CEO Sparring Partner
How CEOs improve their deliverables immediately
Boom’s CEO Sparring Partner is for the progressive CEO seeking challenge and growth. This partner, a top notch business leader with CEO experience, is on the CEO’s side and critically engages with their ideas. The result: The CEO sharpens their plans and other deliverables and move forward fast.
Why?
A highly successful owner-CEO said to Boom’s founder: “I don’t want a coach. I don’t want a mentor. I don’t want a consultant. I already know what I want to do, but I need a sparring partner who challenges my ideas so that I can improve them fast.”
5 Typical CEO Situations For Which The Sparring Partner Is Perfect
- Powerful tool to enhance CEO performance at any stage of the career
- CEO in a new environment
- CEO leading transformation
- Owner-CEO elevating their managerial game
- First-time CEO
CEO challenges and deliverables to spar over
Some examples from practice:
- Lonely decision-making
- New situations all the time
- Being the face of the business for everything
- Adapting budgets and roadmaps
- CEO contribution to strategy development
- Challenging key performers in their field of expertise
- Crucial personnel decisions
- Navigating internal battles
- Internal and external communications
- Relationships with stakeholders
- Managing the board of directors
- Staying the course and being true to the mission
- Deliverables that need improvement before sharing internally
- All things you wish to discuss, but not internally
5 Roles Of The CEO Sparring Partner
- Ally: Former CEO on your side
- Listener: Understanding you
- Inquirer: Challenging you
- Optimizer: Improving CEO deliverables fast, together
- Confidante/confidant: Keeping things confidential
Get This
Better CEO deliverables fast. Enhance, balance and accelerate your decision-making. Act with confidence, always. Gain clarity. Save time.
How it works
Basic Formula
- Sparring Partner as a service, monthly subscription
- 2 online meetings per month
- Meeting agenda prepared by the CEO (Support by Boom’s team available)
- Open line for Emergencies
While your Sparring Partner is there for you in a crisis, the ultimate shared goal is to take the right actions at the right time and stay out of emergencies.
Pricing
CHF 5’000/month + VAT (about USD 5’900). Customizations available.
Who to work with
Here are two bright examples of the caliber of Boom’s CEO Sparring Partners you get to work with:
- Meet Una Hewitt, former CEO of an African group of companies with over 1,000 employees. She saved the business and led the turnaround and the sale to new owners.
- Meet Klaus Beetz. Following his career at Siemens, he became the CEO tasked with launching the EU’s prime support system for the manufacturing industry.
How to pick your CEO Sparring Partner
- We introduce you to Boom’s Sparring Partners
- You get to know a few of them, and vice versa
- We at Boom discuss whether and how we are a match with you
- You make your choice
- You start to work with your personal CEO Sparring Partner
The CEO Sparring Partner is important because you are
The CEO plays a pivotal role in an organization’s success, leaving little room for error. Making sound decisions fast is paramount. Boom’s CEO Sparring Partner enhances decision-making and contributes to the success of the CEO and their business.