Gerry Layo is one of the nation’s most dynamic and sought after speakers. Gerry offers world-class keynote addresses, seminars, and workshops throughout North America in the areas of Sales, Sales Leadership, and Customer Service. Gerry comes to his audiences from a unique perspective on the platform today.
“The blue blood of a sales professional runs through my veins. You won’t hear it up here if it isn’t real and applicable out there!” states Layo.
As a top sales professional in a variety of industries, Gerry connects with both salespeople as well as company leaders through his real-world stories, experiences, and lessons. Gerry has been responsible for the growth and development of thousands of salespeople throughout North America through his hands on training workshops, seminars, and consulting programs.
"I have had the great fortune to work with some of the best salespeople in the world today. These are the people who make an IMPACT on the economy of the world. These are the warriors who fight to take their companies, their products, or their services into an ever-changing marketplace. They must be continuously armed with new weapons to fight those battles. I am fortunate to be able to do so through a variety of programs."
Gerry offers his audiences 20 years of street-tested, no-nonsense sales and sales leadership experience. His past includes impressive track records as top producing salesperson for a variety of industries. In addition, Gerry has co-founded and ran three sales based companies, building organizations that grew into multiple offices throughout the nation. Before founding Sales Coach International, Gerry was the VP of Sales and Marketing for publicly traded ITEX where he ran sales and training efforts for over 75 offices worldwide, dramatically increasing growth and profits.
Today, Gerry is recognized as a world-class speaker and author of top selling sales book Smart Selling-You Gotta Open 'Em Before You Can Close 'Em! Gerry is currently being booked throughout the nation for many industry conventions, sales meetings, and other various opportunities. In addition, Gerry is the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) of Sales Coach International where he and a team of highly trained SCI Coaches work with companies throughout North America on their specific company sales and sales management initiatives every month.
"Our Coach Program is making a big IMPACT on our clients as they work with us to stretch their people and systemize greater results from their sales efforts” says Layo. “The greatest part of this program is seeing the results at the end of the month, the quarter, or the year and realizing that our program and our coaches helped our client do a better job to increase their sales and profits!"
Through his extensive sales experience, Gerry has the talent to not only sense what it is that the audience needs to hear, but he also works harder than most on the platform today to make sure that the message is delivered in a way that audience needs to hear it! Gerry’s ability to make audiences turn inward and take full responsibility for their growth and their actions truly make him unique.
Gerry uses a No Excuses-No Blame approach with his audiences so that they look only to themselves for answers (ACTIONS) to today’s tough sales and leadership questions. In doing so, Gerry is a master storyteller with incredibly IMPACTFUL stories, anecdotes, and lessons that will inspire roll on the floor laughter, deep contemplative personal inventory, and heartfelt tears. His audiences typically leave with a sense of empowerment and enthusiasm to take on new actions to make an IMPACT on their lives and their careers.
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