Peer groups
Managing Partners’ Forum’s Peer Groups provide an exclusive and confidential forum for senior leaders in the professional services sectors to network, share knowledge and insights, and discuss business challenges in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Benefits of joining peer groups
Tailored to your needs
The Peer Groups are tailored to meet the specific needs of members, with group composition and meeting agendas designed to address the issues that matter most to participants.
Confidentiality
All discussions and information shared during Peer Group meetings are strictly confidential, providing a safe and secure environment for members to share their experiences and challenges.
Global network
Peer Groups bring together leaders from across the globe, providing opportunities to network and share insights with peers from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Expert facilitation
Peer Group meetings are expertly facilitated by qualified, experienced executive coaches, ensuring that discussions are focused and productive.
Moderated discussions
Expert moderation ensures that the discussion stays focused with meeting time used for maximum impact.
Be prepared for the future
Be able to share common issues with your peers, relate to others who have similar problems and become better prepared for similar issues in the future.
How do peer groups work?
Peer Learning
Around seven-8 people, in senior roles in Professional Services firms, meet and share emergent issues and experiences, in a holistic manner, with the goal of learning from each other’s insights.
Supportive environment to explore sensitive issues, outside of the workplace
Members set the agenda
Deep dive into the issues the group decide is a priority
Confidentiality
Members should not share commercially sensitive information but are free to use any other information obtained during a meeting as they wish provided, they do not disclose the identity of the member who supplied it. Competition: while one of the benefits of being in a peer group is to share knowledge and experiences between members however, we do not support any anti-competitive activity.
Managing Partners’ Forum groups
Firmwide Leaders Group
The Group aims to help members attain greater clarity over priorities, new capabilities and skills, insights and practical tips, awareness of policy developments, as well as making new contacts and building relationships.
Finance & Operations group
The Forum’s Finance & Operations Group provides a formal network of respected leaders who manage and advise on financial and operational matters.
Management Team Together Group
Given the interdependency of management functions in tackling the big issues, this group brings together all ‘C-suite’ disciplines to encourage dialogue and different perspectives.
People, Performance, & Culture Group
The Group provides a formal network to examine the impact of the very real changes that are redefining every aspect of work, and concepts that engender best practice.
Strategy & Marketing Group
The Group provides a formal network for those with responsibility for marketing and business development and tasked to implement their firm’s strategy.
Expert Facilitation with qualified executive coaches
Richard Thorby
Richard Thorby trained as a chartered accountant with Deloitte South Africa. After a 20-year career in an international luxury goods group including European Board roles, he spent several years as the managing partner/CEO of a Top 10 actuary and a Top 100 law firm. This helped him appreciate the challenges and peculiarities of leading a people business. Over the past decade, he has retrained as an executive coach and now focuses on helping sector leaders through one-to-one and team coaching.
Nicole Bachman
Nicole is the founding partner of Haywood Mann, specialists in facilitating long-term competitive edge. She is a masterful coach and facilitator, working in 4 languages, with over 6000 hours of team and one-on-one coaching of senior and C-Suite leaders over the last 20 years. She has written various white papers on organisational health and the effect of high performing teams on the competitiveness of an organisation, published the book Speaking Volumes, and co-published the books Business Wise and Unprecedented.
Testimonials
“Powerful exchanges of ideas and initiative all aimed at knowledge sharing and improvement.”
Philip Black, Arcadis
“A rare opportunity to share on an informal but confidential basis ideas and experiences with fellow professionals facing similar challenges.”
Jon Randall, Moore Stephens
Peer Group Eligibility
Peer groups are a supplementary service for the Managing Partners’ Forum. We operate peer groups for Firmwide Leaders, COOs, CMOs and HR Directors.