CPAE Spotlight Interview Series
April 18, 2023
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
All CPAE Spotlight Interviews are held VIRTUALLY on ZOOM.
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About Tony Alessandra, CSP, CPAE
Dr. Tony Alessandra has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having been raised in the housing projects of NYC to eventually realizing success as a graduate professor of marketing, Internet entrepreneur, business author, and hall-of-fame keynote speaker. He earned a BBA from Notre Dame, an MBA from the Univ. of Connecticut and his PhD in marketing in 1976 from Georgia State University.
Tony worked his way through college selling cookware door-to-door for Saladmaster, winning numerous sales awards. He taught sales and marketing strategy at the university level from 1970 through 1978. In January 1979, he left academia to become a full-time professional speaker. He averaged 100 paid speeches per year through 2000 and gradually cut back to near zero today. In 2000, he started his online assessment company and that has been his focus through the present time.
Tony is Founder & Chairman of Assessments 24x7 LLC, a company that offers a variety of online assessments, including the widely used DISC profile, the Emotional Intelligence 360 assessment, Motivators (Values/PIAV) assessment, and several 360º effectiveness assessments.
He is also a prolific author with 32 books translated into over 50 foreign language editions, from his first book in 1979, Non-Manipulative Selling to his most recent book in 2021, What Makes Humans Tick.
He is featured in over 100 audio/video programs and films, including Relationship Strategies; The Optimism Advantage; and The 10 Qualities of Charismatic People.
As a speaker, Tony joined NSA in 1979; earned his CSP in 1981; was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame in 1985, and has delivered well over 2,000 speeches and seminars throughout his professional speaking career.
Dr. Alessandra was inducted into the:
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National Speakers Association “Speakers Hall of Fame” in 1985.
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Legends of the Speaking Profession in 2009.
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Speakers.com Top 5 Sales/ Marketing/ Customer Service Speakers 5 times.
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Inaugural class of the Top Sales World Sales Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers in 2012.
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#1 World’s Top Communication Guru in 2012.
Tony was born in 1947 in NYC and graduated high school in New Jersey. He played baseball, track, football, wrestling & rugby through high school and college. He is very happily married to Sue since 1990 and between them, they have four children and three grandkids – two boys and one girl – plus one dog, Sparky.
Dr. Tony Alessandra
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1-858-456-0028
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About Your Host, Niki McCuistion, CSP
As a speaker Niki focuses on leadership and strategy. She has spoken on almost every continent. Niki is a past president of NSA-NT, the 1st Charbonneau Award recipient and the 1st woman to chair NSA National's Voices of Experience interview series.
As the producer/ executive producer of the PBS tv program on KERA PBS, now on the air for 32 years, she has chosen guests for the program and has coached 100’s of heads of states, celebrities and just plain every day folks on how to wow audiences.
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