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The Business Where the Product Is a Room Full of People Who Cannot Talk Elsewhere
World 50 built a business around a C-suite paradox: the higher an executive rises, the fewer people they can speak to freely. Its answer is a paid, invitation-only network where candor - carefully curated and kept off the record - is the product.
CNBC CEO Council
CNBC CEO Council is an invitation-only community of chief executives assembled and run by CNBC. It connects CEOs across industries, geographies and stages of growth with each other, with CNBC's editorial team, and with policymakers and global newsmakers through off-the-record dinners, digital briefings and the flagship CNBC CEO Council Summit. Part of the broader CNBC Councils portfolio, it is designed as a peer forum for candid, actionable conversation on the forces reshaping business - from tariffs and supply chains to AI, healthcare and capital markets.
Athena Alliance
Athena Alliance is a subscription community and learning platform that helps senior women executives build what it calls a 'Portfolio of Impact' - advancing into the C-suite, onto corporate boards, and into investing, entrepreneurship, and thought leadership. Founded in 2016 by Coco Brown, it blends a curated peer network, a learning library, 1:1 coaching, live salons, and direct board-opportunity matching. Its membership spans leaders from companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Disney, Databricks, and Stripe, and the organization says it has helped place hundreds of women on corporate boards.
Chief
Chief is a private membership network built for senior women executives - VPs, C-suite leaders, and the rungs just below. It pairs members into facilitated peer 'Core' groups led by executive coaches, layers on workshops, curated events, and physical clubhouses in major U.S. cities, and aims to close the gap at the top of the corporate ladder by giving women the kind of back-channel network that has long been reserved for men. Founded in 2019, Chief became one of the fastest female-founded U.S. companies to reach a $1 billion valuation.