What is the Organization's experience and background?

Since 1998, The Brain Trust has been providing a forum for you, the chief executive to find solutions to your problems, receive feedback on your ideas and develop your skills. The leadership of The Brain Trust has 36 years of experience as CEO of 4 corporations. Its membership has a combined 125+ years as CEO's of many corporations.

What is the key product or service of The Brain Trust?

Once a month, you can escape the isolation of being the top person at your company and share your problems, challenges and solutions confidentially with a group of chief executives....all with bright, experienced minds who are interested in helping each other learn and grow and make good decisions. Get honest, real world, battle scarred information. Avoid making mistakes others have made by exposing yourself to the priceless insight that only peers can offer one another. There are no new problems in business .... just your version of the same problem that one of us has already faced. Learn how others have coped with the stress of being a CEO and magically and positively transformed their companies and their lives.

What is a typical agenda for a Brain Trust meeting?

• Lunch
• Speaker - Great CEO's know that they need to learn and grow. The rapidly changing business environment we operate in today mandates that chief executives stay abreast of new developments, information and knowledge. At each meeting, you will benefit from the knowledge of speakers who are leading consultants and or authors in their fields of specialization.
• Debrief from Speaker - Members discuss take-aways from the presentation, and state action steps they plan to take as a result of what they just learned.
• Member Focus - One member gives a presentation to the group for peer review. This might be a marketing plan, a business plan, a new product launch or any other topic that a member wishes to have reviewed by Brain Trust members. Although the main benefactor of this portion of the meeting is the presenter, you will also benefit by applying the advice given to your business.
• Roundtable Discussion - Members are given the opportunity to throw out an issue for discussion and brain storming. Members can question each other on any topic: financing, competitive positioning, strategic planning, personnel moves, sales and marketing plans, coping with an uncooperative partner, motivating and rewarding key staff, balancing business versus personal issues, etc. Any new idea can be tested and the risk appraised. It's really exciting what can happen when a group of sharp minds are focused on a particular problem or opportunity. You will take back to your company every month ideas and solutions from this very provocative session.

What are the competitive advantages of The Brain Trust?

3. Ideas and Feedback: Where is your next great idea going to come from? What do other people think of your ideas? Members of The Brain Trust come from different backgrounds and different industries. Thinking out of the box is what we do.

4. Our Vision: The Brain Trust Vision is to provide a learning, growing, sharing environment that results in great businesses, great friendships and great lives for our members.

5. Group Chair: While most chairs of CEO Peer Groups are consultants, the Chairman of The Brain Trust has been CEO of 4 corporations. The Brain Trust is not a forum to build a consulting practice. It's a forum for CEO's to learn from CEO's.

What kind of results will I obtain from being a member?

1. Gain perspective by being able to discuss highly volatile, highly sensitive issues in total candor.

2. Save time and money by avoiding mistakes others have made and solve many of your company's problems by hearing how other members solved the same problems.

3. Learn from monthly presentations from authors, experts and world class business authorities.

4. Fine tune existing and new ideas by receiving a reality check as other members give you a variety of perspectives that can be refreshingly candid.

5. It can make a real, measurable difference for you in your productivity, profitability and the level of your success.

What is the organization's specialty ... and how does it provide value and benefits:

Imagine that once per month you could get away from the office, clear your mind and immerse yourself amongst bright, experienced CEO minds who all have no agenda other than to give and receive ...... to share their experience and talents and assist you on your journey to success and fulfillment ........ and you toward theirs. Do you think this could be valuable in terms of solving problems and leveraging opportunities? Do you think that this experience could help you develop into a better CEO and a more valuable resource for your company?

Who are the members?

The value you receive as a member of The Brain Trust has a direct relationship to the quality of it's membership. Who you will be rubbing shoulders with should be extremely important to you as it is to each member. It's the responsibility of the leadership of The Brain Trust to invite high quality members. You will learn detailed information about the membership and their companies in the process defined in the next question.

What is the process of joining The Brain Trust?

The Chairman will come to your office and visit with you for about an hour. The purpose of this meeting is to get to know each other, answer your questions, share with you the back grounds of our members (we're only as good as the collective experience and wisdom of our members) and make a mutual decision if we are a good fit for each other. If so, he will nominate you to the group. If there are no conflicts of interest, you will be admitted into the group in the subsequent month.

What is the cost?

The fees are:

What you receive:

When and where does the group meet?

We meet on the same Thursday of every month at The Buckhead Club from 12:00-6:00 P.M.

What questions do I need to be asking myself?

1. Do I have problems and issues to address?

2. Would I like to increase my profitability?

3. Being at the top of my organization can be a lonely place. What's missing for me?

4. I am the single most valuable resource to my company. What am I doing now to develop myself into all I can possibly be as a CEO?