C12 Maryland · Frederick + Columbia + Rockville
Don’t lead
alone.
Maryland’s peer forum for Christian CEOs and business owners building a great business for a greater purpose.
For owners and top operators of growth-stage Christian-led Maryland companies. We are a peer board, a proven framework, and a community of leaders who refuse to carry it alone.
- 4,000+
- C12 CEOs nationally
- 3
- Active Maryland boards
- 2020
- Since
If any of these
sound familiar
For the leader who carries more than the org chart shows.
There's a call I have to make, and I can't put the weight of it on the people closest to me.
Every room I walk into now, I'm expected to have the answers. I've run out of rooms where someone challenges me.
I'm missing out on my kids growing up. I'm not there for my spouse the way I need to be.
Who am I to think I could build this?
I'm feeling stuck, like there's gotta be more.
You are not the only one.
That is the point.
An ethos of transformation
A monthly forum. A proven framework. A community of peers.
Each month, we gather Christian CEOs and business owners in confidential CEO Business Forums across Frederick, Columbia, and Rockville. These leaders help each other make better decisions, avoid costly mistakes, and create solid plans for growth, while striving to create eternal impact far beyond the bottom line.
C12 is not a Bible study, and we are not a networking group. We are an architected environment for transformation, grounded in Business as a Ministry.
The CEO Business Forum
One full day each month with 8–12 other Christian owners running real companies. Confidential. Rigorous. Honest in ways you cannot find anywhere else.
The C12 Curriculum
Three decades of refined content. Each month covers a specific leadership and stewardship topic, paired with peer case study and application to the work in front of us.
The C12 Framework
The 5-Point Alignment Matrix and the C12 Tri-Value Model give us tools most CEOs have never had access to, for aligning revenue, financial stewardship, culture, operations, and eternal impact.
The C12 Tri-Value Model
Most leadership frameworks measure one thing. We measure three.
EVA
Economic Value Add
Is your leadership enhancing capital, or quietly depleting it? EVA asks whether the business is increasing in value year over year because of how you steward financial resources — not just activity, but real equity and valuation.
TVA
Team Value Add
Are people growing and experiencing a flourishing culture because they are part of your team? TVA measures whether individuals under your guidance are being developed, challenged, and encouraged — not just employed.
SVA
Spiritual Value Add
Do you see increased fruit and eternal return on investment from your ministry endeavors? SVA evaluates how the business serves as a platform for the gospel — discipleship, care, generosity, and Kingdom impact made tangible.
Together, these three are what we mean by stewardship.
§ 03 ½ · Membership
What a year inside C12 Maryland actually looks like
Most peer groups give you a monthly meeting. C12 gives you an operating system for leading a great business with greater purpose.
What you get every month and every year
What happens in your first 90 days
Most CEOs join a peer group and wait six months to feel the value. C12 Maryland is engineered so the value starts the first week. Your first Focus60 with your Chair is a working session, not a get-to-know-you. You walk in with the biggest decision on your plate. You walk out with a written 90-day action plan, built around the Tri-Value Model. Your Chair spends a half-day at your business before your first Forum Day, meeting your team and seeing what you actually carry, so when you walk into your first Forum room, your peer board is not starting from zero. And every new Member receives the Kingdom Culture Field Guide, a 52-card deck of the values and practices that distinguish a Kingdom-shaped workplace. One card a week with your leadership team for your first year. The cultural rail that runs underneath the financial work we do in the Forum room. Yours to keep. Yours to deploy.
Twelve days a year in the room. One Chair in your corner. A peer board that refuses to let you lead alone. A national network of four thousand Christian CEOs. Two national conferences a year. A framework that measures more than the bottom line. And a 90-day on-ramp engineered to make sure your first quarter as a Member is the most productive quarter of your year.
Before you reach out
C12 Maryland is for serious leaders
“Be honest with yourself.”
The right room for me if…
Fit- I am the owner or top operator of a growth-stage Maryland company, $5M+.
- I follow Jesus, and I want my business to reflect that beyond Sunday.
- I am coachable. I am willing to be the least experienced person in the room.
- I am ready to commit one full day each month for at least a year.
The wrong room for me if…
Not fit- I am looking for networking or referrals. That happens here, but it is not why this room exists.
- I want to be coddled. The room will challenge me.
- I cannot carve out a day each month.
- I am not truly looking to grow.
If you nodded along here, this isn’t your room. That’s honest, and that’s okay.
What C12 Maryland members say
Great businesses. Greater purpose.
C12 Maryland has been a foundation for personal and professional growth since 2020. The curriculum, peer networking, and one-on-one coaching has been instrumental in charting a new course for our growth.
instrumental in charting a new course.
Rich Daughtridge
CEO, Warehouse Cinemas
I have always struggled to work on my business instead of in it. C12 has met that need, with great leadership from David and an incredible team of peers who provide honest and intelligent feedback.
honest and intelligent feedback.
Brett Hess
CEO, BMC, Inc.
The structure and commitment of C12 have made me more confident in my walk with the Lord. Prior to C12, my daily walk with the Lord was not daily. The monthly accountability has made me stronger with Him.
stronger with Him.
Nancy Newmister
CEO, Frederick Mutual Insurance
You may have already met us
Leaders on Tap
Our public conversation series. Christian leaders, real stories, recorded live in Maryland breweries. It is how many of our members first heard our voice.
Always free. Always recorded.
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You don’t have to wonder
You areInvited
Visit a forum. The most useful thing a serious leader can do is sit in the room for a day.
Qualified prospective members are invited to attend a full forum day as our guest. No pitch. No pressure. Sit in. Watch how the room works. Meet the members. Then decide if this is the kind of room you want to be in for the next year of your leadership.
C12 Maryland is built for owners and operators of Maryland companies with $5M+ in revenue.
Our Guarantee
Participate for a full Forum Day as our guest. If you do not leave with at least three actionable insights that move your business forward, we will cover your lunch, thank you for your time, and wish you well. No follow-up. No pressure. No pitch.
The risk is ours. The room is yours to evaluate.
Not ready yet? Download The 9 Must-Do Roles of a Christian CEO.
Meet your Chair
David Weigelt
David leads the C12 Maryland forums. Before C12, he founded and sold Immersion Active, a company he built and exited after 18 years. He's sat in your chair. He knows what it costs to grow something, and what it costs to let it go.
David also serves as a trustee of the Community Foundation of Frederick County, and is the author of the forthcoming bookBeyond the Multiple, on stewardship and the C12 Tri-Value Model.
He hosts the Leaders on Tap series, which gathers Christian business leaders across Maryland for honest conversations on faith, courage, and stewardship.
“I know what it is like to walk in your shoes and one of the great honors of my life is walking with leaders whose heart is for the ’more’ God has for them and the companies they lead.”
Made for More.
If that lands somewhere in you, let’s start a conversation.
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Ephesians 2:10