Internationally recognized business development strategist, author, and speaker Dean Lindsay is the founder of The Progress Agents LLC – an idea studio dedicated to empowering progress in sales, service, and workplace performance. 

Clients range from Fortune 100 companies to budding entrepreneurs, and from national and state associations to successful small businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Dean writes the column Be Progress for various business publications and is a featured contributor to the nationally distributed audio publication Selling Power Live.  He is also the head writer and editor of the widely read e-mail-based newsletter, The Progress Report.   

A cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas, Dean presently serves on the Executive Advisory Board for UNT’s Department of Marketing and Logistics.  As a successful entrepreneur, business owner, and sales executive, Dean has experienced firsthand how vitally important building priceless business relationships and cherishing customers are to becoming successful in today’s world.   

Dean’s unique knack for communicating and his commitment to helping people take positive steps make him a Progress Agent.  His speaking and consulting style is refreshingly daring, imaginative, and a lot of fun.  

Dean is an avid runner and has completed the Stockholm Marathon in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Motorola Marathon in Austin, Texas. Dean lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, with his wife Lena and their two strong and wonderfully nutty daughters, Sofia and Ella.