Recognized as a 'Sales-and-networking guru' by the Dallas Business Journal, Dean Lindsay is the founder of The Progress Agents - a workshop company and consulting firm dedicated to empowering progress in sales, service and workplace performance.

The Dallas Business Journal selected Mr. Lindsay as one of "D-FW's Rising Stars Under Forty in The Business World Today." A cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas, Dean presently serves on the Executive Advisory Board for UNT's Department of Marketing and Logistics.

Dean is a featured contributor to Executive Travel and Sales and Service Excellence magazines as well as the nationally distributed audio publication "Selling Power Live" hosted by Jeffrey Gitomer. He is also the head writer and editor of the widely read e-mail-based newsletter, The Progress Report.

Dean's clients range from Fortune 100 companies to budding entrepreneurs, and from national and state associations to successful small businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. Clients include Ericsson, Pacific Life & Annuity, American Express, New York Life, American Airlines, Chase Bank, Washington Mutual and Western Union.

Dean's new book Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships has been endorsed by a who's who of business leaders and performance experts including Ken Blanchard - author of The One Minute Manager and Brian Tracy. The book is Recommended Reading by the United Professional Sales Association and Profit magazine.

Jay Conrad Levinson - the author of Guerrilla Marketing, thought so much of Cracking the Networking CODE that he wrote the book's foreword. In their book review, The Dallas Morning News stated that the book served up "networking advice with wisdom, humor and concise guidance."

As a successful entrepreneur, business owner and sales executive, Dean has experienced firsthand how vitally important building priceless business relationships and cherishing customers are to becoming successful in today's world. Dean's unique knack for communicating and his commitment to helping people take positive steps make him a Progress Agent. His speaking and consulting style is refreshingly daring, imaginative and a lot of fun.

• Cracking the Networking CODE 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships - You can't achieve your best in business without learning the all-important art of connecting. Dean Lindsay's rip-roaring CODE Cracking Boot Camp, based on his best-selling business book Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Relationships, is filled with fresh insights to build meaningful, profitable, win-win relationships for business and life.
  
  
• The Making of a Progress Agent - Be Progress. Have a BIG PHAT DAY! - Businesses are increasingly being forced to deal with change while attempting to meet organizational goals. With his Big PHAT process for goal achievement, Dean Lindsay provides the blueprint needed to harness the power in finding the progress in change.
  
  
• Cherishing Customers - Customer Relationships on the MEND - In business today, customer service can be the difference between success and failure. The innovative Cherishing Customers program introduces participants to the unique and powerful MEND model for inspiring true customer loyalty. This program is designed to motivate your team to establish a deeper understanding of personal responsibility in responding to customer needs.
  
  
• Diving For Referral Pearls - Cultivating Quality Referrals - Referrals are vital for today's sales professional. In this entertaining and engaging keynote, Dean digs into the three keys to Consistently Cultivating Quality Referrals. A Quality Referral is borrowed trust. Dean shares proven ways to build that trust, become more referable and begin cultivating quality referrals.
  
  
• ZONE Selling - The Four Keys to Sales Success - Dean Lindsay knows first hand that enjoying phenomenal success in sales takes Zest, Organizational Skills, Networking Skills and Empathy. Sales professionals at every level come away from the ZONE Selling talk energized with sales tips they can use immediately. ZONE Selling is designed to be easily digestible, meaningful and behavior changing.