J. Dean Lindsay

Award-winning business author Dean Lindsay is a powerful keynote speaker with a humorous and engaging approach. He has been hailed as 'America's Progress Agent' by The Strategic HR Forum as well as: --- an 'Outstanding Thought Leader on Building Priceless Business Relationships' by Sales and Marketing Executives International --- 'The Dean of Sales and Service' by Business Class News --- a 'Sales and Networking Guru' by the Dallas Business Journal and --- 'a Master of Progress' by Jay Conrad Levinson (Father of Guerrilla Marketing) Dean's books, including Creating Progress in a World of Change and How to Achieve Big PHAT Goals (Winner of the Business Class News Editors' Choice award for Book of the Year and Recommended as one of the '21 Best Goal Setting Books to Read' on PositivePsychology .com) have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Korean, Spanish and Greek. Dean' national and international clients include: United States Patent and Trademark Office, KPMG, American Airlines, True Value Hardware, Texas A&M, New York Life, Aramark Canada, Century 21, Precision Tune Auto Care Franchising Inc., House of Blues, Anthem, Michigan State University, Pacific Life & Annuity, Marriott, Heinz, First Heritage Credit Union, Hilton, Relax the Back, American Express, Western Union, Verizon, John Hancock Financial, Handheld (Sweden), Amway, Nestle, Gold's Gym, Fastsigns, Bell Partners, EKOS (Ecuador), LPL Financial, Units Franchising Group, Menards, ConocoPhillips, Haggar Clothing, Workout Anytime Franchising Systems LLC and the United States Peace Corp. He has had the privilege of sharing his powerful business growth insights on stages across the globe including: Spain, Turkey, Poland, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Sweden and the islands of Aruba and Jamaica. Dean is an active member of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy, a cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas and has served as Guest Lecturer to both the UCLA and University of Dallas MBA programs as well as the International Call Management Institute. Dean has served as a featured contributor to Entrepreneur's Organization's (EO) Octane Blog, HR. com's Leadership Excellence Magazine, CEOWorld Magazine, The Smart Manager (India), Training Magazine Europe, Executive Travel, Sales and Service Excellence, Networking Times and the American Management Association's Moving Ahead magazine as well as numerous podcasts and the audio magazine Selling Power Live. His business views have also been featured on the Voice of America radio as well as the Dallas Morning News and Monster.com. Dean's thoughts on authentic business development by building and strengthening Progress-based work cultures have been endorsed by a who's who of international business thought leaders including Ken Blanchard (author of The One Minute Manager) who calls Dean's writings "a much needed kick in the pants." Some other stuff... Dean is an award-winning songwriter, a marathon runner, a founding member of the Texas Shakespeare Festival, and an alumni of Up With People, the legendary international organization that bridges cultural barriers and creates global understanding through service and a rocking musical show (Dean's cast was the first to perform in the Soviet Union). Dean is also a proud member of the Undefeated 1984 4-A Texas State Championship Football Team, the Fighting Denison Yellow Jackets. A couple bits of trivia: Way back In the mid 90's, Dean served as On-Set Acting Coach to Grammy Award Winner LeAnn Rimes on both a Hallmark Movie of the Week and on the soap opera Days of Our Lives and Dean was cast as one of the 'Bad Guys' in the Warner Brothers' blockbuster Twister (Dean urges you to not look to hard for him in the film however, sharing that 'the flying cow ended up with a bigger part than I did.").F