Martyn Lewis is a nationally known expert in organizational sales effectiveness and strategy, a sought-after speaker and sales motivator, and the author of Sales Wise: A Journey Through Sales and Selling (Fenestra Books, $12.95).

Lewis has been working with salespeople for thirty years. He has been a frontline sales representative, sales manager, district manager, and vice president of marketing with Digital Equipment. As president and CEO of Drake International, North America, he managed large and diverse sales teams. He continues to be a coach and mentor to sales professionals, small business owners, and top-level executives.

Since founding his own company, Market-Partners, in 1995, Lewis has worked with many organizations and literally thousands of sales professionals. Market-Partners is recognized as the leader in the assessment, design, measurement, management, and optimization of sales processes in complex business-to-business sales environments. Among Market-Partners’ many clients are Addison-Wesley, Advanced Life Fitness, Agilent Technologies, Alliance Medical Corporation, bigchalk–The Education Network, Blue Pumpkin Software, Chancery Student Management Solutions, eCollege, Fertility Physicians of North California, Hewlett-Packard, PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, Novell, Oracle, Symantec Corporation, Valassis Communications, Xilinx, and zUniversity.

Lewis is an influential keynote speaker who has presented regularly at industry association conferences, corporate events, and universities over the years. He is best known for his insights into business-to-business selling trends and organization-wide sales processes.

Lewis has been quoted and interviewed widely on radio, television, and in print. He co-authored a previous book, The Quest for Customers in 21st Century Selling (2001).

He enjoys cooking, wine, art, music, skiing, and photography. He also pilots his own aircraft and runs marathons—two passions he has turned into charity work aimed at helping children. Lewis lives with his wife in Santa Rosa, California.