TrainMeToBeaCEO.com Converting
Entrepreneurs into Managers
You know the business, we
teach the business of business
CEO Training
These are the most frequent questions
asked by business owners and entrepreneurs.
We provide the answers.
▪
What is my job?
▪
What do I need to know about accounting?
▪
I never have any cash. Am I really making
money, or am I just paying taxes?
▪ How do I
make the time to manage?
▪ Costs are
out of control. What can I do?
▪
Do I need to budget?
▪ How do I keep my bankers happy?
Programs
Three main programs are offered.
1. In house "one on one" CEO training. Minimum 2
days, usually one to two weeks.
2. Regional seminars. Restricted to 8-10 people,
an intensive 2 day training.
3. Ongoing mentorship. Begins with a two day one
on one, but continues with monthly or quarterly follow up sessions. .
Train me to be a CEO!
The Principal
After 25 years consulting to small and
medium sized companies, Mike Anderson,
principal and owner of Train Me To Be a CEO
realized that the most important part of his work was training the CEO,
and the reason he was such a good consultant was that he did that very
well.
Trained as an engineer, he became a CEO of
a midsize corporation at the age of 35. After a spell at Harvard
Business School he entered the world of consulting.
SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS
A Graduate Engineer with
Harvard Business training, a dynamic, action oriented member of a team,
and a team leader who gets results. Many years experience in all
aspects of business, large or small. Can talk accounting to the
accountants, marketing to the sales force, and engineering to the
operations team.
EDUCATION
B.Sc.
(Chemical Engineering),
University of
Cape Town
Member
Institution of Chemical Engineers,
London.
Chartered Engineer.
HarvardBusinessSchool Advanced
Management Program
PAST EMPLOYMENT
2006-2009
Senior Business Consultant, IPA Chicago IL
Studying the shortcomings of small businesses and advising on
solutions. Consulting to over 40 clients. CEO Training all the time.
2003--2005
General Manager, Atlantic Controls, Inc. St Augustine FL
Succeeded
in avoiding bankruptcy of this severely troubled company, and organized
new financing.
1983-2003
Owner, Michael Anderson Consulting Inc.
Over
a period of 20 years I operated as a consultant and/or contract manager
for several clients in Canada and the US. I specialized in strategic
management planning, and crisis management including venture capital
disbursement, corporate funding, corporate sale, growth management and
mergers. Typical assignments were:
General
Manager, Sirtech Software,
OgdensburgNY (two separate two
year stints)
1977-1982
President and CEO, Blue Ribbon Industries Ltd
Appointed
initially as a Technical Director, I stewarded this mini conglomerate
food company through a major acquisition to quadruple its sales and
establish it as a stable force in its sector. Corporate sales when I
left were $80 million in grains, oils, soaps, cosmetics, packaging, and
stock feeds.
1970-1977 Development Manager, Sable Chemical Industries Ltd.
Appointed as a project
engineer, then project manager I controlled the acquisition and
construction of the first, and still the only anhydrous ammonia plant
in
Rhodesia (which became
Zimbabwe).
Built during sanctions, this project was as much a commercial triumph
as it was a technical wonder. I also built and managed the operating
team through the commissioning and initial operating years.
"Giving
me my life back!'
The Principal
After 25 years consulting to small and
medium sized companies, Mike Anderson,
principal and owner of Train Me To Be a CEO
realized that the most important part of his work was training the CEO,
and the reason he was such a good consultant was that he did that very
well.
Trained as an engineer, he became a CEO of
a midsize corporation at the age of 35. After a spell at Harvard
Business School he entered the world of consulting.
"Mike Anderson has been working diligently
with the upper management team at (our firm). Mike is extremely
knowledgeable and has an exceptional way of dealing with many different
personalities. He has worked very closely with the Sales Team to
impress upon them the importance of using a consistent method of
estimating. He was instrumental in restructuring our accounting
procedures."
The Principal
