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"BEAT YESTERDAY proves again that Coughlin has incredible passion for teaching people how to succeed over the long term and is the best at what he does!" - Jason Jennings, NY Times bestselling author of, It's Not The Big That Eat The Small – It's The Fast That Eat The Slow, Less Is More, Think BIG-Act Small and The Reinventors.
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Below are just a few of the testimonials from Dan Coughlin's many clients. For a more complete list, click here.
McDonald's Corporation
"Dear Dan, I want to thank you once again for your compelling presentation to our East Division leadership group of franchisees and staff at our 2011 Division Leadership Council meeting. All of us agreed that we walked away with a refreshed enthusiasm around how we can accelerate our impact as leaders. One of the most insightful concepts from my perspective was the idea of owning our leadership styles versus trying to be chameleons. It's not about trying to be everything to everyone, but instead it's imperative to listen, engage, be transparent and collaborate to drive results. In addition, the idea that 'great business leaders are great historians' - meaning we need to remember what and who got us to where we are today - really resonated with me and I think the reminder was key for everyone in the room. Your simple, actionable direction re-grounded us and reminded us to focus on what we're all trying to achieve. Thank you for sharing your insights and spending the afternoon with our leaders."
Karen King McDonald's USA East Division President
GE
"Dan, I want to thank you for the tremendous job you did presenting at our recent GE Capital Retail Finance HR Leadership meeting. Your session, "Accelerate Your Strengths: Practical Ideas to Boost Business Momentum", provided numerous insights for the team to work on personally, and actionable ideas for them to take back and implement into the organization. The extensive pre-session research you conducted into our organization prior to our June 16, 2010 meeting proved to be a great investment of your time. In addition to our conversations, you spoke with 12 members of our group on the phone, received e-mail input from more than 25 attendees, and spent five hours at our Merriam, Kansas site to learn more about the Retail Finance business. You were able to take learnings from those interactions and seamlessly weave them into your session, which made it all the more impactful."
Cynthia Tragge-Lakra GE Capital Retail Finance Senior Vice-President Human Resources
Toyota
"Dan, on behalf of the entire Toyota Financial Services Team, I'd like to personally thank you for your keynote presentation at this year's National Sales Conference. You left an outstanding impression on everyone you worked with at TFS. Your passion, follow-up and attention to detail are tremendous and helped to make this year's sales conference a success. In fact, in the feedback survey from the conference attendees, we received excellent remarks on your efforts. Thank you again for your personal commitment to accelerating TFS to even greater levels of success! Oh yes, driven by the enthusiasm generated from the sales conference, we had the best all-time month in sales of both finance and insurance products! It was great and you helped 'accelerate' us to get there!"
Dave Pelliccioni Toyota Financial Services Group Vice-President Sales and Marketing
Marriott International
"It has been a few weeks since our Sales and Revenue Leaders meeting. As I've been speaking with members of my team around the region, I've heard them say things like, I tried my new influence skills based on the buyers personality type, and I used the agenda Dan showed us for my last meeting and I had great results. I thought I would share this with you because the sign of a great class is when people put the learnings into action. Your scores from our training survey were fabulous 5's across the board. I don't think I have ever seen such consistent scores with outstanding comments."
Nancy McHenry Marriott International Regional Vice-President Sales and Marketing
The Coca-Cola Company
"Dan, just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your keynote address at the Denny's Franchisee Association (DFA) annual meeting in Maui. You delivered on your opening promise that your keynote would provide all of the attendees with some practical, user-friendly ideas that everyone can use right away to improve results for their respective organizations. You gave the audience a variety of practical and powerful ideas that we can all turn to and use at any time to strengthen our thinking time, enthusiasm, and sense of purpose. You also shared some useful ideas on continuous improvement; most notably, the importance of stopping less effective action on a lot of good activities in order to focus time and energy on the few great activities that will have the greatest positive impact on our most important desired business outcomes. Additionally, you reminded us all of the importance of really collaborating in order to improve sustainable business results. It was wonderful meeting you and thanks again for a powerful and useful keynote speech."
Charlita Stephens-Walker The Coca-Cola Company National Sales Account Director
Anheuser-Busch InBev
"When I first met with Dan Coughlin to talk about my team, I had no idea what I was getting into. I was surprised and ecstatic with the depth of research Dan used to plan our day-long seminar on leadership. The day flew by thanks to Dan's enthusiasm, willingness to listen, and the diverse plan of activities. Dan has a very simple approach to leadership and provided my team with some good, repeatable strategies to improve performance. The feedback I have received has been all positive. I look forward to working together with Dan in the future."
Greg Suellentrop Anheuser-Busch InBev North American Zone Director
Early Warning Services, LLC
"Dan, thank you for sharing your expertise with our attendees at the 2012 Early Warning Summit. It was due to the high quality of speakers like yourself that helped make our event a success. We appreciate the time you took to research our industry and audience to develop a customized, outcome-focused presentation. Because of this research, your hand outs and interactive discussions, your session provided practical and relevant value to the audience members. Once again, we want to thank you for your participation."
