Douglas Smith is president of Douglas Smith & Associates and a nationally known expert on sales and sales leadership. For more than twenty-five years, he has worked in sales, sales management, sales training, marketing, advertising, and strategic business development. Today, Doug delivers more than one hundred seminars, presentations, and sales workshops across the country every year. He invests more than three hundred hours each year studying and researching both company and individual best practices. He has published over two hundred feature articles in national magazines on the art and science of selling. He has personally coached more than 150 sales professionals sharing ideas and approaches to help them achieve greater success. Doug Smith teaches the skill of activation. His style is straightforward, no nonsense, and real world. Doug delivers tangible methods that move people into the green zone of taking immediate action to create immediate results.