Tony Alessandra is recognized by Meetings and Conventions Magazine as “one of America’s most electrifying speakers.” Dr. Alessandra is a leading authority on bottom-line marketing tactics and on building business relationships for life. He is a published author with 13 books, has been featured in over 50 audio/video programs and films and also hosts the TPN/Primestar network talk show, Strictly Business. His topics include The Platinum Rule, Customer Loyalty, and Collaborative Selling.
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Joy Baldridge focuses on sales, customer service and management skill development. Her diverse background as a corporate trainer, sales professional, manager, vice president and president enables her to be accepted as an authority in her field at every corporate level. Ms. Baldridge has conducted training programs for over 200 corporations, publications, and associations.
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Eric Baron , founder of The Baron Group, is author of Selling Is A Team Sport: Turn Your Whole Organization Into A Living, Breathing, Selling Machine, (Prima Publishing 2000). As a sales consultant, trainer, and special events speaker, Eric has trained and motivated sales people for more than 20 years. His unique, customized, multi-day workshops combine the best of proven problem solving skills and consultative selling skills. Recognized for extraordinary energy, passion for his subject, and an ability to command and hold any audience’s attention, Eric has also been invited to keynote scores of national sales meetings, trade association conferences, and senior level retreats.
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Sheila Murray Bethel, PH.D., CSP, CPAE is a globally acclaimed keynote and special events speaker who gets the results her clients want. Sheila delivers a powerful combination of expertise, substance, humor and inspiration with every presentation. Sheila brings a unique depth of sensitivity to her specialties of change, leadership, customer service and personal excellence. In the course of delivering 2,500 presentations in 11 nations, she has spoken to over one million people. Her client list reads like a global “Who’s Who” of Business, Trade Associations, Education and Government. Sheila is author of Making a Difference: 12 Qualities That Make You A Leader.
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Lenora Billings-Harris is an international speaker, consultant and the author of The Diversity Advantage: A Guide To Making Diversity Work. President of Excel Development Systems, Inc., a human resources development company, Lenora delivers performance improvement interventions that enable clients to discover the hidden strengths of working in and valuing a diverse multicultural environment. Her learner-oriented programs provide a safe environment to explore the sensitive issues of diversity as they relate to team effectiveness, multicultural communications, sales and leadership. Whether through keynotes, half-day workshops, or multi-day seminars, Lenora Billings-Harris’ thoughtprovoking programs are lively, positive, and non-judgmental.
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Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE founder and CEO of Cathcart Institute, has been training people worldwide for more than 20 years in ways to grow their businesses and expand their lives. He speaks on leadership, sales, new era business practices, business psychology and personal growth. As the author of twelve books, including The Acorn Principle™ and Relationship Selling™, and featured speaker at over 2000 conventions, Jim has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. He is past president of the National Speakers Association and recipient of their highest awards including the Cavett Award and the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame Award.
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Art Cornwell is the president of The Boardroom, a Michigan-based consulting and training firm that specializes in showing business people how to improve their professional skills. Art has 30 years of experience, and has been a senior officer of five firms. An international speaker, and member of the National Speakers Association, Art has presented the principles contained in his book, Freeing the Corporate Mind: How to Spur Innovation in Business. One of his most popular workshop series is Leadership in the 21st Century, which covers eight different skill sets.
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Michael E. Goldberg founder of Building Blocks Consulting, is a trainer and special events speaker who helps companies attract more sales, offer better service, and practice great leadership. Described by clients as a “spark plug” because of his high energy, Michael has earned multiple engagements with companies representing a wide range of industries. Among his many dynamic workshops and keynote presentations are programs about Networking, Team Building, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, and Sales. Prior to forming Building Blocks Consulting in 2000, Michael acquired hands-on management and training experience over a 17-year period within the hospitality and retail industries.
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Sharon Roberts is president and founder of Selling to Women and principal of Roberts & Roberts Associates, a Texas-based training and consulting firm. Sharon has been invited by organizations throughout the world to present her most popular subject, Selling to Women & Couples and Silent Signals. She provides insights on reading and interpreting those subtle, but important, "silent signals" that are sent to you and unconsciously by you. Featured nationally on CNN, the New York-based, "Lets Talk Business Radio Network," as well as numerous talk-radio shows, Sharon has reached millions of people with her timely message. Sharon is author of the book, Selling to Women & Couples: Secrets of Selling in the New Millennium.
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Stephen T. Waterhouse, CSP has conducted training sessions and made keynote presentations before thousands of sales professionals worldwide and is recognized as the expert in complex and team sales. His most recent book, The Team Selling Solution: Creating and Managing Teams that Win the Complex Sale, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2004. An engineer in the successful Patriot Missile project, Steve went on to lead the Vortech Corporation in a 300% turn-around in less than two years. Steve's client companies are in telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, robotics, and financial services. Program topics include Team Selling!Ô, negotiating, prospecting, building rapport, closing sales, managing time and territories, and major account management.
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Alan Weiss, PH.D. is a consultant, speaker and author. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc. has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, Avon and over 300 other leading organizations. Alan is the author of 12 books, many of which have been on the curricula at Villanova, Temple University, and the Wharton School of Business and have been translated into German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese. His hard-hitting, custom-designed presentations focus on practical techniques for improving performance, communications, productivity and teamwork and include such titles as Mastering Change: The Seven Keys to a World That Will Never be the Same, Making the Fourth Sale First: How to Build Winning Relationships, and Empowering the Customer: How to Allow the Buyer to Buy.
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Thomas J. Winninger, CSP, CPAE has been referred to by his peers as “America’s Business Coach!” Thom delivers programs on competition, marketing, leadership, team building, benchmarking, and the future. Author of the best selling book, Price Wars: How to Win The Battle For Your Customer! he has been featured on CNBC First Business, in BoardRoom Reports, Venture, and Success magazines. His varied background and client base has made him a valuable resource for marketing, sales, and management professionals nationwide.
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