Tony Hughes – Keynote Speaker

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Tony Hughes is a best-selling author, consultant, trainer and keynote speaker. He has 35 years of corporate and sales leadership experience having generated record-breaking results as a salesperson, head of sales, and CEO leading the Asia-pacific region for multi-nationals.

Tony is CEO at Sales IQ Global. He serves on advisory boards and has been published by The American Management Association. Tony has also taught sales for Sydney University, University of New South Wales, and within the MBA program at the University of Technology, Sydney.

He has been ranked #1 sales blogger globally by both Top Sales Magazine and Best Sales Blogger Awards. Tony is ranked a top 3 sales expert and thought leader globally by LinkedIn and the most read person on the topic of B2B selling within their platform. He has more than 500,000 blog followers and has been rated the most influential person in professional selling within Asia-Pacific three years in a row.

His first book, The Joshua Principle – Leadership Secrets of Selling, is in its 10th printing. His other books, COMBO Prospecting and Tech-Powered Sales were both published by HarperCollins Leadership New York and the American Management Association.

His most recent books are about AI and include SENTIENT—Meet Your Maker (Thriller set in 2027 about the arrival of AGI and existential threats from machine superintelligence), and in also AI-Powered Sales which is about augmented intelligence in the field of B2B selling.

Tony speaks at conferences internationally and his clients are some of the best-known brands in the world including Salesforce, Workday, Grant Thornton, SAP, IBM, Flight Centre Travel Group, Adobe, Red Hat, Docusign, Qualtrics, AirPlus, Canon, DB Schenker, EventsAir, and other market leaders.