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Bio for Ed Rigsbee, CSP
Ed
Rigsbee, Certified Speaking Professional, is the ROI Guy; obsessed
with helping you to give and receive more return on investment (ROI) in
everything that you do. He will help your
organization to elevate your
business relationships from ordinary to extraordinary; in service,
results and profitability.
Ed is the President
of Rigsbee Enterprises, Inc., established in 1981. He is recognized
internationally for his
expertise in the areas of strategic alliance development and implementation and
non-profit organization member recruitment and retention.
He has authored the following books:
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The
Art of Partnering
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Developing
Strategic Alliances
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PartnerShift-How
to Profit from the Partnering Trend
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Kids,
Parents & Soccer
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The
ROI Member Recruitment System (Forthcoming)
Ed is
also the
president and
executive director of the Cigar PEG, Inc., an IRS
recognized 501 (c) (3) non-profit public charity. The organization he co-founded
in 1999, starting as an annual fund raising party at
the National Speakers Association's
annual convention. To date, this organization has donated almost $400,000 to; the National Speakers
Association Foundation's
Professional Speakers Benefit Fund, the Hereditary Disease
Foundation's Laura's Hope project, the Cardiac Arrhythmias Research &
Education (C.A.R.E.) Foundation, and others. In 2011, the Cigar PEG expanded to
include international events.
With more than 2,000 published
articles to his credit, Ed continues to be a regular contributor to business, trade and
professional publications globally. He has been an
adjunct professor for both the Universities of California at Santa Barbara and
California Lutheran University. He has also worked with the Dun & Bradstreet Foundation,
delivering full-day; sales, customer service, teambuilding, and management seminars across the USA.
Ed has traveled to Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, delivering
multi-day strategic alliance workshops to eager business leaders and
professional development workshops to established and emerging professional
speakers.
Ed's background is quite
diverse, allowing him to integrate his extensive experience in sales, marketing and strategic management expertise,
along with his current research work, into all his assignments.
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 are based on his unique perspective of mutually
beneficial partnering and ROI delivery. Ed's ideas have evolved through his
nearly four decades of research and
teaching management, marketing, selling skills, and member recruitment. Ed's
gift is his ability to synthesize industry specific information along with
proven success strategies and quickly offer workable organizational and industry-wide
solutions.
He has been
a professional member of the
National Speakers Association since 1988 and was awarded the Certified Speaking
Professional (CSP) designation in 2000; an accreditation that less than 10% of the
Global
Federation of Professional Speakers' membership holds. Ed is also an association
executive member of ASAE; the Center for Association Leadership.
On
a personal note, Ed and his wife, Regina, have resided in Thousand Oaks,
California (greater Los Angeles area) since 1974; also the year that they
married. They are the proud parents of two adult sons; Ryan and Jonathan. Ed's
bald head is the telling testament to the wonders of modern day child rearing.
Besides
his speaking, writing, and consulting activities, Ed infrequently gets to
play; he is a retired United States Soccer Federation referee, a NAUI registered
master scuba diver, and can still strap on the sticks once in a while to enjoy
snow skiing with his avid snowboarding sons.
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