With over seventeen years’ experience helping build PROGRESS-Based Sales and Customer Service Cultures, Dean Lindsay is hailed as an 'Outstanding Thought Leader on ‘Building Priceless Business Relationships' by Sales and Marketing Association International as well as a 'Sales-and-Networking Guru' by the Dallas Business Journal.
His books, THE PROGRESS CHALLENGE and CRACKING THE NETWORKING CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Korean, Spanish and Greek. His latest, “Big PHAT Goals,” teaches step-by-step instruction for personal and team achievement in a fun and easily implemented structure to help jump start success and engage employees in a high-energy method for reaching true team results.
Dean's thoughts on business development through PROGRESS-based sales and customer service have been endorsed by a who's who of international business thought leaders including 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. Mr. Levinson thought so much of Dean's thoughts on building priceless business relationships, that he wrote the foreword to CRACKING THE NETWORKING CODE.
Dean has been a featured contributor to Sales and Service Excellence, Training Magazine Europe, Executive Travel, LabX Media, Networking Times and the American Management Association's Moving Ahead magazine as well as audio magazine Selling Power Live hosted by Jeffrey Gitomer, author of THE SALES BIBLE. 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.
