Jeffrey Gitomer Speaker Biography

NY Times Bestselling Author, Leadership and Sales Guru

Jeffrey Gitomer is a best-selling author, professional speaker, and business trainer who gives public and corporate seminars, runs annual sales meetings, and conducts live and Internet training programs on selling, customer loyalty, and personal development. He has presented an average of 120 seminars a year for the past ten years. Some of his customers include Coca-Cola, DR Horton, Caterpillar, BMW, Cingular Wireless, Hilton, Choice Hotels, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Cintas, Milliken, NCR, Stewart Title, Comcast Cable, Time Warner Cable, Ingram Micro, Wells Fargo Bank, Baptist Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hyatt Hotels, Carlsburg Beer, Wausau Insurance, Northwestern Mutual, MetLife, Sports Authority, GlaxoSmithKline, A.C. Nielsen, IBM, AT&T and hundreds of others.

Bestselling Author

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The New York Times best sellers The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, The Little Black Book of Connections, and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude. All of his books have been number one best sellers on Amazon.com. Jeffrey’s books have appeared on best-seller lists more than 850 times and have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Publications and Internet Training

Jeffrey’s syndicated column, Sales Moves, appears in scores of business journals and newspapers in the United States and Europe, and is read by more than four million people every week. Jeffrey’s WOW! websites get more than 100,000 hits per week from readers and seminar attendees. His state-of-the-art presence on the web and e-commerce ability has set the standard among peers, and has won huge praise and acceptance from his customers.The content is pure Jeffrey — fun, pragmatic, real world — and can be immediately implemented. Jeffrey’s weekly e-zine, Sales Caffeine, is a sales wake-up call delivered every Tuesday morning to more than 500,000 subscribers, free of charge. Sales Caffeine allows Jeffrey to communicate valuable sales information, strategies, and answers to sales professionals on a timely basis.

Awards and Recognition

In 1997, Jeffrey was awarded the designation of Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) by the National Speakers Association. The CSP award has been given fewer than 500 times in the past 25 years and is the association’s highest earned award. In August, 2008, Jeffrey was inducted into the National Speaker Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame. The designation, CPAE (Counsel of Peers Award for Excellence), honors professional speakers who have reached the top echelon of performance excellence. To date, 191 of the world’s greatest speakers have been inducted including Ronald Reagan, Art Linkletter, Colin Powell, Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightingale, Brian Tracy and Zig Ziglar.