Membership Options and Benefits 2024

There is no minimum contract period for membership. There is no joining fee and membership can be terminated at any time with just 1 month’s notice. However, we do ask that you give us an opportunity for an honest open discussion to see if we can resolve any issues or help support you differently.

Membership fees include the organisation of, administration of, facilitation of, and primary content for MD2MD events. They do not include accommodation or other sundry expenses. These are payable directly to the venue, or if recharged through MD2MD, immediately upon invoice by MD2MD.

We at MD2MD strive to ensure that you, the business leader, will be satisfied with our service – at all times. If ever you feel we have not delivered a service to your satisfaction, please talk to us and we will do our best to rectify. We actively encourage feedback, our philosophy is simple – you comment, we listen, we improve, you benefit!

MD2MD Speaker led workshops are scheduled throughout the year with a reduced schedule during holiday periods and none in December. MD2MD peer groups do not meet in holiday weeks (a week containing a bank holiday) and stop for the second half of December until the first full week of January so in practice a six weekly cycle translates to eight meetings per annum.

You will gain tangible and measurable and direct benefits such as new business and cost savings resulting from MD2MD membership. It is the inevitable consequence of you mixing with other great enthusiastic entrepreneurial business leaders that they share knowledge and opportunities. But such outcomes are an accident of managed good fortune, not our purpose.  Whilst absolutely critical to successful business leadership, our fundamental purpose and the most
valuable consequence of membership is completely intangible, indirect and unprovable.

Members say MD2MD membership increases the true (as opposed to displayed) confidence they have in their decisions, actions and behaviour. Having reviewed their thinking with a dozen peers they know their decision is at least a reasonable one.  This increases their self-belief and their conviction in communication – because despite the confident external persona great leaders are often very self-critical as they strive to be the best leader they can be.

The support of their fellow members has a useful side benefit too. Members say that when they act after having reviewed a situation with a group of sensible pragmatic peers, they feel more satisfied and less stressed when making difficult decisions. They know they have made a reasonable decision in the
circumstances whatever the outcome that results.

We look forward to welcoming you to our community of business leaders.

Designed to deploy a century or two of experience in the room to address real practical business challenges faced by members of the group. The conversations are managed through a well honed process that encourages constructive input. Similar in principle to the well proven business school approach of case studies, the difference with MD2MD is that you are discussing real leadership challenges faced by real people today. And you are encouraged to present real solutions that you would implement if you were actually in the shoes of your fellow member.

The leadership challenge board meeting is strictly confidential to create a safe space where a business leader can discuss their most tricky challenges with independent peers.

Membership offers unlimited access to Speaker workshops and Sponsored briefings for the business leader and or their senior team

MD2MD offers the opportunity for you and your leadership team to discover world leading best practice.  We employ top national and international professional practitioner speakers to complement the immediate focus of the leadership challenge board with outside insights into best practice in a specific area relevant to a
business leader.

The subject matter varies immensely. Examples include: Pricing, Key account management, Onboarding, Conflict management, Mindset, Team building, Strategy development, Innovation, Recruitment and many others.

Speaker Led Workshops are not confidential and are intended to be interactive. All attendees are encouraged to have their cameras on and to participate both verbally, through text chat and through polls and similar tools.

Membership offers unlimited access to Speaker Led workshops for the business leader and their senior team. At least one workshop is scheduled to take
place most non-holiday weeks other than December. Reduced programme in August.

Sponsored Speaker Briefings may be presented as a workshop or webinar. The key difference is that whilst MD2MD feels the session will be of interest to members MD2MD is not funding the speaker. The speaker is being paid for by a sponsor with an interest in promoting their angle; appropriately and in the context of adding value!

MD2MD offers the opportunity for you and your leadership team to discover world leading best practice. We employ top national and international professional practitioner speakers to complement the immediate focus of the leadership challenge board with outside insights into best practice in a specific area relevant to a
business leader.

The subject matter varies immensely. Examples include: Pricing, Key account management, Onboarding, Conflict management, Mindset, Team building, Strategy development, Innovation, Recruitment and many others.

A cross between leadership challenge boards and speaker workshops, our special interest groups bring together members who have a common interest on an ongoing basis.
Special interest groups are a chance for members to meet, share and discuss challenges relating to an area of shared interest. They meet as often as guided by members of the group. These groups are run in conjunction with member feedback suggestions. As such the number of groups may vary and change over time. Example groups include Monitor your Growth, Personal and Executive Assistant, B2B Marketing and Women in Leadership.

PLEASE NOTE: Women in Leadership piloted during 2023 and due to its huge popularity commencing January 2024 it will run as a stand alone entity. Blended Membership includes 1 place at Women in Leadership additional places are chargeable.

LeaderFest is our annual conference – with a difference. As with everything MD2MD you will find the emphasis is on pragmatic action. Rather than sitting listening to speeches and talks you will discover LeaderFest encourages interaction. We adapt our core approach of leaders learning with and from leaders to a larger scale by interviewing experienced and interesting business leaders on stage. Then, more importantly, we encourage business leaders like you to engage directly with them
through questions and answers from the audience and through private conversations with them and with fellow business leaders between sessions.