Dan Clark, CSP, CPAE, is a Certified Trainer, member of the "Speakers Hall of Fame" and Founder/CEO of Clark Success Systems, a multi-million dollar international professional speaking, publishing, sports performance, and management consulting firm. There are only 173 members of the Speakers Hall of Fame worldwide.

   Dan's drive to excel in everything will inspire you and your people to be motivated by change, not intimidated by it. Widely acknowledged as one of today's preeminent opening and closing general session convention speakers, Dan takes 35 years of self-exploration, 25 years consulting for the world's largest and most successful corporations, combines it with insightful interviews of extraordinary personalities and bundles them with powerful personal adventures and emotionally stirring experiences into spellbinding keynote speeches that will move your people from laughter through tears into action.

   As a master storyteller, Dan leaves each audience member convinced they should do the same.

Dan’s Short Bio

   Dan Clark is CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation, an internationally recognized Speaker, Entertainer, Songwriter/ Recording Artist and New York Times Best Selling Author. Since 1982, Dan has spoken to more than 3 million people in over 4,000 audiences, in all 50 states, and in 30 foreign countries. Achievers North America and Achievers Europe named Dan one of the Top Ten Speakers in the World!

   Dan is the primary contributing author to the "Chicken Soup for the Soul” series and author of twenty of his own best selling books, including “Puppies for Sale" which was made into a film at Paramount Studios starring the late Jack Lemmon. Dan has been published in more than 30 million books in 30 languages worldwide!

   Dan suffered a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career. Sixteen doctors told him he would not recover, but recover he did! Since then, Dan has flown in fighter jets twice the speed of sound, raced automobiles in Germany and was honored to carry the Olympic Torch in the 2002 Winter Games. Dan has been the general session speaker at the United Nations World Congress, conducted UN leadership training in Europe, Asia and Russia, and was the keynote speaker at the U.S. Air Force Four Star Generals conference. Dan has spoken to our combat troops all over the world, is a Leadership and Character Development Consultant for the US Armed Forces, has worked with Fortune 500 companies, NASA and Super Bowl champions. Dan’s inspirational story has been featured on over 500 TV and radio shows, in Entrepreneur Magazine and as the feature article in Mayo Clinic Magazine. Dan is one of the most in demand speakers in America and recognized expert on Managing Change, Building Winning Teams and Taking Life To The Next Level!

Topics:

1) Living A High Performance Life:

   Dan’s Most Famous And Requested Keynote Speech! Perfect Opening or Closing General Session Presentation where Dan teaches that what it takes to become a peak performing individual and increase productivity is already inside your people and within your organization. The Answers Are in the Box!

Dan Explains:

   We’re told to think outside the lines, to think outside the box. But what if the answers are still in the box? Most complicate their lives and never fulfill their destiny because they think it’s the responsibility of their community and their job to make life exciting and meaningful. They hate their jobs, are “half empty” to themselves and only look forward to Friday instead of Monday. They think they are paid by the hour, when in reality they are paid for the value they bring to that hour. They think success and happiness are found in programs and processes outside themselves, instead of within.

   Consequently, most come to meetings in search of new answers when what we need are the right answers. Right answers have always been right, correct and true, in every industry, and in both our personal and professional lives, or we can’t call them right. And right answers can only come from the right questions.

   In this high energy, motivational, humorous yet high content presentation, Dan asks four provocative questions and delivers four powerful solutions that will take your people to the next level and bring your desired results. Therefore, as a quantifying template to bundle the take away value, Dan builds a four cornerstone box as the container wherein you can put all the facts and feelings of your meeting, take it home, and immediately implement it into your life. The Four Cornerstones are the four “secrets” posed as four questions.

Cornerstone One: Will You Change Or Stretch?

Cornerstone Two: Why Should You Stretch? Once we answer why, figuring out the how-to becomes obvious.

Cornerstone Three: How Do You Stretch?

Cornerstone Four: When Do You Stretch?

2) Sales – Shut Up and Dance

   The Perfect General Session Kick Off and Supplemental Program to Your Current Training Program where Dan uses the metaphor of dance to demonstrate the distinct sides of sales: the Process, the Presentation, Expertise and Emotion. In Dance and in Sales, technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. In Dance and in Sales, it's not what you do but who you do it with. Dancing is not about talking. It’s about showing and doing together. In dance you must first learn the dance steps, and then go with the flow, move to the beat and understand the unspoken words your partner is sharing as he/she leads you where they want to go on the floor. Although the rhythms of a fast song and a slow song are different, and they last the same length of time, it is in the slow songs where we ask questions and listen and get closer quicker. Only when the dance is over do you talk (make your presentation) to take it to the next level.

Dan Explains:

   We all know that anybody can make a presentation and that a good day for a sales account executive is not putting in eight hours. It’s closing sales. Management does not care about the storms we encountered. Did we bring in the ship? Too many sales professionals confuse activity with accomplishment, especially those who have enjoyed some consistent success. They drift from the fundamental discipline and work ethic that got them where they are in the first place. They look at themselves as the competition and become complacent with their book of business and market share, while their competition is doing what they once did and stealing their clients out from under them.

   Never knowing who your next opponent will be requires a constant commitment to always better yourself, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and financially. In this presentation, Dan asks each audience member what one thing are they willing to do to better themselves in each area? What one thing are they willing to do to better your organization? What one thing will they inspire your team to be willing to do, that your competition is not willing do to, that will give you the competitive advantage? People want to do business with winners. Likes attract likes. We must connect at all levels, beginning with the “gate keepers,” knowing that before they will get us to their king, first in their eyes and hearts, and then in the real world, we too must be a king!

   It doesn’t do us any good to market to those who can’t afford to buy our product or service; a sales presentation is not a conversation, a rapport-building chat, a speech with little content and entertaining, or a lecture with all content and no entertainment. Yes, these are all part of the sales process, but a sales “presentation” is when you literally stand and deliver your selling proposition that ends with an emotional story that calls them to action and seals the deal. A presentation without a signed contract is not selling!

   Your people will leave Dan’s session knowing the “Ten Deadly Sins that Sabotage Sales” including blurring the process with the official presentation, misusing their allotted appointment time and being informative instead of persuasive.