Steve Van Remortel

Steve Van Remortel

MBA, Certified Professional Behavioral AWI, US
Inspires and educates business leaders on how to experience record sales and profitability by clearly differentiating their organization by simultaneously optimizing their strategy and talent.

Steve Van Remortel, creator of Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream, educates and inspires business leaders on how achieve record sales and profitability by clearly differentiating their organization through simultaneously optimizing their strategy and talent. In simple terms, how to build a high performance team to stop selling vanilla ice cream. 

Steve's passion is to provide all business leaders a simple step-by-step strategy and talent and now that process is available to you.

As a passionate business strategist, Steve focuses on the powerful combination of a differentiated strategy and skill-set aligned high-performance team. As an owner and leader in manufacturing and service companies, Steve learned first-hand how to develop and execute a strategy and talent development plan that leads to record organizational performance. In 1999, Steve founded SM Advisors and has since created a library of more than 100 strategy and talent development methodologies. This Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream process is now available to you in Steve's keynote addresses, book, workshops and consulting services.

Steve is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA) in three behavioral sciences. He earned degrees in Marketing and Organizational Communications and an MBA in Strategic Management. To date, he has personally completed over 1,000 strategy and talent development planning sessions in more than 350 different industries.

Steve is motivated by helping business leaders accomplish their professional and personal objectives. He speaks regularly to business leaders regarding two of his passions in life - strategy & talent.  He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he was named 2010 Business Person of the Year.

And for the record, his favorite ice cream flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

Steve Van Remortel, creator of Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream, educates and inspires business leaders on how achieve record sales and profitability by clearly differentiating their organization through simultaneously optimizing their strategy and talent. In simple terms, how to build a high performance team to stop selling vanilla ice cream. 

Steve's passion is to provide all business leaders a simple step-by-step strategy and talent and now that process is available to you.

As a passionate business strategist, Steve focuses on the powerful combination of a differentiated strategy and skill-set aligned high-performance team. As an owner and leader in manufacturing and service companies, Steve learned first-hand how to develop and execute a strategy and talent development plan that leads to record organizational performance. In 1999, Steve founded SM Advisors and has since created a library of more than 100 strategy and talent development methodologies. This Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream process is now available to you in Steve's keynote addresses, book, workshops and consulting services.

Steve is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA) in three behavioral sciences. He earned degrees in Marketing and Organizational Communications and an MBA in Strategic Management. To date, he has personally completed over 1,000 strategy and talent development planning sessions in more than 350 different industries.

Steve is motivated by helping business leaders accomplish their professional and personal objectives. He speaks regularly to business leaders regarding two of his passions in life - strategy & talent.  He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he was named 2010 Business Person of the Year.

And for the record, his favorite ice cream flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream

A motivational event for leaders across your organization. Learn how to create a competence that will lead to a clear differentiation for your organization. Determine what your organization provides better than anyone else, and find your own Mint Chip ice cream.

Strategic PlanningEntertainment-basedEducational / Informative

Build the Team to Achieve Your Dream

The number one reason for a profitable organization is a high performance leadership and organizational team. People make all the difference. In this program, Steve shares his how-to process for building high-performance teams with the right skill sets for growth.

Teamwork / TeambuildingEntertainment-basedEducational / Informative

Department/Tactical Planning

The most profitable companies have become experts at tactical planning. Because as each department completes its plan to work “on” the business (not “in” it), organizational growth accelerates and takes off. This program will provide you the process and templates to develop tactical plans that will create company-wide accountability.

Performance ImprovementEntertainment-basedEducational / Informative

Hire the Right Person, the First Time

Stop struggling with turnover costs and the burden of underperformers. This workshop shows you how to implement a selection process to confidently and accurately identify the right person for the job, the first time.

Teamwork / TeambuildingEntertainment-basedEducational / Informative