Mike Struzik

Mike Struzik has been working with organizations since 1977. His business background includes financial services, education, retail, and technology. His expertise is in sales management, business development and sales process implementation consulting.

In 1989 Mike served as Vice President of Sales and Management Development for Great Western Financial Corporation in Los Angeles. At that time, GWFS was the parent company of Great Western Bank, the second largest Savings Bank in the United States. During his tenure, Mike was responsible for the custom design, delivery and cultural implementation of a division-wide sales methodology, Solution Selling®.

As the sales process became ingrained for the bank, the organization realized significant gains in sales productivity. When employees became certified to administer the program, Mike resigned his position to begin his own business as a Solution Selling® Certified Affiliate in 1994.

Focusing on the financial services and technology industries, Mike worked with financial services companies such as Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Bank of Oklahoma and Sanwa Bank. In the technology sector he was involved with firms such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, IBM and Microsoft.

With his instructional design background, Mike has designed and delivered over two-hundred different programs in sales, sales management, and executive management development to over 60,000 professionals. His course design, consulting and training activities have included enterprise sales, wholesale financial products and services, information and technology systems, investment and mortgage banking, private banking, commercial lending and corporate restructuring. Mike is the co-author of Creating True Sales Cultures in Financial Services.

His newest book, entitled “The Romance of Business” is a business novel that focuses on small companies that are about to experience breakthrough performance.  He is CEO and Executive Director of CEO Focus of Oregon and Southern California and speaks to business owners all over the country about how to avoid the 51 Fatal Business Errors and immediate ways to increase revenues, profits, and satisfaction in their businesses.