About

Gerry Layo is a dynamic speaker offering keynote addresses, seminars, and workshops throughout North America. Gerry offers his audiences more than 20 years of street-tested, no-nonsense business experience.  He has co-founded and run three companies and built national sales organizations.  Before founding Sales Coach International, Gerry was the VP of Sales and Marketing for publicly traded ITEX, where he ran sales training efforts for over 75 offices worldwide, dramatically increasing growth and profits.

Today Gerry is the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) for Sales Coach International, where he wears two hats.  In one capacity, Gerry is booked throughout North America as a speaker/trainer to work with companies, organizations, and/or associations through high-energy keynote addresses, workshops, and seminars in sales, sales leadership, and customer service.

When he is not speaking, Gerry is the Head Coach, working with companies throughout the US and Canada in an ongoing coach/consultant capacity.  By introducing and implementing a set of success philosophies and hands-on sales tools, SCI’s Coach Program is helping to increase the sales and profits of companies throughout North America.

Gerry has an ability to sense not only what the audience needs and wants. He is also extremely effective at delivering the message the way the audience needs to hear it!  His true gift is in helping the audience turn inward to take full responsibility for their own success and then JUMP START into ACTION immediately after his sessions!  Gerry uses a No Excuses-No Blame philosophy that he instills in all of his audiences so that they look to themselves for answers.  He is a master storyteller and hilarious speaker who pulls his audiences into his enthusiasm and empowers them to take on new challenges.