Last week, my ChatGPT and I got into a fight. In its opinion, with nearly 16,000 followers on LinkedIn, with 2000 people subscribing to my digital transformation mindcandy, with over 4000 subscribing to my “normal” mindcany and you, my dear newsletter subscriber, – I should stop messing around and launch an exclusive MindCandy Club.
In other words:
“You’re wasting your time if you don’t turn this into a proper system for CEOs.”
Then it wrote a first draft of what that system could look like. I’ve cleaned it up, but this is essentially what “we” came up with.
MindCandy Club is my answer to a simple question: “What would a practical, no-bullsh*t future-fitness system for CEOs and their teams look like?”
Not another course.
Not another keynote.
No big programme.
No consulting deck.
No 200-page report.
An exclusive (mindcandy) club. A rhythm. A gym for your strategic brain. A clean structure around how you sense, decide, prepare and act under uncertainty.
What you actually get:
1. Future dashboard (individual intake)
We map your business, pressures and key uncertainties. This becomes your “future dashboard” – the lens and focus for everything we do.
2. Weekly MindCandy signals
Curated weak signals and emerging trends, in plain CEO language: What’s happening, why it matters, and how it could affect you.
3. Monthly MindCandy CEO notes (books → decisions)
Distilled insights from the most useful books on strategy, innovation and leadership – turned into questions and prompts you can take straight into leadership meetings.
4. Monthly Scenario + Toolkit
Each month, you get a “what if…?” scenario, plus a ready-to-run toolkit or workshop format to explore it with your team.
5. Ask Me Anything + peers
Live sessions where you bring real issues – board questions, strategy dilemmas, AI decisions – and learn from other CEOs facing similar patterns.
6. Quarterly Individual Future Readiness Review
Once a quarter, we zoom out: what changed, what’s coming, and what requires a concrete response now.
7. Templates and playbooks that travel
Drop-in canvases, workshop kits and checklists you can use immediately – so change comes from within, not via another consulting deck.
All designed so the future is not a side-project, but a discipline embedded in how you lead.
Founding members (limited spots)
I’m starting MindCandy Club with a small group of founding members:
- Maximum 20 CEOs in the first cohort.
- Enough diversity to be interesting.
- Small enough to stay personal.
Founding members will:
- help shape the rhythm and formats,
- have more direct access to me and,
- lock in founding member pricing for the lifetime of their membership.
Once those 20 spots are taken, I’ll close the founding cohort and move new people to a waitlist for the next intake.
CEO question (read this twice)
If your board asked tomorrow, “What is our system for staying ahead of disruption?” – would you have a confident answer? The MindCandy Club is designed so you do.
Investment
This is priced to be a small, predictable line item compared to the cost of:
- one bad strategic bet,
- one missed shift, or
- one lost key executive.
Your options:
- Founding member rate €295 per month, or
- €2,950 per year (two months effectively free)
There are no long contracts. If it’s not clearly valuable, you shouldn’t stay.
(Founding members lock in this rate.)
Who this is for
- CEOs and founders of established businesses (typically €5M+ revenue)
- Leaders who know “business as usual” is finished, but don’t want another vague futurist talk
- People who want clarity, challenge and tools, not theory
It’s not a magic prediction machine. It is a way to make sure you, your board and your team are not blindsided.
What to do next
Keep this very simple:
Send me a mail with “MC” in the subject line
I’ll respond personally with a short intake so I understand your context and tell what the rhythm looks like month-to-month.
We’ll fill the founding cohort on a first-come, first-served basis. After 20, the doors close until the next intake.
Have a great day
Ron
Positive futurist, maverick-in-residence
PS Read this book. “The long game” is about building over 100-years businesses. The secret is combining the centurion lens with reinvention as the core competency.
