for General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers
The general counsel role is a climb. You don’t have to navigate it alone.
How Members Engage and Grow
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Our community platform is where members turn day-to-day to ask questions, share experiences, and learn from one another. Whether it’s navigating a complex issue, exchanging practical resources, or getting quick input from peers, it’s a space for real-time, candid dialogue with GCs who understand the context.
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From monthly practical, experience-based workshops to focused roundtables, in-person leadership masterclasses and retreats, our programming is designed to build the core leadership competencies GCs need to lead their teams, their business, and themselves.
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Through small, curated dinners, mixers, roundtables, and retreats, members connect with peers in a more personal setting. These gatherings are designed to foster trust, deepen relationships, and create the kind of conversations that don’t happen anywhere else.
Member POrtal
Our private member portal enables real-time connection with trusted GC peers - offering fast answers, practical resources, and shared insight when you need it most.
wHO IS ELIGIBLe
GC Collective membership is only available for the senior legal leader inside an organization. This includes the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, VP Legal, or Head of Legal who is the most senior, full-time lawyer at a company.
To preserve the relevance and peer dynamic of the community, we generally do not accept lawyers who report into a GC or CLO, lawyers in private practice, or fractional GCs serving multiple clients simultaneously.
All applications are reviewed thoughtfully to maintain a trusted environment for meaningful peer exchange.
Read more about our membership criteria here.
Our Members Are Based In
Toronto • Vancouver • Calgary • Montreal • New York • San Francisco • Seattle • Chicago … and growing globally.
Experience the Community
Community Membership(Free) |
Professional Membership($540) |
Executive Circle Membership($5,400) |
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| GCC Member Portal for real-time GC Discussions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GC Roundtables | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chapter events and discussions | Select | ✓ | ✓ |
| Member dinners and elevated networking events | Select | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ongoing GC leadership development delivered through live virtual workshops | Select | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-person masterclasses focused on core GC leadership skills | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Virtual Ops Learning Labs focused on operational excellence | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Intimate leadership retreats | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Event recordings & resources directory | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Access to our trusted peer-endorsed provider network | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 10-Month Executive Circle cohort guided by certified experts | ✓ | ||
| Monthly facilitated sessions with member-shaped learning curriculum | ✓ | ||
| Personalized development tailored to your leadership goals and ideal outcomes | ✓ | ||
| Confidential executive-level peer support and accountability | ✓ |
Community Membership
Every GC should have access to trusted peers.
Community membership exists to make sure more GCs can connect with peers who understand the role, and stay close to a trusted network regardless of where they are in their leadership journey or what level of investment they’re ready to make today.
Our Free Community membership provides you access to the core GC Collective peer community so you can stay connected, and participate in conversations with your peers.
Benefits
Real-time access to our GC Member portal
Connect with other GCs, ask questions, share resources and participate in ongoing peer conversations.
Peer roundtables and chapter groups
Join select peer roundtables designed for candid discussion and practical exchange.
Opportunities to explore deeper development
Receive invitations to select programming and learn more about Professional membership when you’re ready to go further.
Practical resources and community updates
Access select resources, tools, and updates shared with the broader GC Collective community.
Access to select in-person events and chapter gatherings
Join occasional GCC events designed to help members connect in person and build relationships with peers in their region.
Professional Membership
Build the skills to lead with greater impact
Our Professional Membership is designed for GCs who want to invest more intentionally in how they lead. Built around GC Collective’s proprietary leadership framework, this membership combines practical learning, peer-driven development, and curated in-person experiences to help you lead with greater confidence, influence, and impact.
Benefits
Everything in Community Membership, plus:
GC-specific leadership workshops
Live virtual workshops delivered throughout the year, focused on the core leadership skills every modern GC needs.
Ops learning labs
Hands-on sessions designed to help GCs become stronger operators and build more effective legal functions.
In-person masterclasses and leadership retreats
Learn by doing alongside your peers—working through real GC challenges in real time while building deeper relationships rooted in trust.
Priority access to in-person events
Curated experiences designed to help members build trusted relationships.
Event recordings, resource library and trusted provider network
Tap into event recordings, practical tools, and a peer-endorsed provider network designed to help GCs learn, make better decisions, and build stronger legal functions.
Executive Circle Membership
Your personal board of advisors
For the GCs navigating complex leadership and business decisions, Executive Circles are designed for GCs ready to invest in consistent, high-impact leadership development alongside a trusted group of peers. Each Circle brings together a small, curated cohort of General Counsel for a 10-month, peer-driven, facilitator-led leadership journey.
Benefits
Everything in Professional, plus:
Acceptance into a curated 10-month Executive Circle cohort
Carefully matched peers based on role, team size, company stage, and leadership challenges
Monthly facilitator-led advisory virtual sessions
A co-designed agenda shaped around the real challenges members are navigating
Confidential, high-trust environment
Deeper accountability, perspective, and decision-making support
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