Orvel Ray Wilson

Since 1980, Orvel Ray has spoken in more than 1,000 cities, 42 countries, on every continent except Antarctica. An award-winning keynoter, sales trainer, and business coach, he’s the co-author of six books in the legendary Guerrilla Marketing series, including Guerrilla Selling, Guerrilla Trade Show Selling, Guerrilla TeleSelling, Guerrilla Negotiating, Guerrilla Retailing and Guerrilla Marketing Remix.
The Guerrilla series now includes 53 titles with more than 26 million books sold worldwide; the best-selling marketing series in publishing history. His work has been quoted in INC., The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and dozens of trade journals in a dozen languages.
He holds the highest level of certification recognized worldwide by the professional speaking industry, the Certified Speaking Professional. The CSP is your assurance of the very highest standards of professionalism and excellence.
He's been voted one of the world’s Top5 Sales and Marketing Speakers in an international Internet poll for the past five years straight, and recognized as "Speaker of the Year" by Meeting Professionals International, San Diego in 2001.
He is also a contributor to How to Position Yourself As the Obvious Expert: Turbocharge Your Consulting or Coaching Business Now! by Elsom Eldridge Jr. and Mark L. Eldridge, and The Six-Figure Speaker: Formula for a Six-Figure Income As a Professional Speaker by Cathleen Fillmore.
After four decades on the international speaking circuit, he completed completed a year-long certification in Executive Coaching, and now helps speakers and authors write award-winning books that grow their business.
And while he’s best known for “practical ideas you can use right away,” he delivers heaps of content with excitement and passion. Some of the terms audiences use to describe him include:
 Confident
 Funny
 Connected
 Entertaining
 Involving
 Informative
 Realistic
 Credible