Donald A. Connelly - Speaker, Motivator, Educator
Don Connelly, perhaps the nation's most successful advisor to the retail brokerage industry has long been a powerful beacon of wisdom to investors and financial services professionals. His career on Wall Street spans nearly 40 years and includes positions as stock broker, financial planner, branch manager, wholesaler, national sales manager and for nearly 20 years, he was a company spokesperson and Senior V. P. and Senior Marketing Officer for Putnam Investments.

Traveling tirelessly to educate audiences around the world, Don has lectured tens of thousands of investors and financial services professionals in large cities, small towns, boardrooms, and universities. Audiences at England's Cambridge University, Harvard, Wharton School of Business, Chapman College and Pepperdine have all benefited from his presentations. He has shared his wisdom with investment professionals abroad in New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Canada, England, and Ireland. And, in the past few years Don has given several presentations to the prestigious Million Dollar Roundtable as both a main platform and workshop speaker.

Offering practical guidance to financial services professionals, Don inspires audiences to strive for greater accomplishments. He is known as a guru on managing client relationships, selling, and becoming a successful financial advisor. His timely and provocative sales ideas are appreciated by thousands of financial professionals.

He educates, entertains, and motivates audiences with an extraordinary flair and fast paced combination of wit, intellect, anecdotes, and simplistic doctrine. Don's mission for financial professionals is to simplify the process.

Mr. Connelly holds a B.A. in languages from Bucknell University.