ABOUT LEADING PEERS
Our mission is to help CEOs grow so their people and businesses prosper.
Spending the past 20 years as a CEO, Leo Popik founded four multimillion-dollar businesses.
Throughout his journey, Leo has learned invaluable business leadership lessons — from both failures and successes — that taught him how to live a more purposeful life.
Leo founded Leading Peers for fellow chief executives to share insights and experiences, with gratitude and humility, in peer-to-peer relationships of reciprocated learning, trust, and respect.
"Choosing an entrepreneur and CEO lifestyle comes with indescribable feelings of freedom and purpose. It also evokes a strong sense of loneliness and stress when navigating the roadblocks, setbacks and personal sacrifices that come with business leadership. Leading Peers is designed to help passionate CEOs who are committed to building successful organizations and teams. Our goal is to provide the support and resources to help you grow throughout your unique leadership journey."
Leo Popik
Founder & CEO, Leading Peers
The Leading Peers community provides a safe and supportive space for chief executives who are ready to ask for help and support others. We are a trusted network of like-minded leaders committed to business, family, community, and one another.
When you join, expect to embark on your own journey of lifelong learning and gain the clarity, confidence, and support needed to achieve your biggest personal and professional goals.
Our Core Values
Trust
We earn trust by never sharing false information or divulging someone else's info without consent. We create a peer board where we feel safe to be completely vulnerable and openly share our victories, setbacks, opportunities, challenges, and goals.
Growth Mindset
We envision new horizons, take risks, test new strategies, and learn from failures. We expand our inherent talents and acquire new skills, cultivating spiritual growth, discipline, and perseverance to overcome obstacles. We remain curious and open to new ideas and welcome feedback and different perspectives.
Accountability
We hold ourselves accountable for completing priority work, honoring commitments, aligning our actions with our words, and striving for improvement in the priority pillars of our lives. In our peer board, we share our goals and results and show up consistently, on time, prepared, and focused.
Meaningful Relationships
We cultivate meaningful and enduring relationships with our board peers. We share our best wisdom, insights, connections, and advice with them. We show up for them, listen attentively, and support those experiencing challenging times.
Servant Leadership
We lead with empathy and compassion, driven by a genuine desire to help others. We see our businesses as a force for good. We treat all people with dignity and respect. We seek to make a significant positive impact on the lives of our loved ones and our team.
Leading Peers is a CEO peer institution built to eliminate leadership isolation and elevate executive performance.
We convene growth-minded CEOs into structured, high-trust boards where decision quality sharpens, accountability deepens, and durable enterprises emerge.
Purpose
To empower CEOs to unlock their full potential—so their people and businesses thrive.
Mission
To eliminate leadership isolation and elevate CEO performance.
Vision
To build the world’s most trusted and transformative community for growth-minded CEOs.
How We Show Up
Trust
Trust is absolute. Truth is direct. Confidentiality is protected without exception. Our boards are disciplined environments for consequential dialogue.
Growth Mindset
We pursue continuous advancement—personally and professionally. We challenge assumptions, test ideas rigorously, and remain intellectually open while upholding high standards.
Accountability
Commitment, preparation, and follow-through matter. We hold ourselves and one another to disciplined execution and measurable progress.
Meaningful Relationships
We cultivate enduring peer alliances grounded in respect, discretion, and shared ambition. We invest in one another’s success and stand firm in moments of complexity and growth.
Servant Leadership
We believe leadership carries responsibility beyond profit. We act with humility and conviction, striving to create lasting impact in our companies, families, and communities.
Our Story
Founded in 2020 by Leo Popik, Leading Peers was built to institutionalize what most CEOs lack: a structured environment for clear thinking, rigorous challenge, and disciplined growth.
After two decades as an entrepreneurial CEO, Leo witnessed firsthand the strategic cost of leadership isolation. He set out to architect a performance-driven community where leaders refine judgment, strengthen accountability, and scale enterprises alongside peers who understand the weight of the role.
Leading Peers has grown deliberately—designed for durability, guided by standards, and anchored in the conviction that stronger leaders build stronger companies and lasting impact.