Christopher Bates

For almost twenty years, Christopher Bates has helped teams achieve sustainable productivity for significant growth. He combines proven productivity techniques with a deep understanding of how buyers think, to help companies tailor their approach to new target markets, increase revenues, and improve day to day performance.

Every client is different... but it is not uncommon for sales teams who work with Christopher to achieve double-digit growth in quarterly sales revenues in the years that follow his coaching.

In PROFITABLE ROUTINES, Christopher offers the five core actions in constant use by every successful team he has worked with. These five exercises, combined with a deep understanding of the Sales Maturity Model, allow sales teams to realign their sales efforts after a market shifts, new products are introduced, or there is a shift in leadership or focus.

Then, in STRATEGIC REST, Christopher takes an honest and candid look at the driven-ness built into corporate cultures, and walks us through a few key changes he has made over a period of years to clear his mind and keep his heart healthy, as he continues to invest in people and teams, year after year, managing tough projects and tight deadlines.

Christopher lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and travels coast to coast and internationally to meet with clients. He is a regular speaker at corporate events, and guest lecturer at colleges and universities. His client portfolio has a combined revenue in excess of $23B, and he is a recognized subject matter expert in CRM and sales and marketing business systems. He has billed over 20,000 consulting hours across private and public sector organizations, spent the equivalent of over one hundred straight days transiting the troposphere to visit clients, befriended hundreds of taxi drivers, survived an attempted mugging, and made a lot of mistakes - most of which he never intends to repeat.