Dave Brown

Dave Brown

Keynote Speaker: Co-Founder, Senior Partner & Executive-Level Coach, Southwestern Consulting; Author, "Servant Selling"

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Dave Brown Biography

Dave Brown is a co-founder and Senior Partner at Southwestern Consulting, the world’s leading coaching, training, and speaking company. Brown also serves as VP of Recruiting for Southwestern Coaching, the one-to-one coaching business of Southwestern Consulting, where he leads the recruiting efforts to bring in new certified sales and leadership coaches. As an executive-level coach, elite trainer, and engaging keynote speaker, Brown strives every day to help individuals and organizations reach peak performance.

A record-breaker in every game he plays, Brown was a nine-time Texas state champion in cross country, swimming, track, and basketball and a two-time national champion in cross country and basketball. Following a record-breaking season, he was awarded “Athlete of the Year” for the entire state of Texas. In college, he was an All-American volleyball player who took his team to their first-ever national championship.

Brown began his selling career with Southwestern Advantage, the oldest direct selling company in the nation, finishing first out of 4,000 salespeople year after year. He knocked on over 50,000 cold doors by the time he was twenty-five. Brown continues to hold the record for the most customers ever sold by an individual in a selling season for Southwestern Advantage out of more than 250,000 salespeople who have worked in the program.

At Southwestern Consulting, Brown continues to live what he speaks. He co-leads the highest-producing organization within Southwestern Coaching. Having made over 200,000 business-to-business cold calls himself in the last 20 years, he leads by example. His ideas empower salespeople everywhere with key principles to make selling more rewarding emotionally and financially.

His articles have been published in several nationally recognized blogs and in Speaker Magazine and Sold Magazine. He’s been a guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University and is the author of the audio training Painless Prospecting, the creator of the inspiring video series “42 Days to Prospecting Power,” and the author of the book "Servant Selling."

More than a motivational speaker, Brown’s programs couple mindset change with practical techniques that attendees can implement immediately to get measurable results. Brown empowers people to blow through their belief barriers and achieve unprecedented success.

Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Dave Brown and other top speakers and celebrities.

Dave Brown Speaking Topics

Servant Selling

When many people hear the word salesperson, they think of someone that is manipulative, pushy, or self-interested.

Some salespeople do have unhealthy and unhelpful selling practices. Those behaviors actually cause underperformance and fosters peoples’ negative perceptions of sales.

Other salespeople are so afraid of coming across as manipulative, pushy, or self-interested that they are not confident, clear, or assertive when they need to be, which also leads to diminished sales results.

Being a true sales professional means not being interested in what is in it for you or overly concerned with what someone else thinks of you, but instead being completely focused on the service of others.

Sales—when done right—is service.

As a Senior Partner and vice president of recruiting for the world’s leading coaching, training, and speaking firms, and as someone who has also stayed in the trenches for two decades as a top performing sales professional himself, Dave sees sales as a pure and noble profession. He knows how to help sales people see their career in that light. In this program, your audience will:

  • Identify their own perceptions of sales and how those beliefs affect their behaviors
  • Understand the true meaning of sales
  • Become focused on serving, which actually leads to increased results
  • Learn tangible tools for how to sell differently, making selling more rewarding and productive

When salespeople truly see that selling is a service and behave in alignment with that belief, sales will follow. This program will make sales more fun, rewarding, and natural, leading to better retention of your team members and consistently higher sales results.

Servant Leadership

What leaders want is to have an organization of motivated, productive team members. However, most leaders have never been taught how to truly be servant leaders. Instead of understanding that their role is to serve the people in which they are entrusted and knowing how to lead by putting others first, most leaders are overly focused on driving results. Consequently, they unintentionally create cultures with low morale, high turnover, and decreased production.

As a Senior Partner and vice president of recruiting for the world’s leading coaching, training, and speaking firm, Dave Brown knows how to develop servant leaders who can guide their teams to peak performance.

In this powerful and insightful program, you will learn how to:

  • Help your people see their career as a mission rather than just a paycheck
  • Create meaningful connection through vulnerability
  • Cultivate a culture where people feel like they are growing personally and professionally
  • Give your people significance by always having enough time
  • Build a team that listens, supports, and challenges one another
  • “Excel-orate” your team members, expanding their belief and performance
  • Create a culture where excellence is its own reward

Servant leaders care about their people. They are interested in developing their people and moving them towards their goals and dreams. Servant leaders are builders of people. When you build people, those people build strong organizations.

Painless Prospecting

The Six Remedies for Call Reluctance

A study conducted by psychology researchers found that as many as 80% of salespeople who fail do so because of insufficient prospecting activity. Call reluctance is a serious problem that costs the average salesperson as many as fifteen potential new accounts each month to competitors. Plus, call reluctance can not only be a paralyzing fear for an individual but also contaminate the culture of an organization with low morale, resulting in distraction and loss of focus for an entire team.

In this program, Dave first breaks down the underlying psychological barriers to prospecting and then gives tangible techniques that are proven to help a salesperson overcome fear, improve their confidence, and increase the likelihood of success.

After hearing Dave’s hilarious and relevant speech, your salespeople will learn how to:

  • Free themselves of the fear of prospecting, creative avoidance, and call reluctance
  • Create credibility quickly, making prospecting easier and more effective
  • Remember the names and stories of prospects and clients forever and increase their closing percentages by using third-party selling
  • Have intense focus on their income producing activities
  • Be equipped with more than a dozen practical tools and techniques to increase their prospecting effectiveness • Create unstoppable positive momentum towards their goals in business and life

Dave’s program will improve retention, performance, revenue, and morale by giving your sales people the tools they need to make prospecting painless.

The Answer’s Behind the Next Door

Exploring the Power of Personal Persistence

Burnout, fatigue, setbacks, pressure, resistance. These are just a few of the natural forces that all professionals bump up against every single day in their path to achieve greatness. And far too many of them lose out to these discouraging dynamics because they simply haven’t been educated on the principles that make personal persistence possible. This naturally hurts the performance of teams and companies through increased turnover, decreased job satisfaction, and lower productivity.

In this eye-opening program, Dave Brown, a record-breaking door-to-door salesman, shares the psychology that top performers understand and utilize to get themselves to push on in the face of any challenging situation or circumstance.

Both sales and non-sales audiences will enjoy this powerful presentation that will help them to:

  • Free themselves from the pressure of perfection and to instead become pleasantly persistent in their pursuits
  • Become more customer-centric, service-minded and others-focused
  • Engage in healthy competition rather than negative comparison
  • Continue on in the midst of challenges and setbacks

Most of all, attendees will learn the secret psychology of persistence and how to break through the invisible barriers that hold you back from doing what it takes to achieve your goals in life.

Custom Training

Dave has expertise across a broad array of different types of sales models, including:

  • Business-to-business
  • Business-to-consumer
  • High-dollar
  • Low-dollar
  • Face-to-face
  • Over the phone
  • Short-term transactional
  • Long-term relationship

He has done tens of thousands of one-on-one meetings and group presentations. Dave continues to hold the record for the most customers ever sold by an individual in a selling season for Southwestern Advantage, out of more than 250,000 salespeople who have worked in the program.

At Southwestern Consulting, Dave continues to live what he speaks. He co-leads the highest producing organization within Southwestern Coaching. Having made over 200,000 business-to-business cold calls himself in the last 20 years, he leads by example. His ideas empower salespeople everywhere with key principles to make selling more rewarding emotionally and financially.

Dave’s knowledge and expertise allows him to tailor sales training programs to meet the needs of any organization.

Training Topics include:

  • Handling objections with ease
  • Generating unlimited referrals
  • Top producer mindset and building belief
  • Daily preparation for maximizing time
  • Non-verbal selling techniques
  • The power of self-talk

And more!

Dave Brown Videos

Dave Brown - Speaker Demo

How do I book Dave Brown to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Dave Brown for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Dave Brown, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Dave Brown or any other speaker of your choice.

How much does it cost to book Dave Brown for a speaking engagement?

Speaking fees for Dave Brown, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Dave Brown are $10,000 - $20,000 for live events and Below $10,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Dave Brown, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.

What topics does Dave Brown speak about?

Dave Brown is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Business, Business Leadership, Marketing, Business Growth, Sales, Customer Experience, Education, Leadership and Workshop.

Where does Dave Brown travel from?

Dave Brown generally travels from Tennessee, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

Who is the agent for Dave Brown?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Dave Brown for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Dave Brown for your next private or corporate function.

What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Dave Brown or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.

Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.


Dave Brown is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Business, Business Leadership and Marketing. The estimated speaking fee range to book Dave Brown for live events is $10,000 - $20,000, and for virtual events Below $10,000. Dave Brown generally travels from Tennessee, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Libby Gill, Don Peppers and Matt Oechsli. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Dave Brown for an upcoming event.

Dave Brown Speaking Topics

  • Servant Selling

    When many people hear the word salesperson, they think of someone that is manipulative, pushy, or self-interested.

    Some salespeople do have unhealthy and unhelpful selling practices. Those behaviors actually cause underperformance and fosters peoples’ negative perceptions of sales.

    Other salespeople are so afraid of coming across as manipulative, pushy, or self-interested that they are not confident, clear, or assertive when they need to be, which also leads to diminished sales results.

    Being a true sales professional means not being interested in what is in it for you or overly concerned with what someone else thinks of you, but instead being completely focused on the service of others.

    Sales—when done right—is service.

    As a Senior Partner and vice president of recruiting for the world’s leading coaching, training, and speaking firms, and as someone who has also stayed in the trenches for two decades as a top performing sales professional himself, Dave sees sales as a pure and noble profession. He knows how to help sales people see their career in that light. In this program, your audience will:

    • Identify their own perceptions of sales and how those beliefs affect their behaviors
    • Understand the true meaning of sales
    • Become focused on serving, which actually leads to increased results
    • Learn tangible tools for how to sell differently, making selling more rewarding and productive

    When salespeople truly see that selling is a service and behave in alignment with that belief, sales will follow. This program will make sales more fun, rewarding, and natural, leading to better retention of your team members and consistently higher sales results.

  • Servant Leadership

    What leaders want is to have an organization of motivated, productive team members. However, most leaders have never been taught how to truly be servant leaders. Instead of understanding that their role is to serve the people in which they are entrusted and knowing how to lead by putting others first, most leaders are overly focused on driving results. Consequently, they unintentionally create cultures with low morale, high turnover, and decreased production.

    As a Senior Partner and vice president of recruiting for the world’s leading coaching, training, and speaking firm, Dave Brown knows how to develop servant leaders who can guide their teams to peak performance.

    In this powerful and insightful program, you will learn how to:

    • Help your people see their career as a mission rather than just a paycheck
    • Create meaningful connection through vulnerability
    • Cultivate a culture where people feel like they are growing personally and professionally
    • Give your people significance by always having enough time
    • Build a team that listens, supports, and challenges one another
    • “Excel-orate” your team members, expanding their belief and performance
    • Create a culture where excellence is its own reward

    Servant leaders care about their people. They are interested in developing their people and moving them towards their goals and dreams. Servant leaders are builders of people. When you build people, those people build strong organizations.

  • Painless Prospecting

    The Six Remedies for Call Reluctance

    A study conducted by psychology researchers found that as many as 80% of salespeople who fail do so because of insufficient prospecting activity. Call reluctance is a serious problem that costs the average salesperson as many as fifteen potential new accounts each month to competitors. Plus, call reluctance can not only be a paralyzing fear for an individual but also contaminate the culture of an organization with low morale, resulting in distraction and loss of focus for an entire team.

    In this program, Dave first breaks down the underlying psychological barriers to prospecting and then gives tangible techniques that are proven to help a salesperson overcome fear, improve their confidence, and increase the likelihood of success.

    After hearing Dave’s hilarious and relevant speech, your salespeople will learn how to:

    • Free themselves of the fear of prospecting, creative avoidance, and call reluctance
    • Create credibility quickly, making prospecting easier and more effective
    • Remember the names and stories of prospects and clients forever and increase their closing percentages by using third-party selling
    • Have intense focus on their income producing activities
    • Be equipped with more than a dozen practical tools and techniques to increase their prospecting effectiveness • Create unstoppable positive momentum towards their goals in business and life

    Dave’s program will improve retention, performance, revenue, and morale by giving your sales people the tools they need to make prospecting painless.

  • The Answer’s Behind the Next Door

    Exploring the Power of Personal Persistence

    Burnout, fatigue, setbacks, pressure, resistance. These are just a few of the natural forces that all professionals bump up against every single day in their path to achieve greatness. And far too many of them lose out to these discouraging dynamics because they simply haven’t been educated on the principles that make personal persistence possible. This naturally hurts the performance of teams and companies through increased turnover, decreased job satisfaction, and lower productivity.

    In this eye-opening program, Dave Brown, a record-breaking door-to-door salesman, shares the psychology that top performers understand and utilize to get themselves to push on in the face of any challenging situation or circumstance.

    Both sales and non-sales audiences will enjoy this powerful presentation that will help them to:

    • Free themselves from the pressure of perfection and to instead become pleasantly persistent in their pursuits
    • Become more customer-centric, service-minded and others-focused
    • Engage in healthy competition rather than negative comparison
    • Continue on in the midst of challenges and setbacks

    Most of all, attendees will learn the secret psychology of persistence and how to break through the invisible barriers that hold you back from doing what it takes to achieve your goals in life.

  • Custom Training

    Dave has expertise across a broad array of different types of sales models, including:

    • Business-to-business
    • Business-to-consumer
    • High-dollar
    • Low-dollar
    • Face-to-face
    • Over the phone
    • Short-term transactional
    • Long-term relationship

    He has done tens of thousands of one-on-one meetings and group presentations. Dave continues to hold the record for the most customers ever sold by an individual in a selling season for Southwestern Advantage, out of more than 250,000 salespeople who have worked in the program.

    At Southwestern Consulting, Dave continues to live what he speaks. He co-leads the highest producing organization within Southwestern Coaching. Having made over 200,000 business-to-business cold calls himself in the last 20 years, he leads by example. His ideas empower salespeople everywhere with key principles to make selling more rewarding emotionally and financially.

    Dave’s knowledge and expertise allows him to tailor sales training programs to meet the needs of any organization.

    Training Topics include:

    • Handling objections with ease
    • Generating unlimited referrals
    • Top producer mindset and building belief
    • Daily preparation for maximizing time
    • Non-verbal selling techniques
    • The power of self-talk

    And more!

Dave Brown Videos

Dave Brown - Speaker Demo
  • How do I book Dave Brown to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Dave Brown for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Dave Brown, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Dave Brown or any other speaker of your choice.
  • How much does it cost to book Dave Brown for a speaking engagement?

    Speaking fees for Dave Brown, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Dave Brown are $10,000 - $20,000 for live events and Below $10,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Dave Brown, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Dave Brown speak about?

    Dave Brown is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Business, Business Leadership, Marketing, Business Growth, Sales, Customer Experience, Education, Leadership and Workshop.
  • Where does Dave Brown travel from?

    Dave Brown generally travels from Tennessee, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
  • Who is the agent for Dave Brown?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Dave Brown for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Dave Brown for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Dave Brown or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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