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No BS. Results-Oriented Peer Groups

Leadership can be lonely -- but it doesn't have to be.

Our peer groups in Greenville, SC give you access to the minds, methods, and momentum few leaders ever find on their own. These aren’t networking circles or content clubs. They’re confidential, no-fluff advisory groups for top business owners and executives across diverse, non-competing industries.

Here, you’ll get straight talk, sharp insights, and serious accountability from others leading at a high level—and ready to go even higher. Whether you’re stuck, scaling, or reinventing, this is where you sharpen your thinking, challenge your assumptions, and expand your impact.

Led by Joelle Thayer and grounded in 70+ years of proven frameworks, each session is engineered for clarity, momentum, and transformation.
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The Right Group for the Challenges You're Facing

A Program Built for Today's Increasingly Complex, Fast-Changing World

Today’s business landscape is fast, messy, and full of curveballs.

That’s why we offer targeted peer groups, each designed for the real-world demands of different leadership roles:

  • Gold-Level: Owners, CEOs, and Presidents of companies with 100+ employees or $40M+ in revenue. High-stakes, high-growth leadership with no room for playing small.
  • Silver-Level: Leaders of companies with 25–99 employees or $20M+ in revenue. For those scaling fast and looking for sharper strategy, clarity, and control.
  • Bronze-Level: Established small business owners who are ready to lead the business—not get buried in it.
  • Executive Leadership Group: For rising executives below the CEO level who own big outcomes—and are ready to expand their influence and impact.

What we’re not

❌ A networking group built on small talk
❌ A quick-fix program chasing the latest “business-hack”
❌ A safe zone for comfort-zone thinking
❌ A coaching group that tiptoes around what needs to be said
❌ A cookie-cutter playbook pretending complexity is simple

What you can expect

✅ Real conversations with people who get it
✅ A confidential circle that challenges and supports you
✅ Clear perspective on what’s holding you back–and how to move forward
✅ Strategic insight, accountability, and momentum
✅ Tools and thinking that change how you lead

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Leadership TBD Peer Groups aren’t for everyone. They’re for leaders who are done playing not to lose.
Leaders who are ready to think clearer, act bolder, and own their outcomes.

We don’t do pressure. We do partnership.

Let’s have a real conversation about where you are, where you’re going—and whether this is the room to help get you there.

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Frequently asked questions

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  • Why do these peer groups work?

    • We use frameworks forged in the trenches—not fads or flavor-of-the-month advice.
    • Every session is built on dialogue, not passive consumption.
    • You’ll experience purposeful challenge—not performance theater.
    • We connect the dots between how you think, who you’re being, and what you’re doing—because that’s where real transformation happens.

  • What happens during a typical meeting?

    Each session is structured, but never scripted. We open with real check-ins—what’s happening in your business and your life. Then we dive into a leadership concept designed to stretch your thinking. The heart of the session? A Socratic-style issue processing conversation where your peers help you see what you can’t see alone.

  • How often do groups meet?

    Monthly. Same day, same time. Year-round, with a summer break. Because trust and traction come from rhythm.

  • What's expected of me?

    Come prepared. Your facilitator shares an agenda in advance—but your insight starts with your openness. The more you bring, the more you get. This isn’t passive learning. This is participatory growth.

  • Is there a set curriculum?

    Nope. This is not a course. It’s a living, evolving experience built around what matters most to the members in the room. We use proven frameworks—but we don’t follow a script.

  • Are groups industry-specific?

    Not at all. And that’s intentional. We create cross-industry groups with a strict non-compete policy. The diversity sparks unexpected insight—and keeps the echo chamber out.

  • How is Leadership TBD different from Vistage, YPO, or C-12?

    Smaller groups. Sharper dialogue. No filler, no badges, no branding fluff. Leadership TBD is rooted in the Thayer legacy: deep leadership theory + boots-on-the-ground application. We don’t outsource facilitation. We don’t duck hard truths. And we don’t confuse activity for growth.

  • What's the cost?

    Participation is an investment — one that’s often outweighed many times over by the negative outcomes you prevent: costly missteps, stalled growth, leadership blind spots, and missed opportunities.  Details are discussed privately once we confirm fit and group level.

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Meet Joelle Thayer

Throughout her life and career, Joelle Thayer was coached exclusively and extensively by her father. In fact, Joelle is the only one Dr. Thayer personally trained in his methodology, his philosophy, and the delivery of his teachings over nearly 40 years. Now, as CEO of Leadership TBD, Joelle is leveraging her experience and her father’s curriculum of personal insights to build programs that mentor others to create, and live, their own flawless leadership mindsets.

Joelle brings a broad perspective, deep experience working alongside leaders in a multitude of verticals and fields, and the same relentless intellectual curiosity that Lee Thayer brought to coaching and leadership and expertly imparted to every leader he worked with.