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Speaker ED RIGSBEE Subjects marketing and management   Video Clip

 
Ed Rigsbee, CSP, president, at Rigsbee Research, is a nationally recognized expert on strategic alliance development and implementation. He created the Total Organizational Partnering System (TOPS) as a result of his extensive research in the area of strategic alliances. He has authored three business relationship books:
 
PartnerShift-How to Profit from the Partnering Trend
Developing Strategic Alliances
The Art of Partnering
 
With more than 1,000 published articles to his credit, Rigsbee is a regular contributor to business, trade and professional publications throughout North America. Through his writing, he regularly shares cutting-edge information in a no-nonsense format with thousands monthly. He has been an adjunct professor for both the Universities of California at Santa Barbara and California Lutheran University. Further, he has served as a D&B Foundation trainer delivering full-day sales, customer service, and management seminars across the USA.
 
From the business perspective, Ed brings extensive strategic management, marketing, and sales expertise to the platform. He has real-world experience to share. His work experience ranges from retail and sales management positions in his twenties, as president and owner of a manufacturer representative firm in his thirties. Today, Rigsbee is a best-selling author and nationally recognized professional speaker. Throughout his career partnering has been his standard method of operation.
 
His presentations, based on his mutually beneficial partnering philosophy have evolved through years of research and teaching management, marketing, and selling skills. Ed's work has earned him favor with corporations and national associations throughout North America.
 
On the home front, Ed has been a volunteer with his local region (Thousand Oaks, CA) of the American Youth Soccer Organization since 1991. He is currently a member of the executive board of directors serving as the chairperson for the “Dream of Fields” multi-million dollar capital fundraising campaign to rebuild and expand the 20 plus acre soccer complex in Thousand Oaks.
 
Ed has been an active member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) since 1988 and holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, one that less than 10% of the association membership holds. In 1999, he founded an annual fund raising party at NSA's annual convention that has, to date, given over $40,000 to the NSA Foundation's Professional Speakers Benefit Fund and over $20,000 to the Hereditary Disease Foundation.
 
Besides his speaking, writing and consulting activities, Ed and his wife Regina have two sons, Ryan and Jonathan. They have been married and resided in Thousand Oaks, CA since 1974. Ed (infrequently) enjoys snow skiing and scuba diving. He is also a licensed United States Soccer Federation Referee.

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