Thursday, March 27th

Speaker

Doug began speaking professionally in 1994 while still working at Hewlett Packard as a sales professional. In 1996, at the request of some respected mentors and many business professionals, Doug took a leap of faith and opened his company, Doug Hanson Performance Group, and began sharing his life principles to companies, sports teams, and audiences of all kinds. Each year Doug speaks at more than 75 events for some of the world’s most recognized companies, such as H&R Block, Coleman, Verizon, NFL, Houston Texans, DHL, and Southwest Airlines, just to name a few.

Author

Doug is the co-author of four books with one more soon to be released. One of his most recent books, The Game Matters is co-authored with Bruce Jenner (Olympic Gold Medalist) and Steve Garvey (Pro Baseball Hall-of-famer).

Businessman

Doug has worked in a variety of sales and management positions. He has been an ESPN Show Director where he organized the efforts of hundreds of people at each event. He was promoted several times in the computer industry holding positions at all levels of sales for Toshiba, Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard, finishing as a national accounts manager, the highest level sales position available at HP at the time. Later, Doug was the Regional Director for bamboo.com, an internet start-up company that, during the internet boom of the late 90’s, grew to be the world’s largest provider of on-line content in just 2 years. Doug is also a successful entrepreneur. His current speaking and consulting firm has grown each year since its inception and now generates over $1 Million in revenue each year.

Consultant

One of the things that most separates Doug from other speakers is that he’s not just a speaker. Many of Doug’s clients extend their relationship past a single event to an on-going, multi-year curriculum for organizational development, executive coaching, and strategic planning. Since he’s involved every day in solving real world problems, he can speak from the platform based on what really works, not theory or speculation.

Athlete

Doug played several sports through high school and continued with football through college. He tried out for 2 NFL teams, and in 1989 was a middle infielder on a national championship men’s softball team.