Tony Alessandra

Dr. Tony Alessandra helps companies build customers, relationships, and the bottom-line. Audiences learn how to achieve market dominance through specific strategies designed to outmarket, outsell, and outservice the competition by applying Dr. Alessandra's high-tech and high-touch marketing, sales, service, and relationship building skills.

Tony has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having fought his way out of Hell's Kitchen in NYC to eventually realizing success as a graduate professor of marketing, entrepreneur, business author, and consultant. He offers audiences practical ideas that work and profitable bottom-line results.

Dr. Alessandra earned his MBA from the University of Connecticut and his PhD in marketing from Georgia State University. He was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame in 1985 and is a member of the Speakers Roundtable, a group of 20 of the world's top professional speakers.

Dr. Alessandra is the co-founder of MentorU.com, an online e-learning company of world-class business experts providing training, coaching, and mentoring utilizing the latest Internet technologies.

Dr. Alessandra is a widely published author with 14 books translated into 11 foreign languages including Charisma (Warner Books, 1998); The Platinum Rule (Warner Books, 1996); Collaborative Selling (John Wiley & Sons, 1993); and Communicating at Work (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1993). He is featured in over 50 audio/video programs and films, including Relationship Strategies (American Media); The Dynamics of Effective Listening (Nightingale-Conant); and Non-Manipulative Selling (Walt Disney).

What is it about Tony Alessandra that gets audiences excited? It's really very simple. He reaches people - from the Board of Directors to the front-line folks in the trenches. He gets across new, important information "with a lot of snap" - so people can grasp it, remember it, and use it. Recognized by Meetings and Conventions Magazine as "one of America's most electrifying speakers," Tony's polished style, powerful message and proven ability as a consummate business strategist consistently earns rave reviews.

Speaking Topics
Tony has three signature presentations that form the core of his keynote material. He constantly refreshes his presentations with new, updated material, examples, and stories. Tony constantly works at upgrading his craft as a speaker. He has achieved the highest designations awarded for excellence by the National Speakers Association--the CSP and CPAE. He even took a series of improvisational acting classes at the Old Globe Theater. You will love working with a true pro.

Tony only does about 36 speeches per year so he can dedicate the time, energy, and motivation needed to stay on the cutting edge of his content, to research each and every one of his clients properly, and to adapt his program materials to suit each audience. He stays up-to-date on marketplace trends by subscribing to All Biz Magazine and by reading dozens of business e-zines and books, which he scans for important and timely subject matter to tie into his speeches and Power Point slide presentations.

The Platinum Rule: Relationship Strategies for Connecting with Anyone

Collaborative Selling: How to Gain the Competitive Advantage in Selling

Customer Loyalty: How to Get and Keep Customers...For Life

Client Ovations: "Tony Alessandra's delivery was exceptional. His mix of business ideology and humor was perfect for our audience. It was a tremendous learning experience for our managers, who are eager to apply the "Apostle" principle in the field. Thank you for an outstanding and customized presentation."

Karl Warnke, President ' COO, The Davey Tree Expert Company

The radio business in Seattle has changed. We now need to prospect, sell, and create apostles in our industry. You hit the target right on. Your presentation addressed our needs specifically. In fact, I was most impressed with your personal touch. Talk about customer service! I am thoroughly impressed that you cared about our goals and did everything in your power to make the event a huge success.

Puget Sound Radio Broadcasters Association

I had so many great compliments about your presentation, but more important, your business message, they are too numerous to mention specifically to you.

National Speakers Association

"A great speaker...both his message and his presentation are truly first rate

Gary Duncan, Director of Human Resources, Toys "R" Us - USA

"Our association needed a presenter that had meaty customer relations content and left you laughing. Tony Alessandra fit that to a tee. His approach to customer relations and empowering our members to be in control of the presentation process was the message we needed to hear.

Gene Waddell, Florida Association of Insurance Agents

"Members and guests LOVED you. I received many, many, many unsolicited compliments about you. It's a great feeling for me. Especially, you impressed the more seasoned members of our organization. They are a hard bunch to impress!"

Mary Sandro, Professional Edge

"Dr. Tony Alessandra established immediate rapport with an audience of 225+ sales professionals, demonstrated a pragmatic approach to improving customer satisfaction and retention through collaborative selling and ignited my sales team exactly as I had hoped. Well done and certainly a curtain call is in order!"

Kevin Dougherty, REED Construction Data

"Tony's presentation had real impact. The points he made were not only relevant to our audience; they were delivered in a way to make them memorable and fun. It was great to have such an important topic delivered with punch as well as humor."

Corrine Smith, Black ' Veatch

"I had so many great compliments about your presentation, but more important, your business message, they are too numerous to mention specifically to you!"

Linda Curtin, National Speakers Association

"It is hard to be the first speaker in the morning, especially after the meeting attendees had an "open evening" in Miami the night before. However, you drew people into the room until it was full, and no one even considered leaving."

Alan Nissalke, American Logistics Association

"Your presentation was just what the doctor ordered! The independent financial advisors appreciate practical suggestions on how they can build their practice."

Dave Anders, Integrity Companies

"Tony Alessandra excited our audience! He is a vibrant speaker that uses examples we can all relate as well as to clearly articulate his point. He mixes humor with real world experience and certainly can perk up an audience. His message was relevant to our needs and he does his homework. Not only was he a "Motivational" speaker, but we all can walk away with something that can be applied in our everyday business transactions. Recommend to all, 2 thumbs up!"

Jody Pencek, Baan Americas

"You delivered exactly what I had hoped for after an exhausting and emotional series of prior presenters. Quite a tough act to follow."

Chris Chapman, Pfizer, Inc.

" Your presentation at AIUM in Nashville was fabulous - everything I had hoped and more...There is nothing I would have changed. The overall reaction of the audience was unanimously positive on all fronts. Everybody was enthusiastic and many were still talking about your presentation all the way through the convention. In short - you were a hit!!"

Benacerraf, American Inst. of Ultrasound in Medicine

"Tony Alessandra totally engaged my sales team from minute one. He incorporated our language into his presentation and made the audience believe he understood everything about our business. There were a lot of "take-aways" that will stick with my team for a long time."

Linda Palczuk, AstraZeneca

I think our president said it best..."Of all the speakers we have had, you're the first person to listen to what we had to say and incorporate that into your presentation."

David McCafferty, Carter Lumber Company

"How do you translate typically mundane topics like Customer Loyalty and Embracing Change into a delivery using common words and levity that the entire breadth of an organization can understand and remember? Tony Alessandra. If you hear him once, then you will want to hear him again!"

Greg Wallendar, Thermo Finnigan

"The radio business in Seattle has changed. We now need to prospect, sell, and create apostles in our industry. You hit the target right on. Your presentation addressed our needs specifically. In fact, I was most impressed with your personal touch...Talk about customer service! I am thoroughly impressed that you cared about our goals and did everything in your power to make the event a huge success."

Ann Marie Bobin, Puget Sound Radio Broadcasters Association