About MacKay CEO Forums

MacKay CEO Forums provides confidential peer learning that helps CEOs, executives, and business owners think clearly, make better decisions, and lead with confidence.

Transformational Peer Learning for Leaders

We bring CEOs, executives, and business owners together to accelerate performance through the highest-impact, least time-intensive peer learning groups in Canada.

What Drives Us

The purpose, mission, and impact behind the MacKay CEO Forums community.

Our Dream

Populate the world with inspiring leaders who build strong businesses, communities, and lives.

Our Mission

Help CEOs, executives, and business owners save time, make better decisions, and maximize their best opportunities.

How We Create Impact

MacKay delivers the highest-impact, least time-intensive peer learning for results-oriented leaders through professionally led, confidential forums designed for real-world decision-making. Trusted by Canada’s most respected CEOs.

Who We Are

MacKay CEO Forums is a Canadian-founded organization built on a simple belief: leaders make better decisions when they are supported by trusted peers who understand the weight of leadership. For more than 20 years, we’ve helped leaders move from isolation to clarity.

Our peer learning model brings together carefully matched, non-competing CEOs, executives, and business owners in confidential forums led by experienced Forum Chairs. These judgement-free spaces allow leaders to put real issues on the table and learn from shared experience, not theory.

Today, MacKay supports a national community of leaders across industries and regions. Our focus remains constant: delivering a strong return on time invested, fostering meaningful connection, and helping leaders show up as the best version of themselves.

Our Core Values

At MacKay CEO Forums, we uphold the ICCASE values that guide every Forum Chair, Partner, and Advisor in our community.

Inspiration

We encourage leaders to think boldly, grow intentionally, and lead with purpose.

Confidentiality

Trust is foundational. Every forum is a safe, judgement-free space for honest dialogue.

Collaboration

We create space for leaders to think together, challenge assumptions, and co-create better solutions. Collaboration turns individual insight into collective advantage.

Accountability

We challenge each other to follow through, making commitments to ourselves and others. Peer accountability fuels reach change.

Service

We lead with generosity, supporting leaders, communities, and social impact initiatives.

Excellence

Leaders’ time is precious. We prepare rigorously, deliver consistently, and model the standards we ask our community to uphold.

Our People

MacKay is powered by a dedicated community of leaders, facilitators, advisors, and partners working together to support leadership growth.

The Leadership Team

The team working behind the scenes to support a growing community of CEOs, Executives, and Business Owners.

Leadership Team

The Chair Team

Experienced CEOs, Executives, and Business Owners who facilitate trusted peer conversations.

Forum Chairs

Our Trusted Partners

Organizations we collaborate with to bring relevant perspectives and insights to our community.

Trusted Partners

The Advisor Team

Experienced CEOs, Executives, and Business Owners who contribute perspective and experience.

Advisors

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Learn more about how peer learning works and how to engage with the MacKay community.

What Our Members Are Saying

“Being able to sit in a room and learn from others gave insights that helped improve my leadership and business outcomes.”

David Labistour, Former CEO, MEC
“I can honestly say that I would not be here today without peer mentoring. It’s changed my life. I went through a personal divorce, business divorce, and dealing with the mental health of one of my kids. All of these things happened at the same time. Peer mentoring got me through this difficult time.”

Dave Ancrum, Founder & CEO, A&G Creative Group
“MacKay CEO Forums has been a worthwhile investment of my time and my money, helping me organize my time and hone in on what’s important.”

Jeff Jamieson, President, Hangry Panda Hospitality
“It’s really important to be part of a peer group because it’s been a fantastic network of peers and colleagues at the same level, allowing us to support each other and grow together on this journey. Peer learning has truly impacted my organization by enabling us to learn from one another. It’s about lived, shared experiences that are real and true.”

Jennifer Cho, CFO at Engineers & Geoscientists BC
“Some of my initial hesitations when considering joining a group were the return on my time and the return on my investment. I remember those being significant hurdles for me. What I can say now is that you absolutely get a return on both. The MacKay experience is very different—it isn’t a referral network, but a peer group of business associates you come to know, like, and trust.”

Mike Star, Realtor, AlbertaRE
“Being part of a peer group has been extremely helpful for me in many situations. First and foremost, it has provided a safe environment where I can share both personal and professional experiences with peers and hear thoughtful feedback based on similar situations they’ve faced in the past. That sense of safety has been incredibly important to me.”

Tony Quo Vadis, CFO, Cansel Group of Companies
“What’s really important in terms of a peer group for me is that I am able to get the inspiration, the guidance in a really efficient and effective way because it’s already been curated for me. It’s always applicable in my day to day as a leader.”

Ute Preusse, Co-Founder & CEO, Will Creative Inc.