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		The Summit Group and Ritz Carlton team up to offer breakthrough program open to the public for the first time. Call Aimee now at (301) 547-4806 to register. More Information. The Summit Group has been awarded the opportunity to work with Bill Blass New York. Extended Stay Hotels retains The Summit Group to enhance sales. The Summit Group leads Strategic Thinking Workshop for Denmark's Novozymes, the world leader in bioinnovation. Gary Kunath selected as part of a 4 person facility team from Harvard and Stanford to work with leaders from Egypt selected by President Murbarak to increase Egypt's global competitiveness. View Article Summit Customer – Xerox - WINS Best Practice of the Year Gary Kunath to be commencement speaker for the graduating class at Miami University of Ohio, June 2008 TSG was awarded a training contract for the Intercontinental Hotel Group's Worldwide Sales organization. More Summit Group CEO, Gary Kunath, addresses Alcatel/Lucent Partner Conference in Miami Gary Kunath was the keynote speaker for Dow Chemicals' global sales conference in Houston Gary Kunath selected as keynote speaker for the Executive Speaker Series at the University of Miami (Ohio) Philip Styrlund hosts SAMA Webinar: “Creating and Delivering Business Value” More Summit Group CEO again serves as the keynote speaker for Alliance Data’s global conference The Summit Group CEO Gary Kunath delivers the most highly rated and well received keynote in the history of SAMA. View Video and Audience Feedback The Summit Group President Phil Styrlund presents seminar at SAMA. View Video A partner of The Summit Group, Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, ranked #1 in the Training top 125. View Article Phil Styrlund selected to speak at Cisco Global Account Management Forums Phil Styrlund selected to keynote at the Annual sales conference of AIM Trimark in Toronto, Ontario Phil Styrlund selected to deliver Team Management for Customer Alignment session at SAMA University in Chicago IBM selects The Summit Group to be Sales Training Resource for top global suppliers View Video The Summit Group selected by the US Department of Commerce to develop the effectiveness of Trade Commercial Services. TSG President, Phil Styrlund, delivers World Trade Day keynote address with Mikael Gorbachev. TSG selected for Cisco’s Global Account Management program in EMEA and US. TSG awarded contract with Federal Gov't division of National Archives to build five year strategic plan. Grant Thorton awards training contract to TSG. TSG awarded major contract extension with HP to do collaborative planning with top clients. Blue Cross Blue Shield awards TSG contract for value training. TSG wins major value training and collaborative planning deal with IXIA. TSG awarded project to develop top business leaders in Egypt. Summit CEO, Gary Kunath, selected as faculty member by European Union. Summit CEO, Gary Kunath, delivers keynote address for Marriott’s annual global conference. Summit CEO, Gary Kunath, will serve as a faculty member for Marriott's Executive Leadership program for 2007 Keynote Presentations Gary Kunath, The Summit Group Founder and CEO Phil Styrlund, The Summit Group President The Summit Group CEO Gary Kunath delivers the most highly rated and well received keynote in the history of SAMA. View Video and Audience Feedback The Summit Group President Phil Styrlund presents seminar at SAMA. View Video The Summit Group President, Phil Styrlund, delivers World Trade Day keynote address. View Video

One of the few constants in the world of business is the ever-increasing level of senior management and shareholder expectation of sustained growth. Yet, surprisingly few firms have a clear and well-internalized agenda for how to meet this expectation. A high-impact value creation agenda is more than the "initiative du jour." It's a carefully prioritized short list of actions created to maximize the value of the business.

We help clients craft and execute these winning growth agendas.

Beyond Parity!

If you are going to spend money, why buy parity?

Often organizations invest money, time, and resources in training initiatives that simply offer industry equality. Our approach assures distinction and differentiation by developing business acumen skills that produce unique solution bundles based on the specific customer issues at hand. Our clients invest in our work because we create immediate results in the areas of revenue and relationship.

The Summit Group has extensive experience in developing and delivering skill-based training in the areas of developing consultative based relationships with customers, uncovering and developing customer needs and requirements, and building value-based solutions that leverage the organizations value capabilities and directly align with the key customer needs. The Summit Group is a recognized leader in this field.

When the best want to get better, they call The Summit Group. We develop and deliver this exact type of skill-based training for account executives at companies such as: P&G, Lockheed, Marriott, SC Johnson, Masterfoods, Xerox, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, Tetra Pak, US AID, GSA, Alcatel, Kellogg’s’, United States Postal Service, and Kimberly Clark to name a few. The Summit Group trains on both a national and global scale, and has delivered this training in virtually every culture across the globe.