FORUMS & SERVICES
FORUMS
Sometimes you need to reserve time to step back and see the big picture.
If you’re the busy leader of a dynamic organization, it’s hard to find the perfect time, environment, and people with whom to process the challenges only you can understand. Life can be lonely when you’re the one accountable. But that doesn’t mean you have to go it alone.
At Elevate Performance, we’ve been running increasingly-popular senior leader peer advisory forums for more than ten years. We now operate five CEO Forums in Northwest Arkansas and one in Little Rock. The CEO Forums bring together up to fourteen regional C-Suite leaders and business owners in ongoing monthly closed-door sessions, in which they can process each others’ issues and challenges, and share deep insights about business and the business climate in Northwest Arkansas, the state and the world. Business competitors are not placed in the same forum. A confidentiality agreement is signed at the beginning of each meeting. Deep trust occurs. Bonds form. A strong support network is built.
Recent research among our members (many of whom have been with us since the beginning) reveals these are the things they value most about the forum experience:
I can process challenges and opportunities with peers who understand the complexity of what I’m dealing with.
I’ve formed valuable relationships with people I trust or connections important to my business.
The forum meetings allow me a unique opportunity to take a step back from my business and consider it from a “big picture” perspective.
I gain deep, early insights into what is happening in the Northwest Arkansas region.
In the Elevate Performance Accelerate Leadership program, we help accelerate the process of transforming good people into great leaders.
The Accelerate Leadership program is a ten-month forum, in which members meet for half-days monthly, with a curriculum that combines leadership and management training with peer-to-peer processing of real-life management opportunities.
The program is ideal for quickly-promoted managers of mid-sized to large businesses, owners/CEOs of smaller enterprises, or executive leadership within non-profit organizations. The problem is, they often move up with skills gaps: Knowing how to manage and lead people. Knowing how to think strategically, beyond the focused perspectives of functional excellence. Knowing budgets and finances. Knowing how to manage conflict. Knowing how to communicate effectively, inside and outside the organization. There are many more such opportunities. In the Elevate Performance Accelerate Leadership Program, we help accelerate the process of transforming good people into good leaders.
SERVICES
In light of today's hyper stressed business and employment environment and the resulting need for unprecedented operational and debt management, we think one of the best ways to help our members is by launching Elevate Finance.
Your team at Elevate is working to deeply understand and handicap the various sources of funding for small to midsize businesses and commercial real estate owners. This will allow us to tailor advice to each member's need. We will first serve members of the CEO Forums and CEO Tech Forums, clients of Innovate Arkansas, and if needed, CFO Network. We would love and hope to serve others in our communities.
Timing is critical for most small businesses that typically only have 2-4 weeks of contingency capital accessible. To make the right choices, its incumbent on Elevate to assess each client’s situation and tailor financial and operational advice for the appropriate funding sources. The solution to many businesses' challenges will require not only SBA related loans but two or more sources of funding. We will work with each client to assess what sources might be attainable by you and your situation and advise as to which strategies offer the best upside to achieve success in gaining that source of funding.
Based on the capacity and expertise that exists inside of your business, we will step in where we can to assist you in obtaining funding at an hourly rate that is affordable and discounted given the circumstances of the day.
Elevate Finance has also joined forces with the renowned CFO Network and its alliances, which includes the Friday Law Firm. Elevate Finance
Our Background in Finance:
Tim McFarland
- Commercial Lending to Chief Credit Officer, Merchants National Bank Fort Smith, AR (now Regions Bank, Fort Smith)
- Head of Uptown Commercial Banking Office, First National bank in Albuquerque
- Head of Corporate Banking and Finance and Correspondent Banking, Century Bank, Phoenix, AZ
-CEO of American National Bank, Scottsdale, AZ
- Head of Family Office of High Net Worth businessman - founder of Giant Industries NYSE GI (sold)
- Diamond State Ventures, an SBA supported venture fund
- Elevate Performance - working with over 100 CEO's
Ryan Hargrove
- BSBA in Accounting, University of Arkansas
- Current Master of Professional Accounting student, University of Arkansas
- Experience in Operations Finance at Walmart, Inc.
- 2 years of experience at Elevate Performance