From Leader to Chair: Your Next Chapter

Wednesday 9th of December 2026

12:00 - 13:00

Event Overview

From Leader to Chair: Your Next Chapter

You’ve led businesses. You’ve made the tough calls. Now it’s time to explore your next chapter.

Join us for an exclusive webinar where Emma van Rooyen will have a conversation with a current Vistage Chair about their journey from leading a business to leading leaders. Learn how a Chair creates impact, builds a thriving practice, and designs a career with purpose and flexibility.

This is your chance to ask questions, gain practical insights, and discover whether becoming a Vistage Chair could be your next step.

What You Will Learn

  • How a Chair’s career evolves after leading a business

  • What it takes to build and grow a successful Chair practice

  • How to create lasting impact on CEOs and senior leaders

  • Insights on flexibility, recurring income, and local leadership 

Why Attend?

  • Hear real-life experiences from a Vistage Chair

  • Ask questions and get actionable advice

  • Explore opportunities to expand your impact beyond your own business

  • Take your first step toward a purposeful, independent career

 

Hosted by

Alex Cook

Alex Cook

Vistage Chair

Alex Cook is a Vistage Chair who brings driven MDs together into trusted peer groups, where they challenge each other's thinking, sharpen their leadership and grow with intention. Alex is passionate about helping small business leaders become the best version of themselves, at work and in life.

Before moving into executive coaching, Alex spent over a decade in consumer strategy across Tech, Travel, Retail and Leisure, advising boardrooms at PureGym and Burger King, and then working in a small business where every hat was worn, from HR to revenue management. This breadth allows Alex to connect deeply with leaders navigating both scale and scrappiness.

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Emma van Rooyen

Emma bring more than 25 years of experience driving growth, brand transformation and commercial success across global organisations. A strategic leader with a hands-on approach, she has built a reputation for helping businesses unlock value by combining market insight, customer understanding and strong commercial execution.

Throughout her career, Emma has led growth and marketing strategies for leading organisations including ManpowerGroup, Goodwin, Stroz Friedberg, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and PwC. She has successfully repositioned brands, launched new products and services, strengthened market leadership and built trusted partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Now at Vistage, Emma is focused on growing the organisation's impact across the UK & Ireland, helping CEOs and business leaders make better decisions, build stronger organisations and create lasting value for their businesses, people and communities.