Bio for Ed Rigsbee
Ed
Rigsbee, Certified Speaking Professional, will help your
organization to Elevate
Your Business Relationships from Ordinary to ExtraordinaryHe is the President
of Rigsbee Research. He is a nationally recognized
expert on strategic alliance development, implementation, and ROI; with a marketing
sub-specialty. Resulting from his extensive research in the
area of strategic alliances, he created the Total Organizational
Partnering System (TOPS) that he reefers to as the Star of Success.
He is the author of the following books:
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PartnerShift-How
to Profit from the Partnering Trend
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Developing
Strategic Alliances
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The
Art of Partnering
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Kids,
Parents & Soccer
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Customer
Service Screw Ups-Learn from the Mistakes of Others (Forthcoming)
With more than 1,500 published
articles to his credit, Rigsbee continues to be a regular contributor to business, trade and
professional publications throughout North America. He has been an
adjunct professor for both the Universities of California at Santa Barbara and
California Lutheran University. Further, he has served as a Dun & Bradstreet Foundation trainer
delivering full-day; sales, customer service, teambuilding, and management seminars across the USA.
Ed brings
extensive sales, marketing and strategic management expertise to the platform
along with his current research work.
He shares his real-world experiences; from retail and sales management positions,
his work in the hospitality industry, his work in distribution and as owner of a manufacturer representative firm.
His presentations, based on the idea of a mutually
beneficial partnering philosophy have evolved through his years of research and
teaching management, marketing, and selling skills.
What has earned Rigsbee favor with corporations and national associations throughout North
America is his ability to synthesize industry specific information along with
proven success strategies and offer workable organizational and industry-wide
solutions.
Ed and his wife Regina have two
sons, Ryan and Jonathan. They have been married and resided in Thousand Oaks, CA since 1974.
Besides
his speaking, writing and consulting activities, he enjoys snow skiing and scuba diving.
Ed has been an active member of the
National Speakers Association since 1988 and holds the Certified Speaking
Professional (CSP) designation, one that less than 10% of the International
Federation membership holds.
In 1999, he founded an annual fund raising party at
the National Speakers Association's
annual convention that has, to date, given over $225,000 to the National Speakers
Association Foundation's
Professional Speakers Benefit Fund, the Hereditary Disease
Foundation's Laura's Hope project, and others. The event has now grown into an IRS
recognized 501 (c) (3) public charity, Cigar PEG, Inc., of which Ed is the
president and
executive director.
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Speaker Introduction
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Rigsbee Enterprises, Inc.,
Established 1981
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