Frequently Asked Questions

  • Karen Meenan is an award-winning Vistage Chair based in the Greater Colorado Springs area. She leads private peer advisory boards for CEOs, executives, and business owners and provides one-to-one executive coaching.

  • Karen helps CEOs and business owners improve decision-making, strengthen leadership, gain outside perspective, reduce isolation, and work through complex business challenges in a confidential peer advisory setting.

  • A Vistage Chair leads private peer advisory groups for CEOs, business owners, and executives. The Chair facilitates confidential group conversations, provides one-to-one coaching, and helps leaders make better decisions.

  • A CEO peer advisory board is a confidential group of business leaders who meet regularly to discuss real business issues, challenge each other’s thinking, share experience, and support better decision-making.

  • A consultant often gives advice from one area of expertise. A peer advisory board gives a CEO access to multiple experienced leaders who understand the reality of running a business and do not have a hidden agenda.

  • A good fit is a CEO, business owner, president, founder, or senior executive who wants honest feedback, stronger accountability, and a confidential group of experienced peers.

  • Karen is based in the Greater Colorado Springs area.

  • CEOs often join peer advisory groups because they want better input before major decisions, more accountability, less isolation, and honest feedback from other leaders who understand the stakes.

  • CEOs can bring issues related to growth, hiring, leadership, accountability, culture, succession, strategy, risk, profitability, team performance, and major business decisions.

  • No. Peer advisory boards are often most valuable for successful leaders who have more complexity, more responsibility, and more to protect. The goal is better decision-making and stronger leadership, not crisis management.