The Brooks Group

Celebrating 40 Years of Passion for Sales Excellence

40 years ago, our founder Bill Brooks started The Brooks Group with a mission to help salespeople improve their own lives and the lives of their customers. Since then, we’ve delivered training to over one million sales professionals, in over 350 industries, in 22 countries around the world.

Every day we pay tribute to Bill by helping our clients and their sales teams achieve their full potential in sales excellence.

 

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Jeb Brooks

“If there’s one thing we can all be proud of when it comes to our venerable history, it’s the tremendous impact we’ve had on salespeople and their ability to serve their customers and provide for their families. Our work is noble and we’re looking forward to another forty years.”
—Jeb Brooks, President & CEO

THEN
  • 1977

    Bill Brooks begins giving speaking engagements while coaching football and serving as the Dean of Students at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York -- the part-time hobby begins to consume Bill, and the seed for The Brooks Group and IMPACT Selling® is planted

  • 1987

    Bill publishes his first two books, High IMPACT Living and High IMPACT Selling and The Brooks Group moves out of Bill Brooks’ home

    1987

  • 1989

    Bill publishes High IMPACT Public Speaking and High IMPACT Time Management due to the success of High IMPACT Selling

  • 1991

    Bill is hired by a client in Dallas to serve as President of a large sales-driven organization -- in this role Bill sees that his sales effectiveness principles not only work, they explode the company’s growth

    1991

  • 1992

    Bill brings The Brooks Group back to Greensboro and publishes Niche Selling: How to Find Your Customer in a Crowded Market

  • 1995

    Bill works with friend and leading researcher, Tom Travisano, to publish You’re Working Too Hard to Make the Sale

    1995

  • 2006

    Bill Brooks publishes the best-selling book, The New Science of Selling and Persuasion and How to Sell at Margins Higher than Your Competitors

  • 2007

    Air National Guard partners with The Brooks Group to use the IMPACT Selling System and Brooks Talent Index assessments for their recruitment and retention efforts.

    2007

  • 2009

    Bill Brooks and Will Brooks release new book: Playing Bigger than You Are

  • 2010

    The Brooks Group makes the list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies from both Selling Power and Training Industry

    2010

  • 2011

    Bill Brooks (1945-2007) was posthumously inducted into the first-ever class of the Sales Hall of Fame.


    The Brooks Group wins the Stevie® Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year


    The Brooks Group makes the list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies from both Selling Power and Training Industry

  • 2012

    The Brooks Group breaks the sales training mold by introducing the IMPACT Summit Challenge -- a one-of-a-kind sales game played in a classroom setting


    The Brooks Group makes the list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies from both Selling Power and Training Industry

    2012

  • 2013

    The Brooks Group is awarded the Gold Stevie® Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year


    The Brooks Group makes the list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies from both Selling Power and Training Industry

  • 2014

    The Brooks Group makes the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America


    The Brooks Group makes the list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies from both Selling Power and Training Industry


    The Brooks Group wins the Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service

    2014

  • 2015

    The Brooks Group makes the list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies from both Selling Power and Training Industry


    The Brooks Group signs a contract to partner with the Air Force Recruiting Service


    The Brooks Group wins the Bronze Stevie Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year


    The Brooks Group makes the Triad Business Journal’s Fast 50 list and is named the Triad’s Top Small Employer


    The Brooks Group makes the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America

  • 2016

    The Brooks Group makes the list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies from both Selling Power and Training Industry


    The Brooks Group wins the Bronze Stevie Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year


    The Brooks Group signs a contract to partner with the Marine Corps to support the National Training Team and more than 4000 recruiters assigned to the Marine Corps Recruiting Command


    The Brooks Group is ranked #1 among small firms in the Triad’s Best Places to Work Award


    The Brooks Group makes the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America


    The Brooks Group makes the Triad Business Journal’s Fast 50 List

    2016

NOW

The Brooks Group is passionate about giving sales professionals the tools to move past obstacles and achieve lasting sales excellence. Our first 40 years have proven that when our clients succeed, we succeed as well.

Bill Brook’s vision of empowering sales professionals is achieved every day by our team of dedicated sales effectiveness specialists.