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Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Selling Power, a media company that produces the award-winning Selling Power magazine and Selling Power TV, a daily video interview series on sales success. He Read full bio

Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Selling Power, a media company that produces the award-winning Selling Power magazine and Selling Power TV, a daily video interview series on sales success. He developed and hosts the Sales 3.0 Conference, which helps sales leaders integrate sales technologies into their sales organizations to create improved sales effectiveness and greater customer value. 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 Mary Kay Ash, Marc Benioff, Michael Dell, George Foreman, Larry Ellison, Richard Branson, Jay Leno, Meg Whitman, and many more. Gerhard has studied the lives of hundreds of peak performers and worked with world-leading coaches and psychologists to create the unique, new Peak Performance Mindset training program. He is the author of 17 books on the subject of sales, management, and motivation and received the Sales & Marketing Executives International, Inc. 2010 Ambassador of Free Enterprise Award. Follow him on x at @gerhard20. Close

Peri Shawn is the award-winning author of the book Sell More with Sales Coaching (Wiley). It was named one of the top 12 business books of that year. Peri teaches and coaches VPs and their teams how to coach, increase Read full bio

Peri Shawn is the award-winning author of the book Sell More with Sales Coaching (Wiley). It was named one of the top 12 business books of that year. Peri teaches and coaches VPs and their teams how to coach, increase sales and improve the client experience. Peri is fascinated by the neuroscience behind clients' buying decisions and team performance. She's worked with 4 neuroscience grad students combing thru the research to discover what salespeople can do to make their sales conversations more profitable and leaders can do to make their conversations more productive and meaningful. As part of her ongoing research, she has also developed proprietary tools that demonstrate how trust affects performance, management and the client experience. Her personal research includes scouring the fields of neuroscience, business, social science and education. Peri served on the national board for Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (fondly referred to as CAPS) and was the 2010 CAPS National President. She served two terms on the Global Speakers Federation, the international governing association for professional speakers. She was also an executive board member for the Association of Independent Consultants. She is also a member of the College of Teachers, the association of professional educators. A former full-time academic, part of Peri's duties included educating high school teachers how to use coaching with their students. She has also taught 200 professors how to use coaching in the university classroom. She was an action researcher receiving grants for the development of her results-proven model of teaching students. Peri was also nominated for the Prime Minister's Award of Teaching Excellence. Peri has also led programs for leaders at both the university (Ryerson University – Management Program) and college level (Seneca College – Management Training). Close