Below are the 2022 IES Sales Speaker of the Year finalists. The winner was Lee Salz.
All finalists are world-class speakers who have appeared on the live IES stage, have been featured on an IES Creativity in Sales or Optimal Sales Mindset webinar, and have a history of providing exceptional service to sales professionals around the globe. Congrats to them all.
John Asher
John Asher is an experienced international speaker on sales, sales management and marketing. He has been a frequent speaker at the IES and a guest on the Sales Game Changers virtual learning sessions and podcast many times. His books, “Close Deal Faster” and “The Neuroscience of Selling” have changed the lives of sales professionals around the globe. In 1998, he […]
Todd Cohen
A dynamic, engaging, and motivational keynote speaker, Todd’s message is relevant to any organization striving to increase revenue, strengthen relationships, and improve client satisfaction. Using humor and real-life examples, Todd demonstrates how “Every conversation is a selling moment” and how everyone can contribute to the growth and profitability of the […]
Queirra Fenderson
Queirra Fenderson is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and CEO of The Ambition Studio, a professional coaching firm that supports high-achieving leaders in reinventing their relationship with their ambition. The Ambition Studio strives to improve communication, shift team dynamics and ignite the ambitious […]
Colleen Francis
Colleen Francis is an award-winning speaker, consultant and bestselling author who helps leading businesses achieve dramatic increases in their sales results. She understands the challenges of selling in today’s competitive market, and that business leaders can no longer rely on approaches to sales based on techniques from decades ago—or even last year. Colleen’s results have attracted clients such as Chevron, […]
Julie Hansen
Julie Hansen has become the “go-to” expert on virtual sales presentation presence. Combining an award-winning sales career with her passion and experience as a professional sales presentation coach and actor, Julie Hansen specializes in helping sales teams craft and deliver winning presentations and demos by applying today’s best practices from business, acting, improv, and storytelling. […]
Sam Horn
Sam Horn is CEO of the Intrigue Agency, a branding/positioning/messaging consultancy, which helps people craft winning sales presentations, funding pitches, TEDx talks, books. Sam’s the author of Tongue Fu!®, POP! and Washington Post bestseller Got Your Attention? which have been featured in NY Times, Forbes, Readers Digest, Harvard Business Review. Her clients include Intel, […]
Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter, “The Sales Hunter,” has been recognized as one of the top 50 sales and marketing leaders in the world. He is also the Best Selling author of High-Profit Selling; Win the Sale Without Compromising On Price. Mark has earned this recognition by helping companies and their sales teams identify better prospects, close more sales and profitably build more […]
Lisa McLeod
Lisa McLeod is the global expert on purpose-driven business. She is the author of five books, including her bestseller: Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud. Lisa has spent two decades helping leaders increase competitive differentiation and emotional engagement. She developed the Noble Purpose methodology after […]
Lee Salz
A recognized specialist in Sales Differentiation, Lee Salz helps organizations win more deals at the prices they want. Working across all industries, he creates winning sales strategies for companies around the globe. A featured columnist in The Business Journals and a media source on sales and sales management, Lee has been quoted and featured in The Wall Street Journal and CNN. […]
Tom Snyder
Tom Snyder is an internationally recognized author, researcher, consultant and speaker on a wide range of sales excellence topics including driving more revenue, pipeline management and forecasting, prospecting and customer acquisition. For more than 20 years he has led research teams to answer two questions: what are the essential elements of great […]
Alan Stein, Jr.
At his core, Alan Stein Jr. is a performance coach with a passion for helping others change behaviors. He spent 15+ years working with the highest performing basketball players on the planet (including Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, and Kobe Bryant). Through his customized programs, he transfers his unique expertise to maximize both individual and organizational performance. […]
Brynne Tillman
Brynne Tillman is the LinkedIn Whisperer and CEO of Social Sales Link. For over a decade she has been teaching Entrepreneurs, sales teams and business leaders how to leverage LinkedIn for social selling.
As a former sales trainer and personal producer, Brynne adopted all of traditional sales techniques […]
