Jim Pancero

Jim Pancero Speaker Biography

Author of You Can Always Sell More and IBM Gold Circle winner

The most advanced, leading-edge "business-to-business" sales and sales management training available today. Everything he does is extensively researched and has one bottom line focus…to increase an organization’s strategic competitive advantage and market uniqueness. His new book is You Can Always Sell More – How To Improve Any Sales Force.

Jim’s work focuses on sales organizations with high priced, large and/or competitively complex products and services.  His information-intensive keynote speeches, training programs and in-depth consulting work detail his innovative selling processes and strategies for the new economy and global marketplace.

Even during a sixty-minute keynote, Jim provides the most experienced members of his audience with proven, immediately usable advanced ideas to increase their competitive advantage and enhance their selling processes. His combination of humor and real-world examples evolved from his experience researching and training in over 80 different industries.

Jim has been directly involved in "business-to-business" selling for over 35 years. Six of those years were spent successfully selling the largest computer systems for the Data Processing Division of the IBM Corporation. During Jim’s prestigious IBM career he earned several awards including the coveted "Golden Circle" designation annually awarded to the top 5% of their international sales force.

In 1982, Jim founded his advanced sales training and consulting company. Since then, Jim has conducted over 2,500 presentations or consulting days for 500 companies providing a career average of five events per client. Over 90% of Jim’s clients utilize his services more than once.

In addition to his project specific consulting and training activities, Jim will also help you in the design and delivery of in-house sales and sales management training programs. He may also be used to design incentive and compensation programs. Jim is a “hands-on” consultant who will take you to a level beyond theory to productivity.

Jim is one of only 81 of the National Speakers Association’s 4,000 members to earn the "Certified Speaking Professional" (CSP) designation and is a recipient of the ACPAE Speakers Hall of Fame.

Jim has an undergraduate and a Masters degree in both Management and Marketing. As an Adjunct-Professor, he has also taught graduate and undergraduate college courses on Industrial Marketing, Persuasion Techniques and other related areas at several universities in the Midwest.