Perspective. Connection. Performance.
The Block
Performance
Exchange
Where senior leaders gain perspective, exchange ideas, and strengthen performance.
A curated executive community for leaders who want more than inspiration. The Exchange brings together practical insight, meaningful peer connection, and performance-focused experiences designed to help leaders turn perspective into action.
Why the Exchange exists
Leadership Can Be Isolating. Growth Shouldn’t Be.
The most consequential leadership decisions are rarely made with perfect information or unlimited time. Yet senior leaders are often expected to work through those decisions without an objective place to test their thinking, learn from others, or step back from the immediate demands of the business.
The Block Performance Exchange creates that place.
It brings experienced leaders together around the decisions, transitions, and performance challenges that matter most. Through candid conversations, practical resources, and perspectives from peers who understand the demands of leadership, members gain ideas they can put to work immediately.
This is more than a professional network. It is a performance community designed to sharpen thinking, strengthen decisions, and help leaders move performance forward.
The Exchange at a glance
Four Ways to Engage. One Focus: Better Performance.
The Exchange brings leaders together in several distinct ways, from focused peer discussions and leadership conversations to transition support and longer-term development experiences.
Exchange Calendar
Upcoming Across the Exchange
Choose the conversation or experience that best fits the challenge, transition, or opportunity in front of you.
Why Strong 2027 Strategies Can Break Down at the Senior-Team Level
Build traction early in a new leadership role
The Hidden Performance Cost of Leaders Who Solve Too Much
2027 Predictions and Trends: What Will Define Leadership and Organizational Performance
Build traction early in a new leadership role
The 2027 How Performance Happens dates will be added as the schedule is finalized.
The Exchange Difference
Built for Leaders Who Want to Put Insight to Work
PRACTICAL
Ideas grounded in the realities of leadership and organizational performance.
CURATED
Relevant topics, experienced voices, and peers who bring meaningful perspective.
CANDID
Honest conversations about what works and what gets in the way.
ACTIONABLE
Every experience helps leaders translate insight into stronger decisions and performance.
Candid peer exchange
Executive Forums
Focused peer conversations for the challenges that matter now.
Executive Forums bring senior leaders together for candid, facilitated discussions around timely leadership and business issues. Each forum begins with a consequential question and creates space for leaders to compare perspectives, examine assumptions, and strengthen their thinking.
The conversations are practical, confidential, and intentionally designed to move beyond surface-level discussion. Leaders leave with sharper questions, useful perspectives, and actions they can take back into their organizations.
FORUM TOPICS MAY INCLUDE
- Leadership-team readiness and effectiveness
- Strategy execution
- Talent and succession
- Organizational change
- Culture and accountability
- The leadership implications of AI
- Other emerging challenges affecting performance
OFFERED MONTHLY
The First 180 Days
Build traction early in a new leadership role.
Designed for two distinct audiences: leaders navigating their own transition, and senior leaders guiding others into new or expanded roles.
The first months in a new role can shape a leader’s credibility, relationships, and ability to deliver results for years to come. The First 180 Days is a focused virtual session that helps participants approach these critical transitions with greater clarity and intention, whether they are navigating the role themselves or guiding another leader.
The session helps leaders think intentionally about how they listen, assess the organization, build critical relationships, understand expectations, establish priorities, and create early momentum.
Upcoming Sessions
Each date offers the same core session. Select the date that works best for you.
Build traction early in a new leadership role
Build traction early in a new leadership role
For leaders and organizations seeking more individualized support, Block Performance also provides executive integration and advisory services that extend beyond the session.
How Performance Happens
Real leaders. Hard-earned insights. Practical lessons.
How Performance Happens is a 2027 conversation series featuring accomplished leaders discussing the experiences, decisions, behaviors, and conditions that create meaningful performance.
Each session will feature a different leader and a different perspective. The conversations will move beyond polished success stories to explore what leaders have learned through pivotal decisions, difficult moments, organizational change, setbacks, and sustained achievement.
The 2027 schedule is now being finalized.
Be among the first to receive speaker announcements, session dates, and registration information.
Sustained leadership development
Leadership Cohorts
Development that continues beyond a single conversation.
Some leadership challenges require more than a single event. Block Performance leadership cohorts bring leaders together over time to deepen their capabilities, apply what they are learning, and create measurable impact in their organizations.
Each cohort combines structured development, practical application, peer learning, and accountability. The focus is not simply on knowing more. It is on leading differently and producing stronger results.
2027 Leadership Cohorts Are Now Forming
COHORT EXPERIENCES MAY FOCUS ON
- Executive leadership and organizational impact
- Leadership-team effectiveness
- Transitioning into broader enterprise responsibility
- Leading change and transformation
- Building capabilities required for future performance
Insights and resources
Ideas to Strengthen
Leadership and Performance
The Exchange extends beyond live experiences. Explore Performance Briefs, articles, executive conversations, forum insights, practical tools, and clear answers designed to help leaders examine important questions and put insight to work.
For Organizations
Bring the Exchange Into Your Organization
Exchange experiences can also be created for intact leadership teams, internal leadership communities, and organizations working through important performance challenges.
We can design a focused forum, leadership conversation, transition experience, or cohort around the issues most important to your organization.
Join the Exchange
Stay Connected to the Conversations Shaping Performance
Join the Block Performance Exchange to receive invitations to upcoming forums and experiences, new leadership insights, Performance Briefs, and announcements about future cohorts and programs.