Growth Resources,
Inc. is an Illinois-based corporation that started into service
in January 2002. Our mission is to facilitate increased
business results and personal development
for CEOs, other key executives, and sales groups of small to mid-sized
companies and non-profit organizations. We define “small”
as business performance results under $10 million annually. “Mid-sized”
equates to business performance results from $10 to $250 million
annually.
Much of our company’s business results and personal development
facilitation evolves around two affiliations. The first one is with
Vistage International, the world’s leading CEO membership organization. Vistage has over 14,500 members in
16 countries.
Vistage members look to their Vistage Group
and their Group Chair to help them make better decisions,
become better leaders, and achieve better
business results. Growth Resources facilitates four Vistage
Groups in the Chicagoland area involving nearly 60 members from
over 50 companies.
The second affiliation for Growth Resources is
with The H.R. Chally Group, the global leader in
assessment technologies and tools for sales groups and management
teams. This relationship aids our ability to help clients increase
business results and enhance personal development via highly targeted
and accurate staff selection systems plus group and individual coaching
for sales reps, sales managers, management teams, and top executive
groups.
Chally’s sales and management technology
and tools has evolved from intense research beginning in 1976. Our
predictive performance results database now includes:
- Over 300,000 sales rep assessments including
over 300 validation studies
- 100,000 customer interviews on sales approach
preferences
- Over 100,000 assessments of CEOs as well as
key executives and middle managers from nearly 2,000 companies
Biography: Clay Garner,
President
Clay grew up in an entrepreneurial family in Akron, Ohio where he
also received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University
of Akron. His marketing, sales, management and business ownership
career included The E.F. MacDonald Company (now a part of Carlson
Industries) and Shopsmith Inc., an INC. Magazine 100 Fastest Growing
Public Company in the early 1980s.
In 1983, Clay lead a team of five owners
that spun off Shopsmith’s in-house Advertising Department
into a separate direct mail and sales promotion agency, Parhelion
Direct. He left Parhelion Direct to become an ownership partner
in The H.R. Chally Group where he grew the company’s revenues
and profits over 300% over seven years.
Having a desire to move his family and his career to the Chicagoland
area, he joined Moore Business Forms and Moore Corporation in 1994.
At that time Moore was a $2.5 billion Canadian company. While at
Moore, he participated in the development of a special new division
involving only 35 global clients and $325 million in sales. He became
the VP of Marketing & Consulting for Moore Integrated Customer
Solutions.
At the end of 1997, Clay had the opportunity to join the Hazelden
Foundation as the executive in charge of the organization’s
$25 million publishing business. Hazelden is the world’s leader
in the prevention and treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and
other related diseases.
While at Hazelden, Clay became a member of Vistage International
with membership in CEO Group 314. He also developed and implemented
a successful growth strategy focused on creating “customers
for life” via a Hazelden Pathway from Hope to Health to Abundant
Living.
In 2001, Clay and his family decided to return to Chicagoland where
he started Growth Resources, Inc. at the end of 2001 and incorporation
in January 2002.
Today, as a member of the worldwide Vistage community, Clay chairs
four Vistage Groups in Chicagoland: CEO Group 363, Small Business
CEO Group 827, Key Executive Group 918, and Trusted Advisor Group
1197. Growth Resources also provides sales and management team coaching
and Chally assessments for an ever increasing number of clientele
in Chicago and elsewhere.
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