Start CEO-Community in your city
We're looking for entrepreneurial people with coaching skills to bring together entrepreneurs without staff in their city: starters, solo entrepreneurs and side-hustlers. Every 6 weeks around the table, with honest questions and honest answers.
I'm interestedWhy CEO-Community exists
Entrepreneurship often starts alone. You're the salesperson, the bookkeeper, the product developer and the strategist all at once: the Chief Everything Officer of your own business. CEO-Community brings starters, solo entrepreneurs and side-hustlers together in small, confidential peer sessions.
Not a networking event and not a place to sell, but a place to put your most pressing questions on the table with people who are going through the same thing.
The format started in Belgium and is growing. Now we're taking it to other cities, with local people who want to help it grow.
What members get
As a Community Manager, you bring this offer to your city.
- A free first session, to get a taste
- Then a 6-month membership in a fixed group of 5 to 8 entrepreneurs
- 5 in-person peer sessions, every 6 weeks, of about three hours, each with a theme and room for everyone's current challenge
- 1 online training of 60 minutes on a current entrepreneurship topic, together with members from other groups
- Never competitors in the same group
- A code of conduct everyone signs beforehand
Who's behind it
I'm Bart Van Zele. I started my first company in 2003 and at some point realised I had become the bottleneck myself: everything went through me. With Le Dernier Domino, I now support entrepreneurs who have reached that point.
With CEO-Community, I want to reach them earlier, before they fall into that trap. I facilitate the first groups myself. Now I'm looking for people who want to do the same in their own city.
Who we're looking for
Entrepreneurial
You are or have been an entrepreneur yourself. You know what it feels like to carry everything alone.
Coaching
You can guide a group, ask good questions and make room for others. You don't need to have all the answers.
Connected
You have a network in your city and know where to find starters, solo entrepreneurs and side-hustlers.
Local
You live or work in the city where you want to start CEO-Community.
What you do as a Community Manager
- You bring together at least one group of 5 to 8 entrepreneurs. More groups are welcome too.
- You find prospective members yourself and follow up with them, from first contact to introductory call
- You facilitate the peer sessions, in person and following the set format
- In the sessions you're also simply one of the participants: you can share your experience, but the group comes first
- You follow up on your group and safeguard trust within it
How much time does it take?
Your time goes to two things.
Facilitating and follow-up
± 8 to 10 hours
per session (every 6 weeks), per group
- Before: preparation, announcing the session, booking the venue, tracking attendance
- During: facilitating the peer session
- After: follow-up with your members, debrief with Bart and planning the next session
Prospecting
Finding and following up on members, from first contact to full membership. How much time it takes depends on your network. It's most intensive when starting a new group.
You facilitate, we handle the rest
When you guide a group of entrepreneurs, that's where you want to put your time and energy. At CEO-Community, you can: you focus on what matters, your group and your members. We take care of the rest.
We handle the back office
The website, the sign-up system, invoicing your members, the legal documents and the translations are handled centrally. You don't have to invoice your members or keep track of admin.
Content you don't create alone
Your members follow online trainings organised for the whole community. You don't have to organise them yourself, but you're welcome to propose a theme and give a training.
You're not on your own
Personal support during start-up, and a debrief after every session to look back and plan ahead.
In progress
Colleagues in other cities
Peer exchange with Community Managers in other cities, to share experiences and learn from each other.
“Alone, you're the Chief Everything Officer. With us, you're the Community Manager.”
What's fixed
- The format is fixed. Changes only happen by mutual agreement.
- We work with one Community Manager per city. Your city is exclusive.
- You find your own members. You build your group(s) through your own network and prospecting.
- Starting costs you nothing.
- You work as a self-employed professional and invoice through your own business, according to the rules in your country.
- Membership stays affordable. Money should never be the barrier.
- The CEO-Community brand and materials remain the property of Le Dernier Domino.
What you get
- Impact: you see entrepreneurs in your city grow, make better decisions and feel less alone. And you learn at least as much from them.
- Compensation for your work as a Community Manager
- A tested format with a clear structure
- The right to use the CEO-Community brand, the website and the materials
To be honest
We're at the start of our international growth. That you'll be compensated as a Community Manager is settled. How that compensation works exactly, who bears which costs and what the start-up support looks like in practice, we're shaping together with our first Community Managers. That's why this isn't a job posting, but an invitation to get to know each other. Concrete arrangements are made in a personal conversation.
How it works
- Step 1
Share your interest
Fill in the form. It takes a few minutes, and we read every submission personally.
- Step 2
Get to know each other
In an online call we get to know each other. You tell us about your city and your experience, we tell you about the format and how we work together.
- Step 3
Tailored arrangements
Together we make concrete arrangements for our collaboration in your city.
- Step 4
Your first group
With our support you bring together your first group. Then you start with the first peer session.