Audiences Love Ja Marr’s Reality Based Keynotes

Known for his inspirational and real life stories, Ja Marr refers to his brand of speaking as “reality based presentations”. Rather than rely on worn out, cliched analogies or out of date sales lessons, Ja Marr brings a brand of realism to the topics of sales and management rarely seen from today’s professional speakers.

Your audience will be engaged, moved and inspired by Ja Marr’s real life stories. They will take away valuable lessons to improve their own careers as Ja Marr delivers an insider’s perspective on how he went from nearly being fired to winning the coveted Salesperson of the Year award at Allergan. He details how he utilized the three principles of KAIZEN to transform a last placed sales team at Allergan to the #1 position in the company in less than 18 months.

Your audience will also learn the secret behind accelerating their own path to success as Ja Marr provides an eye opening glimpse into how he went from an intern to becoming a Regional Sales Director at age 31, for one of the largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Ja Marr understands that simply training salespeople on traditional sales techniques or even product training is not enough. The problem isn’t that these traditional techniques don’t work, it’s that the world they’re applied in has dramatically changed in the last several years.

Ja Marr’s programs go beyond what it takes to close a sale. He teaches sales professionals, at all levels, how to make sales easier by learning how to discover their customer’s stories. He is also well known for redeveloping the principles of the Japanese philosophy KAIZEN and applying these principles to sales and sales management.

Ja Marr removes the guesswork from selling and sales management through timely and practical tips, lessons and stories he shares with audiences. Everything he discusses with your audience comes directly from his 15 years of first-hand experience generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue while at Allergan and BARD.

Ja Marr’s Career

Ja Marr is currently District Manager for BARD, a leading medical device company, where he oversees the western region’s sales activities. Prior to joining BARD Ja Marr enjoyed a 13 year successful career at Allergan Pharmaceuticals, one of the most respected pharmaceutical companies in the world.

A former Student Body President and graduate of Whittier College, Ja Marr received his degree in Business with an emphasis in marketing. While in college, Ja Marr applied for and was accepted into the prestigious INROADS internship program where he would later be named Alumnus of the Year and Supervisor of the Year.

Through the INROADS program, Ja Marr was selected as Allergan’s first summer intern. Upon graduation, Allergan offered Ja Marr a full time sales position. He would find himself in the Los Angeles area, which was the lowest ranked territory in the country at the time. Over the course of two and a half years, he was able to move the territory from last in the country to first and received the Salesperson of the Year award in 1998.

During the course of the next eight years Ja Marr would rise to even loftier heights as he developed a new selling system for Allergan and trained all of Allergan’s 300 person sales force and oversaw the launch for Allergan’s most successful product launch in company history. He finished his career at Allergan by transforming a last placed sales team into the #1 sales team in the nation and being promoted to Regional Sales Director, becoming the youngest person to ever hold that position at Allergan.

It’s Time to Captivate Your Audience

Enhance your next meeting, conference, or convention with an expert speaker who will not only make you look good but will deliver long-term value to your audience.

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