Professional Development for the COO and the Second-in-Command

​We are a professional development association of Second-in-Command Executives: Chief Operating Officers, Operating CFOs, General Managers, Divisional Presidents, Operating CIOs, and Executive Vice Presidents. We serve with integrity, providing value to our members, to our member’s companies, and to our overall business community. 

​Our goals are ​to provide a collaborative, peer learning forum of Chief Operating Officers and other Second-in-Command Executives. To expand individual member’s professional development. To develop and share COO-specific best practices. To connect the greater Second-in-Command community. To broaden understanding and awareness throughout the greater business community of the Second-in-Command and its crucial role.

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OUR OFFERINGS

COOeForum
Our private and confidential member forum featuring profiles, member contributions, a resource of business information, industry forums, and job postings. Powered by Mighty Networks.

Remote Zoom Meetings & Industry Forums
In addition to our regular local chapter meetings, we offer a remote Zoom meeting for COOs where we do not host a meeting.  

Local Chapter Meetings
Where members discuss issues, share approaches and developments in their businesses, and tackle COO-specific best practices.                       

Individual Member Support
Extensive network of Second-in-Command Executives with wide-ranging areas of expertise support the diverse needs of each member.

TESTIMONIALS

The COO Forum provides an invaluable opportunity to meet with fellow COOs from a cross-section of companies to discuss best practices, real-life scenarios, new technologies, peer-to-peer trouble shooting, and have facilitated discussions about a range of topics impacting business today. I walk out of every meeting with some nugget I apply to my business that day- whether a new process, or tool, or contact. It is a great resource!

​-Jennipher Rosecrans,  COO, MBC LLC - Northern Virginia 

As a COO, I find that my touch in the organization has vast breadth. Finding peers with similar challenges internally has proven near impossible. The COO Forum provides that network of professionals that not only relate to the scope of my position, but they also live it every day. The COO Forum has proven to have the wealth of knowledge, experiences, local and industry through membership, as well as the breadth of avenues to exploit true professional development through like-minded leaders via local chapter events as well as global meetings. I am refreshed and determined to grow with each and every interaction with the COO Forum.

​-Joshua Renicker, COO, Energy Access, Inc. - Indianapolis

As a member of the COO Forum for over seven years, I am pleased to say that I have, and continue to receive, invaluable benefit from not just the membership as a whole but the guest speakers and talent that the forum is able to attract. The networking, shared experiences, and candid discussions are gems that not only help with the day-to-day issues we face as COO's but additionally prepare us for the challenges ahead. Everyone is 'time poor' and must allocate their time accordingly and I know in my opinion this is at the top of my list!

​-Bennet Petersen, COO, Medcor, Inc. - Chicago 

My local COO Forum chapter provides me much needed counsel and insight of my peers to solve the issues I face daily in my business. I walk away from our meetings more equipped to meet the needs of my company and my CEO, and I am a better COO thanks to the COO Forum.  

​-Josh Britton, COO, Cornerstone Education Group - Detroit