Lead A Team Room

Hold the room.

Do not sit in it.

Ten veteran CEOs meet in a closed room in your city, once a month, permanently. You run that room, you hold the standard, and you build the market around it. It becomes a real business of your own, with uncapped income and a stake in how the standard is held. It pays nothing until it works.

THREE WAYS IN

Only one of these is common today, and we will say which.

Open a new FOB

Most Anchors start here. Your city has no Forward Six presence, and you build the first Team Room in it from people who already know you. Hardest and slowest, and the market is yours from the ground up.

Add a Team Room where we already

are

A FOB with an existing Team Room and more demand than seats. You come in beside an Anchor who has already proven the market, which makes the first ninety days materially easier.

Start as a member

Sometimes the honest answer to a strong candidate is that the timing is wrong. Taking a seat first, then certifying later, is a real path rather than a consolation.

THE JOB

What you would actually do.

01

Run one closed session a month per Team Room. Real issues, real stakes, no observers. Every session runs an after-action review: what was supposed to happen, what happened, why the gap, what changes.

02

Rate each member's business quarterly across six domains. They score themselves first, the room verifies, and the overall rating is the worst domain rather than the average.

03

Coach each member one to one between sessions and own the corrective actions that come out of every rating.

04

Recruit and select your own members. We provide the process, the application, the scoring instrument and marketing support. You provide the relationships and the judgment, including the judgment to decline somebody who could pay.

Recruit and select your own members. We provide the process, the application, the scoring instrument and marketing support. You provide the relationships and the judgment, including the judgment to decline somebody who could pay.

05

Hold the standard when holding it is inconvenient, including when it costs you a member.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We can teach you to run the room.

We cannot teach you to fill it.

The scarce thing is not facilitation. We certify you on that, and we give you the protocol, the session standard and the instruments. The scarce thing is somebody who will go into their own city, have twenty-five real conversations with veteran CEOs, invite ten of them to apply, decline the ones who should not be in the room, and seat a Team Room out of nothing. On a seat that pays nothing until they do it.

01

You have built a community on purpose, rather than joined one. A chapter, a program, a network, a room people kept coming back to. This is the one we weigh heaviest and the one we cannot train.

02

You will pick up the phone. Your first Team Room comes from people who already know you, and the first ninety days are counted in conversations, applications and seats, not in preparation.

03

You have run something. Business owner, CEO, executive, or senior military leader. You have carried a P&L, carried people, or both.

04

You can hold a room of strong personalities without needing to be the center of it. Technique we teach in certification. The instinct not to need the floor, we do not.

05

You can deliver a hard truth with respect and take one without flinching, including the truth that somebody who could pay does not belong in the room.

06

You will run the protocol as written before you start improving it. We can teach facilitation technique. We cannot teach somebody to stop redesigning the model in week two.

Coaching credentials and facilitation certifications are useful and are not required. Nothing on this list is a certificate.

WHAT YOU ARE BUILDING

You are not taking a job. You are building a

practice.

What it means to move forward with someone at your Six.

01

It is yours

No manager. No territory quota. Nobody routing your calendar or asking for a forecast. You choose the market, you choose the ten people in the room, and you decide how big the practice gets. What you build does not report to anybody.

02

Uncapped, and it compounds

You are paid a share of the dues your Team Rooms generate. No ceiling, and no level above you taking an override. The same members compound it every year they stay, and every room after the first is built on a reputation you already have in that market.

03

You are the one who convened it

In your own city, you become the person veteran CEOs call before the decision that matters. Ten years from now that room is still meeting, and it exists because you built it.

The trade, stated once. There is no salary, no base, no retainer and no draw. You earn nothing until members join and pay, which is the same reason nobody can put a ceiling on what you earn after they do. We give you the full economics in the discernment conversation, including what a first Team Room actually produces in its first year rather than at maturity. If that trade does not fit your current financial position, say so then. It is a timing answer, not a character answer.

WHAT FORWARD SIX PROVIDES

You are not inventing a methodology.

Certification

Certification and facilitation training, at no charge. You cover your own travel, accommodation and meals, as an independent contractor does.

The full protocol

The session standard, the rating instrument, the member application, the selection instrument and the email library.

Marketing and leads

Targeted campaigns that scale as the network grows, with leads routed to your FOB.

Event support

We fund a community launch event for your market, plus the national launch event. We spend more on opening your market than on advertising it.

A person whose job is you

A Head of Anchor Success, peer Anchors, and ongoing coaching.

The brand and the network

And the Team Rooms in every other market behind you.

WHAT THIS IS NOT

Four things people assume, and none of them are true.

Not a franchise

No territory fee, no buy-in, nothing to purchase. If somebody has described this to you as an investment opportunity, they described it wrong.

Not a networking play

The room is closed and confidential. You cannot sell into it, and neither can anyone else.

Not a sales job

You recruit; you do not sell. If a room of veteran CEOs holding each other accountable has to be sold, we are talking to the wrong member.

Not a stage

The members are the point. An Anchor who becomes the most interesting person in the room has broken the room.

The Application

Apply to lead a Team Room.

This is an application, not an enquiry form. It takes about twenty minutes and it asks you

to think. Certification runs quarterly, and every applicant gets an answer from a person.

QUESTIONS

The four people actually ask.

Do I have to be a veteran?

Preferred, not required. Every seat in the room is a veteran; the Anchor is not a member of the room, so the test is standing in the veteran community. That means years rather than months, work that predates Forward Six, and something it cost you. If you have not served, you will be held to a higher standard on every other measure.

What does it cost me to become one?

Forward Six charges you nothing. No certification fee, no territory fee, no kit fee, nothing to buy. You do cover your own travel, accommodation and meals to attend certification.

How long until I have a full room?

The first ninety days are counted: conversations, applications invited, selection conversations recorded, seats accepted and invoiced. A Team Room launches at ten, and eight or nine is permitted. Five or fewer does not launch.

Can I do this alongside my current work?

Many Anchors do, at the start. Be honest with yourself about capacity in the application, because it is the single most common reason a strong candidate should wait.

Know somebody who should be running one of these?

Most of our best candidates were named by somebody else before they ever considered it

themselves. Tell us who they are and we will take it from there.

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