Biography

Dieter Hertling is a nationally reconized motivational sales and customer service trainer and speaker.   He offers unique and customized sessions to groups of 50 to 15,000 nationwide.  With strengths in adult motivation, teambuilding and customer service, Dieter's unique style and amazing sense of humor will complement any event.  Dieter has been compared to many of the sales and motivational masters including Tony Robins, Zig Ziglar and Todd Duncan. 

Dieter Hertling started speaking and training at a very young age. As the Valedictorian of his high school he facilitated his first motivational speech and never looked back. As a former top sales producer in the financial services industry, Dieter’s unique selling proposition was that of “an educator and motivator of his business partners.” Dieter then moved on to pursue his passion for motivating and inspiring others, and quickly worked his way up the ranks of the corporate learning and development space.

Having held Chief Learning Officer and Director level positions with IndyMac Bank, AHM Investment Corporation and Citigroup, Dieter has built world-class learning platforms supporting in excess of 20,000 employees. He has been recognized by Training Magazine and professional colleagues as one of the top 100 learning executives in the world for his innovation and leadership, along with his dynamic and engaging platform skills. In 2011, Dieter was recognized by social media giant, LinkedIn™ as one of the "Top Five Recommended People in the World,” and holds numerous training and executive coaching certifications/accreditations through the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), The International Society of Performance Improvement (ISPI), Achieve Global and DDI. Dieter holds a BS from Western Washington University and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Dieter has facilitated literally thousands of keynote, team-building and training events to diverse audience groups, from 50 to 15,000, worldwide and is a member of the highly-acclaimed, Speaker Match Speakers Bureau.

Dieter resides in Seattle, Washington with his wife and three children. He is an avid offshore sailor and in his off time, can be found sailing the pristine waters of the Pacific North-west and the Caribbean.

Along with the facilitation of powerful and energetic corporate change, sales performance and customer service programs, Dieter is also recognized as one of the nation's top career coaches. His new program, Career Search Strategies 2.0 was recently rated as the #1 Job Search Program in a professional opinion survey on LinkedIn.  You can learn more about this full-day program for professionals engaged in the job search at www.emprovegroup.com.

Dieter is available for 60-120 minute keynote speeches, team-building events, executive retreats and 1-3 day workshops.  Please view Dieter's complete bio and services overview via the links below.

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TOPICS

While all of Dieter's programs are heavily customized to align with your meeting goals and objectives, Dieter's core messages are related to:

• Sales Performance
  
• Change Management
  
• Customer Excellence
  
• Presentation/Public Speaking Skills
  
• Career Search Strategies
  
• Train-the-Trainer Boot Camps
  
• Leadership Development

Sample Client Endorsements - View more on Dieter's LinkedIn Profile or request his Client Testimonials Portfolio, comprised of hundreds of endorsements from the participants, clients and events he has recently inspired!

 "The training was the best I had ever been to. I thought the training was going to be one of those times where you would try not to fall asleep. Boy was I wrong. I didn't even want to blink because I didn't want to miss anything. I could probably sit there for days listening to Dieter."

"The entire day was an uplifting experience. It's been a very long time since I sat for five hours at a company or outside industry program and was never bored for even a minute. Dieter is not only a "one man show" but he has the ability to get his message across in such a manner that you don't realize how much you have learned until after the laughter stops. "