American CEO

Your Success Is Our Success

Learn our proven system for delivering predictable performance in the CEO role

What If You Had a Playbook for the CEO Role?

We understand that much is expected of you as CEO, and that there aren't many proven resources out there for mastering your role. Most people enter this job with lots of knowledge in certain aspects of business but no specific training for the most difficult role in the organization. That's where the American CEO playbook comes in. We know how to help you build your company, deliver predictable performance and sleep better at night.

Meet Your Guides

Joel Trammell

American CEO students learn directly from Joel, who founded and built two companies to nine-figure exits.Joel has been in the CEO seat five times, including serving as CEO of a multinational public company. He is the owner of Texas CEO Magazine and Texas CEO Ranch, a retreat center and training facility outside Austin. His CEO platform is the only CEO-centric software on the market.

Through American CEO, and through his books and speaking appearances, Joel is now on a mission to teach new and current CEOs what almost no one else is teaching: how to successfully perform the CEO job.

Sherif Sakr

Sherif comes from an international background, having grown up on three continents. His work experience includes chemical engineering, corporate sales, commercial real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and business ownership.

More recently he has coached CEOs of midsize and enterprise companies—ranging from $1 million to $1 billion in revenue—to help them achieve personal and professional success. As he guides CEOs through high-pressure situations, Sherif focuses on a mindful approach that incorporates personal growth and enjoyment of the journey.

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Our Story

Joel Trammell served as cofounder and CEO at NetQoS, a software company that optimized the performance of computer networks.  Under his tenure, the company generated more than 10 times the return on invested capital. Trammell moved on to cofound another software company, CacheIQ, which delivered a 7X return to investors in 18 months. He later served as a board member and then CEO of the network services provider Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ:BBOX). He is also the cofounder and managing partner of Lone Rock Technology, a private equity firm.

As a leading CEO educator, Trammell has contributed to Entrepreneur, Forbes and Inc.com, sharing his experienced-based insight on business leadership topics. He has served on the boards of public, private andnonprofit organizations, and was named Chairman Emeritus of the Austin Technology Council. In his first book, The CEO Tightrope, Joel explored the core responsibilities of the modern chief executive job.

Sherif Sakr’s background includes success in engineering, sales, investing, business ownership, and coaching CEOs in private and in groups. After observing the challenges most CEO face—which include trial by error, having blind spots in their experience and decision making, and often being in firefighter mode—he resolved to create a curriculum and a process to help structure his guidance to them.  It was then that Sherif’s path intersected with Joel’s. Joel had already developed a systematic approach to the CEO role and wanted to expand its reach. This led to the birth of American CEO and the development of an organization committed to supporting CEOs in their one-of-a-kind role. Together, Joel and Sherif have written a book encapsulating the American CEO training program, titled The Chief Executive Operating System.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:THE CEO TIGHTROPE

Get a summary of Joel’s first book which gives insight on the balancing act that is the CEO role: planning vs. action, growth vs. profit, flexibility vs. focus, reward vs. threat, and much more.

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