Speaker Bios

Jeffrey Gitomer

Chief Executive Salesman, BUY Gitomer Inc

Jeffrey Gitomer is a creative, on-the-edge published author and speaker whose expertise on sales, customer loyalty, and personal development is world renowned. He delivers 120 presentations, seminars, and keynote addresses every year that are funny, insightful, in your face, real world, off the wall, and on the money.

Roxanne Emmerich

CEO, Emmerich Group

Roxanne Emmerich is one of the most applauded business women in the United States. She’s been recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year four times – she uses the business savvy she has gained from taking several companies she owned to the number one status in their respective industries to help hundreds of clients double their customer satisfaction scores within 30 days of just one presentation. Many have reported sales growth and profit growth of 25 percent to more than 100 percent within six months!

Terry Brock

President & CEO of Achievement Systems Inc.

Terry Brock has worked with professionals from organizations in many different fields including real estate, accounting, architecture, banking, sales, marketing, computers and others. He is a speaker in demand because of his practical, easy-to-understand manner and style. Terry is a regular columnist for Business Journals across America where his column, Succeeding Today, is carried regularly. He’s also a regular contributing writer for industry magazines including The Wholesaler, The Representor, and Agency Sales.

Walter Bond

Business Consultant and Former NBA Player

“No one can stop you but YOU” is one belief that Walter Bond has embraced and built both his personal and professional life around. Understanding that no one can stop him has challenged Walter to work hard and maintain the winning attitude needed to achieve greatness for himself and his family and impart his belief using real life examples to the thousands of lives he touches each year.

Terry Slattery

CEO of Slattery Sales Group

Over the past 21 years, Terry Slattery and Slattery Sales Group have helped 2,000 clients exponentially grow revenues and margins. Terry has developed value differentiation strategies for clients in more than 100 industries, re-engineered their sales processes, and trained and coached executive and sales management and their sales organizations. He has helped all of them-from home-based enterprises to Fortune 100 companies-increase their top-line revenue and decrease their selling costs.

Janet Crenshaw Smith

Cofounder and President of Ivy Planning Group

Janet Crenshaw Smith is cofounder and President of Ivy Planning Group (Ivy), a management consulting and training company that focuses on diversity, strategy, and change management. Ivy is recognized as one of the Top 50 Diversity-owned companies by DiversityBusiness.com; Black Enterprise Magazine Emerging Company of the Year Finalist; and received the Working Woman magazine Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. Minority Business & Professionals Network, Inc. named Ms. Smith one of "Fifty Influential Minorities in Business". Profiles in Diversity Journal featured Ms. Smith in its Women of Initiative issue naming her one of "47 Women Worth Watching".

Keith Clinkscales

Senior Vice President & General Manager ESPN Publishing

Keith Clinkscales was named Senior Vice President Content Development and Enterprises, ESPN, in June 2007. In this role, Clinkscales is charged with launching a new ESPN incubator media lab designed to develop and create new sports driven content for all ESPN media platforms. Clinkscales will head up the creation of this unit, which expands upon the ESPN Original Entertainment brand and will make ESPN the place for innovation, experimentation and breakthrough programming and initiatives.

Sara J. Stadtherr

Senior Consultant with Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America

Sara J. Stadtherr, a senior consultant with Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, offers training expertise in topics that range from creating business plans to effective client base segmentation. She draws on her experience to provide financial advisors with innovative solutions to the challenges of growing their business, and also coaches top producers.

Bill Duffy

President BDA Sports

As BDA Sports represents Steve Nash, Carmelo Anthony, Yao Ming, Greg Oden and other NBA and overseas players, Bill Duffy has been involved in pro sports representation for over fifteen years. He parlayed a successful career as a player, from college days at the University of Minnesota and Santa Clara University, to being named the Denver Nuggets fourth pick in the 1982 NBA Draft, into a position as one of the most successful and respected sports agents in the industry.