CHI Business Consultants
Our Senior Business Consultants have proven themselves in the trenches by owning their own successful companies and/or personally growing major divisions of other large companies and each has earned the privilege to then go on and consult with numerous other companies in creating and implementing effective business strategy. Each having consulted with between a few dozen and a few hundred clients, they understand the unique demands placed on the leadership of companies today and are both experienced and well trained to quickly identify new sales, marketing and business growth opportunities. So much more than your typical 'consultant,' our dynamic Breakthrough Consulting Division team members possess a knack for not only identifying opportunity but the willingness and commitment to roll up their sleeves and help you create and then implement the correct strategy and tactics so you are guaranteed to benefit from the insights they uncover.
We would like to introduce our world class team to you:
Chet Holmes - Founder
Chet Holmes is founder of the business growth and training firm Chet Holmes International. He is recognized as a top corporate trainer, strategic consultant, business growth expert, lecturer, author and filmmaker.
Chet Holmes began his career in the trenches as a sales person. "Like almost 100% of salespeople, I stumbled into it. I didn't even know if I'd be any good at it. And then when I was tripling my quota and other sales reps couldn't even hit theirs, I suspected I had found my place in the world."
Chet Holmes is author of the international best seller, "The Ultimate Sales Machine," which was positioned in the top one, two or three in sales management books sold on Amazon for two years as of this writing. It was published by Penguin Portfolio and has since been published in 12 languages, including Russian, French, Polish, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese.
As a writer, Chet Holmes sold a screenplay to Warner Brothers, where he received a three-contract deal as writer, producer and songwriter. In 2008, he was Executive Producer for the film, "In the Name Of the King," starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Claire Forlani, Matthew Lilliard, Leelee Sobieski and a total of 11 notable stars.
While Chet Holmes has had success in both publishing and film, he has spent the majority of his career as a corporate trainer. His clients include Estee Lauder, American Express, Wells Fargo Bank, NY Stock Exchange, NBC, Solomon Brothers, Citibank, and more than sixty Fortune 500 companies. Success Magazine says that "Chet Holmes breaks sales records wherever he goes." Industry Week rated Chet Holmes "one of the nation's top change experts." Chet Holmes has also appeared on Good Morning America, Good Morning NY, Midday Live with Bill Boggs, WPLJ, WNBC and more than thirty other radio programs.
From 1987 to 1991, Chet Holmes was the General Manager and then Associate Publisher of several different divisions of The Daily Journal Corporation, whose primary stock holder was Charles T. Munger. During his tenure with Mr. Munger, Chet Holmes was responsible for doubling the sales of nine different divisions reporting to him, including California Lawyer Magazine, which doubled its sales three years in a row and the San Francisco Daily Journal (a newspaper) which doubled its sales three years in a row and increased circulation 350% per year for two years in a row.
In 1991, Holmes formed the company that would become known as Chet Holmes International ("CHI"), a company that has created training products and services, all primarily designed to help companies be more effective at marketing, sales and management. CHI has published "Mega Marketing and Sales," "The Business Growth Masters Series" with Jay Abraham, "Guerrilla Meets Karate Master," with Guerilla Marketing author Jay Conrad Levinson and most recently completed, "The Ultimate Business Mastery System" with Tony Robbins.
Chet Holmes teaches companies how to double sales for their business in 12 months flat. He has developed a family of synergistic business growth systems that work together to achieve this for most any type of business.
A fifth degree black karate master (Chet studied and taught karate for 23 years), Chet says, "Becoming a master is not about doing 4000 different things, it's about doing 12 things, 4000 times each."
Born in the Bronx to a policeman father and a concert pianist mother, Chet Holmes was raised primary in and around New York City and upstate New York. He has raised two children, recording artist daughter, Amanda Holmes, and actor and writer son, Jordan Holmes. Holmes is currently working on his next book and running the 12 companies under the CHI umbrella.
Marty Sanders
As CEO of Business Breakthroughs International, Marty Sanders has a proven track record of leadership and sales excellence. While working for industry leading technology companies, Marty's sales teams have accumulated over 4 billion dollars in hardware, software, and service revenues. He is known for his top sales performance, starting in technical sales at Hewlett Packard where he was recognized as rookie of the year and achieved over 275% of quota performance 3 consecutive years. Marty's sales and leadership talents were then heavily recruited by Stratus Computer.
At Stratus, Marty exhibited fierce skills in prospecting techniques and new account acquisition strategies. His performance would typically exceed that of entire sales regions. Marty's processes for success quickly became part of the company's new hire training program. Highly regarded for his sales trainings, Marty was promptly promoted 3 times in 5 years eventually running the company's Western Division where he quickly grew the business 211% over the previous year.
Marty's energetic style of leadership and sharp knack for recruiting top talent led him to a career at EMC Corporation where a series of promotions culminated in his role as Vice President of the Telecom Media and Entertainment Division. In this role, he trained and developed "A" players and highly motivated, efficient sales and support teams. Leading one of EMC's largest divisions, he grew overall revenues by 217% and drove top line to over 3/4 of a billion dollars. In this capacity, Marty increased revenue per sales person by 45% and led all other EMC Divisions in terms of overall margin performance. At EMC, Marty demonstrated exceptional customer loyalty skills validated by superior customer satisfaction scores and 98% repeat business performance. Marty served as the Executive Sponsor in owning the customer experience and relationships with many of EMC's largest global accounts including Verizon, ATT, Viacom, and the Disney Corporation.
Marty used his entrepreneurial talent to become Co-Founder and Principal of Secured Private Capital of Arizona (SPC). In just its first 6 months, the SPC Loan Fund One grew to over 65 investors, making SPC one of the fastest growing private lenders in the state.
Now, as CEO and one of the top Consultants in Chet Holmes' Business Breakthroughs International, Marty is lending his expertise to help CEO's of companies large and small to synergize their team strategies and grow their sales to double or even triple their current revenues. Marty has a proven natural ability to quickly mobilize and create skilled sales teams.
Marty is a noted expert in the following core skills:
- Expert in prospecting techniques and new account acquisition strategies
- Master strategist in customer experience and client relationship management
- Skilled in hiring superstar talent
- Experienced keynote speaker on sales and leadership
Stephanie Vaughan
Stephanie Vaughan serves as VP of the Breakthrough Consulting Division here at BBI for both Anthony Robbins and Chet Holmes. In partnership with CEO, Marty Sanders, Stephanie's role is to create an un-stoppable team of consultants that will engage the needs of larger businesses to explode their growth and increase their profits.
Stephanie Vaughan also serves as President of Business Mastery Coaching for BBI. Through Stephanie's direction the number of certified coaches has grown 15 times over and revenues have grown by more than 4000% and she is just getting started. As a business coach, Stephanie has successfully coached hundreds of companies in countless industries with a sole focus on achieving results from doubling revenues, successful integrations of Core Story, to step by step plays on implementing powerful marketing compaigns using Chet's and Tony's methods. As President of Coaching, Stephanie's mission is to seek out, manage and further develop already top talented; business minded, skilled and highly experienced coaches to help clients succeed and achieve their goals utilizing tested and proven concepts that teach businesses how to explode their revenue and increase their profits. Stephanie's mission in coaching is to create RAVING FANS of our team, our company and our proven concepts by generating dramatic results with our clients.
Stephanie is accomplished in sales and sales training. As a trainer, Stephanie served as a strategic player in helping to develop world class sales organizations on a global level for a variety of companies. She has developed, managed and facilitated sales programs for the internal sales and partner organizations for technology companies including EMC, Legato Systems, Aspect Communications, and many others. In addition to sales training Stephanie was a top producer in her 11 year sales career with companies such as AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Estee Lauder, and several other technology companies. She was a top producer in all her sales positions, consistently achieving over 400% of her quota.
Stephanie's additional passion and focus right now is to work with Chet and Tony to create programs exclusively targeted to help women-owned businsses succeed. Women-owned businesses have surpassed the number of men-owned businesses and there is a great opportunity to further assist and develop these entreprenuers. In addition,
Stephanie serves as a Certified Master Coach through the prestigious Behavioral Coaching Institute, is a Certified Presentation Skills trainer and Training Generalist through Langevin. Stephanie is an ardent learner and frequently attends seminars, reads business books, and consistnely emerses herself training programs to further develop her skills so she can offer the best to her colleagues, clients and the market.
Scott deMoulin
One of the top sales, performance, speaking and communication trainers in the country, Scott deMoulin has run an international consulting and seminar business since 1989. A highly respected consultant, keynote speaker and trainer in both personal and business growth, Scott has attained remarkable success and a substantial following because of his masterful ability to simplify information, making it understandable and accessible to virtually anyone.
Consistently a top-rated speaker and audience favorite for over 25 years, Scott has consulted for and trained more than 375 companies and hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
In the early 90's Scott owned and operated the top producing Sales and Training Franchise for Anthony Robbins and Associates where he personally facilitated hundreds of multi-week sales and communications trainings for individuals from over 1000 companies. He also trained and consulted for dozens of companies during that time.
Scott has consulted for companies ranging in size from start-ups to multi billion dollar organizations including hotel Casino giant Harrah's Entertainment. Scott was brought in to lead the training efforts with managers when Harrah's was merging with or acquiring other hotel/casino's, opening new or re-opening existing properties, dealing with Union issues and to improve the customer service scores at their numerous properties.
Scott spent five years serving on the panel of experts for well-known marketing Wizard Jay Abraham, facilitating events for Entrepreneurs and companies in both North America and Europe. Scott excels at creating successful marketing campaigns and has a very rare talent for creating powerful and highly effective copy for ads, letters, brochures, websites and other external communications.
Scott is the person that both executives and top professional speakers turn to when they are looking to become more persuasive and effective from the stage and to grow the success of their speaking and platform skills. He is an expert in facilitating media training for those who find themselves in the celebrity spotlight or wish to become a more effective communicator especially if their job requires them to do radio, TV or other media interviews.
Even other large consulting companies have looked to Scott deMoulin for guidance and training. Both Accenture and KPMG Consulting have hired Scott to facilitate large and multi-day trainings for both their consultants and Partners.
Scott has also served as a key member on the upper management teams of start-ups and Franchise companies, including the meteoric rise of an Internet start-up virtual tour technology company. Serving as VP of Sales and Training and one of the original two dozen employees, his responsibilities included the training and managing of the 250 newly hired sales staff, which allowed the company to achieve a Market Cap over $1 Billion and helped take them public within 18 months. Scott then led the team in merging that company's sales force with its biggest competitor.
His experiences in both college and professional sports sparked his passion for teaching others the power of protecting your reputation or brand, building a dynamic corporate culture, commitment to common values and goals, dealing with confrontation, conflict resolution and decision-making, and ignited his lifelong dedication to contributing to the overall health, success and well-being of others.
Scott is a member of the exclusive Transformational Leadership Council which is made up of the top speakers, authors and training companies in the world and is the Founder of Destiny Training Systems, which has provided business coaching, mentoring, and consulting to executives of small to large companies, for the past 20 years. A few notable clients include: Paramount Pictures, Pioneer Electronics, Harrah's Entertainment, Accenture, KPMG Consulting, Nautica Sportswear, Davis Ball & Collombatto Advertising, Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, Health Net, Baxter Health, YPO and Chevron Oil.
Scott currently oversees the efforts of the Business Breakthroughs International Consulting Division and is committed to assisting his clients in achieving exponential business growth. He is now most interested in working with, and consulting for, conscious and green companies.
Gene McNaughton
Regarded as one of the Nation's most effective Business Growth Experts, Gene McNaughton has spent more than 20 years generating top results for Fortune 500 Companies. Gene has a proven and verifiable track record for accomplishing challenging goals using creative, team-oriented problem-solving skills and maintains a strong commitment to business objectives. Gene's history of leadership and achievement has made him an accomplished public speaker and presenter.
Track record of success:
- Recruiting superstar sales and management professionals
- Interviewing for success
- Strategic Sales process creation
- Organizing effective training teams
- Sales training strategies (Consultative Selling)
- Major Account Penetration Strategy
- Metric creation, dashboard creation, and metric analytics
- Writing copy for:
- Websites
- Marketing Collateral
- Radio
- Television
- Executive Leadership Coaching
- P&L Management at Executive Levels
Gene's 20-year experience includes spending over a decade at Gateway Computers, working alongside Ted Waitt, the Founder and CEO. His expertise in sales growth, leadership, management, training, coaching, and development of both Sales & Support personnel has lead him to successes in implementing strategies for organizations ranging from $2 million/year to $2.5 billion/year.
Gene McNaughton has taken his award-winning sales leadership strategies to a distinct level as he lead the Global Sales force as Vice President for the Anthony Robbins Companies, shattering sales records for over three consistent years. Gene was privileged to become one of the few "opening act" speakers for Tony Robbins' cornerstone event, "Unleash the Power Within."
His powerful and energetic presentations are revered by tens of thousands of people as he is able to cut through and simplify the psychology of success in a process that's meaningful and fun. Gene's documented track record of success, combined with his infectious confidence makes him a proven winner.
Andy Miller
Andy Miller is recognized as one of the top 15 sales management consultants in the world. He has worked with over 2000 CEO's - Sales VP's, 14,000 salespeople and 16 of the Fortune 500. His clients include high tech companies, manufacturers, financial services, entrepreneurs and venture capitalist throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. He has been featured on CNN and in Newsweek, Sales and Marketing Management, Selling Power, Success, Your Company, Human Resource Executive and Learning Executive Magazines. He has been on stage with speaking greats Jay Abraham, Denis Waitley, Brian Tracy, John Assaraf, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert Allen, Zig Zigler and Chet Holmes.
He sits on the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) Sales Competency Advisory Panel and previously sat on the advisory board to Objective Management Group, Sandler Systems and The United Professional Sales Association (UPSA). Andy has spent 10 years as a member of CEO Club and Entrepreneur Organization (formally YEO).
Andy has been through over 75 different training programs. In addition to having attended most the commonly known sales training programs, Andy has read over 500 books on sales process, sales strategy, technique, psychology, personality types and cold calling to name a few. Before establishing Andy Miller International, Inc. he started a software company in The Netherlands where he opened 12 offices throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. In three years he grew the company from zero to $24 million before selling it to venture capitalist.
Doug Brown
Doug Brown has built over 30 businesses in his lifetime, creating unique and diverse learning experiences. He has spent most of his life in entrepreneurial ventures, starting at age three in his father's electrical contracting and motor repair business. From fifth grade on he applied and qualified for work study through his school to attend school for half the day and for the remainder continue to gain added knowledge in his father's company. Doug would go on to create and build his own businesses, including a landscaping company, an entertainment business, an auto body company, a Christmas tree retailing company, a fishing and lobster wholesale and retail business, a high fashion retail shoe store, a multilevel marketing organization, a real estate investment firm, a management corporation, a telecommunications auditing and consulting company, a telecom agency and a dry cleaning venture, just to name a few.
During his life Doug also was employed by multibillion dollar companies and earned Top Sales Professional Awards for his sales performances.
Doug has worked in his own consulting and coaching businesses with small mom and pop organizations to large Fortune 500 companies. Some of the clients he has worked with include, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, CBS Television, Intuit, and Proctor and Gamble. Doug has always been interested in guiding and supporting others.
Never one to shy away from a challenge, Doug has utilized every experience whether a success or failure as a stepping stone to bigger and better endeavors.
Doug has worked on himself and worked on serving others.
Doug possesses two college degrees (one with an emphasis in business, biology and music, and one in Nuclear Medicine). Doug served eleven years in the military reserves including during the Gulf War.
His studies include business studies, sales, Neuro Linguistic Programming, copywriting, online and offline lead generation, and he is certified as a Guerrilla Marketer and as a Business Breakthroughs International Coach. In addition, he has studied and mentored with some of the top business coaches in the world.
Lou Andruzzi
A highly successful and accomplished business executive whose expertise includes 25 years of multi-unit management at the District, Regional & Divisional levels with some of the largest companies in the world including The Home Depot, Lowe's Home Improvement and Sears Holdings Corporation as well as General Cinema and Cinema National. Lou's personal responsibility has included the leadership of more than 200 locations with sales approaching $1 billion.
With a proven track record of growing sales & profits, reducing employee turn-over and developing top leaders, Lou is an expert in all phases of operations including: sales, inventory control, marketing, loss prevention, safety, recruiting, hiring, training, budgeting process, forecasting, profit & loss analysis, warehouse operations, product purchasing & merchandising. Lou is also experienced in new market growth and expansion including new project construction and development, staffing, training, marketing and merchandising new locations to open on time and budget.
As President of the Retail Breakthrough Division for Business Breakthroughs International, Lou is a highly trained BBI expert and CEO Coach & Consultant. Lou has a proven history of helping CEO's of small and large companies grow and develop their leadership abilities. Lou has mentored company executives on the successful implementation of Chet's ultimate sales growth strategies including Dream 100 campaigns, Core Story, Best Neighborhood Strategy, Seven Musts of Marketing, Superstar Hiring, time management, radio, print & television ad copy, sales scripts and many more.
Lou is a professional public speaker and trainer.
Lou is also a licensed Real Estate Broker with experience is sales techniques, listing & buyer presentations, marketing and negotiations.
Lou has more than a decade of experience giving back to communities while working with Habitat for Humanity. Building homes and coordinating community events, he has worked with many elected officials including state and local officials, members of the U.S. Congress, Governors and a former President of the United States.
Lou is an experienced aviator who flies for the United States Civil Air Patrol as well as Angel Flight of America.
Neal Tricarico
Neal is an accomplished and highly successful business growth expert offers his proven and verifiable track record of growing businesses in the areas of sales, profits, marketing, sales leadership, recruiting, hiring and training.
Neal's broad range of business successes includes his experience as Director of Sales for Deepak Chopra's Center for Wellbeing, where he broke every sales record possible. He was responsible for a 900% increase in sales and more than quadrupled attendance at the live events. He excelled in the development of sales and in managing, training and coaching sales personnel, increasing the average revenue per sales rep by 26%. Neal also became an accomplished speaker, presenter and closer from stage, as well as a Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor.
As Senior Vice President of the Breakthrough Consulting Division for Business Breakthroughs International, Neal is a highly trained BBI expert and Consultant. Neal has a proven history of helping small and large companies grow and develop through the implementation of Chet's ultimate sales growth strategies. These successful strategies include Dream 100 campaigns, Core Story, Seven Musts of Marketing, Superstar Hiring, time management, sales systems and scripts and many more.
Neal also holds a license as a Real Estate Broker, with experience arranging and structuring investment deals, real estate projects, financing, capital structuring, and property acquisitions and sales for investors. He raised $1 million in equity in ten weeks for a new construction project in Hollywood, among other successful deals.
Neal's success in consulting and selling spans the industries of personal growth, wellness, software, technology, manufacturing, real estate and online. He continues to raise the bar on all his endeavors.
Pandora Pang
For over two decades, Pandora has helped thousands of business leaders in hundreds of industries with a plethora of enterprise models in attaining successful strategic turnarounds and accelerated business growth. Sparked by her childhood dream of helping her entrepreneurial father grow his business smarter, faster and easier, Pandora started her business career to fulfill her life-long passion of maximizing the potential of people and businesses and their contributions to each other.
She was known for her "1,000 in 3" repeated track record, realizing return on direct invested capital 1,000% (ten times) in three years. Notable success corporate turnaround and growth stories include the Telemundo Group, Vail Associates, WebMD Corporation, Bally's Manufacturing and its then subsidiary Life Fitness, and United International Holdings.
Skilled in alliance and consensus building with a keen eye for undervalued business and people assets, Pandora is an expert in putting companies on a high growth path by realizing values in non-performing assets, finding hidden assets and leveraging performing assets into new arenas. She focuses on sustainable business growth, lending resources and balancing the need for revenue and profits gain at all times.
Pandora has been a co-owner of a national distribution company with her husband in the high-end audio components industry during the last decade, helping music-lovers maximize their enjoyment of live music performances in the comfort of their homes. Pandora holds an MBA from University of Southern California and received her Bachelors in Business Administration from University of Wisconsin, Madison. She holds a Fellow Associate standing in a renowned international accreditation body for business advisors and coaches worldwide and is a Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach.
Pandora is a life-time learner and has studied under some of the top business trainers and coaches in the world. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Pandora speaks and writes fluent Cantonese and Mandarin.
Joe Roth
Joe Roth has spent almost 30 years as both a corporate sales, marketing, and management executive with Fortune 50 companies as well as a serial entrepreneur having started, developed, and divested numerous companies during this time span. He has personally hired, trained, and promoted hundreds of sales and management personnel over the years and has a keen ability to recognize and leverage talent at all levels of an organization.
Most recently he was Chief Operating Officer of ShopBox, LLC a business process outsourcing company that specialized in the execution of web-based kiosk marketing strategies. He was responsible for securing partnership deals with NASCAR, NFL, NHL, and NBA leagues, teams, and franchises.
From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Roth was President of CMB Franchising, Inc., a licensed Area Developer of Extreme Pita Restaurants of Canada for Arizona and Nevada. During this time he oversaw the construction, development and operations of nine stores generating a 25% increase over the second highest volume franchise in the US. The territory was sold to the franchisor in 2006.
Previously Mr. Roth was Managing Partner of Cypress Staffing Services, LLC, a company he founded in 1999 that provides private duty home care throughout Central Arizona. Cypress grew from scratch to become the largest company in Arizona within its industry category in less than four years.
Prior to this he held various executive positions with Pepsico, Inc. (NYSE: PEP), both domestically and internationally. He started his career there as a National Account Manager. Then at the age of 25 he became responsible for three separate business P&Ls generating a total of $12MM in revenue.
Later Mr. Roth became Director of Sales Training for North America overseeing the design, development, and delivery of all new and existing sales related training programs for approximately 25,000 personnel. His staff of twelve trainers facilitated over 600 direct week long sessions annually and another 2,500 indirect sessions annually by way of conducting geographically strategic train-the-trainer programs.
Mr. Roth was then asked to head overseas to development the company's on premise segment, which included fountain and vending businesses in the emerging markets of the Middle East, Western Asia, and Eastern Europe. Some of his numerous achievements include delivering a 12% market share and $100MM in revenues after Pepsi Israel's first year in business, a company record at the time. Also of note was spearheading a 20% gain in both revenue and profit after year two of a startup joint venture in Turkey.
Mr. Roth started his career in sales with Carnation Company. He was promoted to positions of increasing responsibility after Nestle purchased the company in 1984. His last position with Nestle was as sales manager for the food service division territories of Florida and S. Georgia and overseeing a dozen territory managers.
Marty Rowland
Marty Rowland has achieved great success leading high performance organizations within Fortune 500 Companies as well as highly successful startups.
As a Vice President of Sales, Marty drove significant revenue growth at two separate Medical Companies eventually bringing both to profitability and the IPO market. Marty has been recognized for his role in running sales for the fastest growing company in the United States for 2 consecutive years. Continuing success in those roles led to both companies being acquired by Fortune 500 companies, bringing significant financial reward to his team and his investors.
Marty also has served as Vice President of Sales for a software development company specializing in Financial and Medical markets. In this position Marty more than doubled the profitability of all of the company's core divisions. Working with their numerous Fortune 500 companies and startup clients, Marty was successful in compressing sales cycles and accelerating time to revenue. Marty orchestrated the development of their new products and helped his clients get to market sooner to maximize their profit potential.
Marty is also involved with consulting and Executive Development Seminars. In this position Marty has developed clients with more than 400 of the top Fortune 500 firms.
Brian Moses
Brian Moses, has operated, built, bought and sold companies and having spent his illustrious career as an independent business owner, professional speaker, coach and sales consultant, Brian's main focus and responsibility has been to deliver amazing, tangible and measureable, life-changing results for those who have been fortunate enough to work with him.
Brian's has been ranked in the Top 10 of a 140,000-person global sales force seven consecutive years. During his tenure, he averaged more than $120 mm in sales annually, with revenues of more than $3.5 mm per annum.
He then moved on and played a vital role in driving sales for Craig Proctor Productions, one of the top real estate coaching and consulting companies in the world.
Working directly with Proctor, he helped build, develop and grow a fledgling group of coaching clients into a client base of more than 35,000 people from across the United States and Canada. There, Brian created training content, curriculum and delivered sales, marketing and motivational training to groups ranging from 20 to 3,500 people.
In addition to increasing annual sales by tens of millions of dollars over the same period, Brian aided and consulted with more than 5,000 sales associates -- achieving astonishing results for his clients by more than doubling sales for most and common increases of 5, 10, 20 and 30 multiples for many. Brian's clients include several of the world's most skilled and successful Realtors among all Brands.
During his diverse business career, Brian has been personally coached by Anthony Robbins and has consulted one on one with Stephen Covey, Zig Ziglar, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, Barbara De'Angelis', Pat Riley, Brian Tracy, Michael Gerber and Mike Ditka.
His well-developed background in the real estate industry includes work and collaboration with many industry heavyweights including Craig Proctor, Dan Kennedy, Mike Ferry, Howard Brinton, David Knox, Dave Liniger, Gary Keller, Alex Perriello and Alan Dalton.
The sum of such experiences has developed Brian's core strengths in sales, marketing and management and he is able to channel these skills into immediate results for you and your organization.
Results oriented, and with a commitment to being "coachable" himself, Brian is an expert that can bring guidance and direction to help your organization achieve results in many areas including:
- Establishing Your Vision For Massive Success
- Creating And Implementing A Results-Oriented Business Plan
- Building And Growing Your Brand For Maximum Awareness
- Strategic Marketing To Continually Outpace Your Competition
- Dramatically Improve Sales by Mastering Prospecting And Lead Conversion Skills
- Creating Transcendental Leadership Within Your Organization
- Implementing and Cultivating Multiple Streams Of Income
- Leveraging Affiliate Relationships For Exponential Growth
- Increasing Sales Though Client Management And Retention
- Improving Sales Through Solid Team Building And Management
- Conducting Meetings For Increased Revenues and Profit
Prior to joining Chet Holmes and BBI, Brian traveled to 44 different states and through all 10 provinces in Canada and conducted more than 500 half-day coaching, consulting and sales seminars with the sales associates in those areas.
Brian's impact as a leader, business expert, and business consultant will be felt immediately within your organization and you'll be able to operate confidently knowing that you have a committed veteran and professional working with you to help you reach and exceed all your business goals.
John Costigan
Highly recognized for his sales training and motivational speaking, John Costigan brings his talent and experience in working with some of the most respected global companies to the consulting team at Business Breakthrough International. As President and Founder of John Costigan Companies, John conducts motivational speeches and "LIVE" sales training classes around the world for a list of clients that reads like a 'who's who' in the corporate world; Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Daiichi Sankyo, Lenovo, SAS Software, Experian, Tommy Hilfiger, IBM, The NHL, and over 50 Colleges and Professional Sports teams.
John started the company with a strong belief that training is most effective when performed "LIVE," with real phone calls into real prospects handling real objections in front of a real audience. The results produced have been staggering:
- Trained over 30,000 people
- 2010 Recipient of The Top 25 Most Influential Sales Professionals awarded by The American Association of Sales Professionals
- Closed 51 deals, $2.9M in 9 hours in his Deal Maker Cafe Live Closing Class
- Has Sold Over 10,000 CDs and DVD on Cold Calling and Prospecting
In addition to sales training, John is also a motivational speaker. His performances span the globe from Boston to Bangalore and everywhere in between. His speech, "The Top 5 Things Successful People Do" is more than just educational; it's living proof of what you can do if you have a plan and a process while eliminating the fears and excuses that hinder all of us. Audiences have taken his techniques and have posted success stories of weight loss, better relationships, finding financial freedom, even becoming a better parent.
Being one of six children and losing his father at the age of 9, he learned that nothing can replace hard work, persistence and believing in yourself. He channeled his passion through basketball by not only walking on without a scholarship to a major Division I Basketball Program, but continued his success at the professional level by playing 2 years in Europe in the mid 80's. He now resides in Raleigh/Durham NC where he supports a variety of charities, is the Title Sponsor for Toys to Tots and still prays nightly for a Cubs Championship.
Donald Griffith
Mr. Griffith is a National Speaker, Author and Coach who teaches small businesses simple ways to increase their business by 50% in less than 90 days by employing strategies that Include, JV's, up sells and down sells, back-end products, affiliate sales, continuity programs, "guru-style" coaching, PR and social networking. He also teaches amazing strategies for getting on the first page of Google organically.
Mr. Griffith has the rare background of small business development and Fortune 50 Experience. In his over 25 years of Business experience in the Areas of Sales, Marketing, Technology, Business Development and at the Corporate Level. Mr. Griffith spent over 15 years in the Telecommunications business at the Executive Level with companies such as GTE CC, Verizon, Bell Atlantic, Source Services, XO Communication and World Colours Network. Throughout his 15 year career in Telecommunications he was responsible for millions in Data communications sales to companies such as Nortel, S&P, AOL, Oracle Software and during that 15 years exceeded his quota on average by 257%. With GTE he was responsible for growing the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier over 546% in one year.
Mr. Griffith has worked extensively in the area Applicant Selection, Employee Development, Employee Performance Enhancement with Winslow Research Institute who's customer list includes: Major League Baseball, National Basketball, and 18 US Olympic teams. Mr. Griffith has been on the Council of Governors Member of Gerson Lerman for over 5 years as a resource to investors.
Mr. Griffith is published authority in the areas of Direct Sales, Internet Sales, Social Media, Real Estate Investing, Mortgage Lending and CPA Networks. Using CPA networks he has developed target marketing lists of customers of over 100,000 in 6 weeks. He has been personally involved with over 1000 Real Estate transactions, he has written over 100 published Articles and two Books - “How to Hire and Retain the right Employees” and “The Fastest Way to 10K (Per Month)”. He has sold thousands of copies of his Article Marketing guide teaching people how to attract business on the internet through Articles, Viral Videos and Press Releases.
Miguel de Jesus
Miguel is a highly accomplished, results-oriented senior-level leader with more than 20 years experience overseeing business management, global sales/marketing, with two Fortune 500 companies.
He has successfully lead a sales organization, as an Area Vice President, of 500 sales representatives, 65 District Sales Managers and 6 senior level Regional Sales Managers for a Fortune 500, with a new business revenue responsibility of $90 to $100M in annualized revenue. His career has included sales leadership, operations management leadership, and executive level responsibility.
He is a visionary leader with outstanding ability to develop, inspire and oversee employees to exceed corporate objectives and perform at their highest levels. He has demonstrated acute analytical skills and business acumen utilized to identify new market opportunities, and he has successfully launched new products and direct marketing campaigns that have significantly impacted profitability.
Miguel is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) - an ICF accredited program from the College of Executive Coaching, an MBA business consultant and Executive coach, dedicated to helping others achieve greater traction in the direction of their dreams. He is a graduate /alumni of the following programs:
1. Karrass Effective Negotiating Seminar.
2. Joel Roberts Excellence in media Workshop.
3. Jay Abraham Cash Machine Profit Acceleration Summit and Power Partnering Super Summit.
4. Center for Creative Leadership: The Looking Glass Experience.
5. Brendon Burchard's Experts Academy, Nonprofit & Corporate Partnership Seminar and High Performance Academy.
6. Keith Cunningham's Business Mentoring, Business Mastery and How To Buy and Sell a Business Workshops.
7. He has a Certified Entrepreneur Graduate Certificate, CEO Space. This was a 60-hour residency of advanced MBA level study which included business planning, capital acquisition, team building, branding, packaging, and marketing.
8. Tony Robbins: Date With Destiny.
9. Miller Heiman: Strategic Selling.
10. THarv Eker: Peak Potentials Programs: Wizard and Warrior Camp, Guerrilla Business School, Life Directions, Extreme Wealth, Train-the-Trainer, Wealth & Wisdom.
11. SPIN Selling: Neil Rackham.
Workforce Engagement, Business Development and Organizational Change Management are a few of his specialties, and he is an active, high energy and engaging contributor to any individual or organization.
"What a privilege to be trained and mentored by Miguel de Jesus! After 8 1/2 years in my profession and position, I still consider Miguel to have had the greatest impact on my career development. I continue to find myself following practices and strategies that I learned from him. Miguel is the type of selfless leader that truly receives satisfaction from watching those he manages succeed. He is passionate and dedicated to other's growth and success. Miguel has a unique ability to not only motivate and inspire, but most importantly...drive people to reach their highest potential!" - Michelle Christensen, Sales Representative, Paychex Inc reported to Miguel at Paychex
"Miguel's business and management knowledge is incredible! When you combine this knowledge with his experience and integrity, you have an extremely competent leader who actually cares about the people he works with. Most anyone who has had the fortunate opportunity to work with Miguel, will talk of his work ethic, his integrity, his credibility and his continuous effort to improve himself and those around him. But the most important thing they will tell you about, is the difference Miguel has made in their lives. If you are a business owner/CEO or entrepreneur seeking advice on business planning, finances, processes, employee hiring, management, or sales training; talk to Miguel. You too will become a "Raving Fan"! He is the best!" - Mark T. Ealy, CFP, CPA, Certified Financial Planner, Wealth Management Group worked directly with Miguel at Paychex