Still a Confusing People Business As a motivational sales keynote speaker, I was fascinated by what the sales experts were predicting for 2023 challenges. While I am not the kind of motivational sales speaker to say “I told you so,” the prognosticators agree that it is neither technology nor new processes that will…
The One Thing No One Wants to Talk About It is about time we talked about the “I-word,” or inflation, for as a pharma motivational sales speaker and pharma sales consultant, it concerns me when any industry, especially pharma, prides itself on being inflation proof. I am hardly alone in that opinion. Between…
A Slow Down, Means more Hustle in 2023 As a pharmaceutical industry motivational sales speaker, I understand that statistics can be misleading. According to the latest pharmaceutical industry projections, in 2023 the U.S. industry’s share of the entire industry’s sales worth should be in excess of $685 billion with a nearly 44-percent market…
There will always be challenges, and always visionaries to overcome them “A clear challenge of the pharmaceutical industry has been highlighted by the recent pandemic, and that is the overreliance on single-sourced materials and vulnerabilities within the global supply chain. Like any other manufactured product, pharma and biopharma products are a sum of…
Have You Given in to the Second Pandemic? As a pharmaceutical sales speaker with a passion for what sales reps face each day, I was interested in an article by development and burnout writer Rachel Montañez in her article for Forbes magazine. Though the piece was written as the COVID pandemic had first…
Don’t Ever Let the Competition Paralyze You “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” – Dorothy Thompson, Author As a motivational sales speaker who has faced catastrophic change and adversity, I had no choice but to develop an approach to life that fought against giving into fear…
Resilience in Pharma Sales: Now More than Ever As a motivational sales speaker for the pharmaceutical industry, I tell my audiences that COVID-19 might also be characterized as the disease that changed an industry. It is kind of ironic. While the pharmaceutical industry has changed the way medicine has treated nearly every disease…
What is Blocking You? As a motivational sales speaker, let me be honest and tell you that beating-up yourself because you didn’t “make your numbers,” probably won’t work. I know that it might be a popular concept, but motivation doesn’t work that way. Hey, you fat losers Remember a few years back when…
Where Has Your Motivation Gone? As a former sales advisor with 20 years of experience as a motivational sales speaker, I have an important question: What do you do, when all your motivation has gone? For any salesperson, no matter the field, a lack of motivation is not a luxury. It was never…
5 Steps to Spark Sales Motivation Motivation seems to be at an all-time low and, as a motivational sales speaker coming from a sales background, it’s concerning. Not just for me, but for organizations, sales trainers, sales managers, and sales team leaders. Hundreds of articles, podcasts, and books have been written on motivation –…