Business Forums

Unlock Exponential Growth Through Make BIG Happen Business Forums

The fastest-growing companies aren’t led by lone visionaries—they’re powered by CEOs who surround themselves with peers who push them higher.

About Make BIG Happen Business Forums

MBH Business Forums are a transformational extension of our core coaching business, designed to give CEOs and their key executives the competitive edge that only a strategic peer group can provide. Our Business Forums combine the power of peer insight, real-world experience, deep subject-matter expertise, and a MBH curriculum to create a unique learning and growth environment that multiplies the impact of coaching on your business.

Why Business Forums? Why Now?

  • CEOs Need Peers Too: Join a confidential, high-caliber group of CEOs who share your challenges and aspirations. Gain insight, solve problems faster, and scale with confidence.
  • Business Forums are Content-Rich & Action-Oriented: Every Forum blends high-impact MBH curriculum with peer learning, facilitated by expert coaches, ensuring growth is not just talked about—it’s achieved.
  • Accelerated Growth: Each Forum gathers accomplished CEOs tackling the same high-stakes challenges from scaling to strategy to execution and working through them together in real time to unlock greater levels of success in your business.
  • Complimentary Access: Forums are an included benefit for clients in our community, offering a dedicated space for meaningful connection and shared learning. As a client, you have full access to this supportive network at no additional cost.

AI Accelerator

Facilitator: Curt Gooden

A forum for executives ready to move beyond the buzz and lead AI-powered transformation. This isn’t about hype—it’s your roadmap to implementing real AI, the right way, at scale.

What You’ll Gain:

  • Clarity on AI strategy that drives business outcomes—not distractions
  • Frameworks for evaluating buy vs. build decisions and managing ROI
  • Insights from real-world use cases and ways to accelerate from the work already done
  • Tools to navigate ethical, security, and talent implications
  • Peer-tested strategies for scaling AI across functions and teams

What You’ll Discuss:

  • Which AI investments deliver meaningful ROI
  • How to avoid “pilot purgatory” and move to scaled implementation
  • Managing board and team expectations during AI adoption
  • Avoiding tech sprawl and aligning AI with your core strategy
  • Building a future-ready, AI-enabled organization

10X Growth for C-Suite Leaders

Facilitators: Greg Coticchia

A forum for growth-obsessed executives who refuse to play small. If you’re ready to unlock exponential sales growth and lead market dominance, this is a powerful group that will be consumed with revenue growth acceleration.

What You’ll Gain:

  • Frameworks for unlocking and sustaining double-digit revenue growth
  • Sales strategies that scale across regions, teams, and markets
  • Proven tactics to crush growth plateaus and expand margins
  • Systems for aligning product, marketing, and sales to drive demand
  • Access to executives leading high-velocity growth in real time

What You’ll Discuss:

  • Turning sales into a predictable growth engine
  • Hiring and developing world-class commercial talent
  • Pricing power, channel strategy, and margin expansion
  • Capital planning for aggressive market expansion
  • Creating a culture of relentless growth and customer obsession

C-Suite Leadership and Execution

Facilitator: Edward Hughes

A forum for key leaders responsible for service delivery or operational execution in their company. This is your space to master strategic execution, build alignment, and close the gap between plans and performance.

What You’ll Gain:

  • Disciplines to turn strategy into results—every quarter
  • Tools for driving execution across siloed teams
  • Real-time insights from other execution-minded leaders
  • Practical methods for KPI ownership and operational accountability
  • Systems for scaling ops without sacrificing agility or culture

What You’ll Discuss:

  • Getting the right things done, faster.
  • Aligning strategy with processes, people, and KPIs
  • Moving from HOTs to actions, lagging metrics to leading activities.
  • Operational planning and execution under pressure
  • Developing the MBH reporting dashboards and reporting structure.

Women in the C-Suite: An exclusive forum for senior women leaders

Facilitator: Mary Naylor

This isn’t a support group; it’s your strategic advantage to elevate your impact and lead boldly.

What You’ll Gain:

  • Access to Power Networks: Get inside the rooms and relationships where deals, influence, and capital flow.
  • Bold Conversations Behind Closed Doors: Talk openly about pressure, purpose, and power—without judgment.
  • Tactical Solutions to Systemic Challenges: Navigate bias, burnout, and balance with proven strategies and real-time insights.
  • Leadership That’s Sustainable and Scalable: Align your personal values, company growth, and long-term legacy.
  • True Peer Support: Be surrounded by women who understand the weight you carry—and won’t let you carry it alone.

What You’ll Discuss:

  • Breaking through the “last ceiling” – and owning the room
  • Redefining work-life alignment at the highest level
  • Gaining real influence, not just titles
  • Raising capital and taking risks – without apology
  • Ending isolation through sisterhood-level support

CEOs Networking Forum

Facilitators: Scott White

A place for CEOs to connect, challenge, learn and grow from one another.

What You’ll Gain:

  • CEO-to-CEO Connection: Build meaningful relationships with other accomplished CEOs.
  • Collaborative Problem-Solving: Engage in open discussions that push your thinking beyond the norm.
  • Experience Sharing: Learn from peers’ successes and lessons learned.
  • Practical Takeaways: Leave each session with strategies you can implement immediately.
  • Broader, Better Content: A wider scope of topics—curated, actionable, and excellent.

Contact us

To get started or to learn more about our Make BIG Happen Business Forums, please contact Eddie Vrab, Chief Growth Officer, at [email protected].

Meet Your Chief Experience Officer

Rachel Smith

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Rachel Smith is the Chief Experience Officer at CEO Coaching International, where she drives the firm’s client experience strategy, ensuring that each step of the client journey is impactful and aligned with results. Since joining the company in 2018, Rachel has held various key leadership roles including Chief of Staff, and has been involved in essentially every area of the business. Rachel is currently pursuing her MBA at the University of Southern California and holds a BBA from the College of Business and Economics at Cal State Fullerton, where she graduated at the top of her class.

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