Leaders Powered by Collective Intelligence
We are a global community of top-tier business leaders developing an advisory advantage as part of a global eco-system of leaders powered by collective intelligence. Our Global Executive (GE) Forums provide a place unlike any other you may have experienced before, providing you with the unique REF Forum experience to enhance your personal, professional, and business growth.
A Global Forum for Global Executives
We know from personal experience how easily global executives can miss out on a peer forum experience. That is why REF is excited to announce our newest offering, the Global Executive Forum.
The Global Executive Forum has been specifically designed for CEOs, Senior Executives, and established entrepreneurs with Global Responsibilities, spearheaded by Philip Guarino.
REF’s Global Executive Forum allows executives to gain cutting-edge insights, build trusted and lasting relationships, and become more effective and impactful leaders in a flexible, virtual format. Members become part of a global community of over 2,200 top leaders in over 20 countries, expanding rapidly with REF’s highly-differentiated model and approach based on collective intelligence.
PHILIP GUARINO
Global Executive Forum Leader
CEO, Board Director, Board Advisor, Entrepreneur
Global executives face unique challenges working internationally, often having to navigate very different business contexts with complex dynamics.
I’m delighted to be spearheading REF’s Global Executive Forum, REF's transformative/market-leading experience to the needs of international executives.
Some of the companies that our Members lead…
THE REF ADVISORY ADVANTAGE
Leaders Powered by Collective Intelligence
As a global community of top-tier business leaders, REF provides executives with a powerful advisory advantage. When you join REF’s Global Executive forum you become a part of a global ecosystem of leaders powered by collective intelligence.
Our Global Executive (GE) Forums provide a place unlike any other you may have experienced before, providing you with the unique REF Forum experience to enhance your personal, professional, and business growth.
Learn more: Why is REF so committed to global executives not missing out on Peer Forum experiences?
- Corporate Senior Executives (Divisional Leaders/Country Managers, Expatriates, CEOs of mid-market corporations, established Entrepreneurs of scale-ups ($50M – $100M) with international responsibilities across multiple geographies.
- Executives traveling extensively, in expatriate careers, or internationally mobile.
- Complex challenges in business and in life, professionally and personally.
- Virtual Sessions
- Multiple Modes
- Flexible Scheduling
- Gain cutting-edge insights tailored to the complex professional and personal challenges of international executives.
- Build trusted and lasting relationships in a confidential, non-competitive environment.
- Become a more effective and impactful leader.
- Join a network of over 2,200 business leaders with whom you can share best practices and access opportunities globally.
Member Testimonials
“Through encouragement and candid conversations, my peer group has been instrumental in helping me through challenging personal and business issues. They have been an important part of my journey”.
Clarion Medical Technologies
“REF has been the space where I can bring crucial decisions to gain perspective and leverage professional and personal growth”.
NSS RPO
“During my almost 5 years with REF, I have developed deep personal relationships with exceptional business leaders from a broad range of industries”.
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Frequent Asked Questions
REF is a global organization, founded in the USA 30 years ago. Its Members are company CEOs and Presidents, by invitation only, who are assigned to Groups of 12 to 15 business leaders from non-competing businesses.
The Organization is in the process of expansion and we are looking for Partners, Forum Leaders, Members, Ambassadors, and Global Speakers. Each of these roles involves different profiles, time commitments, compensation packages, and benefits.
An exclusive group of 12 to 15 Business Leaders from non-competing industries that meet once a month, skillfully guided by a Forum Leader. Members of a Group meet confidentially to help each other make better decisions to reach their business and personal goals.
Group members present their most pressing challenges in an environment of full confidentiality, and the others tell them what they would do if they were in their shoes. The Group not only becomes a high-caliber advisory board, but also a Circle of Trust, where you share your professional and personal best practices, forge deep relationships, and feel comfortable showing who you are.
Meetings are tailored to each group’s composition and needs. The Forum’s structure is divided into 3 segments.
- In the first segment, called the Educational Component, a guest expert discusses a relevant topic of interest to the group.
- In the second segment called the Round Table, we open up a space for reflection and planning.
- Finally, in the third segment, called the Case, one or two members present their major challenges so the other group members can advise them on what they would do in their situation (shoes/place).
REF provides a unique space where members gain clarity to make their most important and challenging business, professional and personal decisions.
- Selective trust-based Forum Groups made up of top-tier business leaders (by invitation only)
- Forum Groups led by Forum leaders with business experience.
- Case method.
- Holistic approach: Personal, professional, and business growth.
- Continuous education through leading professionals.
- Introspection, reflection, and planning.
At REF we define evolution as «awareness and alignment». Awareness of the knowledge and major trends that every Business Leader must be conscious of in order to align their vision, strategy, and execution.
Our purpose is to accelerate the personal, professional, and business evolution of Business Leaders to become a positive force in the world.
REF is not just another networking group that barely scratches the surface. Our Value Proposition creates robust structures that dig deep and form trust-based meaningful relationships.
By being part of a Forum Group, members can bring their biggest challenges and dilemmas to address with their Group’s Collective Intelligence. This Collective Intelligence is composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds of other proven Leaders, who will grant each other their undivided attention. They do not have any conflict of interest, and have only their peers’ best interest in mind.