Ken Hagerstrom Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Irving, Tx

WHAT WE DO: We help school systems, shopping malls, hotels, resorts and other organizations entertain, educate and enhance the collective experience of students and guests by serving as the world’s only vendor of large, life-size chess sets.WHERE YOU’VE SEEN OUR GIANT CHESS SETS:📱 Apple🧑‍🎓 Dallas TX Public School System💻 Google🏨 Hilton Hotels🤵‍♂️ Marriott Hotels🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Bill Gates Foundation📰 Forbes💃 People Magazine📈 The Wall Street JournalBENEFITS OUR GIANT CHESS SETS PROVIDE:🎓 Schools: Promotes educational development through strategy, critical thinking, and social interaction with giant chess sets.🏖️ Resorts/Hotels/Shopping Malls: Offers guests an enjoyable activity, enriching their leisure time with giant chess sets.🏢 Apartments/Townhomes/Condos: Giant games enrich communal spaces, foster community, and offer a unique, social amenity for residents.📚 OUR STORY: We’re a family-owned and operated business that opened our doors in 2007 with one goal: To bring people together. For the past 15 years, we have passionately served all our customers, from families in their backyards to pro athletes and famous musicians to Fortune 500 companies.MegaChess manufactures and distributes the largest collection of life size and large chess sets, checkers sets and chessboards in the world.We feature over 50 different giant chess sets, chess boards and accessories. READY TO TALK?Let’s connect here on LinkedIn! Or visit us online at https://www.megachess.com/

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

AmazinglyFun manufactures and distributes giant outdoors games such as Giant Chess Sets, Giant Connect 4 and Tumble Tower Sets and Soccer, Rugby and Cricket equipment through a variety of websites. We currently own and operate AmazinglyFun.com, MegaChess.com, GiantChessUSA.com, LawnGames.com, UberSoccer.com, RamRugbyUSA.com and have RamCricketUSA.com and LawnGamesRentals.com under development.

Ken has been actively involved in the franchise industry since 1982. Ken has lead high growth international franchise companies that focus on the business to business sector including Expense Reduction Analysts, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers and Management Recruiters International. Ken has owned franchises including Expense Reduction Analysts and Uniglobe Travel. He has consulted to numerous other firms.Ken's focus is to assist franchise companies that are looking to dramatically improve their performance and potential franchise candidates who are seeking quality franchises that meet their specific goals and objectives.

Carlsbad, Ca

Expense Reduction Analysts is the largest cost reduction consultancy in the world with 750 offices in 40 countries. • Ken was recruited to replace ailing CEO. Through dynamic turnaround leadership and execution, Ken instilled a confidence in the franchise network that allowed franchisees to focus on driving their business rather than worrying if they had made a mistake in joining the firm. • Recruited more than 300 Franchisees ($60,000 upfront investment) and 22 Area Developers ($250,000+ upfront investment) by introducing new lead generation techniques, revamping the franchise sales process and hiring a fantastic franchise sales team. • Grew Consulting Revenue grew at an annual growth rate of 67% through the introduction of innovative sales and marketing programs and the introduction of new product offerings. • Upgraded corporate management team with performance driven professionals. • Managed International Marketing, Training and Technology groups • While leading ERA the company received many awards documenting outstanding performance within the franchise industry. A few of the major awards are listed below in the Honors & Awards section of the profile.

Managed the day-to-day activities of a high growth, 1,500 franchise executive search franchise.

Anaheim, Ca

New Horizons Worldwide is the third largest IT training company in the world (behind only IBM and Oracle) with network-wide revenues in excess of $540 million. In September 2000, New Horizons was named one of Fortune magazine’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in America for outstanding performance based on earnings per share, revenue growth and return to shareholders over the last three years. In October 2000, New Horizons was named one of Forbes magazine’s 200 Best Managed Small Companies in America. This ranking was based on consistent sales and earnings per share growth for the last five years, and a combination of return on equity, operating margins and debt-to-enterprise value. In May 2001, New Horizons was named one of BusinessWeek magazine’s 100 Best Small Companies.New Horizons began as a franchisor of computer training centers. Despite rapid franchise sales growth, the company needed to generate additional top line revenue to create significant investor interest. To address this need, a division was formed to hold and operate “company owned centers.” As President of the Company Owned Operations (reporting to the CEO), Ken was tasked with the challenge of turning around our then small unprofitable company owned businesses and give the Board of Directors the confidence to invest in a continued and rapid expansion of company owned operations. Along with the team Ken developed, New Horizons achieved significant results within one year. Ken was then asked to expand his role beyond the focus of company-owned operations and to also assume management responsibilities of all North American franchise operations. Ken managed all the businesses New Horizons Worldwide owns which includes the daily activities of over 1,000 corporate employees.