The Curriculum
For those who value candor, context, and hard-earned perspective.
The Executives’ Club curriculum is intentionally simple—and deliberately demanding. It isn’t built around guest speakers, slide decks, or recycled frameworks. It’s built around disciplined conversations, shared standards, and the steady practice of better judgment.
Throughout the year, members engage through three distinct formats. Each serves a different purpose, but all are grounded in the same belief: serious leaders grow faster when they think together, challenge one another, and return to fundamentals.
This curriculum isn’t something you consume. It’s something you participate in. Show up prepared. Speak plainly. Listen carefully. Contribute honestly.
That’s the work. And that’s the point.
12:00 to 1:30 on the first Wednesday of each month in 2026, at Porter Creek Hardwood Grill, Fargo
These lunches are not presentations. The topics are simply conversation starters…nudges.
There is no stage, no slides, and no expert at the front of the room. Each gathering is an open forum built around one foundational business topic—led by the Executives’ Club Members in the room.
This is where executives speak candidly, tell real stories, test assumptions, and ask the questions they don’t get to ask anywhere else. The value comes from shared experience, hard-earned perspective, and the willingness to engage honestly with peers who understand the weight of leadership.
4:00 to 6:00pm, on the third Wednesday of each month in 2026, at Stone West Village, Fargo
By The Book is the disciplined counterweight to Unscripted. Wednesdays. This is where continuous learning becomes a responsibility, not a slogan.
Each month, this CEO study group will work through The Executives Institute curriculum chapter by chapter—studying a focused set of Rules and the timeless business books behind them.
The room is intentionally small and peer-driven, allowing leaders at different stages to challenge, mentor, and sharpen one another through real experience. You’ll hear how the same Rule holds up across industries, ownership structures, and seasons of leadership—and where it breaks if misapplied. The goal isn’t agreement. It’s clarity, earned through reading, discussion, and thoughtful application—by the book.
8:30 to 2:30, Friday, May 15, 2026, at Bell Bank Tower, Fargo
Growth isn’t about trends. It’s about timing — knowing when to sell, merge, expand, or step aside.
At The Next Chapter, 125 local executives will sit down and talk honestly about those moments — the deals made, the lessons learned, and the direction ahead.
Every business leader eventually faces the same moment — the point where what’s next is no longer a someday question.
That moment might look like an opportunity to acquire a competitor. It might be a transition to new leadership. Or it might simply be the realization that the company you’ve built deserves a plan beyond you.
Next spring, that conversation continues at The Next Chapter: The Deals. The Decisions. The Direction., hosted by The Executives’ Club Fargo-Moorhead at Bell Bank Tower in downtown Fargo.
Attendance is limited to 125 local business leaders — a room intentionally curated for those ready to discuss the realities of mergers, acquisitions, succession, and transition.
This isn’t a presentation about growth hacks or management trends. It’s a conversation amongst business leaders about the real work of leadership: the deals we make, the decisions we face, and the direction we choose when the next chapter comes calling.
Throughout the day, you’ll hear from executives who’ve bought, sold, merged, and passed on what they’ve built — openly and without pretense. You’ll learn what worked, what didn’t, and what they wish they’d known sooner.
At The Executives’ Club, we’ve built a culture on candid talk and shared experience. This event continues that tradition — one conversation at a time, among peers who understand what’s at stake.
125 seats. One room. Real conversations.
The Executives’ Club Fargo-Moorhead is proud to serve as the first CEO Study Group of The Executives’ Institute. Membership is more than local connection—it’s an opportunity to participate in the formation of a national conversation about leadership, business fundamentals, and the disciplined application of timeless principles.
As a Member, your insight and experience don’t necessarily stay in the room. The perspectives you share, the questions you ask, and the practices you model become part of a broader dialogue that reaches executives across the country. This is a chance to shape the conversation, elevate your voice, and promote both your leadership and your organization within a network of peers who respect rigor, results, and judgment above noise.
Participation here is intentional. Members aren’t attendees—they’re contributors, thought leaders, and standard-bearers in a community that is quietly defining the future of disciplined leadership.