About Scott Schwefel, CSP

A natural leader and entrepreneur, by age 30 Scott Schwefel founded what became Minnesota's largest technology training company, Benchmark Computer Learning, and then sold his stake in that company for more than a million dollars in 2003. His company was named one of the 50 fastest growing private companies in Minnesota in 1997 and 1998, and he was named in Minnesota's 40 under 40 list of successful top executives in the year 2001. Scott learned how to foster more effective communication strategies to grow his sales, build his leaders, and create high performance teams.

Scott then founded Insights Twin Cities in 2003, representing Scotland-based Insights Learning & Development, to teach and train CEOs and Senior Executives how to better communicate, lead, and sell, using the Insights concept of four color energies, a tool based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung. He sold this business to the parent company in Scotland in 2014, again for more than a million dollars.

Today Scott travels the world teaching people how to leverage heightened self-awareness and new communication strategies to increase sales, team effectiveness and aligned leadership. Scott has spoken to over 1000 companies, published multiple books, and is a top rated speaker for Vistage, the largest membership organization of CEOs in the world. Scott is an expert in Communication, Performance Improvement, Personal Development Business Growth, and Profitability.

More about Scott:

• Scott's Tedx talk, Your Personality and Your Brain, has over two million views on YouTube
• Scott is featured in the book The World's Greatest Speakers, along with Brian Tracy and Suzie Orman
• Scott lived remotely with the Hadza and Maasai tribes in Tanzania, Africa

Testimonials

"Want a WOW experience? Find a way to be in the same room with Scott Schwefel. His knowledge of the subject is deep. His commitment to a top-shelf outcome from the client never falters. He's a ninja at reading the room and adapting to the unforeseen. I always come away stretched and inspired and smiling."
-Joan McIntosh

"Scott has that rare quality sometimes referred to as 'presence' and sometimes as 'the it factor'... Whatever you call it – Scott has the ability to command a room whether he is doing it from the stage as a keynote speaker, or whether he is doing it by just talking one on one with people."
-Brad Nauman, Mayor, City of Buffalo, MN

Scotts clients include: 3M, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, General Mills, Indeed, Eaton, Accenture, University of Minnesota, Gates Corporation, Microsoft, Oracle, Philips, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Bayer, Mylan, St Jude Medical, Honeywell, Energizer, Jackson National, American Family Insurance, Ameriprise, Allianz Life, Merrill, UBS, Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Cargill, Best Buy, Department of Defense, Maui Jim, Coty Beauty, Ecolab, Vistage, Transamerica, Wolters Kluwer, Tylenol, Lifetime Fitness, Equifax, EPA, US Bank, Whirlpool, Trane, Fannie Mae, Target, Johnson Controls, Morgan Stanley, Abbott Labs, Kohler, Eli Lilly, Caribou Coffee, Carlson Companies, Marsh & McLennan, Thrivent Financial, Novell, Allergan, Oakley, and hundreds of others. Is your company next?