Dan Seidman

DAN SEIDMAN is an internationally-recognized speaker, consultant & sales trainer who teaches unique influence strategies for leaders, managers & sales pros.

His mission for the next 10 years is to help companies re-design existing sales training in order to include the latest best-practices on persuasion.

This work is based on THE ULTIMATE SALES TRAINING BOOK (Pfeiffer Publishing) which premiers in 2012 as a 900 page encyclopedia of best-practices and the latest influence strategies for sales training. Dan is consulting with the world’s leading training organization ASTD.org (over 70,000 members). He is designing their global sales training program.

He is also the author of #1 business best-seller, SALES AUTOPSY (Kaplan Publishing). Therein Dan reveals the top seven traits that distinguish world class sales professionals from the rest of the selling world.

Dan is a WORLD MASTER’S ATHLETE with three gold medals playing on the U.S. basketball team. He has served as a board member of the United Professional Sales Association and as a volunteer sales & marketing strategist for the Willow Creek Association, one of the world’s largest leadership training organizations.

In addition, THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF INFLUENCE® Your Passport to Powerful Persuasion will be released in late 2012. This unique book on psychologically-sound selling strategies is currently available as a keynote and training program.

Dan has been selected as one of the “Top 12 Sales Coaches in America” in Ultimate Selling Power and runs the award-winning website SalesAutopsy.com.

Selling Power Magazine selected the Sales Autopsy Training Experience as a finalist in its 2006 Sales Excellence Awards.

Sales & Marketing Management Magazine has called his website of selling blunders a “cult hit among sales folks.” Dan has collected over 600 of these sales horror stories during his selling, management and training career.

His business humor columns reach over 1.5 million readers a month, both online at Monster.com and ProducersWeb.com and in print at Agent Sales Journal, Independent Agent, Insurance NewsNet, Advantages Magazine and more.

Dan Seidman lives in Barrington, IL with his Princess Bride, Wendy, son Josh and the twins Abbie & Bekah.