C-Sphere is a peer advisory and executive coaching program built for a single audience — sitting C-suite leaders of Senior Living organizations. Twelve people. Twelve months. Kindred peers in the chair, wrestling with what they are actually carrying.
Most healthy boards already ask the right question every year: what are you doing to develop yourself? Most C-suite leaders do not have a clean, defensible answer.
Conferences are useful but episodic. The team down the hall is not the right audience for what is actually on your desk. Generalist peer groups put you in a room with a flooring company and a fintech and ask you to translate.
C-Sphere is the answer designed for the question your board is already asking — a room of sitting Senior Living C-suite leaders, the same scale, the same regulatory weather, the same workforce math, the same kind of board you are managing.
What we protect. Confidentiality, intentionally. Every member is interview-screened against shared values, the no-jerks policy, and a confidentiality commitment that travels with you outside the room.
What we build. Trust, mentorship — and the continued personal evolution — that lets a leader flourish in the chair across the years that matter most.
What we are not. Not a mastermind. Not a tribe. Not a networking dinner. A small, curated room with sharp facilitation and the same twelve faces month after month.
Six components, designed to work together. Group sessions hold the rhythm. Coaching holds the depth. Retreats hold the relationships.
Twelve facilitated, two-hour sessions a year. Most of the time is spent processing what members bring forward — real challenges, in real time, with the same trusted room.
Fifteen individual coaching sessions per year with Dr. Jeff K. Holmes, scheduled to the need rather than the calendar. Confidential, off the record, on your terms.
Three full-day cohort sessions attached to Good People retreats. Arrive a day early. Sunday dinner. Monday with the room. Then the broader Good People network.
A small, curated WhatsApp space — the same twelve people, available between sessions for the moments that cannot wait until the next call.
Curated speakers at every in-person gathering — psychology, workforce, leadership, the topics that extend the room’s thinking without crowding out the peer work.
Membership opens deeper access to the Good People network of Senior Living operators — the relationships Kane has been curating across nine retreats and counting.
I never imagined how alone I would feel as a CEO. And then I never imagined how un-alone I would feel once I had the right collaborative mentors.— A Senior Living CEO, on the founding conversation
There is no shortage of peer groups for executives. There is, until now, no ongoing facilitated peer advisory program built exclusively for sitting Senior Living C-suite leaders.
| Against | What C-Sphere offers |
|---|---|
| LeadingAge Fellowship | Their program walks with you for the first ninety days. C-Sphere walks with you for the years that matter most. |
| Argentum LEAD | LEAD develops your emerging leaders. C-Sphere sharpens you. |
| Vistage & YPO | They give you a room of generalist CEOs. We give you the small number of peers running Senior Living organizations at your scale. |
| Networking at the conference | Conferences are for information. C-Sphere is for decisions. |
CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CHROs and C-suite-equivalent leaders currently in the chair of a Senior Living organization — non-profit or for-profit.
A single C-suite voice per organization. This is the rule that protects psychological safety and keeps the room honest.
Every member is screened for shared values, the no-jerks policy, confidentiality, and a real commitment to showing up. The room is curated, not crowdsourced.
An ongoing development investment that an organization can comfortably fund, and that a board will recognize as a clean, considered answer to its own annual question.
The founding cohort opens with a small group of trusted operators in late June, and the room itself convenes in person in August.
C-Sphere is introduced at the Good People retreat in Ouray. Founding-member conversations begin in person.
Founding-member interviews with Kane and Dr. Jeff K. Holmes. Member agreements signed. The room is set.
A thirty-six hour in-person kickoff. Goal-setting for the year. The first framework. The room begins.
The price is set deliberately. High enough to signal seriousness and filter for committed members. Comfortably approvable as a development line item for any Senior Living organization of meaningful scale.
Included. Every group session. Fifteen one-to-one coaching sessions per year. Three in-person gatherings — venue, lodging, meals, and content. The curated community. Outside speakers throughout the year. Deeper access to the Good People network.
Not included. Member travel to and from the three in-person gatherings.
Most healthy boards already ask: what are you doing to develop yourself? C-Sphere is a clean, defensible answer.
Membership is by invitation and interview. Request a conversation and we will share the founding-member brief, walk you through the program, and see together whether this is the right room for you.