10 Mastermind Groups Supporting High Growth Entrepreneurs

Building a business alone is harder than the highlight reels suggest. The product launches, the revenue milestones, the founder interviews. They’re real. They leave out the part that most entrepreneurs only talk about behind closed doors.

A Harvard Business Review study found that 50% of CEOs report experiencing loneliness in their role, and 61% say it actively hinders their performance. For solo founders without executive teams, the number is much higher. A separate survey of 227 entrepreneurs across 46 countries by Founder Reports found that 87.7% reported struggling with at least one mental health issue.

The most common mental health issues were anxiety and burnout but isolation came right behind them. Neurodiversity is also very high among founders with entrepreneurs 500% more likely to have ADHD and also much more likely than the normal population to have dyslexia or autism.

Building a business is a roller coaster with incredible highs and soul crushing lows. Elon Musk’s has a great quote regarding the harsh realities of entrepreneurship where he says “Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”

When you work for a company, you have colleagues to bounce ideas off, a manager to escalate hard decisions to, and a team that shares the weight of your decisions. When you build alone, every decision lands on you. The setbacks are yours, the imposter syndrome and the doubt is yours. The pressure to project confidence, even when you’re not feeling it, is constant.

A 2019 study on solo founder loneliness found that 100% of founders surveyed described their work as lonely, and 77% said it affected their mental health. That number should be alarming. The fact that it isn’t discussed more often says a lot about the culture around entrepreneurship, where struggle is treated as weakness rather than a normal part of the process.

These mental health problems can compound over time. Without peers who understand the specific weight of running a business, decisions get made in isolation, blind spots go unchallenged and problems that a single outside perspective could solve in twenty minutes drag on for months.

One of the antidotes to isolation and burnout that I’ve found building online businesses as a solo founders is mastermind groups that provides weekly accountability and emotional support. Research consistently shows that entrepreneurs with mentorship, accountability, and community are three times more likely to hit their goals than those without it.

Masterminds give you a structured setting that makes honest conversation possible and it gives you the support of other entrepreneurs who understand the struggles of building a business against the odds.

There are a lot of different mastermind groups for entrepreneurs, with everything from entry-level communities for early-stage founders to elite rooms that cost six figures a year. I’ve been participating in masterminds for nearly a decade and I can say, the biggest way to uplevel your income and results is to surround yourself with other high growth entrepreneurs.

Here are some of the best options for entrepreneurs that want to invest in a mastermind group and surround themselves the best and brightest.

1. Joe Polish’s Genius Network

Who it’s for: Established entrepreneurs and business owners running seven-figure-plus companies who want access to high-level marketing thinking and an unusually connected network.

Joe Polish built Genius Network around a single premise: the room you’re in determines what’s possible. The average member runs a $9 million per year company. The network has included figures like Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, and Peter Diamandis.

The format centres on “Ten Minute Talks,” tightly structured presentations focused on a single immediately applicable idea. Members also get access to hot seat coaching, one-on-one collaboration sessions, and a private community. There are also two live events held per year in Tempe, Arizona.

What makes it distinctive is the culture. Joe Polish has built a room where marketing, health, wealth, and relationships are treated as connected rather than separate, and where sharing what’s actually working is expected rather than guarded.

Format: Two in-person events per year, Ten Minute Talks, hot seats, private community, one-on-one collaboration.

Cost: $25,000 per year for the standard membership. A $100,000 tier also exists for a smaller, more intimate group.

Revenue requirement: Must run a seven-figure business. Applications and income are reviewed.

2. Russell Brunson’s Inner Circle

Who it’s for: Online business owners and digital marketers who have crossed $1 million in revenue and are working toward $10 million.

Russell Brunson built ClickFunnels into a $360 million business. The Inner Circle is the room he created for entrepreneurs who’ve already proved the model and need to scale it. The entry requirement is membership in the Two Comma Club, meaning you’ve generated $1 million through a funnel and the group is capped at 120 members.

Two private events and two group mastermind meetings run each year. Monthly coaching calls and access to Russell directly are part of the membership (although access is very limited). There’s also a private Slack channel and a Facebook group for ongoing access between events.

The focus is specifically on funnel-based businesses: digital products, online education, coaching, and e-commerce. If your business runs on a funnel and you’ve hit a million, this is one of the more targeted rooms available for getting to the next level.

Some members report making back their membership fee in the first event from a single idea applied to their list. That’s the power of being in the right room with entrepreneurs on the cutting edge of online business.

Format: Two private events, two mastermind meetings, monthly coaching calls, private community.

Cost: $25,000 to $50,000 per year depending on the tier. A $150,000 Category Kings tier also exists.

Revenue requirement: Must have crossed $1 million in revenue through a ClickFunnels funnel (Two Comma Club requirement).

3. Dan Sullivan’s Strategic Coach

Who it’s for: Established entrepreneurs who want to build a business that runs without them, think more clearly about the future, and stop trading time for money.

Dan Sullivan has been coaching entrepreneurs for over 50 years. Strategic Coach has worked with more than 20,000 entrepreneurs across 60 industries. The program runs across three stages: the Signature Program, the 10x Ambition Program, and the Free Zone Frontier. Each requires a minimum of one year in the previous stage before progression.

The Signature Program entry point requires a minimum personal net income of $200,000 in the last tax year and at least three years in business. Four workshops per year are held in-person in Toronto, Chicago, and the UK. The content focuses on mindset, time management, team structure, and building what Sullivan calls a self-managing company.

His frameworks, including Who Not How, The Gap and the Gain, and 10x Is Easier Than 2x, have influenced a generation of business thinking. The program isn’t a mastermind in the traditional peer-accountability sense. It’s more structured: workshops, tools, and a consistent methodology applied to your specific situation.

Format: Four in-person workshops per year, proprietary thinking tools, peer learning groups, access to coaches.

Cost: Approximately $12,500 per year at the entry level. Higher tiers cost more.

Revenue requirement: Minimum $200,000 net personal income in the previous tax year, with at least three years in business.

4. Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)

Who it’s for: CEOs, presidents, and managing partners of significant companies who joined before age 45 and want access to a global network of peers at the same level.

YPO was founded in 1950 and now has more than 36,000 members across 142 countries and 450 chapters. The entry requirements are strict: you must be under 45 when you apply, hold a top executive title, and run a company with at least $15 million in annual revenue and 50 full-time employees.

The core of YPO is the monthly forum: small, confidential groups of 6 to 10 members who meet to share challenges without judgment. The format is strict: members share experiences, not advice. No one tells you what to do and the power is in the peer understanding, not the prescription.

Beyond the forum, YPO runs thousands of events globally each year, including educational programs, family experiences, and chapter gatherings. Members have included heads of state, Nobel Prize winners, and some of the most recognized business figures in the world.

Format: Monthly confidential forum meetings, chapter events, global conferences, learning programs.

Cost: Around $10,000 initiation fee plus annual dues of approximately $4,000 to $5,300, depending on the chapter.

Revenue requirement: Minimum $15 million annual revenue, 50 full-time employees, under age 45 at time of application.

5. Scaling Up CEO Bootcamp

Who it’s for: Growth-focused CEOs who want to work directly with Verne Harnish on their specific People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash challenges.

Verne Harnish founded the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and wrote the excellent book Scaling Up, which has been translated into 26 languages. The CEO Bootcamp is the most intimate way to access his thinking. The mastermind runs twice a year with a maximum of eight CEOs plus their number twos (past attendees have run businesses from $1.5 million to over $1 billion).

Each participant completes a detailed assessment before arriving. The three days cover the four core Scaling Up disciplines and include structured small group sessions, one-on-one time with Harnish, and a guest serial entrepreneur who has scaled their own business using the same tools.

Another similar mastermind-style retreat is held a few times at year at Richard Branson’s Necker Island, which I have not attended but I know a few entrepreneurs who did and had a great experience learning from Richard.

Format: Three-day intensive, maximum 8 CEOs, one-on-one time with Harnish, pre-event assessment, small group sessions.

Cost: $14,500 per person, including lodging and food.

Revenue requirement: Vetted applicants. Past attendees have ranged from $1.5 million to over $1 billion in revenue.

6. Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)

Who it’s for: Founders and business owners who have crossed $1 million in annual revenue and want a local peer group in a structured, confidential setting.

EO (Entrepreneurs’ Organization)was founded in 1987 and has grown to over 18,000 members across 220 chapters in 75 countries. It’s one of the oldest and largest entrepreneur peer networks in the world.

The core format is the monthly forum: groups of 8 to 12 entrepreneurs who meet to share experiences and receive peer input using a structured process that explicitly prohibits advice-giving. The model is built around experiential learning. You share what happened, how it made you feel, and what you learned. Other members reflect back, ask questions, and share related experiences but no one tells you what to do.

Beyond the forum, EO runs local chapter events, regional conferences, the annual Global Leadership Conference, and a learning programme that includes the Entrepreneurs’ Masters Program at MIT. The membership cost is relatively accessible compared to higher-tier groups, and the requirement is simply that you run a qualifying business.

Format: Monthly forum meetings, chapter and global events, learning programmes, online community.

Cost: $3,500 one-time initiation fee plus approximately $2,630 in global annual dues, plus chapter-specific dues that vary by location. Total annual cost typically ranges from $5,000 to $7,500 depending on the chapter.

Revenue requirement: Must be the founder, co-founder, owner, or controlling shareholder of a business generating at least $1 million in annual gross revenue.

7. Founders Mastermind

Who it’s for: Solo founders, coaches, consultants, and lifestyle business owners who want to scale with a low ticket funnel system and ascend clients into high ticket programs.

Most mastermind groups are built for founders who’ve already scaled. This one is built for the stage before that: when you’re trying to figure out the model, build the audience, and convert it into something that doesn’t require you to trade every hour for income.

The Founders Mastermind focuses on helping knowledge-based business owners install a scalable funnel system that includes a low ticket offer that attracts buyers, a clear ascension path into 1:1 high ticket coaching, and a group accelerator that lets you deliver results to more people without adding more of your time.

The core of it is a weekly accountability call. Members plan the week, run hot seats, and hold each other to the goals they set. It’s the structure that solo founders specifically tend to lack. Usually solo founders lack colleagues to collaborate with, strict deadlines to launch and no one asking what happened. The Founders Masterminds provides all of that.

Format: Weekly online mastermind calls, hot seat coaching, peer accountability partners, funnel and offer building, access to a growth tools and AI agent library.

Cost: $6,000 per year, billed monthly plus an optional annual founders retreat.

Revenue requirement: Minimum $3K per month. Built for founders actively building, not yet at scale.

8. Vistage

Who it’s for: CEOs, business owners, and key executives of established companies who want regular peer advisory with a professional facilitator and one-on-one executive coaching.

Vistage was founded in 1957 and now has over 45,000 members across 35 countries. It sits somewhere between a mastermind and an executive coaching programme. Each group is led by a professional Chair, an experienced executive who facilitates monthly all-day meetings and meets individually with each member for two hours every month.

The groups are intentionally cross-industry so you won’t be in a room with competitors. The Chair’s role is to facilitate structured discussion, challenge thinking, and hold members accountable between sessions. Outside speakers also come in monthly to present on relevant topics.

Most Vistage members stay for more than five years, and the organisation claims members grow their businesses faster than comparable non-member companies. The time commitment is significant. One full day per month for the group meeting plus the one-on-one. But members who get the most value tend to treat that time as the most important in their calendar.

Format: Monthly full-day peer group meetings, monthly one-on-one with a Chair, expert speaker presentations, online community.

Cost: $2,500 initiation fee plus approximately $1,380 per month, totalling around $18,000 to $20,000 per year.

Revenue requirement: CEO, president, or business owner. Vistage reviews applicants for company size and leadership seniority; no public revenue floor is stated, but the programme is designed for established businesses.

9. Abundance360

Who it’s for: Founders, executives, and investors running companies between $10 million and $10 billion who want to understand and apply exponential technologies to their business and their vision.

Peter Diamandis founded Abundance360 in 2012 after writing his New York Times bestselling book with Steven Kotler Abundance: Why The Future Is Better Than You Think. The community now has 600-plus members spanning the globe, leading companies ranging from $10 million to $10 billion. Past and current members have included executives from Google, NASA, and MIT, alongside founders building companies in AI, biotech, longevity, and deep tech.

The centrepiece is an annual four-day summit held in Los Angeles. The rest of the year includes regular virtual workshops, quarterly AMAs with Diamandis, and structured member connections. The focus is specifically on exponential thinking: AI, longevity science, robotics, and what Diamandis calls Moonshot thinking. If your business operates in the technology or innovation space, this is the room where those conversations happen at the highest level.

The year-round experience includes the annual 4-day Summit, regular hands-on workshops, intentional member connections, quarterly AMAs with Peter, and a vibrant close-knit community united by an uncompromising mission.

Format: Annual 4-day in-person summit in Los Angeles (also available virtually), regular virtual workshops, quarterly AMAs, member connections, private community.

Cost: Three membership tiers. The summit ticket alone has previously been priced at approximately $15,000. Full membership pricing is shared on application. By application only, with limited spots.

Revenue requirement: Members typically lead companies valued between $10 million and $10 billion. Application and interview required.

10. Tiger 21

Who it’s for: High-net-worth entrepreneurs and investors who have already built significant wealth and want peer support in managing, preserving, and deploying it.

Tiger 21 is different from the groups above. It’s not designed for people who are still building. It’s designed for people who’ve sold a company, generated significant liquidity, or accumulated investable assets of $10 million or more. They now face a different set of challenges: what to do with the money, how to think about risk, and how to build the next chapter of their life and career.

Members pay an annual fee and meet monthly in small groups of 10 to 15. Every member completes a Portfolio Defence, a presentation of their full financial picture to the group for feedback. It is one of the more unusual formats in any mastermind. Genuine financial transparency among peers at a similar level.

The group has around 1,200 members across 45 chapters in North America, Europe, and Asia with collective assets estimated at over $150 billion across its membership. It grew out of the recognition that wealth doesn’t come with a manual, and that peer learning in this domain tends to be more useful than advisor relationships where someone is being paid to manage your money.

Format: Monthly peer group meetings, Portfolio Defence presentations, chapter events, annual conference.

Cost: Around $30,000 per year.

Revenue requirement: Minimum $10 million in investable assets. For entrepreneurs, typically a post-exit or high-net-worth profile.

How To Choose The Right Mastermind Group

The right mastermind depends on three things: where you are in your business, what you actually need, and what you’re willing to commit.

The common thread across all of them is this: the people who get the most value show up consistently, share honestly, and treat the group as a serious commitment rather than an optional extra. The room only works if you’re in it.

Here are some frequently asked questions about mastermind groups:

1. What is a mastermind group?

The core concept comes from Napoleon Hill’s 1937 book Think and Grow Rich, where he studied the habits of the richest and most successful people and found that many of them collaborated through what he called masterminds. He described a mastermind as “the coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

In practice today, a mastermind group is a structured peer group where founders, executives, or business owners meet regularly to share challenges, hold each other accountable, and give honest feedback. Most run monthly or weekly. The best ones have a clear format, a vetted membership, and some kind of facilitation.

2. How is a mastermind different from a coaching program?

In a coaching program, you pay a coach or mentor for their expertise and direction. In a mastermind, the primary value comes from the peers in the room.

A good facilitator helps, but the insight, accountability, and support comes from other members who are at a similar stage and understand your situation from the inside. Many masterminds include coaching elements, but the peer accountability dynamic is what makes them different.

3. How much do masterminds cost?

The range is wide. Entry-level communities for early-stage founders can cost a few hundred dollars a month to six-figures per year. The cost generally reflects the calibre and seniority of the members in the room.

4. How do I know if I’m ready for a mastermind?

If you’re actively building a business and making real decisions, you’re ready. You don’t need to be at a specific revenue level for most groups, though many have minimum thresholds. What matters more is whether you’re willing to show up consistently, share honestly, and take feedback seriously. If you’re not willing to do those three things, no mastermind will be useful regardless of the price.

5. What should I look for when choosing a mastermind?

Four things matter most. First, the quality of the other members: are they running businesses similar to yours in size, model, or stage? Second, the format: is there a structured meeting rhythm, hot seat process, and accountability mechanism, or is it mostly networking? Third, the facilitator or host: do they have genuine experience in your type of business? Fourth, the commitment required: weekly calls and a year-long commitment produce different outcomes than monthly drop-in events.

6. What’s the difference between a mastermind and a peer advisory group?

The distinction is subtle. Peer advisory groups like Vistage and EO use a structured facilitation format, often prohibit direct advice-giving, and focus on members learning from each other’s experiences. Traditional masterminds are more likely to include direct input from a host or mentor figure. In practice the formats overlap significantly, and both can be valuable. The more useful question is whether the group has the right members for your situation.

7. Do online masterminds work as well as in-person?

It depends on the format and the commitment of the members. In-person meetings tend to produce stronger relationships and more candid conversations, especially in the early stages of a group. Online groups can work very well once trust is established, and they remove the barrier of geography. The Founders Mastermind runs fully online and is built for that format. Several groups like Genius Network, YPO, and EO now run hybrid models with in-person events alongside online community access.

8. How long should I stay in a mastermind?

Most groups ask for a minimum one-year commitment, and that’s the right framing. The first few months are typically spent building trust and learning the format. The real value tends to compound over time as members understand each other’s businesses, context, and blind spots more deeply. Founders who join for a year and leave often say they wish they’d stayed longer. If you’re in the right room, there’s no natural ceiling on how useful it can be.

9. What’s the biggest mistake people make in masterminds?

Showing up but not sharing. The value in a mastermind is proportional to how much you put in. Members who attend every call but keep things surface-level, who don’t bring real problems for hot seats, or who see it as a networking event rather than a place for honest work get a fraction of what’s available. The groups that produce the best results are the ones where members are willing to say what’s actually hard.

10. Can a mastermind replace a business coach?

Not entirely. A business coach provides expertise, accountability, and a perspective informed by experience you may not have. A mastermind provides peer pressure, diverse viewpoints, and the specific credibility that comes from talking to someone who has faced the same problem in the same kind of business. Many founders find the two work well together. The mastermind gives you the community and the regular rhythm. The coach gives you the focused, personalised direction.