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Professional business speaker, author, educator, consultant and owner of four growing businesses, Dirk Beveridge is an experienced proven business executive whose international business consulting firm serves clients such as: General Motors, Continental Grain, Häagen Dazs, W.R. Grace, Union Oil, John Deere and other quality businesses. He lectures at the Management Institute School of Business, University of Wisconsin, and is ad-hoc faculty at several other universities.
As one of the top twenty business speakers in the country, Dirk has provided timely, pertinent information to the likes of IBM, UPS, TransUnion, Andersen Windows and many other recognizable organizations. Each year since 1987, this passionate business speaker has been featured on international business speaking tours addressing groups on six of the world's continents.
This knowledgeable business speaker is the author of the best selling book Sales Management: Why the Best are Better , and contributing business expert for CNN, USA Today, Inc. Magazine and others. All information provided by Dirk is timely, pertinent to today's market and acknowledged as impacting numerous firms' bottom line results.
More than a business speaker, this international consultant by job description spends a minimum of 2 days a week, 20 weeks a year in the field, world wide, observing, listening, and studying business. Beyond academic theory, 100 percent of the information, insights and tools provided are currently applied in a multitude of businesses.
Dirk's "tell-em-like-it-is" business presentations address the meeting participants in a demanding and direct manner. Most meeting participants believe it is the presenter's responsibility to perform. Dirk's presentation clearly places the responsibility to perform on the meeting participants' shoulders, demanding they look at themselves and their performance objectively. No other business speaker gets the same results.
Most Requested Topics:
BOSS – The Mandatory Business Operating System Standards: Perfect keynote for most business and association meetings. As a third party catalyst, Dirk insures all functions and all levels of the organization understand how their responsibilities tie directly into management's direction and vision. Sales Management – Why The Best Are Better: This presentation is guaranteed to drive improved sales management performance as Dirk emphasizes the role of the sales manager as a coach - with discipline, challenge, and a requirement for upgrading the skills and goal attainment of the sales team. Proactive Customer Focused Sales: If your sales organization is selling in the same way they did just twelve months ago, you are beginning to lose your business. Marketing In The Age of Technology: As the content expert for a series of keynote presentations and conferences for IBM, UPS, Inc. Magazine and others, Dirk Beveridge has delivered this unique and timely presentation with astonishing results. Marketing – The Perception of Difference: Effective marketing today demands an intense focus on the customer - their needs, wants, desires, challenges, and opportunities. Why Successful Businesses Don’t Stay: This keynote presentation focuses on five criteria providing the needed "shock treatment" to continue the process of transferring accountability for results from management to the line level individual and/or distributor franchisee. Everyone is Part of the Sales Promise: Manufacturing, service, R&D, management, administration, the receptionist, everyone must understand their role in the commitment to satisfy customer requirements. Integrating Sales and Marketing: Five critical success factors of this proven and practical plan focuses on results through top to bottom implementation. |
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