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Better Decisions
Challenge assumptions and examine high-stakes decisions from multiple executive perspectives before committing money, people, time, or reputation.
Illustrative value: $50,000–$500,000+
The Founding Advisor Investment
The Room Itself Is the Product.
Founding Advisors are not simply paying to attend meetings or consume more information. The value is in the carefully curated people, accumulated trust, confidential thinking space, challenge, relationships, and perspectives that cannot easily be manufactured alone.
An $18,000 Commitment Should Create Meaningful, Measurable Value.
The goal is not to manufacture a promised financial return. The value can show up through better decisions, new perspectives, stronger relationships, opportunities, risks avoided, time recovered, and clearer action. Any ROI examples are illustrative only and are not guarantees of financial results.
The Founding Room
Space Without Emptiness. Structure Without Control.
Status can enter the room, but hierarchy stays outside. Members bring earned wisdom, curiosity, candor, perspective, and the willingness to challenge and be challenged without taking someone else's agency away.
Human First
Title, fame, wealth, and audience size do not determine importance.
Capability Assumed
You do not need to be broken, fixed, managed, or made dependent.
Agency Protected
You decide what is true for you and what is yours to do next.
Room Protected
Confidentiality, respect, integrity, contribution, and boundaries matter.
Contribution Expected
Your experience, questions, perspective, and relationships are part of the value.
Where Value Is Created
Six Ways the Room Can Change the Economics of a Decision
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Faster Execution
Move from looping to action. Name the real issue, select a path, establish ownership, and move priorities forward.
Illustrative value: $25,000–$100,000+
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Strategic Relationships
Build trusted relationships with leaders who understand your standards, business, leadership style, and priorities.
Illustrative value: $25,000–$500,000+
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Fewer Blind Spots
Surface assumptions, cultural risks, hidden consequences, and second-order effects before they become expensive.
Illustrative value: $50,000–$250,000+
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Greater Visibility
Turn executive experience into strategic visibility through selected interviews, conversations, publications, speaking, and NorthStar initiatives.
Illustrative value: $20,000–$200,000+
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Stronger Leadership Capacity
Gain a confidential place to test ideas, prepare for difficult conversations, and strengthen how you lead through uncertainty, growth, conflict, and transition.
Compounding leadership value
Five Forms of Executive Capital
Build Value That Continues Beyond the Session.
Decision Capital™
Better judgment, clearer priorities, and stronger choices.
Relationship Capital™
Trusted peers, warm introductions, and strategic access.
Reputation Capital™
Greater credibility, visibility, and executive positioning.
Opportunity Capital™
Clients, partnerships, board roles, speaking, and collaboration.
Financial Capital™
Revenue gained, costs avoided, time recovered, and value created.
Illustrative Value
What Measurable Value Could Look Like
These examples are illustrative rather than guaranteed. They show some of the ways an executive might document value created through stronger decisions, trusted relationships, faster execution, avoided risk, and new opportunities.
| Potential Value Created | Illustrative Value |
|---|---|
| Avoid one poor executive hire or partnership | $250,000 |
| Gain one strategic client or contract | $100,000 |
| Recover leadership time and reduce delay | $50,000 |
| Improve one pricing or offer decision | $75,000 |
| Create one referral, board, or speaking opportunity | $50,000 |
| Strengthen one strategic partnership | $75,000 |
| Illustrative Total Value | $600,000 |
Founding Advisor Legacy ROI™
You Are Not Just Joining the Room. You Are Helping Build It.
What You Receive in the Room
- A carefully curated, confidential executive room.
- Peer challenge on real decisions.
- Meaningful relationships, introductions, and possibilities.
- Space to think, explore, and hear perspectives you do not already have.
- Agency to decide what is yours to do next.
- Lifetime Founding Advisor designation.
- A founding role in shaping the standards and culture of the room.
Long-Term Legacy Return
- Influence the frameworks and culture of the Institute.
- Help preserve executive wisdom between generations.
- Contribute to research, roundtables, and publications.
- Build lasting relationships with accomplished leaders.
- Create a visible body of leadership insight.
- Help shape an institution designed to endure.
Interested in Becoming a Founding Advisor?
There are two ways to continue. If you already know this feels like a room you want to help build, complete the Founding Advisor application. If there is something specific you need to understand before deciding, request a conversation with Kim.
The Advisor Path
How to Continue
1. Explore the Opportunity
Review the Founding Advisor role, 12-month commitment, room standards,
and member expectations.
2. Apply or Request a Conversation
Complete the Advisor application when you are ready, or request
a conversation with Kim if there is something specific you need to discuss.
3. Determine Mutual Fit
NorthStar will review fit based on caliber, character, contribution,
confidentiality, curiosity, and the ability to participate without dominating.
Frequently Asked Questions
Advisor Investment Questions
How much is the Founding Advisor Charter Membership?
The membership is $1,500 USD per month. Twelve monthly payments equal 12-month commitment · $18,000 total.
Is this a 12-month commitment?
Yes. Founding Advisor Membership requires a 12-month commitment and is billed monthly at $1,500 USD.
Are specific financial or business results guaranteed?
No. The 10X value target is a framework for identifying and measuring potential value created through better decisions, stronger relationships, opportunities, execution, and leadership.
Do I need to apply before speaking with Kim?
No. You may either apply directly or request a conversation first to explore the role and determine whether there is mutual fit.
Where do I apply?
Complete the Founding Advisor application at Apply to Be an Advisor .
How do I schedule a conversation with Kim?
Use the Request Your Conversation calendar to select an available time.
The Founding Invitation
If This Feels Like Your Room, Take the Next Step.
The Founding Advisor role is for accomplished leaders who value confidential thinking space, earned wisdom, strong relationships, honest challenge, and a room where status does not determine importance.
$1,500 / month
12-month commitment · $18,000 total · billed monthly in USD.
Important ROI Disclosure: References to ROI, 10X value, 50X potential value, financial value, revenue, cost savings, introductions, business opportunities, decision improvement, or other potential benefits are illustrative goals and examples. They are not guarantees of financial performance or specific outcomes.
Membership Billing: CxO Mastermind™ Founding Advisor Membership is a 12-month commitment at $1,500 USD per month, for a total commitment of $18,000, billed monthly.
Advisor Selection: Submission of an application or scheduling a conversation does not constitute acceptance into the Founding Advisor Charter Membership. Participation is subject to mutual fit and final approval.