Diamond Leaders for Growth

With expert facilitation, Diamond Leaders for Growth peer groups offer much more than passive business advice. 

Each participant will benefit from:

• Membership, on a personal basis, of a peer group comprising experienced business leaders willing to share advice and experience with no ‘axe to grind’ or sales pitch.

• The full backing of gdb - each group will be supported and quality-guaranteed by gdb but will be led by a chair, drawn from the membership, bringing:

                  ✓  experience in group leadership;

                  ✓   expertise in the particular aspects of the growth agenda their group will cover

                  ✓  the connections to bring in specialist contributors to provide a fresh perspective and to challenge thought processes.

• The continuity of being part of a fixed-membership group of no more than 10 people designed to develop as a team in a sharing, but challenging, environment characterised by trust and confidentiality. 

• Being part of a wider peer network - as groups become established, we will bring all participants together to form an extended Diamond Leaders for Growth network

Within these principles, a feature of Diamond Leaders for Growth is flexibility:

• Groups can cover a general business growth agenda or have a more specialist focus such as marketing, sales, investment, innovation, people and strategic planning.  Some groups could be targeted at a specific sector or business profile. 

• The right balance of members within each group will be for the chair to determine based on informal one-to-one discussion and/or an initial get together of interested people.

• The frequency of meetings will also be for individual chairs/groups to decide but, to maintain momentum and build the necessary trust, we anticipate that groups will want to meet at least every two months.