Donald A. Connelly - Speaker, Motivator, Educator
Don Connelly, perhaps the nation's most successful sales consultant to the retail brokerage industry, has long been a powerful beacon of wisdom to investors and financial advisors. His career on Wall Street spans nearly 40 years and includes positions as stock broker, financial planner, branch manager, wholesaler, and 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 financial planners around the world, Don has lectured tens of thousands of wealth management professionals in marketing strategies and sales skills. Audiences at England's Cambridge University, Harvard, Wharton School of Business, Chapman College and Pepperdine have all benefited from his sales presentations. He has shared his wisdom with financial advisors abroad in New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Canada, England, and Ireland. And, in the past has given several marketing 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 sales skills including: prospecting, direct marketing, lead generation, closing sales, and becoming a successful financial adviser. His timely and provocative sales ideas are appreciated by thousands of financial advisors worldwide.

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 wealth management and investment professionals is to simplify the process.

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