As the story goes, Richard Fenton gave his first paid speech at the age of
eight. “I took plastic dinosaurs and set them up on a table in my basement, then
invited everyone in the neighborhood to hear me talk about them. As I recall, I
charged five cents per person to get in!” That was over 30 years ago, and Rich
has been speaking and training ever since. With over twenty-five years of
successful experience as a salesperson, sales manager, training director,
professional speaker and seminar leader, Richard Scott Fenton is uniquely
qualified to teach and motivate people to reach increased levels of performance.
Andrea Waltz co-founded Accelerated Performance Training (now FentonWaltz) with
Richard in 1997. She started her retail career as a sales associate with
Hallmark while finishing school at Long Beach State University in Southern
California. In 1993 she accepted a position with the world’s largest retailer of
eyeglasses, LensCrafters, where she quickly moved through the ranks, becoming
one of the youngest managers in the company’s history. Her stay also included a
stint in the training department where she got the bug to teach and develop
others
As the story goes, Richard Fenton gave his first paid speech at the age of
eight. “I took plastic dinosaurs and set them up on a table in my basement, then
invited everyone in the neighborhood to hear me talk about them. As I recall, I
charged five cents per person to get in!” That was over 30 years ago, and Rich
has been speaking and training ever since. With over twenty-five years of
successful experience as a salesperson, sales manager, training director,
professional speaker and seminar leader, Richard Scott Fenton is uniquely
qualified to teach and motivate people to reach increased levels of performance.
Andrea Waltz co-founded Accelerated Performance Training (now FentonWaltz) with
Richard in 1997. She started her retail career as a sales associate with
Hallmark while finishing school at Long Beach State University in Southern
California. In 1993 she accepted a position with the world’s largest retailer of
eyeglasses, LensCrafters, where she quickly moved through the ranks, becoming
one of the youngest managers in the company’s history. Her stay also included a
stint in the training department where she got the bug to teach and develop
others
