The leader you are.
The leader your
company
needs.
Chapter 8 closes the distance. A confidential peer community for CEOs of scaled companies, where peer-driven honesty surfaces who you are at your core, and a structured process turns it into the moves your organisation needs from you now.
Request an introduction →Isolation at the top is not a weakness. It is structural.
The higher a CEO climbs, the fewer honest conversations they have. At the top there is no one left to tell you the truth about who you have become, or about who the next chapter now needs you to be. The people you lead cannot be your counsel. The few who could be are running their own climb. Chapter 8 exists for the conversations that happen nowhere else.
Most leadership experiences stop at insight.Here, insight is the halfway point.
A curated group of eight CEOs leading scaled companies. Five days of deep, facilitated work, followed by a structured 60-day programme of one-to-one sessions that turns insight into executed change. A community that continues long after the room empties. Not a conference. Not a masterclass. Not networking. Every participant is seen honestly by peers at their level, gets clear on who they are built to be, and leaves with a concrete plan and the people to hold them to it.
From insight to execution.
The room is where it begins, not where it ends.
The Experience
Eight CEOs, a remote location, total confidentiality. Five days of deep, facilitated work that combines movement with group and personal investigation. Designed to go deep, not fast.
One on One Sessions
A structured 60-day programme of one-to-one sessions that turns insight into executed change. The work from the room is built directly into each CEO's forward strategy, so it sticks.
The Community
Lifetime access to a confidential alumni community: the wider circle across every cohort, quarterly sessions with your own, themed peer salons, and an annual summit.
a living document naming who you are as a leader, what your company requires of you now, and where the two align and where they do not. Begun in the room, built across the 60 days, kept for life.
Every experience is held somewhere remote enough to disconnect completely.
The landscape itself does part of the work, and each cohort has its own room: the same founder and method, with specialists and a guest table chosen for that gathering. New cohorts open through the year. Select one below to see who is in the room.
Total Confidentiality
A signed pact before any work begins. Without it, the conversation stays shallow. With it, everything changes. What is shared in the room stays in the room.
The Forum
A facilitated space for the real challenges you face, personal and professional. Every CEO is in the spotlight. The group asks powerful questions, mirrors blind spots, and shares lived experience. No advice. You arrive at your own clarity.
The Power of Movement
Physical work that feeds directly into the thinking: cycling, breathwork, team challenges. Movement strips away hierarchy, sharpens the mind, and reveals leadership patterns invisible in the boardroom, where clarity meets pressure.
The Wider Circle
The experience is the beginning. You leave with a plan and lifetime access to a confidential alumni community: quarterly cohort sessions, themed peer salons, guest-led conversations, an annual summit. The structure that holds you to the work.
Eight CEOs, assembled deliberately, every seat offered personally. A desert setting designed for disconnection, with the spa, pool and open landscapes creating space for reflection, conversation and a fresh perspective.
Eight CEOs, assembled deliberately, every seat offered personally. Set at the foot of the majestic Atlas Mountains, the experience combines movement, reflection and meaningful conversation.
The work that changes you happens after you leave the room.
In the room, you draw your Chapter 8 Map. Who you are as a leader. What your company requires of you now. Where the two align, and where they do not. Over the sixty days that follow, that map stops being a document and becomes the way you lead. A structured programme of one-to-one sessions takes the hardest lines on the map and builds them into your forward strategy, one decision at a time, until the change holds.
The Anchor
Within a week of leaving the room, while it is still vivid. We turn the map into commitments and name the first moves. Momentum never gets the chance to break.
The Working Session
The midpoint. What has shifted, what has resisted, and what you have quietly avoided. We meet reality honestly, adjust the plan to it, and go again.
The Handover
The change is now yours to run on your own. We close the programme with the map built into how you work. You keep it for life.
An outside view, with inside knowledge. No other advisor has both.
Why this works
Most counsel comes from people who know your business but not you,
or who know you but cannot afford to be neutral. The Founder is neither. Years of board-level, non-executive and advisory work, brought together with five days of seeing how you actually lead, with the title left at the door. The plan is built by someone outside your company who knows you from the inside. That is why the change holds once you are back at your desk, and why it reaches past you into your team and your company.
The insight was never the point. The change is.
The single most valuable thing membership gives you: a standing line to a vetted network of leaders operating at your level, across every cohort. People you can call when the decision is hard and the truth is expensive elsewhere.
Membership doesn't end when the experience does. It begins there.
For life, you remain inside the circle, with continued access to peers, to the Chapter 8 Founder, and to a stream of conversation and content built for the questions only CEOs face.
- The wider community, across every cohortDirect access to every leader who has come through Chapter 8: structured introductions, not a directory.
- Quarterly cohort sessionsYour circle reconvenes through the year to hold each other to account and keep the conversation alive.
- The annual summitThe full community together once a year: peers, guests, and the content that compounds across cohorts.
- Ongoing content and conversationThemed peer salons and guest-led conversations. The thinking that doesn't exist anywhere else for people in your seat.
Scale-up CEOs, leading through real complexity.
You know the questions. You just don't have anyone to ask them to.
- Whether the company still needs the leader you became, or the one you used to be.
- The decision you've circled for months, with no one to think it through with.
- Whether your strategy still holds in a market AI is rewriting underneath you.
- Who actually succeeds you, and whether the bench behind you is real.
- Holding a team together across distance and culture, when you see the whole picture and they don't.
- Founders and CEOs of scaled companies, whether you built it or were brought in to lead it, past the early grind and deep in the complexity of scaling.
- Carrying weight you can't fully share with your board, your team, or anyone at home.
- Ready to be challenged honestly, and to do the same for peers who've earned the right.
- Open enough to leave the title at the door. Selected personally by Daniel, by introduction only.
This is not for everyone, and it is not meant to be.
Chapter 8 was built by someone who lived the isolation.
Daniel Bernard founded Chapter 8 after more than 25 years of building companies across continents. He built Redwood International Sports in Israel into a global operation, navigated failure, scaled through complexity, and stepped back from the CEO chair twice. Today an active investor and seasoned board member.
He knows the loneliness of leadership first-hand, because he carried it himself for years. Chapter 8 is the honest conversation he wishes he'd had, built for the leaders climbing now.
LinkedIn- Founder, Redwood International Sports
- Founder, Suntech Innovation
- Venture Partner, Mindspring Capital
- Advisory Board, Sharp Alpha Fund
- Founder, Ride for Unity
- Israel Economic Forum, Forum500 & 3i
They arrive as CEOs.
They leave as a circle.
Chapter 8 is not open to application in the usual sense. Members are introduced, met, and selected personally by the Founder. If you believe you belong in the room, or know someone who does, begin with a conversation.
Tell us who you are.
Membership is by introduction and every application is read personally. Share a little about yourself and your company, and Daniel will be in touch to begin the conversation.
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