Building Future C-Suite Leaders
Within the CXO Fellows Program, each participant builds connectivity to Shore and their peers during eight in-person meetings designed to occur over a two year period. A Shore CXO is someone who has taken on a support role to the CEO of a portfolio company with the plan to professionally grow into a C-Suite role for themselves with a future Shore platform.
The program relies on growth together as a group. Each CXO will have peers ahead of you and behind you in their professional development – but each cohort will grow and learn from one another, creating relationships that will last throughout their career.
After completing this two year curriculum (and as the CXO grows), they join other cohort groups (e.g. finance, operations). CXOs then become alumni of the CXO Fellows Program – but reconvene each year at Shore’s Executive Leadership Academy (ELA) with optionality to attend other CXO leadership development events.
"I really enjoyed getting together with leaders from the other portfolio companies across Shore Capital. With each session, I discovered several valuable takeaways that came at the perfect time as we were scaling our business. I also enjoyed the breakout sessions and the social dinners – which gave me the opportunity to get to know my peers."
- Mark Larsen - CEO, Connexure (CXO Graduate)
Curriculum:
Theme: Personal Working Norms
Session Topics:
- Be authentic – Know your strong suit
- Guard against hubris
- Manage your time and energy
- Lessons of success and failure
Theme: Managing the Board
Session Topics:
- Promote a forward-looking agenda
- Think beyond the meeting
- Seek balance and development
- Engage in meaningful work
Theme: Team and Process
Session Topics:
- Decision making processes
- Teamwork – show resolve
- Right people in the right seat
- People, process, and technology
Theme: Art of Communication
Session Topics:
- Frames of reference
- The communication sequence
- Personal communication styles
- Meetings that work
Theme: Corporate Strategy
Session Topics:
- Vision – Frame what winning means
- Make bold moves early
- Allocate resources to priorities
- Define an engaging future
Theme: Key Stakeholders
Session Topics:
- Center on the long-term “why”
- Importance-Interest Matrix
- Prioritize and shape interactions
- Engaging founders of acquisitions
Theme: Organizational Alignment
Session Topics:
- The arc of misalignment
- Actions that help teams align
- Incentives and performance goals
- Connecting N, N-1, N-2, etc.
Theme: Operational Excellence
Session Topics:
- Consistency drives value at exit
- Optimizing operational performance
- Fostering process improvement
- Disciplined execution