Susan Ershler Speaking Fee, Schedule, Bio & Contact Details

Susan Ershler

History-Making Mountain Climber, Business Executive, International Speaker and Bestselling Author

Susan Ershler

Biography

As a history-making mountain climber, business executive and bestselling author, Susan Ershler inspires audiences to challenge their perceived limitations and reach new heights of business and personal success. Susan Ershler tours the world speaking about her life journey and sharing with others hersecrets for success, determination, and achieving seemingly impossible goals. Susan's record would be remarkable enough if it only detailed her business achievements. During her 23-year corporate career, she has held a series of increasingly responsible executive positions in the sales divisions of Fortune 500 companies including Verizon, CenturyLink, United Technologies, and FedEx. She's led teams to sales records, beating objectives from $1 million to $600 million, ultimately as a Vice President. Along the way, she earned 11 annual President's Club awards - for leading teams to top performance.During that era of corporate achievement, she, and her husband Phil, were climbing the Seven Summits - the highest mountain on each of the world's the seven continents. That remarkable journey culminated at the top of Mount Everest on May 16, 2002. With that climb, she and Phil became the first couple in history to climb the Seven Summits. That feat earned them world-wide media attention, including Good Morning America, CNN, the Today Show, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and many others. In her first acclaimed book, Together on Top of the World; The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits, Susan shared her remarkable Everest adventure and the life lessons she learned on the mountain. Now, in her latest book, Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales: From Everest to Every Business, Achieving Peak Performance (published by HarperCollins), Susan examines the habits of success anyone can master to achieve peak performance in selling, business and leadership, using the same techniques and determination that empowered her to climb the world's highest mountains.

Susan delivered her inspiring presentation to over 300 of our sales managers and the results were outstanding. Susan's message proves that any goal, no matter how difficult it may be, can be achieved through proper planning and determination.

Aflac

Sue weaved a captivating story of reaching summits and exceptional sales goals that inspired our customers and partners to take on bigger challenges and face them head on. She gained instant credibility with the audience, having walked in our shoes.

Attenex Corp.

Susan's ability to relate the challenges, risks and rewards of climbing to the business world were invaluable. As we set out to reach new peaks, we will reflect upon her words of encouragement and structured approach to reaching our goals.

IBM

Sue's presentation was an outstanding story where we shared the excitement of her journey to the summit and how this experience is related to our business, specifically in terms of setting goals and teamwork. She is truly an inspiration for all of us!

Microsoft

The feedback from our customers was overwhelmingly positive, citing both an entertaining and aspirational experience. Susan has the highest recommendation from us.

Westinghouse

Susan's presentation was extremely well-received by our management team. It was very beneficial as she took them through her goal setting process, gave them a good idea of the discipline required. Perhaps the most important part was her determination.

Safeco

I strongly recommend Susan to all of your clients.

Fluke-Danaher

Excellent speaker, inspiring, motivational and relevant . . .

Blue Cross (Premera)

Thanks for an absolutely fantastic presentation at our Luncheon. As they were leaving, our guests one after another kept saying, 'This was the best presentation ever.' So we're very pleased . . .

Bank Calumet

I wanted to tell you how many great comments I received about your presentation. Your boundless enthusiasm only adds to a truly great story & inspirational message. If you ever need a reference for anyone considering your presentation, have them call me.

DLR Group

Your presentation was absolutely fantastic, and you made a lot of friends in Olympia. I have to tell you that you really made my day as program chair because I have been receiving compliment after compliment about what a great program I secured.

Washington Supreme Court

Susan's client list comprises several Fortune & Global 500 corporations: Aflac, AT&T, Bellsouth, Boeing, Chevron Texaco, Cisco Systems, Danaher, FedEx, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Nike, Novartis, Northwestern Mutual, Qualcomm, Safeco, Shell, UBS, Unilever, and Wells Fargo, as well as, mid-size corporations to start ups

Past client list

We thoroughly enjoyed having you speak to our Sales and Marketing teams this week. Thank you for taking the time to understand our organization and personalize your message to those needs. The impact your discussion had on our group was immediate.

Ecova

You were quite the success with our audience. Meeting you and hearing your story gives me a renewed sense of self and focus. You change people. And that is something truly noble. Thanks again for everything.

Avid Worldwide Sales Kickoff

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