Move Forward
With Those Who
Got Your Back.
Business is a battle. Ten veteran CEOs who have been battle tested, in the same room every month, covering each other's six. Veterans only.
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 go to battle together, hold the line, and solve hard problems as one unit for life.
Our vision
A permanent room for every veteran who has built something—so no one ever has to go to battle alone, or face the next hard decision without their six covered.
How It Works
Your FOB. Your Team Room. Your Anchor.
Three terms, distinct and uncompromising. A FOB is your city. A Team Room is the standard and the peers inside who have your back. An Anchor is the leader who goes to battle with 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
Nine others who have carried what you are carrying. Same room, every month, door closed. What is said in there never leaves.
Not an accountability group, not a networking club, not a program. This is your unit. It has no graduation date.
Your Anchor
A battle-tested leader who guides every mission, protects the standard and anchors the team—certified by Forward Six against our operational standard, and measured on how far members move forward.
Not a member. Not a moderator. The Anchor leads the unit into battle.
Who Qualifies
Built for those already in the arena.
VETERAN
Every member of every Team Room is a veteran. No exceptions.
$1M+ Company
$1M+ in annual revenue, $1M+ in capital raised, or a completed exit. One is enough.
Decision Maker
CEO, founder, owner, or equivalent executive authority.
Contributor
Prepared to go to battle and contribute as much as you receive.
Forged™
Committed to living all six FORGED values inside the Team Room.
This is not an accountability group. Business is a battle, and you need your six covered by people who have been battle tested.
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 Mission. A Standard.
Every Table goes to battle — the same standard, the same way, every month.
SOMEBODY ON YOUR SIX
You had it once. You have not had it since you got out. You make the call at two in the morning and you make it alone. The grit came with you. The cover did not. This is where that stops. Not an accountability group. People who have been battle tested.
team room
10 veteran CEOs and a certified Anchor.
The same Team Room every month.
After-Action Review™
What was supposed to happen, what happened, why the gap, what changes.
readiness Rating™
Six domains, quarterly. You score yourself, then the room gives you their feedback. Your score is your worst domain, because nobody averages their way out of a problem and your room will not let you try.
Executive coaching
One to one with your Anchor between sessions. Not a cheerleader. You hear the thing nobody on your payroll will tell you.
Battle buddy™
Somebody in that room owns your corrective actions until the next session, and they will come find you.
Call for support™
When your Team Room does not have the answer, you put the question to the network.
Not an accountability group, not a networking club, not a program. This is your unit. For as long as you go to battle.
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 & Head anchor
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 community 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.
