highly-vetted members bring unique professional strengths to the table, providing real-time access to industry-leading insights. With access to our live interview series with subject matter experts, an extensive library of past events, a bi-weekly newsletter filled with the latest insights and opportunities, and white-glove support from the Sidebar team, you'll have everything you need to unleash your full potential.
Who We Are:
We are thought leaders, change-makers, and industry pioneers who believe the best way to the top is together, rather than working alone. Our members are exceptional individuals with 10 or more years of experience, having led teams of 10 or more, and more than 2 years in a leadership role. Our vetting process doesn’t simply scan an applicant's resume: during the interview process with a Sidebar founding team member, we’re looking for outsized impact and the electric qualities that simply don’t show up on paper.
Why Join the Waitlist:
The Sidebar waitlist is your passport to pre-launch access to our exclusive community. By applying for membership, you are not just expressing interest, but taking the first step towards a transformative professional journey. You're seizing an exclusive opportunity to become a founding member of our Sidebar community, already populated by dynamic leaders from around the world. In becoming a member, you are becoming part of our founding narrative, shaping the future of professional development.
We’re excited to write this story, together.
PS - Keep an eye on our new home here on Substack, where we plan to shine a light on member’s stories, and share leadership development research and insights.
PSS - You are receiving the Sidebar Syndicate because you are a member of our founding community of senior leaders, a friend of the Sidebar family, or have asked us to stay in touch. Feel free to unsubscribe if you’d no longer like to receive these types of communications—but we do hope you’ll stay!
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