Your inquiry is in. Now let's make the conversation worth your time.
A chapter leader will reach out within one to two business days. Between now and then, this
page tells you what CEO Life is, what it isn't, and what happens next — so the call can start
somewhere better than the beginning.
A hello from the founder
Two minutes from John Seckel
Why he started CEO Life, who it was built for, and the one thing he'd want
you to know before anyone talks to you about membership.
The room you're asking about
600+
Members
35+
Chapters across 18 states
12
In-person chapter evenings a year
4
Global trips a year
Every chapter hosts one extraordinary evening in person each month, two virtual
gatherings, and members travel together four times a year. Membership is selective and
by invitation — the size of the room is the product.
Answered in advance
The questions everyone asks
Six short answers. Watch the ones that matter to you and skip the rest —
your call will be better for whichever you choose.
01.
What is CEO Life, exactly?
2 min
02.
What actually happens at a chapter evening?
2 min
03.
Who is CEO Life not for?
2 min
04.
How selective is membership?
2 min
05.
What does the first year look like?
2 min
06.
Why "Bond Before Business"?
2 min
From here
What happens next
01
A conversation
A leader from the chapter you asked about calls you. No deck, no pitch. You talk about what you're building and what's missing; they listen.
02
An honest read
They tell you plainly whether this is the right room for you. If it isn't a fit, you'll hear that — it's a short conversation and nobody's time is wasted.
03
An evening as our guest
If it looks like a fit, you come to an event before anyone asks you for anything. You won't stand alone at the door - someone will be expecting you and will know who you should meet.
04
An invitation
You've met the room and the room has met you. If both sides want it, you're invited to join your chapter, and your leader walks you through the commitment and the numbers.
How this works
Most rooms put the business first and hope the friendship follows. We do it the other way around. Bond Before Business.
Nobody is handed a directory and told to work it. You share a table, a boat, a track, a trip. The relationships form the way real ones always have — over time, in person, without an agenda — and the business that comes out of them comes out of them because the friendship was real first. That's the whole design, and it's the reason membership stays small.
Gather
One extraordinary evening in your city every month, two virtual gatherings, and four global trips a year with members from every chapter.
Grow
Builders, inventors, operators, funders and experts who have been where you're going — and who take your call because they know you.
Give
Members who leave their communities better than they found them. The giving pillar is a condition of belonging, not an add-on.
IN THEIR WORDS
From members
Member quote to be supplied – the isolation-at-the-top moment, in their own words.
Austin Lasure
Member
Member quote to be supplied – what the first chapter evening was actually like.
Dr. Jeannette Musset
Member
Member quote to be supplied – a friendship first, and what came of it later.
Jennifer Sheets
National Director of Chapters
WHO BUILT THIS
John Seckel
FOUNDER, CEO Life
John built CEO Life for a problem nobody in this category was naming: the most capable person in the room is often the loneliest one in it. He wasn’t interested in another room where people trade cards and follow up. He wanted the room where they become friends first – and where the mission is to reach fifty thousand leaders who leave their communities better than they found them.
