The room where CEOs tell each other the truth.
Tricia Benn is a former Fortune 1000 Global CMO and the CEO of C-Suite Network. She runs the rooms — the Hero Club, the keynote stages, the C-Suite Success podcast — where the world's most powerful executives finally stop performing and start working.
Tricia Benn · CEO
Signing the bestseller
She didn't write the leadership playbook. She rewrote it.
For 20+ years, Tricia delivered the kind of double-digit, year-over-year growth that earns the corner office. As Global Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer and U.S. Managing Director of MDC Partners — a $3 billion global holding company — she led brand and strategy across some of the most consequential clients in market research, telecommunications, and media. Three enterprise organizations. Multiple boards. Industry disruption as a track record, not a tagline.
She also learned what the corner office can't fix. The loneliness at the top. The boardrooms where everyone agrees but nobody believes. The leaders surrounded by people who've stopped telling them the truth.
She built her current work — as CEO of C-Suite Network, General Manager of the Hero Club, host of the C-Suite Success podcast — around a single framework she calls The Hero Factor: measuring success not by the numbers alone, but by the integrity, transparency, and collaboration of how those numbers got made. It's the throughline of every room she now runs.
In sharing my own humanity, I created a more trusting environment where my team could share, build, and innovate. Tricia Benn · Authority Magazine
From the C-suite to the Times Square billboard.
The most trusted non-fiction bestseller in the world.
The Leader's Playbook — curated by The Hero Club at C-Suite Network — has been featured on Times Square, in business press, and in the rooms where the best CEOs gather to think out loud.
Where CEOs solve what they can't say out loud.
The Hero Club is an invitation-only community of CEOs, founders, and investors who already have the playbooks for everything they've already done. They join us for the one they haven't.
Members get private retreats, peer roundtables, an unfiltered group thread that runs continuously, and the kind of off-record counsel that does not exist anywhere else at this altitude. This is not a mastermind. There are no levels, no upsells, no cohort start dates. There is a room. There are people in it who measure success the way Tricia does — by The Hero Factor — and there is a waitlist.
The host who makes the room finally talk.
Tricia is the rare moderator that CEO audiences actually trust. Two decades inside Fortune 1000 leadership, a decade running the Hero Club's most candid rooms — when she's on stage, panels become conversations, fireside chats become unfiltered, and audiences hear what they came to hear.
Every engagement is built around The Hero Factor: her framework for leading with integrity, transparency, and collaboration in environments that usually reward the opposite. Tailored to your audience. Never templated.
C-Suite Success
with Tricia Benn.
The CEO conversations nobody else is having. Tricia sits down with the leaders actually doing the work — not just performing it — and asks the questions worth their time. New episodes weekly.
If you're a CEO, founder, or operator — start here.
No fluff. No ad reads. No hype. Just the conversations executives reach for when the rooms they're already in have stopped telling them the truth.
For the record. And the bookshelf.
Tricia is a contributing voice to two books on the leadership canon. Both available wherever serious business books are sold.
The Leader's Playbook
Curated by The Hero Club. Strategies and frameworks from the executives who run rooms most leaders only read about.
Buy on Amazon
Cracking the Rich Code
Featured co-author. Tricia's chapter on building trust as competitive advantage is one of the most-quoted in the volume.
Buy on AmazonLet's talk.
Hero Club applications, speaking inquiries, press, partnerships — Tricia and her team read every message. Tell us why you're here.