Joe Heller

Professional Speaker, High Performance Selling

Joe Heller, Professional Speaker & Marketing Consultant [ www.JoeHeller.com ] Joe has provided insight around issues of accelerated growth, sales operations, business development and market leadership for the past 21 years. He has created $287+ million in sales for businesses in the US over the last decade, built a pipeline of $1.1 billion in acquisition candidates for an industry consolidation and impacted how businesses approach sales globally. Joe has trained sales people from Singapore to Mexico to Canada with audiences ranging from 100 CEOs in Mexico City, MX to 4,000 financial advisors in Kuala Lumpur. He has spoken to Vistage (formally TEC) and EO (formally YPO/YEO) where he addressed business growth strategies and tactical implementation to CEOs. Companies and professional service firms have leverage Joe's ideas to multiply revenues and billings. His sales training, speaking and consulting engagements have taken him throughout the US, ASIA, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America. The breadth of Joe's background includes establishing a regional staffing firm as a key player in the hyper-competitive Houston market and conducting high-level executive searches as a Shareholder & Principal with an east coast retained executive search firm. Joe also produced double-digit sales growth as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for a publicly-traded Internet and Telecommunications company in US, Central and South American Markets. Joe co-founded and grew sales from $0 to $33 million in 3 years as Vice President of Sales for a start-up telecommunications company. He built a $1.1 billion pipeline of acquisition candidates as Business Development Officer for a boutique Investment "Merchant" Bank. In addition, Joe has participated in raising $13.7 million in Venture Capital and involved early stage designing sales planning and operations to launch several multi-million dollar companies. He has served on several corporate and non-profit boards. Joe received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Houston Baptist University in 1987 and later served on HBU's Alumni Association's Board of Directors. Additionally, Joe received his certificate in Mergers and Acquisitions from Rice University's Executive Education Program. Joe co-founded the University of Houston's Program for Excellence in Selling (PES) where he lectured on business growth strategies as an adjunct professor. He is a regularly featured guest on CNN Radio and his articles on growth strategies have been published worldwide in periodicals and on websites such as www.Reuters.com. Putting his success strategies on paper, Joe wrote a 500 page course on effective direct marketing and copywriting strategies and techniques. Finally, Joe resides in Houston, TX and has 3 incredible boys - Joseph III, Andrew, and Nicholas.