Steve is a multilingual, multicultural consultant and has been a Sales Trainer and Coach since 1993. He has run workshops and coaching projects in the US, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia for a wide range of clients including Barclays, Friends Provident, Tesco, Thomson-Reuters and Unilever.
Steve regularly works in 7 business languages: English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. He also speaks conversational Swedish and Greek and developing Russian, Arabic, Mandarin and Japanese. His style is engaging and interactive. He is also highly experienced in working with a client’s own business scenarios.
His initial career was in export sales to the level of director. He has sold construction, automotive and electronic products throughout Western Europe to State Trading Organisations in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East and Africa. He was Export Sales Director of a global electronics distributor selling worldwide. He also managed an international telesales operation and field sales people. He has intensive experience of making large-scale sales, working alongside Sales Engineers and appointing and motivating international distributors.
Steve is based in the UK.