Our Global Community of Business Leaders is expanding into the UK to bring you the unique REF Forum Group experience 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 and Key Executives, helping them become better leaders while delivering better results for their organizations.
REF is building an accomplished team of serial entrepreneurs, business leaders, experienced peer forum facilitators, coaches, and trainers to spearhead its arrival in the UK. Members will join a global community of over 2,500 members in 17 countries, expanding rapidly as REF’s highly differentiated model and approach.
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.
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Our program for Key Executives is for strong leaders in their companies that 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.
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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.
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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.
REF provides a unique space where members gain clarity to make their most important and challenging business, professional and personal decisions.
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.
Frank has founded PanTau Invest Ltd, a boutique investment and advisory firm with a focus on incubating and transitioning companies in the entertainment, media and technology segments. Prior to that, he was an early pioneer in the digital entertainment arena. In 2000, he co-founded and led 24-7 Entertainment to become one of Europe’s leading digital entertainment service providers in the industry. He’s also a voting academy member of the BRIT Awards.
Les Morgan is a REF Forum Leader and a general ‘make things happen’ individual based in Scotland covering the UK. He has almost 3 decades of experience in the C suite, firstly as the UK’s second youngest local government Chief Executive, then establishing the first call centre in the highlands of Scotland for Cap Gemini, then Scotland’s first Director for The Leadership Trust, followed by 2 decades of running his own business focussed on Leadership, Values and Trust. He was also Chairman 2009 – 2019 of the first charity in Scotland to create, operationalise and measure values, leading to a tripling of income, quadrupling of staff and increasing funders from 2 – 12.
A well-seasoned and highly accomplished professional with a sizeable tenure. Noel has spent his career accumulating knowledge and achieving set goals by delivering his best at every step of the way to provide optimal results. He has well over 20 years of experience and an extremely successful and proven track record at handling multiple roles. He thrives in fast-paced business environments and cherishes the chance to self-manage things through his innate problem-solving skills. He possesses verifiable leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills that allow him to put across his side of things crisply to peers, colleagues, and management.
Leonard worked at EY CFO Advisory where we was instrumental in building up their FP&A and Anaplan capability practice. He has a wealth of finance transformation and senior finance business partnering/FP&A experience spanning 18+ years across multiple industries including Banking & Capital Markets, Private Equity, Payments, Digital Marketing, and Retail. Recent engagements include serving as the Finance Transformation Lead on a profitability optimization engagement and leading the change management workstream on an Oracle cloud ERP solution implementation.
I navigate and inspire business start up and scale up founders, CEO’s and investors, in their (ad)ventures to achieve their entrepreneurial ambitions. i am a entrepreneurial director and leader, with first hand experience fo companies at various stages of growth.
As a CEO, I have empowered teams to deliver on the business outcomes required and have often coached the re-design of business processes and value propositions to improve bottom line results by up to 100%. This can be anything from auditing the unit costing and price matrices to researching product market fit and associated marketing costs.