From Leader to Chair: Your Next Chapter

Thursday 19th of November 2026

13:00 - 14:00

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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

 

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Hosted by

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Rob Whittaker

Vistage Chair

Rob Chairs two Vistage CEO groups in the Thames Valley, facilitating their leadership development through monthly group meetings and speaker sessions and providing individual performance coaching to each member. His aim is to help them to become better leaders, making better decisions and hence getting better results, in their businesses, their personal lives and in their contributions to their community.

Rob is also the Managing Director of Real World Associates Limited, a specialist sales development consultancy, working extensively with clients across a wide range of sectors. He is an accredited speaker for Vistage groups on Sales Management and NLP and a qualified Master Practitioner and Trainer in NLP. He has been speaking on these topics to Vistage groups across the country since 2003 and is often engaged by members to improve their sales operations. He also runs 2-3 Sales Leader Programmes each year - a monthly programme over six months, providing SME Sales Leaders with the tools, frameworks and skills to improve sales performance within their businesses, as well as peer group learning and sales issue processing   

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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.