Drew Stevens, Drew Stevens Consulting

Drew Stevens PhD, President of Stevens Consulting Group and renowned author, consultant and sales expert literally wrote the book on improving sales skills. Dr. Drew is the author of the best seller Split Second Selling and Ultimate Business Bible that have helped thousands of frustrated sales managers, selling professionals and entrepreneurs improve their skills and gain dramatic results.

Experienced with helping entrepreneurs and mid sized business, Dr. Drew works with organizations that desire to dramatically accelerate business growth! Drew has been successful in developing a consistent business methodology that increases customer acquisition by 40% while creating selling standards to reduce labor intensity-resulting in record revenues and higher productivity and profitability.

Drew Stevens is a passionate, professional, and personable keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator; Drew conducts over 50 presentations per year in over 20 countries. He is also the author of 100 articles on sales, customer service and selling strategy quoted frequently in the media, with periodicals such as Personal Selling Power and Sales and Marketing Management, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and Chicago Tribune.

Dr. Drew can assist your organization with:

• Creating customer loyalists in a competitive market that increases client retention
• Developing a sales culture that increases closing ratios and profits
• Optimize sales and marketing effectiveness to increase selling productivity

Drew's methodology is based on his widely acclaimed book Split Second Selling where he presents over 25 years of tested data that provides individuals with the use of the PRACTICE ™ method. Inspired by observing selling professionals, Dr. Stevens discovered that over 85% of selling professionals do not use a standard selling methodology! Research in the field of selling substantiates that those without sales methods lose millions of dollars in unrecognized revenue and commissions. Drew believes that athletes practice; attorneys practice, students practice and musicians practice and so must selling professionals! To grow business, acquire and retain clients a single and results oriented methodology gains quicker results.

His consulting firm, Stevens Consulting Group, has attracted clients such as American International Group, Hilton Hotels, AT&T, The Federal Reserve Bank, Reliv International, The New York Times, Mercy Health Plans Quicken Loans and over 500 other leading organizations.

Drew has trained thousands of business professionals, traveling to places such as Johannesburg, Tokyo, London, Singapore and Quito Ecuador. Drew provides instruction to top universities in the St. Louis area, concentrating on Entrepreneurship, International Business, Marketing and Strategy. Dr. Stevens is also the developer of the Sales Leadership Program at St. Louis University, one of only 14 accredited programs in the United States offering a degree in professional selling! He holds an MBA in International Business and a Ph.D. in Organization and Management with an emphasis in workplace productivity.

Drew lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wonderful wife and soul mate Christine and his two children Ashley and Andrew, (affectionately known as "I Want" and "Get Me").