Dan Waldschmidt helps billion-dollar companies and high performers develop a winning edge. His bestselling book, EDGY Conversations: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Outrageous Success, is a blueprint that goes beyond typical self-help advice.

Dan is a popular speaker, business strategist and an ultra-runner who since birth has been refusing to accept business as usual.

Like many kids, he had a lawn mowing business, but he turned his into a money-making machine (though he opted not to tell his mom about his increased profits).

He ran track like plenty of other kids, but he pushed himself to break his high school’s mile record. He got the usual entry-level job right of college, but then he changed the sales process, earned millions of dollars for the company, and became CEO by the time he was 25.

These days, Dan is a people strategist and a conversation changer, serving as president and chief antagonist at Waldschmidt Partners International.

Dan and his team help people arrive at business-changing breakthrough ideas by moving past outdated conventional wisdom, social peer pressure and the selfish behaviors that stop them from being high performers.

Using his experience as a technology CEO and his fascination with neuroscience, he helps companies use extreme behavior and radical conversations to blow away the competition and dominate their industry.

The Wall Street Journal calls his blog, Edgy Conversations, one of the top seven blogs sales blogs anywhere on the Internet, and hundreds of his articles on unconventional sales tactics have been published.