Roger Dawson is one of the country's top experts in the art of negotiating. He has a unique ability to translate the lessons gained in international and corporate negotiations into skills that can be quickly learned and easily used by executives and salespeople.

His business background includes being president of one of California's largest real estate companies, with twenty-eight offices, 540 sales associates, and a volume of over 400 million dollars per year.

As a full time speaker for the last thirteen years, he has trained managers and sales people throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. The National Speakers Association has awarded him with both of their highest awards: the CSP and the CPAE. Less than 50 speakers in the world hold both of these designations.

Roger's cassette program The Secrets of Power Negotiating, has passed the twenty million dollar sales mark and is the best selling program in the history of business cassette publishing. Nightingale-Conant of Chicago has also published four other best selling programs: The Personality of Achievers, Secrets of Power Persuasion, Confident Decision Making, and The Secrets of Power Performance.

Roger's first book, You Can Get Anything You Want, published by Simon & Schuster, was a big seller nationwide. A selection of the Fortune Book Club, it has also been translated into French, Spanish and Finnish.

His second book, Secrets of Power Persuasion, was the Fortune Book Club book of the month in September 1992 and was a major release from Prentice-Hall.

The third book, Confident Decision Making, was released by William Morrow in March of1993. It was a main selection of the Executive Book Club.

His fourth book, The 13 Secrets of Power Performance, was released in August 1994 by Prentice-Hall. It is a main selection of the Fortune Book Club and an alternate selection of the Newbidge and Rhodedale Book Clubs.

Roger has recently written a fifth book, Roger Dawson's Secrets of Power Negotiating, from Career Press. It was a main selection of the Money Book Club, and is the first book ever to be excerpted in a ten page supplement in "Success Magazine". It is currently climbing the bestseller list.

He was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame in 1991.