A private club for founders, directors, CEOs, and operators of the Hunter Region's most ambitious businesses.
You've scaled past the early chaos. You've got staff, revenue, reputation. But the higher you climb, the fewer people understand your decisions. Your mates don't get it. Your team definitely can't hear it.
You're making million-dollar calls in isolation. And every networking group you've tried is either a glorified leads group, a room full of policy and advocacy types, or people who want to talk about business but have never actually built one.
The best founders and operators in the world don't do it alone. They surround themselves with people who challenge them, hold them accountable, and build them up.
Every major city in Australia has private leadership communities. The Hunter Region has nothing.
The Greater Hunter is an economic powerhouse — over $100 billion in gross regional product, one of the largest regional economies in Australia. The talent is here. The ambition is here. But there's no room where the region's top founders, directors, CEOs, and operators sit together, share what's actually working, and push each other to the next level.
A private, application-only club that puts the Hunter Region's top founders, directors, CEOs, and operators in the same room — not to network, but to build each other up. Leaders building leaders.
The quality of the room depends on who's in it. Every application is reviewed to ensure the right mix of industry, experience, and ambition.
Hit them all.
This isn't a membership card that collects dust. It's a curated operating system for leaders.
It's called Leaderboard for a reason. Closed-door online sessions with 8–12 operators, run like a monthly board meeting for your business. The systems, the strategies, the IP that nobody posts on LinkedIn. Leaders building leaders — every month.
The nucleus of the club. Always-on community where members share openly, challenge each other's thinking, and keep the conversation going between sessions. Warm introductions when you need them — but this is about ongoing connection, not one-off favours.
Bi-monthly masterclasses with operators who've built at scale. Quarterly health and performance sessions. An annual Hunter Leaders Retreat that will change your life. Every event is designed to sharpen your thinking — not waste your time.
A data-driven performance layer powered by AI. Track your business metrics against anonymised peer benchmarks. See where you lead, where you lag, and where the next edge is hiding.
Four pillars. One community. Everything feeds into the private network — the nucleus that keeps it all alive.
Monthly
Bi-monthly
Quarterly + Annual
Ongoing
Founding memberships are limited and non-renewable once filled.
APPLY NOWHere's what your membership looks like in practice.
Closed-door online sessions with your group of 8–12 operators. Confidential. This is the core.
Closed-door sessions with proven operators. Fireside Q&A. Real playbooks from people who've built at scale.
Expert-led sessions on sleep, nutrition, stress management, and physical performance. Peak operators need peak health.
Two-day retreat. Strategy. Connection. The relationships that change your trajectory.
The nucleus of the community. Always on, always connected. Where members share openly, challenge each other's thinking, and keep the conversation going between sessions.
AI-powered benchmarking against anonymised peer data. See where you lead, where you lag, and where the edge is.
The conditions have never been more right — or more urgent — for a club like this.
Rising costs, tighter margins, shifting markets, and more competition than ever. The leaders who thrive in this climate aren't going it alone — they're leveraging the knowledge of people who've already been through it.
The Hunter is producing $100B+ in gross regional product. Businesses here are competing nationally and globally — but the support infrastructure hasn't kept up. The playbooks that got you to $1M won't get you to $10M, and they definitely won't get you to $100M.
The higher you scale, the lonelier it gets. Remote teams. Distributed workforces. Fewer people who understand the weight of the decisions you're making. The need for a confidential, trusted peer group has never been greater.
Every major city in Australia has private leadership communities. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth — they all have rooms where founders and operators push each other forward. The Hunter has nothing. Until now.
The people around you determine the speed and the ceiling of what you build. The founders and operators who are ten steps ahead of where you are right now have already solved the problem you're stuck on. Get in the room with them — and everything changes.
The founding cohort is already taking shape. Here's who's building this with us.
"I built this because I needed it and it didn't exist. The Hunter deserves a room where the region's best operators push each other forward."
"Application confirmed. Profile published with permission once onboarded."
"Application confirmed. Profile published with permission once onboarded."
Founding member profiles will be published as seats are confirmed — with permission.
Founding members don't just join early — they define the club's culture, programming, and direction. The first 50 set the tone for everything that follows.
$5,000 + GST refundable deposit. Credited toward your first year.
$2,500 + GST refundable deposit. Credited toward your first year.
Request a call with Dane. No pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation about whether Leaderboard is the right fit.
REQUEST A CALLDane grew up in Kurri Kurri with nothing — no connections, no network, no one to learn from. Founded and built Commercial Collective into the Hunter Region's largest independent and most active commercial real estate agency. He knows what it takes to win.
50 founding spots. Once they're gone, they're gone.
APPLY NOWI grew up in Kurri Kurri. I built Commercial Collective from nothing into the largest independent commercial real estate agency in the Hunter. This club exists because every founder deserves a room full of people who understand the weight of what they carry — and who push them to carry more.
DANE CRAWFORD
Founder & CEO, Commercial Collective · Founder, Leaderboard
This is not a sign-up form. It's the first step in a vetting process. We review every application personally.
All applications are reviewed personally. If you qualify, we'll be in touch within five business days.