1. to offer something for sale.
2. to be employed to persuade or induce others to buy.
* The following names represent only a partial listing of available speakers.
Tony Alessandra
A marketing strategist and applied behavioral scientist, Dr. Tony Alessandra is a leading authority on bottom-line marketing tactics and on building business relationships for life. Recognized by Meetings & Conventions Magazine as "one of America's most electrifying speakers," Tony combines an endearing charisma and a command of his craft into a unique style that consistently captivates his audiences.
Hal Becker
Hal Becker is a nationally known expert on Sales, Customer Service, and Negotiating. He conducts seminars or consults to more than 140 organizations a year. His client list includes IBM, Disney, New York Life, Continental Airlines, Verizon, Terminix, AT&T, Pearle Vision, Cintas, and hundreds of other companies and associations.
Hal is the author of Can I have 5 Minutes Of Your Time? which is now in its 18th printing.
Jeff Blackman
To win BIG, call Jeff Blackman - international speaker, author, lawyer, and broadcaster. Jeff maximizes your performance, productivity and profitability. His customized programs on sales/marketing, negotiations, service, inspiration, leadership and change-help you outdistance competition and reach new levels of unprecedented success!
Duane Cashin
With more than 20 years of top sales experience, Duane Cashin is the power and passion behind the Give & Get sales system – the system that consistently drives sales and accelerates corporations to top industry positions. Duane Cashin
is not shy to share his controversial opinion. Without hesitation, he will
proudly announce, any day – any time, that sales professionals work in the
most honorable profession in the world.
Bill Cates
Bill Cates, author and dynamic speaker, works with financial professionals who want to attract higher quality clients and with companies who want to build a more committed sales force. Bill's best selling book Unlimited Referrals has established him as America's foremost expert on increasing sales through referrals. Whether motivational keynote or break-out seminar, Bill will give your people a ton of strategies they can put to use immediately.
Jim Cathcart
Jim Cathcart is founder and CEO of Cathcart Institute. For twenty plus years he has been training people worldwide in ways to grow their businesses and expand their lives. He combines the substance and knowledge of an industry expert with the highly developed presentation skills of a professional performer. As the author of twelve books and featured speaker at over two thousand conventions, he has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
Susan Ershler
Susan’s record would be remarkable enough if it only detailed her business achievements. During her 23-year corporate career, she has held a series of increasingly responsible executive positions in the sales divisions of Fortune 500 companies. She led teams to sales records, beating quotas from $1 million to $600 million. Ending as a vice president of sales for a multi-national telecommunications corporation, she was responsible for their fast-growing Internet division.
Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals to discover the essential formula for making his way to the top through a powerful, balanced combination of marketing acumen and networking savvy. Both Forbes and Inc Magazines have designated him one of the world's most "connected" individuals. Now, as Founder & CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with advanced strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales, and enhance personal careers.
Scott Ginsberg
Scott Ginsberg is the author of seven books including HELLO, my name is Scott, The Power of Approachability, How to be That Guy, and Make a Name for Yourself. As one of the youngest members of National Speakers Association, Scott gives presentations, breakout sessions, keynote speeches and seminars to tens of thousands of people each year. He's shared the stage with bestselling authors/speakers like Jeffrey Gitomer, Jim Collins and Fred Reichheld.
Michael Goldberg
Michael Goldberg is a speaker, consultant, and author focused on helping business owners, sales professionals, and managers grow their business. He has developed work teams and managers in a number of industries including insurance, financial services, retail, manufacturing, distribution, and information technology since 1983. Michael has extensive expertise in the areas of Networking, Sales, Leadership, Customer Service, Communication, Public Speaking, and Career Focus.
Warren Greshes
Warren Greshes grew up in Brooklyn, NY. He began his business career in Manhattan's highly competitive Garment District where he was National Sales Manager for a multi-million dollar apparel manufacturer. He then joined a New York City consulting firm, where he tripled sales in just two years.
Mike Hourigan
Mike Hourigan, CSP, is known as “the workplace commentator”
for the satirical, real-world wisdom he brings to corporate and association
audiences. His original material draws from his international education,
early blue-collar jobs, and executive positions with Cargill Incorporated and
Olympus Corporation. These well-rounded experiences produce high-energy
messages that captivate his listeners and provide Mike with an uncanny ability
to plug into individual situations while relating with understanding and humor.
Don Hutson
Don Hutson's careers in speaking, management and sales have brought him many honors. He successfully worked his way through the University of Memphis, graduating with a degree in Sales. After becoming the #I salesperson in a national training organization, he established his own training firm and shortly thereafter was in demand as a professional speaker.
Dean Lindsay
Internationally recognized business development strategist, author, and speaker Dean Lindsay is the founder of The Progress Agents LLC – an idea studio dedicated to empowering progress in sales, service, and workplace performance. Clients range from Fortune 100 companies to budding entrepreneurs, and from national and state associations to successful small businesses on both sides of the Atlantic.
Steven S. Little
Steven S. Little is a much sought after speaker, consultant and writer on the subject of business growth and the future of opportunity. As a Senior Consultant for Inc. Magazine since 1998, he speaks to thousands of owners and managers of growing businesses each year. He is the author of the new best-selling book "The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth" (Wiley) which is now in its fourth printing.
Cam Marston
Consultant, author, and speaker Cam Marston has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses throughout the world to improve multigenerational relations and communications. He has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, New Zealand Herald, Entrepreneur Magazine, Charlotte Observer, HR Management Today, Money Magazine, Fortune Small Business (FSB), on the BBC, and in and numerous trade journals and city business journals across the United States.
Andrea R. Nierenberg
Andrea R. Nierenberg, bestselling author and world-renowned business authority, is the force behind The Nierenberg Group.
Called a “networking success story” by The Wall Street Journal, Andrea Nierenberg is founder and president of The Nierenberg Group. With a stellar 25 years as a leader in sales and marketing, Andrea is an in-demand business expert both at home and abroad. Her company partners with an array of the world’s leading businesses, including Citigroup, Time Inc., TIAA-CREF, The Food Network, Lehman Brothers, Omnicom, Coach, and Deutshe Bank.
Cindy Novotny
Cindy Novotny is recognized by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) as one of nine most powerful and innovative speakers. Cindy has been branded the “Radical Mentor” by thousands of executives around the world for her straight forward, no nonsense approach to leadership. Cindy has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Training Magazine, Successful Meetings, and broadcast live on the BBC. Cindy spans the globe speaking to vast audiences that range from line employees to top executives.
Alan Parisse
Rising from garbage collector to Wall Street executive, Alan Parisse uses his diverse life experience to deliver relevant messages on leadership, sales, and cycles of change to executives, managers, marketing and sales teams throughout the world. Alan’s audiences benefit from his sound business judgment, hard won expertise and practical solutions for dealing with reversals and taking full advantage of booms. He is an expert in change, leadership, selling and sustaining success.
Vince Poscente
The key elements in corporate culture today require a balance of mental toughness, a passion for excellence, and a dedication to an enjoyable journey. An authority on speed and focus, Vince Poscente knows the mind set needed to meet those demands. During the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France, Vince raced to a Canadian national record of 135 miles per hour (216.7 km/h) on skis. Even more astonishing, at the age of 25, Vince had never ski raced before. He went from a recreational skier to the Olympic finals in just 4 years.
Nido Qubein
Nido Qubein was a penniless immigrant to the United States from the Middle East in 1966 with barely any knowledge of English and no marketable skills. Today Mr. Qubein is an internationally successful business leader. He is CEO of Creative Services, Inc., a North Carolina-based international consulting firm. Mr. Qubein is also director of Southern National Bank Corporation, a six-billion-dollar bank holding company with over 200 offices.
Terri Sjodin
Terri Sjodin Is the president of Sjodin Communications, a public speaking, sales training ant consulting firm. Terri is a full-time professional speaker and trainer with a unique specialization in advancing the persuasive presentations skills of professionals She Is the author of the highly acclaimed books, "SALESpeak
- Everybody Sells Something" and "MENTORING."
Mark Stevens
The most successful business today isn't part of the Fortune 500. With approximately three billion customers - about half the global population - Many people don't realize that it's a business at all, says bestselling author and business maverick Mark Stevens. When Stevens refers to the world's best business, he's actually talking about the world's great religions. In his new book, GOD IS A SALESMAN, Stevens reveals what religion and spiritual practices can teach us about business, sales, and customer relations.
Jack Stahl
Jack Stahl began his career with The Coca-Cola Company in 1979, a time when the company was being dramatically repositioned for growth. During a period of accelerating performance, Jack represented the company to Wall Street and had responsibility for planning and acquisitions. He then became controller of the company, and at age thirty-six became Chief Financial Officer. Throughout his tenure in finance at Coca-Cola, Jack played a key role in redefining the company’s financial strategies.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy is one of America's leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He's a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and high levels of achievement. He addresses more than 400,000 men and women each year on the subjects of personal and professional development, including the executives and staff of IBM, Arthur Andersen, McDonnell Douglas and The Million Dollar Round Table.
Ken Unger
Ken Unger is an experienced and respected coach and trainer known throughout the financial industry for his knowledge, enthusiasm and high energy level. He is widely recognized by audiences of Financial Advisors nationwide for sharing efficient practice management strategies and effective sales and marketing ideas. As President of Million Dollar Producer, Ken creates training materials and conducts training sessions for mid to high-level Financial Advisors.
Richard Whiteley
Vice chairman and cofounder of The Forum Corporation, an international training and consulting firm specializing in helping organizations become customer centered. Under Mr. Whiteley's direction, The Forum Corporation has introduced leadership, sales and customer focus training programs that are among the most widely used in business today. He has also been central to the growth of Forum's consulting services designed to help clients mobilize their organizations to effectively exercise their strategy.
Garrison Wynn
If you could have no-fluff motivation, high-energy humor, and industry specific customized business content in a single program, what value would that have for your organization? By blending his funny real life stories and current original business research, Garrison Wynn educates, motivates and entertains - delivering solutions audiences can use right away. Each program contains powerful information on communications, change and success that can be customized for salespeople, management teams, customer service representatives or those in leadership positions.
