Printable Biography of Mark David

 As a keynote speaker, and executive coach for companies like AT&T, Nextel, Lucent, Qwest, Genentech, GTE and Charles Schwab, Mark has helped thousands of individuals reach their highest potential. Mark's success as a keynote speaker led him to venture into one-on-one coaching and customized training development. He is known in corporate circles as "the Coach with a real-world approach."

Biography

Mark David started his sales career in 1967, at the age of 20, as a Sales Professional for Smith, Corona, Marchant Corporation in New York City. After 10 years spent gaining sales experience from the ground up ... Mark started to move corporate mountains!

In the late 70's, Mark accepted a position with Executone South Bay as Vice President of Sales/Partner. He played a key role in restructuring Executone's sales force and ended up building the company into such an enormous success that Honeywell Industries purchased it.

Looking for further challenges, Mark then took on the position of Vice President- Sales/Partner at Day & Night Telephone. While there, Mark used his creative sales strategies to increase company profits tremendously. This led to the company being Purchased by industry giant, Pacific Telephone.

In the mid 80's, Mark joined Business Communications Services, a company focused solely on service. He broadened its scope to encompass both service and sales, and the company was later purchased by TIE Corporation.

Mark took these startup companies and by applying his keen instinct, hands-on sales experience and business expertise, turned them into tremendous success stories. This well-rounded combination of talents provided the solid platform for Mark to pursue his true desire... to help both companies and individuals reach their highest potential.

In 1987, Mark founded Accelerated Business Concepts, a training company. His initial success as a keynote speaker quickly led him to venture into one-on-one coaching and customized training development. Then, in 1991, Mark launched his publishing career With the introduction of several of his productivity tools. The Self-Manager Development Program, the Personal Business Plan, the Eye Chart Focusing Program and the Habit-Making Cards were created to give managers the coaching tools they need to grow, develop and hold their teams accountable to achieving success.

Since then, Mark has authored a complete line of Sales and Management productivity tools and has become known as "the Coach with a real-world approach." In 1994, the company was renamed The Mark David Company. Then, after experiencing a period of tremendous growth, the company was transformed from a sole proprietorship to a corporation in 1997.

The Mark David Corporation proudly offers a logical approach to human development. With over 30 years of sales, management, coaching and training experience, Mark David develops all of his programs from the results of his research and testing in the field. This provides his clients with practical tools and concepts that are actually three to five years ahead of their time.