Move Forward
With Those Who
Got Your Back.
A peer advisory network built for veteran business owners. Ten veteran CEOs. The same room, every month, for life. Veterans only, no exceptions.
Built for those who already know how to lead.
Our Mission
The foundation of everything we do.
Our mission
Forward Six builds elite Team Rooms inside every FOB—founders, owners, and builders who hold each other accountable, grow together, and solve hard problems as one team for life.
Our vision
A permanent room for every veteran who has built something—so no one ever faces the next hard decision without their six covered.
How It Works
Your FOB. Your Team Room. Your Anchor.
Three terms, and they are not interchangeable. A FOB is a city. A Team Room is the ten people inside it. An Anchor is the one who leads them.
Your FOB
Your city’s Forward Operating Base. In the military, a FOB is where a unit establishes a position, builds trust, shares intelligence and executes. Here it means Founders, Owners and Builders — same base, same standard, different uniform.
The market, not the team. A FOB doesn’t meet; the Teams inside it do.
Your Team room
Ten veteran CEOs at a similar stage and scale, carefully selected, meeting monthly in closed session. The same room, permanently.
Not a cohort, not a chapter, not a program. It has no graduation date.
Your Anchor
A certified leader who facilitates every session, protects the team and drives the standard — certified by Forward Six against The Six Standard, and measured on how far members move forward.
Not a member. Not a moderator. The Anchor works for the Team.
Who Qualifies
Built for those already in the arena.
VETERAN
Every member of every Team is a veteran. No exceptions.
$1M+ Company
Leading an established operating business, successful exit or capital raised.
Decision Maker
CEO, founder, owner, or equivalent executive authority.
Contributor
Prepared to give as much as you receive.
Forged
Committed to living all six FORGED values inside the room.
Our Values
Forged
What it means to move forward with someone at your Six.
F
Forward Together
We move as one, always covered.
O
Own The Outcome
We own outcomes, not excuses.
R
Ready Always
Prepared and present before anyone has to ask.
G
Guard The Six
Loyalty and protection, without exception.
E
EARN THE WINS
Small, consistent effort beats big empty promises.
D
Direct Talk
Candor over comfort, delivered with respect.
Every Anchor is measured against FORGED — not a poster on the wall, but how the team operates.
Inside Your team room
A Team. A Process. A Standard.
Every Team runs The Six Standard — the same protocol, the same way, every month.
team room
10 veteran CEOs and a certified Anchor.
The same room every month.
After-Action Review
What was supposed to happen, what happened, why the gap, what changes.
readiness rating
Six domains, rated quarterly. Your rating is your weakest one.
Executive coaching
1:1 with your Anchor, aimed at whatever your rating says is weakest.
Battle buddy
One member owns your corrective actions between sessions.
Cross-attach
Sit in with another Team Room when you need expertise yours lacks.
Not a program that ends. The same protocol, every month, for as long as you are building.
Built By Operators
Four veteran leaders who have built this before.
Direct experience in peer advisory, veteran entrepreneurship and membership-model businesses. Committed operators, not advisors.
Dean Bundschu
Founder & CEO
army veteran
A veteran business owner before he was anything else. Scaled Bunker Labs to 40 chapters nationally as National Director, then built Forward Six so the room would not end.
HAL FISCHER
founder & cmo
Air Force Veteran
Founder of Military Stars, successful exit. Author of The Connected Veteran, and has built multiple membership-model companies from the ground up.
Valerie lavin
head of anchor success
army veteran
Retired U.S. Army First Sergeant and founder of Luminary Global. Scaled Bunker Labs Ambassador Program nationally as Director of Ecosystem Development.
