growthresource
growthresource
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| Member | Apr 2, 2009 (17 years) |
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Bio
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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