Exhibit Staff Training - Trade show training, exhibit staff training and more!

The Hill Group's trainers are the best in the business. They are experts in delivering our workshops and they bring their own years of experience in event marketing, sales and training to you. Over the years, every client has gladly been a reference for our exhibit staff training services and sales training workshops.

Matthew Hill (Trainer) President of The Hill Group, has been providing sales and marketing productivity solutions to his clients for over 15 years. He is an experienced sales and marketing consultant, trainer, facilitator, and speaker. Matt's most recent book, Trade Show Survival Guide, Second Edition, was published in August 1997. Prior to founding The Hill Group, Matt was a marketing executive at Xerox Corporation in the Engineering and Graphic Products division for four years. Other responsibilities at Xerox included training his team in strategic planning and problem solving. His career in sales spans over 20 years and includes managing a four million dollar, 250 person retail merchandise operation. Matt holds a B.A. degree in psychology from California State University, Northridge.

Candace Adams - #1 Rated Speaker at Exhibitor Show 2001! (Trainer & Coach) is President of Trade Show Consulting in San Diego, California. She provides both exhibitors and associations with strategic planning and hands-on logistic services to maximize the impact of corporate event marketing. Candy served from 1995 through 1999 on the Exhibitor Show Conference Advisory Board and has been a highly rated speaker at every Exhibitor Show since 1995. She maintains three trade show industry certifications: the Certified Trade Show Marketer (CTSM) designation earned jointly through the Exhibitor Show and San Francisco State University, Certified Manager of Exhibits (CME) from the Trade Show Exhibitors Association and Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) through the Convention Industry Council. Candy has also completed the Event Management certification program at University of California - San Diego. As Program Coordinator and faculty member at the University of California San Diego for the 40-hour course, Trade Shows and Exhibit Specialist Program, Advisory Board and faculty member for the Exhibits and Trade Show Program at Cal State Fullerton, and Advisory Board member for the Meeting and Event Planning program at Cal State San Marcos, Candy maintains a strong Southern California training presence. In 1999, Candy was named to the Editorial Advisory Board of Exhibitor Magazine. She also writes a bi-monthly column, "Exhibiting 101", for Exhibitor and contributes a monthly column, "Advice from the Booth Mom", to Exhibit City News. In October, 2003, Candy was selected by Trade Show Week as one of the "25 Most Influential Women to Know". Congratulations Candy!

Philip Roybal (Trainer & Coach) is the founder of Roybal Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the communication of ideas through presentations and trade shows. He has developed several training programs, including: Visual Persuasion a workshop in collateral design; The Sales Game a sales training and review tool; and How to Get the Most From Your Trade Show Investment a workshop for trade show managers. Phil has done sales and trade show training for companies throughout the western United States. Prior to starting Roybal Associates, he built and managed the first marketing groups at Apple Computer. He was also instrumental in creating their technical support, product training, editorial services, product publicity, and community affairs departments, and developed leadership-training programs for Apple University. Phil has worked in sales and marketing management at Varian Data Machines, National Semiconductor, and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a B.S.E.E. in computer systems from U.C. Berkeley.

James Obermayer, in demand as a consultant, speaker and writer, speaks regularly at national and international conferences and seminars, many of them annually. He also appears frequently on radio talk shows, at book signings, and at national sales meetings. Jim’s speeches are tailored to each audience and situation based on prior research. His approach is motivational, pointed, occasionally controversial, and regularly humorous. He digs into the classics for inspiration, and involves the audience where appropriate. Jim has a varied background as an author (Managing Sales Leads, and over 50 articles), marketer (VP of Marketing), and Sales Manager (EVP of Sales). Currently Jim is President of Sales Leakage Consulting located in southern California.

Kathleen Ronald #1 Rated Speaker at Healthcare Convention Exhibitors Association 2001 Conference! (Trainer & Coach) is an internationally renowned motivational speaker, and founder of SPEAKtacular, "Motivation and More." She has seventeen years of experience providing custom motivational keynotes and training seminars, and is a certified Nuero-Linguistic Programmer through Tony Robbins. Companies like Nordstrom, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM, Motorola, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and many others, have benefited from Kathleen's services. Her presence is electrifying, humorous and inspiring. Using comedy, she delivers a unique brand of presentations that are effective on many levels -- professional, personal, and spiritual. She draws from experience to develop programs that are positive and effect change at every level. Her keynotes and lectures address issues that include Customer Service, Self Esteem and Cancer Survival. Her seminars produce immediate and definite results, with the audience taking away tangible tools for success. Most recently, Kathleen completed a two-year world tour as motivational emcee for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Technology Days, where she wowed Sun software developers with her exciting comedy routines. Kathleen is a co-founder of W.I.N. (Women In Networking,) a regional Silicon Valley networking organization dedicated to providing resources for the area's burgeoning women's business community. She also founded Fortune 10/10, an investment group.

Lynn Cole (Trainer & Coach) began working at trade shows in 1981. Since then, she has worked at several hundred shows in many different capacities, as a trainer, presenter and coach. She has the ability to pass her enthusiasm and knowledge along to even the most skeptical audiences. Lynn works regularly as a presenter in the trade show arena for many Fortune 500 companies. She also works for corporations such as Coca Cola, training and leading their staff through team building workshops. Previously, Lynn worked for ten years with the National Criminal Defense College, coaching lawyers on their presentation skills. She is also a free lance copy writer, specializing in commercial, radio and corporate industrial copy; as well as writing copy for web pages.

Richard Laible (Trainer & Coach) has been training and coaching professionally for over 12 years. His unique communication skills have enabled him to work with many of the Fortune 100 companies at their most important trade shows and events. Richard understands the key elements that make trade shows and presentations work effectively. And he can get even the toughest audiences to listen and learn from his training. He has written and directed live presentations and staged events for trade shows, industrial videos, business meetings, and educational and corporate entertainment. Richard is also a professional performer having been a member of the famed Second City improvisational company. He has also appeared as the principal actor in many commercials and dozens of live industrials. Richard received his BA in Speech and Theater Arts from Hillsdale College.

Phil Hummel (Coach) is an accomplished presenter and information systems consultant. His company, Hummel Consulting, is based in San Jose, California. Some of Phil's clients include Cisco Systems, EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), Southern California Edison, and Aptec Engineering. Phil speaks at several major energy and information systems conferences annually. He has received several speaking awards including the Outstanding Speaker Award from the Association of Energy Services Professionals. In his career, Phil has been involved in the design and development of over 30 software programs. He is an accomplished focus group facilitator and has trained presenters across the country. Phil has an MA in Economics and B.S. in Physics, both from Ohio University.

Cecilee Swanda (Coach) is a seasoned trainer and manager with expertise in developing and implementing knowledge transfer programs, both domestically and internationally. Her career has focused on performance improvement through knowledge transfer programs. Specifically, Cecilee has: (1) Designed and delivered rigorous New Hire Sales Training programs that decreased time spent for new sales employees to get to full quota by over 50%; (2) Developed sales and product curriculum for six levels of sales personnel; (3) Developed and delivered a nationwide presentation training program; (4) Created a Sales Education department to deliver essential sales training materials; (5) Been a product evangelist who has delivered technical presentations worldwide, and (6) Implemented multimedia technologies into educational curriculum.

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