Gary M. Kunath is the President and CEO of The Summit Group, a recognized thought leader that provides high end sales training and development in the areas of value creation, strategic business alignment, collaborative planning with customers, business acumen, executive engagement, leveraging enterprise assets into the deal and enterprise offer development. He regularly lectured in the Executive Education and MBA Programs of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Emory University Business School and at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The Summit Group is regarded as a thought leader in the area of value creation, business alignment, sales, executive engagement and relationship management. Their value creation process received the “Innovative Practice of the Year Award” by 3M worldwide. The Summit Group is applying their value and business alignment approach to help structure the global trade agreements between the US Dept of Commerce and China .Clients include Alcatel, AT&T- SBC, P&G, Kimberly Clark, SC Johnson, MARRIOTT, Intel, HP, IBM, GSA, USPS, Lockheed, Carlson, NCR, Siemens, Amex, Kellogg’s, Purolator, Canada Post and Kimberly Clark to name a few. Mr. Kunath served as a faculty member of the executive development programs of such companies as MARRIOTT International, P&G, Lockheed, and BellSouth. He serves on the board of Trustees for Utica College of Syracuse University. He was named Businessman of the Year for the United States and was formally recognized for this achievement at a dinner hosted President George W. Bush. He was selected by US government to be part of a four person faculty team from Harvard, Stanford and the London School of Economics to work directly with President Mubarak of Egypt and the business leaders to increase Egypt’s global competitiveness. Gary Kunath holds an MS degree in Organizational Development from the State University of New York at Binghamton, a BS degree in Business Administration/Marketing from Syracuse University and an A.A.S. in Business Management from Mohawk Valley Community College. He is also an August 1990 graduate of Duke University's Executive Development Program. Titles Creating Partnerships & Alliances Creating Business Value Sales Innovation Institutionalizing Value Across The Organization Leading and Retaining Top Performers Practices of Exemplary Leadership Executive Selling and Relationship Engagement Topics Sales, Management, Business, Human Resource, Employee Retention, Leadership, Customer Service Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $15,000 or more Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State GA 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.