For Meeting Planners, Sales Leaders & Industry Sales Groups

Relationships are the last competitive advantage.

AI can explain your product. It can't create trust. Today's buyers arrive informed, researched, compared and AI-briefed. They don't need another presentation. They need confidence that your salesperson understands them, their business and what's really at stake.

Don's Framework

The Hidden Conversations

Every sales conversation has two conversations — the one spoken out loud, and the one running underneath it.

Victim

Everyone defends.
Defensive · Suspicious · Reactive
Trust Breaks Down

Villain

One side pressures. The other resists.
Manipulative · Urgent · Transactional
Trust Breaks Down

Hero

Neither side plays the victim.
Curious · Collaborative · Transparent
Trust Builds
The Shift

It's not about eliminating challenges. It's about refusing to let victim thoughts run the conversation.

What Changes After Don Speaks

Today's buyer has already done the research. What they haven't done is decide whether to trust you.

Build the Experience Your Sales Meeting Needs

Keynote. Breakout. Executive Session.

He's already in front of your sales team — put the day to full use.

Signature Keynote

The Emotional Edge

Why Relationships Have Become the Last Competitive Advantage

A highly interactive keynote revealing the emotional conversation behind every sale — and how trust, curiosity and human connection create commitment. Don shows the room exactly which Victim, Villain, or Hero story is running underneath their own deals — and how to shift it.

Interactive Breakout

Mastering the Emotional Energy of Partnerships

Turn better conversations into stronger business relationships.

Goes deeper into the stories, assumptions and emotional dynamics that shape customers, teams, channel partners and other critical relationships. Creates win-win partnerships where there's an emotional desire to support each other.

Executive Session

Sales Commission Agreements That Keep You Out of Court

The legal traps hiding in sales compensation plans.

This is where Don whips out his legal expertise. A practical executive briefing for leaders responsible for commission plans — covering clarity, disputes, changes, termination issues and costly drafting mistakes.

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Years on the Human Side of Business
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Company Built & Sold
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Professionals Reached
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From the Room

“Don presented his program The 40//40 Solution for Leadership and Engagement for our Fall Summit. Wonderful feedback and survey results. Our membership always thanks us when we bring Don to speak and consistently asks us to have him come back.”

Preston Diamond, Managing Director, Institute of WorkComp Professionals

“Don has a way of breaking down the complex emotional energy in relationships to basic, common-sense, matter-of-fact thinking. The best takeaway from the 40//40 is the space for co-creation. When living in the 40//40, teamwork and sales are fostered.”

Don Mader, CEO, Southeastern Printing

“It is rare when a speaker can have such a powerful effect simultaneously on doctors, assistants, and office managers. His presentation is talked about almost continually and has allowed all of us to be more successful in creating team cohesion and strength.”

Sanford M. Fisch, CEO & Co-Founder, American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys

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