Firstly, to maintain the quality of the network, each application is reviewed before being accepted.

Secondly, the network won't launch until there is a critical mass of people ready to join!

It's what it says on the tin - senior leaders working in scaleups (and a few, select others).

Senior leaders are generally from CEO to Director level, usually managing other managers, with multiple years of management experience.

Scaleups are usually VC-funded, but pre-IPO, with tens to thousands of employees and at least one layer of managers under the CEO, often more. They are often growing fast in revenue and headcount, but not always - usually you know if you're in a scaleup.

The Scaleup Leaders Network is intended for senior leaders in scaleups, and similar environments.

This includes a limited number of people from big tech, corporate scaleups, innovation, and transfromation departments, and smaller, early stage startups, as long as you share the ethos and interest of our core members - senior leaders in scaleups.

If you're in a traditional environment, but have a background in scaleups or an interest in moving to scaleups, join the waitlist. Once we've established the core membership, we may open the doors wider if it seems appropriate and there is sufficient interest.

At this stage, we are only accepting peple who either are involved in the senior leadership level of their company (CEO or reporting to CEO), or manage other managers - or who have significant experience doing so.

If you're a line manager, or an individual contributor with an interest in expressing leadership and growing, join the waitlist, and in future, we hope to have an offering that is suited to your needs also.

This network is intended to be commercially viable on its own, just from member fees, so the community can exist purely to serve member interests rather than being a marketing tool for other products and services.

Where it's helpful for members, additional services may be offered at extra cost (for example, masterminds, workshops, trainings, in-person events, etc), but there won't be constant sales pitches, because nobody likes that.

Nobody wants to be in a network full of coaches, consultants, salespeople, recruiters, and job hunters pitching you non-stop.

But sometimes these things are useful for members.

To keep the main discussion focused and clutter-free, commercial posts like these (including job listings) will be limited to specific areas, and moderated.

We'll review this policy from time to time to ensure it's serving members best interests.

Simply because it's the easiest way I can let people pay in their own currencies, and they are all close enough in value that I doubt it will matter to many people. If it does matter, I'll find a way to set pricing differently eventually.

I wanted it to be a financial no-brainer for the right people, because this will maximise the value of the network to each member. We'll see how it works out commercially, but if the right people aren't joining because it's too expensive, nobody wins.

I want to be able to invest my time and energy into this community fully, so it can have maximum value to members - so it has to be financially viable.

That said, the Slack community is free! Join the waitlist, and if you're eligible, you'll get an invite to the Slack as soon as you're approved.

They have the same membership criteria, but the Slack is free, and is for instant communication on any topic.

The paid community will have a long-form forum for more in-depth discusison, facilitated events and social meetups, a member directory, and some exclusive content and guests.

You can join both or either - they offer different value and ways of connecting to your Scaleup Leaders Network.

We have a Money Back Guarantee: If you join in good faith and participate sincerly, but find that it's not for you, let me know in your first month, and I'll refund you in full.