The chair organizes the meeting often with the help of an administrator who handles the details of logistics for the sessions. The chair facilitates your meetings. Aggressively keeping the session on track; making sure everyone gets air time. The chair brings just in time learning with new ideas for you industry. Most importantly the chair will challenge you to be your best. Successful chairs are: Experienced as a CEO or executive directors or senior executives Experienced as a consultant to CEOs and/or executive directors Comfortable, thinking on their feet Ready to learn more about business, organizations and yourself Willing to be very direct and straightforward with uncomfortable issues and conversations Experienced with many aspects of at least one industry usually yours Experienced aggressively facilitating meetings with multiple interests at play Passion about truly helping and making a difference in others lives and organizations A superb listener to understand you more deeply Entrepreneurs at heart Deeply caring and humble persons with a deep faith in human potential Chairs participate in a REX Chairs Roundtable which follows the same format and philosophy as your Roundtable. We work hard to be congruent and practice what we preach. Learning with leaders in the industry I'm passionate about through my role as a REX chair, has made me the expert I always aspired to be. I've been privileged to give away that expertise in the roundtable and in doing so, I've seen it return tenfold. Mary Case, REX Chair10 years I started my first roundtable in 1999 and now chair four. The fundamental concepts, practical tools, and coaching available to me through REX have enabled me to develop roundtables as a key component of my business. It is very rewarding to me personally to have built and sustained professional relationships with more than forty senior leaders in organizations around the country. Roundtables have given me a way to support and challenge them as they strive for success. John Durel