What’s happening in the room.

Not every speaker changes the room. Nina Schick changed the room. The San Antonio Policymakers Breakfast in April brought together civic and business leaders for a morning that was less about networking and more about reckoning with what is actually happening in the world right now. Schick delivered the kind of talk that makes you...

On March 26, 2025, we launched something new for the San Antonio executive community. The first San Antonio Executive Coffee Mixer brought together Vistage members, community leaders, and executives from across industries for a morning of real conversation in one of the city’s most distinct settings. Spin Vinyl and Coffee delivered on both counts: outstanding...

Most speakers on employee benefits put the room to sleep. Allison De Paoli did the opposite. De Paoli, founder of Altiqe Consulting and one of the most decorated benefits advisors in the country, brought a session to our CEO peer group that was equal parts expose and action plan. The core argument: the health insurance...

First one in the books. It did not disappoint. Vistage ChairWorld 2025 brought Chairs from across the country to Walt Disney World in Orlando for what turned out to be one of the more energizing professional experiences of the year. For a first-timer, the scale of it is hard to fully prepare for. Hundreds of...

Most CEOs think they have a sales problem. Les Lent’s first order of business is telling them they are wrong. Lent, a Top Performing Vistage Resource Speaker, sales leadership advisor, and author of The Profession of Sales, opened with a premise that reframed the entire conversation: the bottleneck in most organizations is not the sales...

If you walked into this session expecting another sales training, Steve Heroux made sure you left disappointed in the best possible way. Heroux, founder of The Sales Collective and author of The Sales Contrarian, brought his program “One-Size-Fits-NONE” to our CEO peer group and spent the better part of the session dismantling assumptions that most...

Don Phin has been in the room for this conversation longer than most. A California employment attorney since 1983, a Vistage speaker since 1997, and more than 400 presentations deep, he brings a perspective on hiring and retention that is equal parts legal, financial, and brutally practical. The session started where most HR conversations never...

The title of the session was “Unpopular Conversations.” The irony is that nobody wants to talk about how much not having them is costing their business. Esther Weinberg, founder of The Ready Zone and a leadership development veteran with over 20 years of experience working with organizations including Netflix, Disney, Microsoft, ESPN, and NBCUniversal, brought...

There are leadership speakers, and then there are people who have actually led at the highest levels under conditions where getting it wrong costs lives. Shark Garland is the second kind. A retired Air Force Colonel with over 32 years of leadership experience, Garland is a Distinguished Graduate and former instructor at the USAF Weapons...