The Sweeney Agency

About Dan Clark - Inspirational Speaker and Expert on Teamwork and Sales:

Dan Clark is CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation, an internationally recognized speaker, champion athlete, entertainer, and author. He is the primary contributing author to the best-selling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Dan Clark draws on his experience in the world of sports and business and shares inspirational stories that offer insight into change, motivation, teamwork, and sales.

As a student athlete at the University of Utah, Dan was projected as a #1 draft pick for the NFL's Oakland Raiders. Dan then suffered a paralyzing injury that cut his football career short. Sixteen doctors told him he would not recover, but recover he did.

Dan created a non-profit organization called Tomorrow's Leaders Youth and traveled to schools in Utah to share his story. Soon after, Dan was speaking to every high school and junior high in the State of Utah. College convocations and teacher In-Service programs followed.

After selling the business Dan Clark teamed up with the Leadership Development Institute and wrote the curriculum for and conducted eight, five-day, high school/college student leadership summer camps in five states, every summer for four years.

After being officially recognized by the National Speakers Association, Dan had affiliate offices in the North Pole, Alaska, Texas, Ontario and Connecticut where Dan helped start the Teen Life Center which is still in operation today.

Making the transition from youth and educational speaker to corporate and business consultant was natural as the messages of success remained the same - only the stories and delivery system changed. Dan spent time studying successful businesses and their corporate leaders and interviewing extraordinary individuals to add to his own business experiences.

Dan Clark has flown in fighter jets twice the speed of sound, raced automobiles in Germany and was honored to carry the Olympic Torch in the 2002 Winter Games. He has been the general session speaker at the United Nations World Congress, conducted UN leadership training in Europe, Asia and Russia, and was the keynote speaker at the U.S. Air Force Four Star Generals conference. Dan has spoken to combat troops all over the world, is a Leadership and Character Development Consultant for the US Armed Forces, has worked with Fortune 500 companies, NASA and Super Bowl champions. And years after his injury, Dan was awarded a Super Bowl ring by the Oakland Raiders for inspiring them.

Dan Clark is a former CEO of two successful companies as well as the author of over 40 audio and video training programs. Dan is the primary contributing author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and author of twenty of his own best selling books, including Puppies for Sale which was made into a film starring the late Jack Lemmon. He also authored the highly acclaimed business book Forgotten Fundamentals:The Answers Are in the Box. Dan has been published in more than 30 million books in 30 languages worldwide.

What Dan Clark Talks About:

Forgotten Fundamentals:The Answers Are in the Box
We are told to think outside the box. What if the answers are still in the box? Most complicate their lives and never fulfill their destiny because they think it’s the responsibility of their community and their job to make life exciting and meaningful. They hate their jobs, feel half empty and only look forward to Friday instead of Monday. They think they are paid by the hour, when in reality they are paid for the value they bring to that hour. They think success and happiness are found outside themselves, instead of within.

Consequently, most come to meetings in search of new answers when what we need are the right answers. It’s tough to get right answers from wrong questions. Therefore, to take it to the next level personally and professionally, we should ask, what is possible?. Answers to the right questions are already inside your organization. They are inside of you. When we believe if best is possible, good is not good enough and that personal success is never final, we seek wisdom, inspiration and direction from the best coaches and books.

Be the Change You See in the World
-Self is not discovered, self is created
-The only place from which a person can grow is where he or she is
-When you know what you can do, there is never any question
-When you identify yourself in terms of what you do instead of who you are, you become a human doing instead of a human being
-There is no such thing as a financial crisis, only an idea crisis. Ideas create income.

Outcome Based Return On Investment
Dan’s hilarious quick wit and powerful inspirational stories will stir your people to look inward for solutions, exercise more passion, creativity and imagination, lead, overcome obstacles, focus clearly under pressure and excel where they thought they couldn’t even compete! Your people won’t leave the meeting with another assignment. They already have enough to do! However, they will leave empowered with internal intensity, reenergized to dig deeper inside themselves with revitalized strength to do whatever it takes to succeed. Not because it is expected by others, but because it is demanded of themselves.

Best Or Right? Building a Winning Team
There are professional sports teams with rosters crammed full of the highest paid and best players in the league, and they still lose. The headline after the U.S. basketball Dream Team lost at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, simply read, 680 Million Dollars Couldn’t Win Us A Gold Medal. Why? To win, we need more than the best players – we need the right people. Companies with the best people in their industry are going bankrupt as you read this and they call themselves a team. Why? They coach results instead of behavior. They focus on profits instead of people.

Sales – Shut Up and Dance
Sales is about the process, the presentation, expertise and emotion. In Dance and in Sales, technical perfection is insufficient. In dance and in sales, it's not what you do but who you do it with. Dancing is not about talking. It’s about showing and doing together. In dance you must first learn the dance steps, and then go with the flow, move to the beat and understand the unspoken words your partner is sharing as he/she leads you where they want to go on the floor. Only when the dance is over do you talk (make your presentation) to take it to the next level.

Your people will leave Dan’s session knowing the Ten Deadly Sins that Sabotage Sales including blurring the process with the official presentation, misusing their allotted appointment time and being informative instead of persuasive.