BROWSE SPEAKERS by TOPIC

Please note: This is a partial list of the speakers we represent on Retail. If you would like suggestions about speakers that match your event goals, please simply contact one of our friendly account agents toll free at: 1-877-717-5327 or email: Speaker@speaking.com.


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Debbie Allen , Arizona USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

International speaker, author, entrepreneur and business consultant. Expertise in all aspects of retail. Highly requested topics include: marketing into the future; I'll take it! The science of the sell; seeing through your customer's eyes; consumer behavior and business image improvement.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Teresa Allen , Louisiana USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Teresa Allen, a dynamic presenter with over 15 years speaking and training experience, is author of Common Sense Service: Close Encounters on the Front Lines and is co-author of The Service Path: Your Roadmap for Building Strong Customer Loyalty. A master storyteller, Allen captivates audiences by mixing an entertaining and down-to-earth presentation style with solid business content. Allen works with businesses and associations who want to build success and profits through enhanced employee performance. Her highly rated presentations focus on customer service, sales, communication and presentation skills. Teresa credits her success to the customization of every program to the client’s needs.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Kare Anderson , California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Kare shows audiences ways to make themselves and their organizations more positively unforgettable. In your work and personal life, learn how to speak to gain trust and impact, resolve conflict, forge productive teams, sell your ideas, and win agreements. Her methods help people get more done through others and through building enduring relationships. You can learn "news-you-can-use" methods to lead, resolve conflict, sell, attract media coverage and community support, negotiate, and persuade. She gets audiences laughing and involved in minutes, as she surprises and honors certain attendees by name.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Ira Blumenthal , Georgia USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Considered a business "Renaissance Man," Ira Blumenthal is president of CO-OPPORTUNITIES, Inc., an Atlanta based business development company that has counseled clients such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, Exxon, Wal-Mart, McDonald's, United Artists, Delta Airlines, Kroger, Home Depot, and others ... a celebrated writer and the recipient of the coveted "George Washington Honor Medal" for literary excellence ... a high-content public speaker who annually delivers over 100 keynotes around the world on topics related to business development, such as Strategic Alliances, Change, Brands & Branding and Business Development.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Sam Geist , Ontario Canada -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Sam's programs are customized "ideas" presentations prepared specifically for each audience including an ever growing group of retailers, manufacturers and distributors as well as associations, organizations and local chambers of commerce across North & South America and Europe. His audiences want to know what's going on in the marketplace and what they can do about it. In his own inimitable style, Sam tells them. He questions... probes... challenges. He shares ideas... energizes... motivates. His business roots and his personal experiences have taught him well about the marketplace's unpredictability. They have provided him with an invaluable double-edged perspective... both as client and marketer.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Marc Gobé , New York USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

Marc Gobé is President, CEO and Executive Creative Director of the desgrippes gobe group new york, one of the world's top ten brand image creation firms. He is also the author of the book entitled Emotional Branding - The New Paradigm for Connecting Brands to People.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

John Peterman , New York USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

“J. Peterman” is a name known to more than 40 million Americans, thanks to the witty, entertaining “Owner’s Manual” mail-order catalog, hailed as “the stuff of literature” (New York Times Magazine), and regular appearances of a J. Peterman character on the popular TV comedy, Seinfeld.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Bob Phibbs , New York USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

In 1994, Bob started his own consulting company, The Retail Doctor, with a mission to provide training and inspiration to small and medium sized independent businesses — and teach them how to successfully compete in today’s retail environment. By helping a particular coffee roaster that had been in business 25 years reverse a protracted sales drop-off, compete against a second Starbucks opening just 75 feet from his front door, and ultimately increase sales by 50 percent in one year, Bob found a national audience
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Robert Rebhan , California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

An advocate for privacy and financial security, former detective sergeant Robert Rebhan has spent the last 16 years coordinating fraud-prevention training, specializing in point-of-sale fraud control and merchant fraud awareness for American Express. His extraordinary knowledge of the business world and of what it takes to minimize risks and stay in business make him one of the country’s most requested speakers. Rebhan presents his powerfully candid advice on how to protect your personal financial assets. He motivates his audiences to review passive lifestyle and business practices and join the twenty-first century in a technological and common-sense fight against fraud.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Rick Segel, CSP , Massachusetts USA -- 2.5k to 5.0k

Rick Segel, Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), helps organizations and businesses sell and market more effectively, with an imaginative and creative flair. He is a streetsmart, down-to-earth business speaker who blends serious business topics from sales and marketing to customer service with a side order of humor.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Michael Solomon, PhD , Alabama USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

People buy goods and services because of what they mean, not because of what they do. The key to marketing success is developing a "brand personality" that will push the right buttons. How do you find those buttons? To do that, you need to understand what products really mean to everyday people. Dr. Michael Solomon is a leading marketing researcher, author, and speaker, who demonstrates that the "everyday" world of consumption is more fascinating and complex than it seems. He has been at the forefront of strategic thinking that emphasizes the importance of understanding how products and services are actually experienced by the people who buy them.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Robert Spector , Washington USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

An expert on successful corporate culture, Robert Spector combines astute observations on corporate culture with wry humor. He is the author of Amazon.com Get Big Fast and co-author of the international bestseller, The Nordstrom Way: The inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company and corporate histories of companies as diverse as Eddie Bauer and Kimberly-Clark. The Nordstrom Way entertainingly examines how Nordstrom has set the standard of customer service. Spector's presentations break down the elements of the Nordstrom customer service culture and philosophy and explain how they can be adopted by virtually every kind of organization. A frequent guest on national radio and television, Spector is currently working on a ground breaking book detailing the common management principles of Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks and other dominant Seattle companies.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Lillian Vernon , New York USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

Lillian Vernon is one of America's most accomplished and well-known leaders in the catalog and retail industries. She is a pioneer, blazing trails for women in a field once dominated by men. Her achievements rank with those of mail order leaders Richard Sears and A. Montgomery Ward.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

George Whalin , California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

George Whalin is a nationally-known retail authority, writer, speaker, and publisher of one of the nation's most widely read retail industry newsletters. George is one of the nation's most sought after retail speakers, each year delivering speeches and seminars for retail companies, consumer products manufacturers and suppliers, and leading retail trade associations all across the United States as well as in several foreign countries. His presentations are high-energy, exciting, entertaining, humorous, and motivational. Best of all, he gives his audiences innovative ideas as well as practical, hard-hitting strategies and no-nonsense tools they can take back and put to use right away to build their businesses, sell more merchandise, and better serve today's savvy consumers.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP , Colorado USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

An electrifying keynoter, inspiring sales trainer, and journeyman seminar leader, Wilson`s work has taken him to hundreds of cities all over the US, Australia, Canada, England, Germany and even the now former Soviet Union. An internationally acclaimed writer and speaker on sales, marketing, and management, he is the co-author of the run-away best-selling book, Guerrilla Selling Unconventional Weapons and Tactics for Increasing Your Sales. Orvel Ray is a principle in The Guerrilla Group, Inc., an international training and consulting firm, serving clients worldwide.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com