The Brain Trust  
The Brain Trust
 
CEO Membership Organization
(CEO's, Presidents, COO's, General Managers) 
 
The Brain Trust organizes CEO Peer Groups of up to 16 individuals. Each member is a CEO, President, General Manager or Business Owner of a non competing company. We meet once per month for a half day where we learn from experts and give advice and counsel to each other.
 
You are your company's most valuable resource.

What are you doing right now to develop that resource to be all it can be? Membership in The Brain Trust provides these major benefits:

  • Executive development.... Learn from other CEO's.
  • Use other chief executives as a sounding board for your ideas.
  • Street smart, brutally candid advice about your issues. (we don't pull any punches .... you hear what you need to hear .... it's unlikely you'll get that from anyone in your company).

.... Providing you with the following results:
  • Maximum success
  • Competitive Advantage 
  • Greater profits
  • Minimized risk
  • Lowered stress
  • Reach your dreams
  • Peace of mind knowing that you have a world class resource to validate your thinking and get help with your issues.

The Brain Trust was founded ten years ago by Tom Cramer, a CEO who wanted to bring business leaders together to share high quality knowledge. It is an association of Atlanta area business leaders who come together to provide insight and solutions to shared business hurdles. Its purpose remains to provide best practices and ideas with leaders and entrepreneurs.

Our Co-Chairmen use their 70+ years experience as CEO of 8 corporations to provide leadership and skill management development. With more than 125 combined years leading their respective companies, our members provide confident, effective advice and feedback to one another. Our level of respect and trust allows us to dispense and accept counsel while remaining impartial.

How do you help yourself grow as a CEO and serve as the most valuable resource of your company? Can you count on honest, even brutally honest feedback from your employees? We can help.

Our success is largely based upon our leadership in the following:

  • Tap the Third Mind... "No two minds come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind." -Andrew Carnegie

  • Peer Experience. The Wall Street Journal lists the top two factors that influence the success of CEOs as: 1) The CEO's experience, and 2) Experience the CEO can gain from others. That's why we exist.
  • Strategy Development: History has shown that great wars and great competitive stuggle have been won by the entity with the best strategy. Get out of the weeds once a month for a half day, and think more strategically about your business. You will be empowered with ideas and tools to develelop winning strategies.

  • Right Environment. The Brain Trust Vision seeks to provide a learning, growing, sharing environment which results in great businesses, great friendships and great lives for our members.

We specialize in bringing great minds together in a synergistic environment that produces creative solutions, inventive ideas and profitable results.

Escape the isolation of being the top person in your company. Share your frustrations, challenges and solutions confidentially with a peer group of chief executives. Each participant brings a unique perspective and experienced mind to help members grow and avoid common mistakes. Get real-life, battle scarred information, and priceless insight that only peers can offer one another.
 
What's your dream? The Brain trust can help you achieve it!

Contact us today, and we'll send you a White Paper document written by Tom Cramer, Founder of The Brain Trust entitled, Developing an Exit Plan Now Can Double Your Company's Value When It Comes Time to Sell. This article includes:

  • Executable ideas that could be worth a small fortune when it comes time to sell or transfer your business. Knowing this information now will be of great benefit to you because implementing these ideas now will result in greater profits each and every year as you approach the eventual sale or transfer of the business.
  • Would you like to know how to figure out what your company is worth ... AND ... the most important things to do to increase that number? This White Paper will provide you with that information.

 
To receive this White Paper and/or to contact us to get your questions answered click   HERE

..... or click on any of the links at the top or bottom of this page to learn more.


   
 
 
"Meetings like these are taking place across the U.S. these days as growing numbers of CEO's turn to their fellow business owners and managers for expertise. With $3,000 a-day consultants beyond their means, the CEO's essentially hiring one another for a song."

..... The Wall Street Journal


"The benefits that I have received as a participant in The Brain Trust are:
(1) Great Speakers.
(2) Valuable insights that you can leverage in your own business.
(3) Good sounding board for ideas from other memberrs.
(4) Great feedback and candor on challenges within your business.
(5) Outstanding cross section of businesses offer true out of the box thinking.
(6) Last but not least, Bill and Tom's guidance and expertise.
 
Russ Wheeler, President-North America
Hansgrohe, Inc.
$100 Million division of European parent
 
 
 
"I read Bill's book three times, and after 6 months of implementing his concepts I was able to reduce my head count from 200 to 150 people, reduce my inventory by 50%, increase my annualized inventory turn from 4 to 9 times, and increase my gross margins by 6 points."
 
Kevin Melendy, President
Spectral Response, Inc.
 
 
 
"My participation in The Brain Trust has helped me with decision making, stimulated important thought processes about all areas of my business, given me exposure to top thinkers in the business world (the speaker program), challenged me to stretch myself and provided me with a peer group that can relate to and validate my thinking."
 
Robert Bairstow, CEO
Bairstow Lifting Products Company
 
 
 
"As a CEO it's so easy to get caught in not knowing what you don't know. No one person can know it all, and I have found The Brain Trust to be a world class resource for me to discover what I don't know and get the help and counsel that I need."
 
Bob Lewis, CEO
Mobile Media Enterprises, LLC
   
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