Team Profiles

"Mike is a true visionary. He and his team have produced an amazing product for establishing true company collaboration. In my humble opinion, this product will help to revolutionize the way companies work and relate with their associates. It will foster more engaged associates whose interests will be able to match the goals and objectives of the companies they are associated with. The net result will be companies in which the entire organization is directed to the broader company goals with measurable metrics resulting in competitive advantage in the market place." - May 5, 2009 Leon Tisdale, Co-Founder, Consultanting Associate Network, was with another company when working with Mike at OnTheSystem.com

Michael Kramer

Michael Kramer is an award-winning leadership consultant and successful entrepreneur.

Kramer negotiated the sale of his first business, an FDA licensed pharmaceutical repackaging company, with world famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. (John's investments include Intuit, Symantec, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Amazon.com, Martha Stewart Living, Google, and Segway.)

Kramer created courses in "Best Management Practices" for the University of Chicago, lectured at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and DePaul University. He co-developed a curriculum for the Coleman Center of Entrepreneurship and created a "Six Steps to SuperGrowth" class for Loyola University. Kramer founded the SuperGrowth Best-Practices Movement and was awarded the "Most Innovative Program of the Year" by Chicago's Duman Center of Entrepreneurship.

Kramer's latest innovation is the OnTheSystem Management Platform, a Web 2.0 social-media application that creates a private online community where leaders and their teams meet to share information, develop strategies, implement projects and assess progress. OnTheSystem is a powerful team-collaboration tool that helps organizations dramatically improve productivity, efficiency, team-communication, product/service quality, and customer satisfaction.

Kramer is co-founder of The Great American Small Business Challenge, a national, non-profit initiative designed to help business owners develop an effective business development process. Challenge participants receive free access to software, training and support. The Challenge is designed to help small companies clarify their vision, set realistic goals, plan strategies, implement best-practices and create an ongoing program of continual improvement.

Specialties

Team building, leadership development, team communication, process improvement, performance management, board management, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and infrastructure development. Experience in retail, medical, manufacturing, distribution, internet, financial, real-estate management and development.

"Mike's creative vision of OnTheSystem is outstanding. Mike has done a wonderful job of creating a best-practices strategic-planning tool for SMEs and more importantly the individuals who work at a SMEs. It is a wonderful scalable springboard for C-level executives and managers alike to introduce, collaborate, and apply best-practice methodologies within the organization while still encouraging creativity and open communication." July 28, 2008 Daniel N. Harris, MBA, Principal, D. N. Harris Consulting LLC was with another company when working with Mike at tsWB Strategies, Inc.