Dean Lindsay
Empowering Progress in Sales, Customer Service, & Workplace Performance; Change Management Expert
Biography
Dean Lindsay, has been hailed as an ‘Outstanding Thought Leader on Building Priceless Business Relationships’ by Sales and Marketing Executives International as well as: ‘The Dean of Sales and Service’ by Business Class News, ‘America’s Progress Agent’ by The Strategic HR Forum, a ‘Sales and Networking Guru’ by the Dallas Business Journal and an ‘Outstanding Speaker’ by the International Association of Speakers Bureaus. Dean is a noted authority on Change Management and Customer Service. Dean helps committed organizations create connected & influential work cultures focused on: Enhancing Customer Experiences, Building Priceless Business Relationships!, and Working and Winning in a World of Change! His books, including HOW TO ACHIEVE BIG PHAT GOALS, THE PROGRESS CHALLENGE: Working and Winning in a World of Change, and CRACKING THE NETWORKING CODE have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Korean, Spanish and Greek. Come celebrate the release of his latest book, THE PROGRESS AGENT HANDBOOK FOR INFLUENCE AND CONNECTION. He has had the privilege of sharing his profitable insights on Progress, Influence and Connection from stages across the globe including: Spain, Turkey, Poland, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Sweden and the islands of Aruba and Jamaica. Dean is a cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas and has served as Guest Lecturer to UCLA and University of Dallas MBA programs as well as the International Call Management Institute. Dean has been a featured contributor to Sales and Service Excellence, CEOWorld Magazine, The Smart Manager (India), Training Magazine Europe, Executive Travel, LabX Media, Networking Times and the American Management Association’s Moving Ahead magazine as well as numerous podcasts and the audio magazine Selling Power Live. His business views have also been featured on the Voice of America radio as well as the Dallas Morning News and Monster.com. Dean’s writings on creating authentic business development by building and strengthening PROGRESS-based Work Cultures and Sales & Service teams has been endorsed by a who’s who of international business thought leaders including Michael Port (author of BOOK YOURSELF SOLID), Ken Blanchard (author of THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER, Bryan Tracy, author of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELLING and the legendary Father of GUERRILLA MARKETING, Jay Conrad Levinson who calls Dean ‘a Master of Progress.’
Speech Topics
Change Management / Dealing with Change
Customer Service / Customer Experience
Business Growth / Prospecting / Business Network
PRICELESS PROSPECTING
Mastering the New Laws of Business Networking… Going for the SALE even at a social distance in a challenging business landscape!!
How to Achieve Big PHAT Goals
Program focused on Taking Consistent Mindful Action and is customized for Safety Goals, Health Goals, Team Goals, Customer Service Goals , Sales Goals, etc.
ROCK the Customer Experience
In person, on the phone & on line.
THE PROGRESS CHALLENGE: Working and Winning in a World of CHANGE
In these uncharted & stressful times, caring committed leaders MUST focus on ‘Progress Leadership’ not Change Management!! The Progress Challenge is just that, a challenge – a challenge to progress, a challenge to work and win in this world of continual, mind-spinning change. Meeting this challenge creates better leaders, better team members, better human beings.
Cracking the Networking CODE: Four Steps to Priceless Business Relationships
You can’t achieve your best without learning the all-important art of connecting. Dean Lindsay’s rip-roaring CODE Cracking programs, based on his best selling business book Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Relationships, are filled with fresh insights to build meaningful, profitable, win-win relationships for business and life.
The Rise of PROGRESS LEADERSHIP: Change Management Training for a Progress Based World
The problem with the term “change management” is that no one really desires to change or plans to change. We desire and plan to progress. The program is based on Dean’s The Progress Challenge: Working and Winning in a World of Change.
Stop, Bop and Roll - Finding Progress in Change
The ailing economy and the tough business climate (not to mention the real climate) make it easy to understand why so many people have trouble finding ways to get and stay moving toward progress. Yet, opportunities for progress still exist, even in the most challenging of times.
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Speakers Like Dean Lindsay

Joel Zeff
Humerous interactive speaker and emcee (virtual and in person) that inspires, engages, and energizes your audience with humor. His clients hire him again. Your team will give him a standing ovation.
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Travels From: TX

Rocky Bleier
Legendary member of the four-time World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, Rocky Bleier is one of America's most courageous sportsmen. Crippled by enemy fire during the Vietnam conflict, he fought overwhelming odds and demonstrated the courage and determination to overcome his injuries, becoming one of the NFL's premier running backs. His remarkable story became the subject of the book, Fighting Back, which was recreated in the 1980 ABC-TV movie of the same name. In his presentations, he motivates audiences to keep on striving for greater accomplishments, employing a dynamic style with real-life stories and an appropriate injection of humor.
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Travels From: PA
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