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triangulating Peer Forums, portfolio careers & agility
A Coming Together
Triangulating decades of experience with peer forums, portfolio careers and agility, Zarir "Zed" Vakil & Mike Richardson have developed Portfolio Peer Forums for portfolio professionals.
Taking the leap to become a portfolio professional evolving a successful portfolio career will challenge your agility like never before on so many levels. It can be complex, hard and lonely. Having a support system is invaluable and we have all experienced peer communities where the engagement is quite shallow and fleeting. Portfolio Peer Forums provide a deeper engagement of a support system.
Zed Vakil & Mike Richardson
Mike Richardson has been a portfolio professional for 20 years specializing in agility, peer advisory boards and collective intelligence. He is a founding member and investor with The Portfolio Collective and a partner with REF, pioneering what's next with peer forums for 30 years.
Zed Vakil has been a portfolio professional for 15 years specializing in entrepreneurial growth and is a non executive director & mentor. He is a founding member of The Portfolio Collective and Certified Forum Leader with REF.
Portfolio Peer Forums: The Overview
Portfolio Peer Forums are regular virtual meetings of curated groups of non-competing portfolio professionals at different stages of their portfolio career journeys. Members benefit from a true peer to peer forum experience, sharing issues, challenges, problems and opportunities in a confidential "circle of trust". These Forums provide a solution for portfolio professionals to access the proven power of peers on a regular, structured and facilitated basis. Unlike other settings these Forums are designed for deep engagement with ongoing continuity, assisting with business, professional and personal growth, with the invaluable bonding as a trusted support system.
More about the WHY
Why do Participants Love Peer Forums?
Members get unbiased, trusting, and caring input from their peers, laced with “care-frontation” (careful direct confrontation and accountability, because we care enough to take the risk of providing courageous feedback) in service of their journey. Members say how much they love it because they find it so rare and precious, typically very hard to find anywhere else.
More about the WHAT
What is a Portfolio Peer Forum?
It is a facilitated methodology to liberate the power of peers from non competitive members in a confidential setting. It is typically unlike anything else participants have experienced before. It helps them feel more composed, courageous and confident in unfolding the next phase of their portfolio career journey, with the ongoing support to help them strategize and execute, adjust and adapt, learn and grow. It is also important to realize what a peer forum is not. It is not networking. Not training. Not coaching. It is a different category of experience you likely have had before which is hard to intellectualize until you have had direct experience of it yourself. Also see the blog below: What a Peer Forum is Not!
More about the WHO
Who is a Portfolio Peer Forum For?
We are evolving different forums for portfolio professionals at different stages of their portfolio career journeys. Whether just starting out and trying to find their feet, or getting some early traction and wanting to shift into a next gear, or doing well and wanting to lift the lid on a next level of possibilities. Portfolio Peer Forums offer a solution set of forums for the level of conversation that portfolio professionals want to participate in with their peers.
More about the HOW, WHERE, WHEN
How, Where and When Can You Get Involved in a Portfolio Peer Forum?
We have just completed a pilot Portfolio Peer Forum with great reviews. We are presently creating forums for different cohorts of portfolio professionals at different stages of their journey. Each has a different set of design criteria and membership investments according to your needs. We will explore that with you and discover which would be a best fit.
Seats are limited so we will work on a first come first served basis. So contact us if you are interested to learn more and take that next step.
Not Sure Yet? Attend a FREE Taster Session
We are running FREE taster sessions on a regular basis for you to get a taste of the power of peers in a Portfolio Peer Forum setting. (Select Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6am-8am PST/USA West Coast Time, 2pm-4pm UK Time).
Seats are limited, so click the link below to register:
Portfolio Peer Forums Taster Sessions
The Bottom Line
What is the Bottom Line Benefit & Payback of a Peer Forum?
We hear all the time that portfolio careers can be complex, hard and lonely, testing your agility like never before on so many levels. Often behind closed doors because community engagement can often be shallow and fleeting. Portfolio Peer Forums open the door to deeper engagement with an ongoing and trusted support system. That is why peer advisory boards have emerged main stream over recent decades as a new category of leadership development that so many CEOs and Executives participate in globally. Why? For bottom-line impact through growth, focus, productivity, support and accountability, both professionally and personally.
Until now, finding peer forums for portfolio professionals was difficult. Not any more.