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Dean, I am still receiving rave reviews on your Rocks Talk! Thank you for speaking at the Rocks Digital Marketing Conference. The information you shared on achieving Big PHAT Goals was invaluable.
— Lissa Duty, Founder of ROCKS DIGITAL Marketing Conference
Dean was a great fit for our global team meeting because his message about Progress Leadership was perfect for our company at this time. We are in the process of merging two companies together and we needed inspiration and attitude to make the needed progress quickly. Dean message was timely, energizing and funny but most importantly right on point.
— Doug Oathout, SVP. Marketing & Strategy Global Solutions Integrator, Black Box Corporation
Dean Lindsay is one sharp and funny guy. I have been in the business arena for over forty years and we have needed Dean Lindsay’s unique voice for far too long.
— MAX DERDEN, PARTNER - PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP

Dean Lindsay

Dean is hailed as a ‘Outstanding Thought Leader on Building Priceless Business Relationships’ by Sales and Marketing Executives International as well as an ‘Outstanding Speaker’ by the International Association of Speakers Bureaus and is the Host of C-Suite Network TV’s The DEAN’s List.  Dean joined Synclab Media, the video-centric digital marketing company, as Chief Marketing Officer in 2016. Dean is a humorous and thought provoking business speaker & consultant and a noted authority & author on helping organizations create work cultures focused on:
 
      •  Enhancing Customer Experiences
      •  Building Priceless Business Relationships and
      •  Thinking Progress Leadership™ NOT Change Management

His books, How to Achieve Big PHAT Goals, THE PROGRESS CHALLENGE: Working & Winning in a World of Change, and CRACKING THE NETWORKING CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Korean, Spanish and Greek. His latest book, THINK PROGRESS LEADERSHIP NOT CHANGE MANAGEMENT is being published in the fall of 2018.
 
Dean’s thoughts on authentic business development by building and strengthening PROGRESS-based Work and Team Cultures have been endorsed by a who’s who of international business thought leaders including Ken Blanchard (author of THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER, Bryan Tracy, author of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELLING  and the legendary Father of GUERRILLA MARKETING, Jay Conrad Levinson. Mr. Levinson thought so much of Dean’s thoughts on building priceless business relationships, that he wrote the foreword to CRACKING THE NETWORKING CODE.
 
Dean has been a featured contributor to CEOWorld Magazine, The Smart Manager (India), Sales and Service Excellence, Training Magazine Europe, Executive Travel, LabX Media, 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 andMonster.com.
 
Dean is also a cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas and has served as Guest Lecturer to UCLA and University of Dallas MBA programs as well as the International Call Management Institute.  He has had the privilege of sharing his sales and marketing insights from the big stage in several countries including Spain, Turkey, Poland, Ecuador, Mexico, Switzerland,  Venezuela, Sweden and the islands of Aruba and Jamaica.
 
Dean’ clients include: American Airlines, Texas A&M, New York Life, Precision Tune Auto Care, Pacific Life & Annuity, Haberfeld Associates, Marriott, Heinz, Hilton, American Express, Western Union, Verizon, Amway, Nestle, Aramark Canada, Gold’s Gym, Bell Partners, EKOS (Ecuador), ConocoPhillips, Hagger Clothing, the United States Peace Corp  and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
 
Some other Big PHAT 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
      •  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 big part than I did.”).

Topics

  • How to Achieve Big Phat Goals

    • Teaming Up for Big Phat Progress

    • Fostering True Employee Engagement & Goal Alignment

  • Cracking The Networking Code

    • 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships

  • Be a BAM!

    • Keys to Becoming a Business Attraction Magnet

  • The PROGRESS Challange

    • Working & Winning in a World of Change

  • ALWAYS TIME TO PROGRESS!!

    • Time Management is Self Management

  • Diving For Referral Pearls

    • Cultivating Quality Referrals

  • Welcoming the Rise of Progress Leadership

    • Change Management is Dead!

Thank you for a job well done. Your words made a huge impact and your enthusiasm and energy is contagious. Your presentation was professional, informative, and your advice to how to continue to grow our organization was right on.
— DR. TAMMY WONG, PRESIDENT - SUN WOMEN, SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.