Leaders Powered by Collective Intelligence
Our Global Community of Business Leaders is expanding into Miami to bring you the unique REF Forum Group experiences and to enhance your personal, professional, and business growth.
Facilitated by a certified Forum Leader, REF is a pioneer in offering group experiences uniquely tailored and focused to meet the needs of CEOs, C-level executives, and Entrepreneurs, helping them be better leaders delivering better results for their organizations.
Meet our team in Miami & Fort Lauderdale
REF is building an accomplished team of serial entrepreneurs, business leaders, and experienced peer forum facilitators, coaches, and trainers to spearhead its arrival in Miami & Fort Lauderdale. Members will join a global community of over 2,500 members in 17 countries, expanding rapidly as REF’s highly differentiated model and approach.
EDUARDO WICHTEL
Forum Leader
CEO & President
RAMON TISAIRE
Forum Leader
Executive Advisor, Chairman, Serial Entrepreneur
MARVIN DEJEAN
Forum Leader
Senior Managing Partner
FRANCISCO D'ANGELO
Forum Leader
Business Coach, CEO, Board Member
Explore Our Memberships
We are aware that there is always a next level and we accompany leaders according to their professional path and life cycle, offering them a proven methodology to achieve their goals and design an extraordinary life.
Our Top Executive program is exclusively for CEOs, Presidents, Founders, Business Owners, and General Managers. A membership for those who champion their companies and change industries.
REQUIREMENTS:
- CEO or senior executive experience.
- A benchmark track record of success, respect and influence among their leadership community, reputable, and trustworthy.
- A champion for their own success and that of their peers.
- Eager to face life’s challenges more empowered, supported, and open to fresh perspectives.
- Highly Diverse Industries
REQUIREMENTS:
- SMB: $5 – $30 M in revenue
- Corporate: $30 – $300 M in revenue
- Large Corporations: >$300 M in revenue
Our program for Key Executives is for key executives in their companies that are strong leaders but want to become more empowered in their roles, challenge the boundaries of their industry and always seek to be someone that enriches the team to which they belong.
Requirements:
- Individuals that report directly to the CEO and play a key role in the executive team.
- 15 Years of business leadership experience that makes them a benchmark of business in their community.
- Eager to push the frontier of what’s possible in their industry and grow as a leader while helping others as well.
Qualifying Company Criteria:
- Corporate: $30 – $300 M in revenue
- Large Corporations: >$300 M in revenue
A membership for managing founders or owners of businesses that disrupt industries, set trends and have a sharp eye for recognizing and seizing opportunity. An optimist and an innovator with a double-digit growth vision, we believe you will continue to thrive at your place among other top-tier entrepreneurs.
Requirements:
- Someone who has built up at least one successful venture and whose life experiences have taken them on extraordinary projects.
- A visionary willing to recognize value in opportunities and seize them.
- One who sees the value in a support network of other innovators that push and encourage you.
Qualifying Company Criteria:
- Sales $1 M+ or $1 M+ in privately raised funds
- >5 employees
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 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 one morning a month, skillfully guided by a Forum Leader. Members of a Group meet confidentially, once a month to help each other make better decisions to reach their business and personal goals.
Basically, Group members present their most pressing challenges in an environment of full transparency, 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 event 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.
