Gerhard Gschwandtner

Gerhard Gschwandtner launched Selling Power magazine in 1981 with a vision to create the number one industry resource for sales professionals. He has trained more than 10,000 salespeople around the world and is the author of 17 sales management books. Over the course of three decades, he has interviewed some of the most successful leaders and experts in sales, business, sports, entertainment, and politics, including Colin Powell, Seth Godin, Donald Trump, Mary Kay Ash, Malcolm S. Forbes, Bill Marriott, Michael Dell, Jay Leno, Ann Mulcahy, Larry King, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and George Foreman. In 2005 he founded the popular Sales Leadership Conference series, a collaborative and dynamic learning environment in which sales leaders learn how to create and sustain winning teams that yield higher productivity, sales, and customer satisfaction. His blog, sellingpower.typepad.com, receives an average of more than 13,000 hits a month. He is originally from Salzburg, Austria.