Dan Waldschmidt

Dan Waldschmidt is the bestselling author of EDGY Conversations and a business strategist who has studied thousands of extreme achievers while completing ultramarathons on every continent. He speaks on extreme achievement, business growth, and pushing beyond conventional limits, challenging audiences to rethink what is possible in sales, leadership, and life. Dan’s research on what separates ordinary performers from extraordinary ones delivers powerful insights for organizations ready to break through.

Research & Extreme Performance
Dan has devoted years to studying the world’s most unlikely high performers, uncovering the patterns that enable seemingly ordinary people to accomplish the extraordinary. His research is fueled by personal experience, as he has completed grueling ultramarathons across the globe, testing the same mental and physical boundaries he writes about. He is an unconventional yet highly effective consultant to some of the world’s largest companies.

Author & Advisor
Dan’s book EDGY Conversations has become a go-to resource for sales teams and business leaders who refuse to accept business as usual. His talks are crafted specifically for each audience, sharing the specific mindset shifts and daily habits that drive breakthrough results. His keynotes deliver provocative, research-backed strategies for sales performance, extreme achievement, and building the mental toughness that separates good from great.

Everything You Think You Know About Success Is Wrong

Ultimately, success is not about what you do. It’s about how you think. How you approach problems, how you fundamentally see the world determines your outcome.

What Audiences Learn

The four principles of “EDGY”:

• Extreme Behavior – expand your perception of possibility
• Disciplined Activity – execute flawlessly and consistently
• Giving Mindset – stop trading, start giving
• (Y)Human Strategy – emotional intelligence regulates success

28 Epic Strategies To Take Your Business To The Next Level

Your organization has already achieved some impressive metrics. But you’ve realized that to get to where you want to be, that’s not going to be good enough. You understand that for your organization to achieve results you’ve never had, you have to do something (or “somethings”) you’ve never done before.

What Audiences Learn

28 epic ideas:

• How to Craft a Winning Strategy
• Developing a Culture of Champions
• Why Battles Are Won on the Training Ground, not the Battle field (the value of preparation)
• Why Hard Work Works (and how to work hard)

Creating An Internal Culture Of Success

Driving outrageous performance is less about the tools you use and the training you offer than the environment you create to inspire super-human performance.

The hard truth about business performance is that most of our training e orts are a waste of time and have almost no impact at all on long-term growth. Leaders teach new skills but fail to cultivate an environment where employees develop the will to apply what they learn and exceed expectations.

What Audiences Learn

7 Proven Strategies to Empower Outrageous Results from Ordinary Individuals:

• Perception of effort
• “Awesome” is a tangible business goal
• Gratitude is a habit not an emotion
• Possibility is just someone’s opinion

21 Reasons Why Your Global Growth Plans Still Aren’t Working

Dan Waldschmidt shares the secrets of his world-renowned consulting business in such a way that you’ll leave breathless— but inspired to create your own outrageous success story.

What Audiences Learn

If you want total world domination in your industry, your organization needs to follow a few unconventional ideas.

• The value of local relationships in the global battle for industry domination
• Why “trial balloons” will always burst — and leave your whole company in shambles
• What to do when you (and your rm) don’t know what to do

Sales Secrets Of Billion-Dollar Companies

Drawing on over a decade and a half of massive scaling both startups and Fortune 500  rms, Dan Waldschmidt shares 21 ideas to help you achieve the same level of success— everything from smothering your customers to using your humanity to your advantage.

What Audiences Learn

The hard truth about massive sales success is that conventional strategies no longer work.

• Why empathy is everything
• Honesty is more than just telling the truth
• (it’s about recognizing when a win was just plain luck) How giving it all away can be a successful sales strategy

34 Killer Secrets Of High Performance

Working with the largest organizations around the world, Dan Waldschmidt understands the keys to unlocking breakthrough success. He works with  rms in over 30 different verticals in 13 different countries to market, message, and scale massive growth e orts across the enterprise.

The secrets he’s learned and that he’ll share have increased response rates by 520x and generated 900% revenue growth – and will help you drive the success you’ve been yearning for.

What Audiences Learn

Common strategies lead to common outcomes. Learn how to become extraordinary.

• How to deal with stupid people
• Framing up the message regardless
• of communication platform
• Emotions matter. Even when you think they don’t.