Ed Rigsbee | Nationally Recognized Expert on Strategic Alliance Development and Implementation, With a Marketing Sub-Specialty

Ed Rigsbee

Nationally Recognized Expert on Strategic Alliance Development and Implementation, With a Marketing Sub-Specialty

Fee Range
$14,700
Travels From
Los Angeles, California, United States

Ed Rigsbee
Biography

Ed Rigsbee is the author of PartnerShift-How to Profit from the Partnering Trend, Developing Strategic Alliances and The Art of Partnering. He has authored several video and audio programs. With more than 1,000 published articles to his credit, Rigsbee is a regular contributor to business, trade and professional publications throughout North America.

Through his writing, he regularly shares cutting-edge information in a no-nonsense format with thousands monthly. Ed is the president of Alliance Works in Thousand Oaks, California, a division of Rigsbee Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1981. Rigsbee has been an adjunct professor for both the Universities of California at Santa Barbara and California Lutheran University. Further, Ed Rigsbee has served as a trainer for Dun & Bradstreet delivering full-day seminars across the country.

From the business perspective, Ed brings extensive strategic management, marketing, and sales expertise to the platform. He has real-world experience to share. His work experience ranges from retail and sales management positions in his twenties, as president and owner of a manufacturer representative firm in his thirties. Today, Ed Rigsbee is a best-selling author and nationally recognized professional speaker. Throughout his career partnering has been his standard method of operation.

His presentations, based on his mutually beneficial partnering philosophy have evolved through years of research and teaching management, marketing, and selling skills. Ed's work has earned him favor with corporations and national associations throughout North America.

Besides his speaking, writing and consulting activities, Ed Rigsbee and his wife Regina have two sons, Ryan and Jonathan. They have been married since 1974. Ed enjoys refereeing youth soccer, skiing and scuba diving. Ed has been an active member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) since 1988 and holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, one that less than 10% of the association membership holds.

Simplifying Strategic Alliances

Traditional Keynote

Ed removes the mystery. You need and want to develop strategic alliances - your organization's future depends on it. But, where do you find partners? How do you successfully structure and implement your alliance? How do you keep your alliance alive, healthy and thriving? Learn from a national expert on strategic alliance relationships. These, and many more, are the questions that Ed Rigsbee answers in his keynote.

Ed's style is engaging yet challenging, drills down to the core of relationship issues - he makes people think, laugh and sometimes even cry. While Ed is no plain-wrap speaker, meeting stakeholders can be assured that he will deliver the goods!

Let's Get Alliances Right

Untraditional Talk Show

Professional meeting planners across North America are trading the mundane, in meetings, for the exciting - meeting attendees demand it. Give your next meeting some unusual excitement; give your attendees Ed Rigsbee. He's witty, engaging and willing to challenge conventional wisdom. He's got all the elements necessary for an interactive late night Let's Get Alliances Right talk show that will rock the house.

Incorporating the "late-night" style show format, your meeting will jump with excitement. Ed hosts your leadership and/or alliance star performers - traditional panelists become guests. The live show amps their adrenalin, resulting in no more lackluster, but rather exhilarating exchange. Attendees feel like they are in Hollywood. Commercial breaks can even be inserted to honor meeting sponsors - everyone wins.

  • Your program committee may select the show guests.
  • Use your existing general session platform. A city lights backdrop, desk and leather chairs can be rented from local production houses.
  • Ed coordinates with each guest via conference calls and one-on-one phone interviews to focus in one the value each guest wants to convey. Additionally, he coaches your guests on tactics to be more creative and lively in conveying their ideas.

 

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