Dwain H. Celistan, has spent over 25 years helping people from all walks of life step into their greatness. His corporate and educational background has made him one of the top speakers and trainers in the U.S.

Dwain speaks from a background of an executive recruiter, coach and former corporate executive.  Prior to recruiting and coaching Dwain held senior Marketing, Sales and General Management positions for: Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Nabisco, Coors Brewing, Alcoa, Newell Rubbermaid and Sears Holdings.  His experience includes roles as Vice-President of Marketing and Sales with a staff of nearly 100 professionals and budget of ~$100MM, and as a Senior Vice-President of Marketing for a $1B division.   He has led teams that reversed business declines in several categories and countries.  His team has also accelerated business growth as well.

As a recruiter and coach, he works across industries with CEOs and senior leaders to grow businesses, identify great talent and motivate talent to improve performance.  This has proven to be a powerful combination of theory and experience.

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Dwain has published three books, “5 Simple Steps to Achieving Your Dreams”. This is a guide to help the reader convert their dreams into behaviors. His second book is “College Students 6 Steps to Achieve Your Dreams”. This is focused on the journey from the academic environment to the next chapter(s) of your life. “You’re Hired, Actions to Get and Keep the Job You Love” is designed to help those seeking new positions (actively or passively) and provides actions to maintain those roles.

Dwain’s motto is “make it happen”. Take action to realize life’s potential and not wait for it to happen to you.

His presentations are meant to stimulate the audience to action.  The goal is to provide the audience with at least 3 ideas that they can implement, some within 24 hours. 

Featured Topics are... 

Six proven ideas to build your business…even in a down economy
This is an interactive presentation designed to share several proven ideas that have led to double digit growth.  It stimulates the audience to think about the approaches and how they might be employed in an organization. 

The ideas span across marketing, sales and human resource initiatives.  Thus it is an interdisciplinary approach to success.

This presentation shares successes in the marketplace.  Thus, attendees can pose queries and delve into some of the areas of discussion.

Diversity of Leadership Works
In many instances, diversity is considered “the right thing to do” or “community service”. This presentation provides a case study of a more diverse leadership team dramatically impacting revenues, profits and stock price of a $2B company.

This presentation shares the pre and post of an actual company.  It strips out the theory and provides facts from an insider’s perspective.

The learning objective for participants is that while a diverse group may be more challenging to lead, the benefits can be enormous.  These are benefits that key stakeholders—stockholders, Board members—are most interested in realizing.

Change Happens
This provides an interactive presentation on change with the audience.  Most important, it speaks to the aspects of change we control.

The goal is to help the audience realize how they can positively impact change.  Grab the power and use it to manage change favorably.

Each audience member leaves with a couple of tools and actions to help them as they work through a changing environment.

Six Ways to Raise Performance and Improve Your Productivity  
This presentation has helped many executives and professionals focus on key areas to improve.  They are able to relate to the examples and can be begin to develop solutions to solve or seek assistance.  It covers a number of critical areas that enable success.

Learning objectives:  actively participate and learn about key areas of performance.  Use this as a basis to compare with current state and begin to move toward improvement.

Achieve More Goals…Five Simple Steps
This is a presentation that shares a means to realize your dreams.  The session provides a process to go from ideas to a focused plan.

The presentation takes the 5 steps and defines them in an interactive way with the group.  It can then be linked to academic excellence.

Learning objectives:  how do I translate success in the academic arena to success outside?  This provides a means with examples and interaction of how it can be done regardless of your goals. 

All presentations will have a learning guide!

A few other topics are:

You're promoted, now what?
Turn your dreams into your dream job
5 keys to effective networking
Brand turnarounds, 7 ways to reverse a declining business

What clients and audience members are saying...

“…your insightful interactive presentation had everyone asking for more.”
Dave Otto, President of ENG

“This was a memorable conference and we would like to congratulate you on your packed session of over 70 attendees. Additionally, we are pleased to report that the feedback on your session has been extremely positive.”
Texas LEAD conference co-chairs for the National Black MBA and National Society of Hispanic MBAs

You can find more on Dwain's website at www.coachdwain.com

Recent Speaking Engagements:

Executive Groups:
AXA
Dell, Inc
Plainfield Chamber of Commerce
Executive Networking Group
Food Networking Group
Lee Hecht Harrison
Drake Beam Morin
National Black MBA Assn
National Society of Hispanic MBAs
ChemPharma Group
Food Networking Group

Educational Institutions:
Clark Atlanta University
Georgetown University
Rice University
University of Houston
Texas Southern University
University of Sheffield (UK)
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Alumni
Westwood Colleges
Assorted Chicago Public (AUSL) Schools—High School and Middle Schools

Other:
DuPage County Economic Empowerment Conference
How to Create a Life Worth Living Blueprint Workshop
Assorted radio programs
Teleseminars
Sales and Marketing Networking Group
92.3 Chicago radio station on-air interview
National Urban League National Convention

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