About Us

Leadership can be lonely.

Not because executives lack people around them.

Because the higher the responsibility, the fewer places exist where important decisions can be tested honestly.

Most executives have access to information.

Many have access to advice.

Few have access to genuine scrutiny.

That reality became increasingly clear to us over more than a decade working alongside senior executives across South Africa.

Sureunha Stegmann entered the executive peer group industry in 2012.

Anton Stegmann joined in 2017 and later led the South African operation of an international executive group organisation.

For years we worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, HR Directors, business owners, and senior executives from organisations across South Africa.

We observed a pattern.

The conversations executives valued most were rarely the presentations, expert opinions, or leadership theory.

The conversations that mattered were the difficult ones.

The moments where assumptions were challenged.

The moments where blind spots became visible.

The moments where an executive realised they had not fully tested their own thinking.

Then COVID changed everything.

As organisations faced uncertainty, disruption, and pressure unlike anything seen before, executives needed a place to think through critical decisions with people carrying similar levels of responsibility.

Directors Support Platform was established during that period to create exactly that environment.

What began as a response to a crisis evolved into something much more important.

A different way of helping executives sharpen judgement.

Over time we became increasingly convinced that most executive environments suffer from the same problem.

They create support.

They create relationships.

They create information exchange.

But they often fail to create pressure.

Without pressure, assumptions survive untested.

Without challenge, confidence can be mistaken for certainty.

Without scrutiny, critical decisions can move forward carrying hidden risks.

That insight led us to redesign the entire experience around a single principle:

Critical decisions should never go unchallenged.

Today, Directors Support Platform curates Executive Pressure Chambers.

Small, confidential groups where senior executives bring real decisions, real challenges, and real uncertainties into the room.

Peers do not solve the problem for them.

Peers challenge the thinking behind the problem.

The objective is not agreement.

The objective is sharper judgement.

Anton Stegmann

Founder and Curator of Executive Pressure Chambers.

Anton’s work focuses on designing and facilitating environments where senior executives can test assumptions, challenge decisions, and sharpen judgement under pressure.

Having worked with hundreds of executives across multiple industries, he believes leadership is not strengthened through agreement but through scrutiny.

His role is to curate the room, maintain the standards, and ensure that critical decisions receive the challenge they deserve.

Sureunha Stegmann

Co-founder and Operator of Executive Pressure Chambers.

Sureunha has spent more than a decade working closely with executive groups and senior leaders.

She oversees the operational integrity of Directors Support Platform and plays a central role in member experience, executive engagement, and maintaining the quality of every Pressure Chamber.

Her focus is ensuring that every executive who enters the environment experiences the trust, professionalism, and confidentiality required for meaningful challenge.

Today, Directors Support Platform brings together senior executives from organisations across sectors including financial services, mining, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, technology, agriculture, professional services, and industrial operations.

Our Executive Pressure Chambers are designed for leaders carrying real accountability.

People responsible for decisions that affect employees, customers, shareholders, investors, and organisations.

The higher the responsibility, the more important it becomes to have somewhere to test your thinking.

That is why Directors Support Platform exists.

Because leadership can be lonely.

But critical decisions should never go unchallenged.