November 17, 2025

Corporate Change Makers: A Community for Those Shaping the Future

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There is a point in every innovator’s journey when you realize real transformation rarely comes from isolated thinking. The leaps you make in your career, the moments when strategy snaps into clarity, the insights that shift an organization’s trajectory almost never come from staring at a screen alone. They come from the conversations you have with people who think like you and challenge you in ways that expand your field of vision.

Author and entrepreneur Jim Rohn captured this idea simply: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I have watched this truth shape leaders, accelerate careers, and redefine what is possible.

Surround yourself with people who maintain the status quo and you will inevitably be pulled toward the median. Surround yourself with people who anticipate disruption, who see patterns others miss, who think regeneratively and act courageously, and you cannot help but rise.

This is the spirit of the Outthinker Accelerators Network.

For years I have worked with executives, strategists, and intrapreneurs who are responsible for creating change within large organizations. They are the quiet catalysts. They think several moves ahead. They understand how to navigate complex systems while still challenging them. They are the people others turn to when the organization is ready for a new chapter.

But even the strongest corporate outthinkers often feel alone in the role they play.

Not lonely. Just alone in the way someone feels when they are wired for bigger questions and longer horizons. When they are expected to deliver immediate results while also preparing the organization for a future not yet fully visible.

The Accelerators Network was built for these people and by these people. It is a regenerative community of leaders who see the world in similar ways and want to push their thinking even further. Intellectual sharpness is a shared trait here. Curiosity is the common language. But the true glue of this network is purpose.

Members come because they want to be surrounded by people who elevate their thinking. They stay because the relationships become fuel for strategic clarity, career acceleration, and personal growth.

This Community Matters Now

We are living in a time of historic transformation. Technology continues to advance in unpredictable ways. Market structures shift. Organizational models evolve. Entire industries rewrite their playbooks in real time. Leaders who thrive in this environment are the ones who can simultaneously anticipate disruption and harness it.

Last Friday at our monthly Accelerators meeting, we held a live interview with Scott Anthony, one of the most influential voices in innovation and disruption. Scott reminded us of something essential. “If you understand the patterns of disruption,” he said, “what feels threatening and scary can become empowering and exciting.”

This is exactly what the Accelerators Network helps leaders do. It gives them the tools and, importantly, the peers who help turn uncertainty into opportunity.

Scott also shared a powerful insight about innovation and leadership. “There is no lone genius,” he said. “There are dozens, hundreds, thousands of people who make breakthroughs possible.”

This truth is at our core: strategic clarity is not the product of isolation. The leaders who rise fastest are the ones who surround themselves with other serious thinkers.

Inside Conversations

Each month our members gather for roundtables designed to create exactly this kind of collaboration. These are not lectures or standard corporate workshops. They are real strategic conversations. They are facilitated, thoughtful, and rigorous. Members bring in challenges that most executives never get to discuss openly.

In these sessions, we explore the messy middle where strategy actually happens. The ambiguous moments when data is incomplete, when stakeholders do not agree, when political realities collide with long-term vision, when innovation rubs against current business models.

These are the moments that shape careers. These are the moments where having the right peers in the room matters most.

Our breakout rooms become pressure-testing labs where leaders analyze assumptions, uncover blind spots, explore new approaches, and develop ideas that are more robust and more courageous.

This is where professional networks evolve into strategic alliances. This is where leaders discover frameworks before they ever appear in articles or conference stages. This is where people begin to see themselves not just as participants in their organizations, but as the ones who will meaningfully influence their future direction.

Be in the Room Where it Happens

Something interesting occurs when you put a group of regenerative thinkers together. They start to elevate each other. They start to normalize higher levels of ambition and clarity. They begin to operate as if they are already inside the rooms where the most important decisions are made.

Because in many ways, they are.

Many of our Accelerators have stepped into the C-suite. Others have taken on enterprise-wide roles or innovation portfolios. Some have become trusted advisors to CEOs and senior leadership teams. These outcomes are not accidents. They happen because members intentionally surround themselves with people who think at the next level.

Scott’s comments last Friday reinforced the value of this type of environment. “Magic happens at intersections,” he said. “Innovation comes when different perspectives combine and reveal something new.”

The Accelerators Network is built on this principle. We curate intersections. We bring together strategists from different industries, different functions, different philosophical backgrounds, but with a shared desire to think deeply and act boldly.

Think Differently, Together

There is an unspoken truth about people who identify as outthinkers. They see the world a little earlier than others. They perceive patterns before they are widely recognized. They question assumptions. They notice downstream consequences. They look at the edges of the system because that is often where the opportunities live.

Being this kind of leader can feel isolating in traditional corporate settings. The Accelerators Network is the antidote. It is a place where thinking differently is the norm, not the exception. It is a place where you can ask the bigger questions without apology. It is a place where your curiosity is matched, your perspective is valued, and your growth is accelerated by the people around you.

This is not just access to me through our group chats and direct messaging. It is access to a community that heightens your ability to see what others cannot. It is access to peers who make you better. It is access to conversations that shift how you understand leadership and disruption. It is access to the support you need to drive change without burning out or burning bridges.

You May Already Belong Here

You know if you are wired for this. You feel it in the way you challenge norms. You feel it in the way you look for patterns across history and technology. You feel it when you sense that your career is on the cusp of something bigger.

The Outthinker Accelerators Network is the place where leaders like you gather to refine their thinking, expand their influence, and accelerate their path. It is a community that sharpens your strategy and strengthens your future.

Our next Accelerators session is on December 12, featuring Simon Hill, author of Expected Value: The System to Measure, Prove, and Scale Innovation and CEO of Wazoku.

Join us to gain practical insights from leading strategy experts and forward-thinking peers.

If this feels like your people, then you belong in the room where it happens. Visit Outthinker.com today and join the Accelerators Network.

Outthinker Networks is a global peer group of heads of strategy, innovation, and transformation at $1B+ companies who are determined to move their organizations to the next level. Members engage in curated learning, practical conversations, and networking opportunities to be more successful in performing their roles, solving their top challenges, and keeping their organizations ahead of the pace of disruption.