Jeb Blount is the author of eight books and among the world's most respected thought leaders on sales, leadership, and customer experience. As a sales acceleration specialist he helps sales organizations reach peak performance fast by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate a high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design.

Jeb spends more than 200 days each year delivering keynote speeches and training programs to high-performing sales teams and leaders across the globe.

Through his global training organizations, including Sales Gravy, Channel EQ, and Innovate Knowledge, Jeb advises many of the world's leading organizations and their executives on the impact of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills on customer-facing activities, and delivers training to thousands of participants in both public and private forums.

As a business leader, Jeb has more than 25 years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, small and midsize businesses (SMBs), and start-ups. He has been named one of the top 50 most influential sales and marketing leaders (Top Sales Magazine), a Top 30 social selling influencer (Forbes), a top 10 sales expert to follow on Twitter (Evan Carmichael), a top 100 most innovative sales blogger (iSEEit), a top 20 must-read author—People Buy You—for entrepreneurs (YFS Magazine and Huffington Post), one of the 20 highest-rated sales authors—Fanatical Prospecting—of all time (Hubspot), and the most downloaded sales podcaster in iTunes history, among many other accolades.

His flagship website, https://www.salesgravy.com, is the most visited sales-specific website on the planet.

He is the author of eight books, including: Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide for Starting Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, E-Mail, and Cold Calling (John Wiley & Sons, 2015); People Love You: The Real Secret to Delivering a Legendary Customer Experience (John Wiley & Sons, 2013); People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership (John Wiley & Sons, 2011); People Buy You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2010); Sales Guy's 7 Rules for Outselling the Recession (Macmillan, 2009); Business Expert Guide to Small Business Success (Business Expert Publishing, 2009); and Power Principles (Palm Tree Press, 2007).

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To schedule Jeb to speak at your next event, call 1-888-360-2249, e-mail [email protected] or [email protected], or visit www.jebblount.com. You may e-mail Jeb directly at [email protected].