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Kraig as Board Member/Coach

Kraig Kramers is a nationally-known boardroom coach, relying on over 25 years of experience on three dozen boards of directors and advisors in both public and private company situations. He keeps current on evolving board roles and responsibilities through active board participation (currently on ten boards), regular board coaching, and frequent speeches to CEOs and board members on The Boardroom Toolkit.

Current boardrooms frequented by Kraig include: Office Furniture USA; DiversiTech, Inc. and Mingledorff's, Inc. HVAC air conditioning; EDI Ltd. engineering; Gould Inc. plastics; Network Communications, Inc. real estate marketing and printing; ProLink, Inc. janitorial-sanitation distribution organization; Atlanta Foundation for Psychoanalysis; Chamberlin Edmonds & Associates Healthcare; plus Xyte, Inc.; and soon, Groen Brothers Aviation, a public high-tech aircraft manufacturing company.

Kraig also coaches CEOs and management teams on rapid, profitable growth of their companies using business tools he has proven personally as CEO as well as through thousands of other CEOs. Kraig's coaching takes the form of CEO and management team consulting, active board membership, facilitation of strategic planning and acquisition implementation.

Kraig has been CEO of eight different businesses in widely diverse industries. He is an experienced executive who has had several spectacular successes and a few phenomenal failures. He stays current on business success as a nationally acclaimed business speaker, offering audiences a unique view of what makes companies, managers and leaders successful.

Kraig's speaking topics include tools for successful boards, tools that dramatically accelerate profitable business growth, tools for aligning values and ethical conduct in business, tools for doing acquisitions that work, and ways to strategically position companies for success. These areas are and should be the focus for boards of directors and advisors. As speaker, Kraig addresses CEOs, universities and management groups over 100 times each year.

Highlighting his experience, Kraig shepherded an incredible turnaround at Snapper (lawnmowers) from a $54 million loss in one year to a profit of over $13 million the next — and this was effected during a major recession in an industry undergoing long-term decline.

Companies that Kraig has grown at multiples of their industries' performance include: Metro One Telecommunications, Graphic Arts Center Printing, Guarantee Insurance, Snapper Lawnmowers, Courtesy Coffee, and Munson Sporting Goods. At Graphic Arts Center, he guided the growth of this printing company from $60 million annual sales to $120 million in just four years while the industry grew at single-digit annual rates.

Today, Kraig is president of Corporate Partners Inc., the leading business-acceleration consulting firm based in Atlanta. He coaches CEOs and management teams on running their businesses more successfully at high speed.

Kraig is an active member of TEC (The Executive Committee), the quintessential organization for continuing CEO education. He also stays current by serving on ten boards of directors or advisors, while also publishing frequent articles on the subject (see TEC Online Best Practices area on "Boards"). Kraig is an acknowledged authority on creating, improving and joining boards.

Contact Kraig about board counseling and board membership.