Dave Kurlan

Dave Kurlan

CEOMA, US
Dave Kurlan is a 2012 Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame Inductee, Top-Rated Speaker and Best Selling Author who is always the star of the Conference or Event.

Dave Kurlan is the CEO of Kurlan & Associates, a global sales & sales management training and consulting firm.  He is also the CEO of Objective Management Group, the leader in sales force evaluations and sales candidate assessments.

With over 30 years of experience in all facets of sales development, management and consulting, he is one of the leading experts on everything sales. Dave has been named one of the Top 50 Sales Influencers for 2012-2015, his Blog, Understanding the Sales Force, has been named the Top Sales & Markting Blog honors for 5 consecutive years, and in 2012 he was inducted into the Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame. He is a best selling author, top-rated keynote speaker and a radio show host.

Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's GrowCo, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference, the Gazelles/Fortune Sales Summit, Inbound14 and hundreds of other Conferences. 

Dave has written two books on selling, Mindless Selling and his best-selling book, Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball reached number three on Amazon.com in March of 2006. He also wrote the proprietary sales recruiting manual, STAR. He is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling, Sales Hacks, How to Improve Your Life Volume 2, and Stepping Stones along with Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy. 

Dave Kurlan is the CEO of Kurlan & Associates, a global sales & sales management training and consulting firm.  He is also the CEO of Objective Management Group, the leader in sales force evaluations and sales candidate assessments.

With over 30 years of experience in all facets of sales development, management and consulting, he is one of the leading experts on everything sales. Dave has been named one of the Top 50 Sales Influencers for 2012-2015, his Blog, Understanding the Sales Force, has been named the Top Sales & Markting Blog honors for 5 consecutive years, and in 2012 he was inducted into the Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame. He is a best selling author, top-rated keynote speaker and a radio show host.

Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's GrowCo, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference, the Gazelles/Fortune Sales Summit, Inbound14 and hundreds of other Conferences. 

Dave has written two books on selling, Mindless Selling and his best-selling book, Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball reached number three on Amazon.com in March of 2006. He also wrote the proprietary sales recruiting manual, STAR. He is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling, Sales Hacks, How to Improve Your Life Volume 2, and Stepping Stones along with Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy. 

Sales Leadership Intensive

Today, a company needs every possible efficiency, effort and effectiveness from its sales management and salespeople to get ahead and emerge at the forefront of its industry. Those companies that innovate are growing. This top-rated two-day program is jam-packed with sales management leadership training to help drive innovation, by showing sales leaders how to strategically grow sales.

Whether you have three salespeople or 3,000, an underachieving team or a sales force that performs...

LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

The Changing Trends in Sales

Selling has changed more in the past 5 years than in the past 50 years!  The rules have changed, access has changed, and certain sales roles and salespeople have become obsolete.  2 Million more salespeople will be obsolete by the year 2020.

In this fast-paced keynote, we explore all of the changes, good and bad, and the newest, most exciting best-practices of growing companies.  This session includes the latest in Social Selling, Sales Tools, Sales Automation,...
Business TrendsAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

Win More Business in Less Time!

With sales cycles getting longer and win rates getting smaller, this keynote helps participants learn the keys to shortening the sales cycle and increasing their win rates.  Focus is on a milestone-centric sales process and companion methodology, with listening and questioning skills at the forefront.

This is an intensive, but memorable and entertaining program that has immediate impact and long-term returns.
SalesAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Baseline Selling

Baseline Selling is based on the best-selling book of the same name.  It consists of a live, one-day kick-off, followed by 16 one-hour, live, interactive Webinars that take place over 8 months.

The goal of this program is to completely train a sales force to sell in modern times.  From finding new business to getting it closed, and managing existing accounts, Baseline Selling demonstrates through practical advice and role-play, exactly what each conversation with each...
SalesAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

STAR - How to Hire Sales Superstars

This is a one or two-day workshop-style program that helps Sales Leaders, HR and Inside Recruiters build and execute a sales specific World-Class Recruiting Process that consistently leads to hiring great salespeople.

This 12 Module program covers everything from impacting the size and quality of the candidate pool, to interviewing skills, to effective on boarding.

Included:

Specifying the Required Skills Experiences and Challenges
Writing the...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Value Selling in Modern Times

In this fast paced keynote, a brief history of selling value, a great opening video and the 4 keys to selling value lay the foundation for the changes that salespeople must make to sell value today.
SalesAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Keys to Sales Coaching

Most sales leaders don't coach ofen enough or effectively enough and that mostly because they don't understand what sales coaching must accomplish or how to get it done.

This fast-paced program explains and demonstrates the most important elements to become effective and impactful when coaching salespeople, including how to role-play, perform post-call debriefs, and conduct pre-call strategy sessions.
LeadershipEntertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificHumorous / Funny

The Keys to Selling Value

In this competitive world, nothing has become more important to preserving margins and maintaining customers than the ability to sell value.  Yet as important as that is, most salespeople either don't know how to accomplish this effectively and consistently, or they just aren't very good at it.

This program delves into the factors that affect value selling, the strategies that must be in place, and the competencies that salespeople must have in order to succeed at with of...
SalesEntertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificHumorous / Funny

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Using Science to Improve Sales Team Performance

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How Successful Companies are Selling Their Way to the Top

How to Create Your Own Boom

Solving Sales Selection and Performance Problems

5 integrated Methods...

SalesEntertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny