Make Confident Decisions
With Drive Wheel® Peer Groups
Join today to connect with your peers to make
confident decisions that grow your business.
Engaging Discussions
Enable Confident Decisions®
When you’re busy with the daily demands of your job, its easy to overlook the opportunities that will drive long-term growth. When you become a member of a Drive Wheel® Peer Groups, you can identify new strategies, reduce risk, and make confident decisions that will grow your business faster and more strategically.
We host over 25 peer groups for Food and Consumer Packaged Goods leaders at two-day in-person meetings twice a year where leaders discuss their new strategies, learn best practices, and benchmark performance to get feedback from their peers. Members leave the meeting knowing they have thought about their business from every angle.
Drive Wheel creates opportunities to collaborate, benchmark, network, and strategize to ensure business leaders have the information they need to make confident business decisions.
Learn From Your Peers
Every great leader needs to be confident in their support system. We’re here to connect you to the people you need to reach your goals. Drive Wheel® Peer Groups connect executives and practice leaders from across the industry to discuss their strategies, business challenges, and ideas to innovate. By discussing these strategies with peers, they return with confidence in their improved plan.
Confidence – Members make confident decisions knowing they are well informed and have tested their ideas with peers to ensure they don’t have unforeseen blind spots.
Connection – Social and professional opportunities to connect with fellow members and industry experts for a long-lasting support network.
Engagement – Energetic, fast-paced meetings led by dynamic facilitators create the perfect environment for collaborative discussions.
Empowerment – New solutions, exclusive data, and poignant trend updates allow members to be thought leaders to fuel their ambitions.
The Value
of Membership
Our peer groups meet twice a year for in-person two-day work sessions, but the power of the membership lies in the ongoing learning, benchmarking, and engagement.
Peer Groups
Members shape their meeting agendas with submitted questions and cases. Discussions are expertly facilitated by industry experts.
Networking
In-person networking events are hosted in inspirational foodservice locations to encourage conversations and new ideas.
Benchmarking
Year-round access to Drive Wheel’s™ Survey System to seek advice and keep a pulse on the industry.
Industry Reports
Regular reports from Drive Wheel™ ensure members receive breaking news and stay up to date on industry trends.
Speaker Series
World-class speakers challenge member thinking and encourage innovation with fresh ideas.
Deep Dive
Ad hoc small-group conversations or presentations on a specific topic to allow members to gain knowledge on a hot topic.
Drive Wheel® Member Companies
A small sample of our member organizations
Members Love Drive Wheel®
Don't take our work for it. Hear what our members say about their Peer Group experience.
“Participation in these peer groups has always propelled best practices and thought leadership for our Company’s participants. The value became even greater during the pandemic as our interactions with external partners was limited. This membership enables us to continue the dialogue with our industry peers during a critical time. We need organizations like Drive Wheel to connect us and share knowledge across the CPG industry. I'm excited to work with Theo because of his broad experience from a retailer's perspective that extends his view into the entire retail landscape."
"I utilized the peer group's comments, ideas, and experience to help roll out a new policy to my internal teams. Using examples from the group, I was able to show how other companies had found success using similar policies and how they had overcome roadblocks to implementation. Due to this experience, I was able to remove internal resistance and win support for enacting this new policy."
"As a result of our participation in Drive Wheel Peer Groups, we were able to grow our customer base from less then 10 retail partners to over 20 retail partners in the first twenty-four months of participating."
"I wish I had found Drive Wheel Peer Groups 20 years ago. The information I have gotten from participation in my Peer Groups would have made my life so much easier."
"I learned more in a couple of hours at a Drive Wheel Peer group than I did in the majority of my undergraduate college courses."
"I returned with five pages full of notes, ideas, and initiatives to test and implement with my team. I highly recommend Peer Groups to my network and colleagues based on my positive experience."
"Drive Wheel serves as a forum for problem solving. The peer groups allow for deep interaction with industry colleagues to share challenges and solutions."
"My biggest take away from the peer group has been an understanding of how other suppliers, in similar situations, solve challenges. The group members showed me the benefits of a new distribution model, which has helped us grow our business in regions of the US we may not have been able to service prior."
The Drive Wheel® Difference
Drive Wheel® gets its name from the wheels on a locomotive that propel the train forward, the drive wheels. We’re here to help our members become a similar driving force within their organizations.
Drive Wheel® has an engaging and vivacious team that hosts peer groups and networking events in engaging spaces. The goal of our facilitators is to create an environment for the most productive conversations and networking opportunities. Between meetings we are actively seeking information and conducting surveys to ensure our members are informed and inspired. Our mission is that members feel confident and empowered to be thought leaders within their organizations so they can become a driving force.
