BrainTrust

Sherry Stewart Deutschmann is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, and passionate advocate for entrepreneurship. Her first venture was LetterLogic, Inc., a company she founded in her basement and grew to $40 million before selling it in 2016. LetterLogic was named an Inc. 5000 company (fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United Stat... es) for ten consecutive years. Sherry's first book, Lunch with Lucy: Maximize Profits by Investing in Your People, will be released on March 10, 2020, via An Inc. Original, an imprint of Inc. Magazine. The book shares her story of building a robust business through empathetic leadership and uncommon, commonsense business practices. Lunch with Lucy is available for pre-order now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Sherry attributes the success of LetterLogic to its unique culture in which the needs of the employees came before those of the customer or shareholder. Featured in The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Business Leaders, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, and more for her unconventional work culture and success, Sherry was also honored by President Barack Obama as a White House Champion of Change in 2016. Helping women-owned businesses get better access to networks, capital, and markets is Sherry's passion. In 2015, she was appointed to the National Womens Business Council, a small group of women who advise Congress, the Small Business Administration, and the president on issues related to entrepreneurship for women. In 2019, she founded BrainTrust, a company dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs grow their business to $1 million in annual revenue and beyond. Sherry is married to Mark Deutschmann, a real estate developer in Nashville, Tennessee, and is mother to Whitney, stepmother to Chelsea, and grandmother to Nikko and Reagan. Chris-Tia Donaldson is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thank God Its Natural (tgin), a manufacturer of natural hair and skin care products, currently sold in Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Sallys Beauty, and Walgreens. In her role, ...Read More