Dean Lindsay

Human Potential, Networking & Business Growth Expert

Author of The Progress Challenge and Cracking the Network CODE

Dean Lindsay’s presentation style has been described as refreshingly daring, imaginative and highly effective. Dean is fun, fast and captivating as he delivers solid business messages and teaches profit generating practices that are easy to implement and remember. Dean delivers dynamic, humor filled programs on networking, change and customer relationships, all are sure to have you franchisees laughing and learning!

Clients Include:

  • Meineke Dealers International
  • WIN Home Inspection
  • TimePlus Payroll

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Speaker Bio

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Author of The Progress Challenge and Cracking the Network CODE

An authority on harnessing human potential and creating authentic business growth, Dean Lindsay is an engaging and highly sought-after franchise speaker whose clients include Meineke Car Care Centers, Time Plus Payroll, Nationwide Floor and Window Covering, WIN Home Inspections and others.

His presentation style has been described as refreshingly daring, imaginative and highly effective. Dean is fun, fast and captivating as he delivers solid business messages and teaches profit generating practices that are easy to implement and remember.

Each of Dean Lindsay’s programs (whether a motivational keynote, convention breakout or interactive boot camp), contain powerful and useful insight on workplace performance, building priceless business relationships, dealing with change, communication, and business growth.  Each program can be customized for franchisees, area developers, master franchisees, front line staff, field support professionals or a franchisor’s core management team.

Dean shares the important connection between sales, motivation, solid customer care and leadership. From the perspective that success in any area is achieved by effectively positioning ideas, recommendations, solutions, products, services – even ourselves – as PROGRESS in the minds of those we wish to inspire to action.  Dean’s core message is simple- it is natural to resist change but we embrace PROGRESS. All progress is change, but not all change is PROGRESS.  Dean Lindsay will teach everyone in your franchise system how to become Progress Agents and “BE PROGRES.”

Travels From: Dallas, TX

  Fee Range: $7,500-$9,500

“Dean Lindsay was the perfect choice to keynote the Meineke Dealers Association Convention. His combination of contagious wit and sales and service insights inspired us to face the challenge of improving our operations while providing us the template to make it happen.”
Chris Schmitz
President
Meineke Dealers Association

Program Information

The Progress Challenge is just that, a challenge – a challenge to both franchisees to progress, to work and to win in this complicated, stress-encouraging, wonderful world of continual change in today’s business environment.

Based on Dean’s best-selling business book, The Progress Challenge: Working and Winning in a World of Change, this Progress Challenge training program is uniquely designed to empower heightened workplace performance for front line staff, managers, franchisees, master franchisees and home office staff.

Whether you have a black belt in business growth through connecting or are completely new to the concept, you will enjoy Dean’s humorous yet highly practical approach to meeting, connecting, and developing longterm relationships with others.

Dean Lindsay’s presentation, based on his best selling business book Cracking the Networking CODE, is filled with fresh insights and practical tips on how to build meaningful, profitable, win-win relationships for your franchise business and your life.

In these tough economic times, customer service IS the difference between success and failure in any business. Dean believes that customers are: REVENUE, REFERRALS, & REALITY.

In Dean’s innovative and thought provoking Cherishing Customers program, front line staff, managers, franchisees, master franchisees and home office staff receive professional customer service training that helps committed franchise systems.

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Speaker Resources

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Sample Client List

  • Meineke Dealers International
  • WIN Home Inspection
  • TimePlus Payroll
  • Heinz Food Service
  • Fast Casual Executive Summit
  • Western Union
  • Project Management Institute
  • Fujitsu
  • Nationwide Floor and Window Covering
  • United States Department of Labor
  • New York Life
  • Nestle
  • Tree Care Industry Association
  • Mary Kay
  • World Kitchen
  • KPMG
  • Marriot
  • American Express
  • American Airlines
  • John Hancock
  • Aflac
  • Chase Bank