CanDoGo Experts

CanDoGo offers you advice from more than 150 experts in the fields of Sales, Personal Development and Motivation.

Founding Experts

Zig Ziglar

As a motivational teacher, author and trainer, Ziglar is rated by his peers -- as well as audiences everywhere -- as one of the best and most versatile ever. He travels the world over, delivering his messages of humor, hope and enthusiasm to audiences of all kinds and sizes.
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Tom Hopkins

Hopkins is recognized as the world's leading authority on selling techniques and salesmanship. He conducts 75 seminars a year in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, China and the Philippines. Hopkins is the author of 14 books, including the mega-selling How to Master the Art of Selling.
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Dr. Denis Waitley

Dr. Waitley is one of America's most respected authors, keynote lecturers and productivity consultants on high-performance human achievement. Over 25 years Waitley has sold more than 10 million audio programs in 14 languages and is one of the most listened to voices on personal and career success.
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Tony Parinello

In 1995, Parinello started a revolution. He created his own brand of sales training called Selling to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer). Today, the majority of Fortune 100 and over 2 million sales people in more than 30 countries create bigger deals in less time using his programs.
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Dr. Tony Alessandra

Alessandra helps companies build customers, relationships and the bottom-line. He is featured in more than 50 audio/video programs and films, has published 14 books that have been translated into 17 foreign languages and he originated the internally recognized behavioral style assessment tool The Platinum Rule.
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Tony Jeary

When many of America's top executives seek a strategic communications expert, they head to Jeary, Strategic Facilitator. Author of his signature book Life is a Series of Presentations, Jeary has invested his life and career in helping others discover new clarity for their vision and create powerful strategies.
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Andrea Sittig-Rolf

Sittig-Rolf helps sales organizations inspire change, maximize sales and increase bottom-line results. The author of three compelling sales books, she also developed and presents The Blitz Experience®, an activity-based training program that helps salespeople hone their telephone prospecting and appointment-setting skills.
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Dr. Maryann Rosenthal

Dr. Rosenthal is an author and international speaker on family dynamics and life achievement issues. A highly-regarded clinical psychologist, she is a much sought-after keynote speaker and seminar leader on how to instill self-discipline and self-leadership skills in adults, adolescents, and young children.
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Brian Tracy

Tracy, one of America's leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness, is promoted by Nightingale-Conant. Nightingale-Conant is the world's largest producer and publisher of personal development products and services.
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Neil Rackham

Rackham is a behavioral psychologist whos groundbreaking research inspired anumber of selling models and frameworks, including SPIN Selling®. He is the founder of Huthwaite, Inc., a sales performance firm that combines scientifically correlated solutions with improved business outcomes.
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Chris Lytle

Lytle's easy-to-apply, money-generating, career-building strategies are being used by salespeople and sales managers in 36 countries. His proven strategies over the past 25 years have made him an internationally recognized expert in the area of sales and sales management.
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Michael Nick

Nick is president and founder of ROI4Sales, Inc. and author of ROI Selling, Why Johnny Can't Sell, and How to Create the Perfect ROI. He is a nationally recognized expert in value estimation and ROI and conducts several public workshops and seminars throughout the year.
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Keith Rosen

Rosen is the executive sales coach whom top managers, sales professionals and executives in many of the world's leading companies call first. A prominent, engaging speaker, Master Coach and well-known author of many books and articles, Rosen is a foremost authority on assisting people in achieving positive, measurable change.
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Charles Brennan

A premier trainers and the author of AMA's best-selling book Sales Questions that Close the Sale and the award-winning Proactive Customer Service, Brennan blends innovative skills and real-world application in his presentations. His concepts are the primary training format for many Fortune 500 to mid-sized compani
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Bryan Flanagan

The president of Flanagan Training Group, Flanagan for 20 years was Director of Corporate Training for the Zig Ziglar Corp. Serving clients ranging from Fortune 500 accounts to direct sales organizations to pharmaceutical companies, he has shared the platform with Zig Ziglar, Rudy Guliani, Jerry Lewis and Steve Forbes.
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Dr. Lee J. Colan

Lee J. Colan, Ph.D. is a leadership advisor and an energizing speaker. Colan has written nine rapid-read books designed for an information-rich, time-poor world. Virtually every Fortune 500 company, in addition to many smaller companies, has experienced the positive impact of his practical approach.
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Krish Dhanam

Krish Dhanam epitomizes the American Dream. A native of India, he arrived in the United States with $9 in his pocket and a vision of promise in his heart. One of only two executive coaches personally trained by Zig Ziglar, he has delivered his message of hope, humor and balance in over 40 international venues and in the U.S.
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Bob Kantin

Bob Kantin is a founder and principal of SalesProposals.com, which specializes in the design, development, and integration of custom proposal models into a consultative sales process. His latest book, Sales Professional's Guide to Writing Winning Proposals, was released in October 2007.
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Dr. Rick Kirschner

Dr. Kirschner is author or coauthor of numerous books, audio and video programs, including the audio/video bestseller, How to Deal with Difficult People, the books Life by Design, Dealing With People You Can't Stand, and, most recently, Love Thy Customer.
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David Reed

Reed is the author of an easy-read customer service book titled Monday Morning Customer Service. By working with leadership teams and teaching simple processes, he helps organizations create and implement common-sense solutions to their problems.
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Featured Experts

Jim Cathcart

Cathcart is the man who popularized the concept of Relationship Selling -- in fact, he wrote the first and the most successful book on the subject. Relationship Selling, originally written in 1985, has been audio- recorded, video-recorded, rewritten, translated, and published around the world.
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Jay Abraham

Marketing expert Abraham is an author promoted by Nightingale-Conant, the world's largest producer and publisher of personal development products and services. For over 45 years, it has been bringing people the information, skills, and motivation they need to create the life of their drek. ams.

Ardath Albee

What inspires Albee is helping companies get the results they dreamed about when they implemented marketing automation and CRM systems in the first place. Her focus is on connecting the process and the people, but it's also on the content.
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Joanne Black

With over 30 years of sales training and consulting experience, Black's philosophy is that no one should ever have to make a cold call. In 1996, she developed the No More Cold Calling concept -- that building relationships and getting referrals generates sales faster and more cost-effectively than cold-calling.
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Tom Black

Black is the author of The Boxcar Millionaire,, his proven system of sales success. His story is the classic "rags to riches" tale, a narrative that symbolizes the American Dream -- one that brings truth to the clichÃ© what you can dream you can achieve.
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Jeb Blount

Blount is CEO of The Sales Leadership Group, author of PowerPrinciples, the creator of the popular internet sales community, SalesGravy.com and the host of the No. 1- ranked Sales Podcast in the world. He is considered one of the leading experts in sales and sales leadership.
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Leslie Buterin

Please join Buterin for a moment in picturing a world of commerce where sales professionals consistently present their quality products and services to high-level decision-makers as a regular course of doing business, not a matter of chance.
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Billy Cox

Billy Cox is an internationally recognized business leader, inspirational speaker, author, and high performance coach who has dedicated his adult life to helping others achieve their dreams and goals.
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Steve Dailey

With over 20 years of practicing the art and science of coaching, AchievementBridge, Inc. and PrimeFocus Coaching Founder Steve Dailey has truly been on the leading edge of the development of business coaching as a profession.
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Roger Dawson

Negotiating specialist Dawson is an author promoted by Nightingale-Conant, the world's largest producer and publisher of personal development products and services. For over 45 years, it has been bringing people the information, skills, and motivation they need to create the life of their dreams.

Sharon Drew Morgen

Morgen is a thought leader, visionary, keynote speaker, executive coach and corporate trainer. She is the author of The New York Times bestseller Selling with Integrity, Sales on the Line, and Buying Facilitation: The New Way to Sell, as well as over 600 articles.
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Terri Dunevant

Dunevant brings over 25 years of diverse experience to the training and speaking industry. Her unique insight in people skills comes from her multi-faceted background, from cheerleading as one of the original Seattle Seahawks "SeaGals," to sweeping awards as a senior advertising consultant, to training Fortune 500 companies.
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Nigel Edelshain

Edelshain is CEO of Sales 2.0 LLC, a company dedicated to taking the sales profession to another level. Sales 2.0 provides companies with a range of services and products to enable them to make their sales forces wildly more effective.
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Kevin Eikenberry

A best-selling author, speaker, consultant, trainer, coach, leader, learner, husband and father (not necessarily in that order), Kevin is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993.
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Craig Elias

Elias is the creator of Trigger Event Selling™ and the Chief Catalyst of SHiFT Selling, Inc. For almost 20 years, he used Trigger Event strategies to be a top sales performer at every company that has hired him - including WorldCom where he was named the #1 salesperson within six months of joining the company.
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Jonathan Farrington

Farrington is a globally recognized business coach, mentor, author, and consultant who has guided hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of individuals around the world towards optimum performance levels.
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Doug Firebaugh

Firebaugh is an in-demand speaker, trainer, author, and successful entrepreneur who with his wife Jodi has dedicated his life to helping people radically accelerate success in their life. His training articles, blogs, and e-zines are read by more than one million people a month.
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Patricia Fripp

A past president of the National Speakers Association, Fripp is an award-winning speaker, author, sales presentation skills trainer and in-demand executive speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well-known sports and media personalities, and sales teams.
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Guy Harris

Harris draws on more than 20 years of professional and military experience to help his clients improve. He specializes in conflict resolution, leadership development and team dynamics, applying his goal-setting, organizational development, personal development, and relationship development skills in many other arenas.
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Matthew Hill

As president of The Hill Group, Hill has been providing sales and marketing productivity solutions to his clients for over 25 years. He is an experienced sales and marketing consultant, trainer, facilitator, and speaker. He has presented his "Trade Show Selling Skills Workshop" to over 45,000 people around the world.
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Jeffrey Howard

Howard uses over 15 years of studying and teaching performance strategies along with "real-world" experience as a sales professional, sales manager and sales executive to cut through the hype, clichés and psychobabble that permeates today's sales training and focus on what really matters - sales results!
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Huthwaite

We are the only sales performance firm that can legitimately claim that our solutions are scientifically correlated with improved business outcomes. At Huthwaite, we have the skills, knowledge and know-how to diagnose problems, develop customized solutions, and implement training that drives change and delivers results.
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Craig James

Sales Solutions founder James has over 15 years' experience in sales and sales management, primarily in technology and software. He's helped dozens of sales people, business owners, and entrepreneurs sharpen their selling skills, and close more business, faster.
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Dr. Eli Jones

Dr. Jones is E.J. Ourso Distinguished Professor of Business and Dean of the Department of Marketing at LSU. His research primarily focuses on issues related to the changing sales force -- sales force diversity, sales force change management, sales force technology adoption and performance and salesperson motivation.
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Jill Konrath

Konrath is a recognized sales strategist in the highly competitive business-to-business ("B2B") marketplace. She is the author of the sales classic Selling to Big Companies, a consistent Amazon Top 25 sales book.
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David Kurlan

Kurlan is the CEO of Kurlan & Associates and the founder of Objective Management Group, the leading provider of sales assessments, both with headquarters in Massachusetts. He possesses more than 30 years of experience in all facets of sales development, management and consulting.
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Marilyn Laverty

Specializing in improving organizational efficiency and profitability through strategic planning, corporate vision, and business process excellence, she is a master facilitator, workshop leader, and business consultant with a passion for supporting businesses in achieving productivity, profitability and results through people.
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Kendra Lee

Lee founded KLA Group in 1995. She is a top IT seller, sales advisor and business owner who knows how to shorten time to revenue in innovative ways. She is the author of the bestselling book Selling Against the Goal: How Corporate Sales Professionals Generate the Leads They Need.
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Alen Majer

Majer consults businesses on of topics ranging from improving sales processes and developing better customer relationships to improving internal sales skills. He is the author of Trigger Events - How to Find Your Next Customer, Crucial Points to Succeed in Sales (and Life), and How to Sell to Americans.
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Ron Marks

Marks travels the United States sharing his sales insights with salespeople, sales managers and even non-sales people. He speaks to associations and companies as well as training through CDs, books and multimedia programs. He is the author of the best-selling book Managing for Sales Results for sales managers.
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Paul McCord

McCord is president of McCord and Associates, a Houston, Texas based international sales training and consulting firm. He is the author of Creating a Million Dollar a Year Sales Income: Sales Success through Client Referrals and SuperStar Selling: 12 Keys to Becoming a Sales SuperStar.
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Anne Miller

An internationally respected author, speaker, and seminar leader for 20 years, Anne Miller teaches salespeople how to increase their business, coaches CEOs and senior management to communicate successfully to key constituencies, and enables technical people to transform complex information into simpler, meaningful messages.
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Lee Miller

Miller is Managing Director of NegotiationPlus.com with offices in the USA and Asia, a Senior Consultant with The Cabot Advisory Group and co-host of the Your Career Doctors Radio Show. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he works with organizations and individuals on how they can more effectively lead and influence others.
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Michael Norton

Norton is President of the Ziglar Corporation, CEO and Founder of CanDoGo, and Executive Director of the Vail chamber of Commerce. He previously held executive as well as regional positions with a heavy emphasis on sales, business development and strategic direction.
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Tod Novak

Novak is CEO of the Novak group; sales experts who are passionate about increasing sales through professional speaking, sales training and executive sales coaching. His clients' profits have soared by millions of dollars in virtually every type of industry. On one project alone he increased profits by $400 million.
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Jeanette Nyden

Nyden knows exactly what you need to do to get consistently outstanding results at the bargaining table. She founded J. Nyden & Co., a professional speaking company, to help level the playing field for small to mid-sized companies who are being squeezed in negotiations with larger corporations.
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James Obermayer

Obermayer is a principal in Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc., an Orange County, CA- based sales and marketing strategy consulting firm. He specializes in helping small- to medium-size companies identify sales and marketing leakage issues that stifle sales growth and waste valuable marketing dollars.
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Faith Ralston

Ralston is CEO of Leaps of Faith Inc., an organization that helps leaders build trust and leverage everyone's best talent to achieve the vision. Ralston has 25 years of business consulting experience working with leaders and teams in large corporations. She is an inspirational speaker and the author of five books.
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Lee Salz

Salz, President of Sales Architects, is a sales management guru who specializes in helping companies hire the right sales people, on-board them, and focus their sales behaviors. For almost 20 years Lee has built high-performance, sales organizations that sell to consumers, corporations and the government sector.
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George Silverman

Marketing consultant George Silverman is an author promoted by Nightingale-Conant, the world's largest producer and publisher of personal development products and services. For over 45 years, it has been bringing people the information, skills, and motivation they need to create the life of their dreams.

Nancy D. Solomon

Solomon is a relationship expert nationally known for her wit, her direct style, and her keen ability to help people achieve a greater vision of themselves and their world. By turning people's focus on their passions and their natural gifts and talents, Nancy helps them create powerful choices leading to fulfilling results.
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Jennifer Thibeaux

To know Thibeaux is to know that she is a fun and creative professional who strives to transfer knowledge to her students/audience. As the founder and CEO of Primary Consulting LLC, Thibeaux brings over 13 years of experience in the field of training and development.
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David Thompson

For nearly two decades, Thompson has been at the forefront of major trends in the software industry. Now CEO of Genius.com, he has delivered pioneering software applications, launched the leading on-demand software service, and developed marketing campaigns recognized across the industry for their innovation and effectiveness.
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Craig Tobin

Tobin, a Managing Director for the Accenture New Businesses team, has held key executive positions at Accretive Commerce, Equitant, Oxford Health Plans and General Electric. Tobin has extensive P&L experience and has led executive roles in sales and marketing, focusing on closing large scale global BPO deals.

Sunday Tollefson

Throughout her career, Tollefson has demonstrated a knack for business strategy, specifically with identifying problems and formulating solutions. Her intellectual curiosity and propensity for problem solving propelled her to launch Biz Wiz Consulting in 2006.
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Charles D. Vega

With more than 25 years of sales and sales management experience, Vega has been recognized by several Fortune 50 and 500 companies, including Siemens Communications Inc., Federated Department Stores, Southern Bell and Southern Bell Advanced Systems. He is the author of the book 1001 Professional Sales Tips.
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Joe Vitale

Marketing specialist Vitale is an author promoted by Nightingale-Conant, the world's largest producer and publisher of personal development products and services. For over 45 years, it has been bringing people the information, skills, and motivation they need to create the life of their dreams.

Scott Zimmerman

Scott Zimmerman is President of The Cyrano Group, and Managing Partner of Platinum Rule Group, companies that provide Platinum RuleÂ® training, communications technologies and sales growth consulting.
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97 Experts are available courtesy of Nightingale-Conant

Neil Rackham and additional materials provided courtesy of Huthwaite Inc.