
Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Personal Selling Power, Inc., a magazine and book publishing company located in Fredericksburg, VA. After seven years as an international sales and marketing executive in Austria, France, and the United States, he started a sales training consulting company and trained over 10,000 salespeople in Europe and the United States.
In 1981, he started Selling Power magazine on a shoestring budget and turned it into the leading sales management magazine, with a circulation of 98,000 subscribers in 67 countries.
Today, in addition to Selling Power magazine, Personal Selling Power, Inc. has a book-publishing division, an online video division, a Sales Leadership Conference series, and the leading website in the sales industry, www.sellingpower.com, with over 100,000 individual visitors a month.
Gschwandtner is also a Co-Host of the Sales 2.0 Conference series. He has created 14 books on selling and management and two books on photography.