Sam Geist insists that asking tough questions and answering them honestly is crucial to the well being of your organization. No idle armchair philosopher, Sam Geist brings his insights garnered from years of front-line business experience. He grew his single sporting goods store into a 15-store $40 million dollar a year national chain before he sold it to his competitor. As a speaker, he shows you how to capitalize on your resources and how to use your knowledge more profitably than you ever did before. His business programs are not just theoretical speeches, they offer tangible ideas, and solutions. They provide a wealth of applicable information as well as the impetus to act on it. Sam questions. He challenges. He informs. He refocuses participants. He provides actionable strategies to address the obstacles faced by so many of today's organizations. Before each session, Sam conducts industry-related and company-specific research, including interviews with clients and participants at length, and sends emails containing pointed questions that are to be answered and returned before the presentation. Utilizing his experience, his field trips and the data collected, Sam prepares and presents a specialized program, that is customized in both content and length to the particular requirements of clients. Sam follows-up by inviting clients and participants to continue learning by dialoguing via email—sharing their post-presentation experiences. Sam states his goal as, "I focus on encouraging participants to search for new viewpoints, discover new possibilities and develop new strategies so they can improve themselves and their organization today—and succeed tomorrow." During hands-on, interactive discussions and brainstorming workshops, Sam uses the Socratic method to encourage participants to question themselves, to think about their business in new ways in order to change, improve, and grow. He insists that asking tough questions—and answering them honestly—is crucial to the well being of your organization. He shows you how to capitalize on your resources, and how to use your knowledge more profitably than you ever did before. As a consultant he also uses his extensive experience to assist companies involved in restructuring, develop a unique road map to create their own future. Sam Geist is the author of "Why Should Someone Do Business With You… Rather Than Someone Else?" an interactive book on business strategy that has assisted thousands of marketers to re-view, renew and move ahead of the marketplace. His second book, "Would You Work for You?" is a thought-provoking guide that encourages leaders to better see themselves, their relationships and their skills to enable them to lead their organizations effectively. He has also written two short business guides—"Make It Happen: 20 Ways to Execute Your Strategy Every Day" and "Why Should Someone Do Business With You… Rather Than Someone Else: Eighteen Strategies to Get and Keep Customers." By each program's end, Sam Geist has given participants so much more than "just stuff" to think about. They have the ammunition, know-how and incentive to prepare a viable action plan and do it. Titles Why Should Someone Do Business With You...Rather Than Someone Else? Would You Work For You? Execute... or Be Executed Look Out! Here Comes Tomorrow! Differentiate... Or Die Surviving 2009 Topics Leadership, Customer Service, Marketing, Change, Business Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $10,000 - $14,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State Canada Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.