Mike Shutlz, President, Wellesley Hills Group and Publisher, RainToday.com

Mike Schultz, Principal, is world-renowned as a consultant and expert in services marketing and rainmaking. His practice focuses on strategy for service and technology businesses in the areas of branding, marketing, lead generation, and sales performance.

Along with his client practice and management responsibilities, Mike is the Publisher of RainToday.com, the premier online source for insight, advice, and tools for growing a service business. Mike has led RainToday.com from a startup to the leading online magazine focused on marketing and selling for professional services.

Mike is a well-known speaker in his areas of expertise, delivering keynotes and speeches for such organizations as MarketingSherpa, Business Marketing Association, American Marketing Association, Direct Marketing Association, CPAmerica, Association of Accounting Marketing, Society for Marketing Professional Services, and a number of major colleges and universities.

Over 60 publications such as Business Week, Publisher's Weekly, Sales and Marketing Management Magazine, Boston Business Journal, and others have featured Mike's original articles and white papers, and frequently quote him as an expert. Mike's most recent research work includes the e-book Making Lead Generation Work for Professional Services, The Business Impact of Writing a Book, and How Clients Buy: The Benchmark Report on Marketing and Selling Professional Services.

Mike's clients include: Fidelity Investments, Communico, KI ThoughtBridge, Monitor Group, Mellon Financial, John Hancock Financial, Dun and Bradstreet, Deep Customer Connections, Fleet Financial, Everon Technology Services, Trustee Leadership Development, and many other small to mid-sized professional services organizations.

More About Mike

Mike is a graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA with a B.A. in American Studies, and holds an M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College (where he often returns to deliver specialized classes to graduate students). Mike also enjoys fly fishing and golf, and actively studies and teaches the traditional martial arts of Kokondo Karate and Jukido Jujitsu, holding the ranks of black belt and Sensei in each.

Professional services firm leadership and marketing strategist Mike Schultz is world-renowned as a consultant and expert, delivering dozens of keynotes each year in-house for clients and at leading industry conferences on topics that energize audiences to lead in their markets, build world class brands, and achieve tremendous practice growth and personal rainmaking success.

Mike Schultz co-founded Wellesley Hills Group in 2002. In 2008, the company was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the country. Mike is also Publisher of RainToday.com, the world's foremost publication and membership site for insight, advice, and tools for growing a service business. He has overseen its growth from an idea to over 60,000 subscribers.

News outlets such as Business Week, Inc. Magazine, Boston Herald, and others have featured Mike's original articles and white papers, and frequently quote him as an expert.

Mike can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @Mike_Schultz. Check out Mike's Services Marketing Blog for more tips and insights.