Dave Dickey Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Us

"Dave was instrumental in helping our company prepare for two major presentations to a select group of Fortune 100 and 500 companies. With his coaching, we hit the presentations out of the park. Dave is direct, wise, easy to work with, and provides those golden nuggets of advice that help you achieve your outcomes. I highly recommend working with him." Start-Up ClientGet a new perspective on your selling strategy with Second Story Sales. We’re all salespeople. We sell our ideas to our coworkers, our ambitions to our bosses, and our companies to our customers. No matter what we do, we all need the power of influence to get ahead.We make sales simple, more intuitive, and more impactful. We’ve trained people in all industries, nonprofits, and for-profits, front-desk receptionists to CEO, start-ups to Fortune 500s. You’ll see how developing a compelling story and delivering it with confidence will help you influence people and achieve your goals. Our class is full of energy, allows you to practice in a safe environment, and gives you skills you can use immediately. And, it’ll be fun and engaging (and delicious). We promise.It’s so much more than sales training. It’s about connecting, consulting, sharing, and solving. These aren’t sales skills, they’re life skills.LET'S CONNECT: ✉ ddickey@secondstorysales.com ☎ 612.201.0935

Minneapolis, Us

Expert in Improving Sales Skills, Sales Pitches, Influence, Innovation and EntrepreneurshipDave Dickey understands sales and growing companies. He is a four-time successful entrepreneur. His first company, Definity Health, grew revenue to over $100 million and was sold for $300 million. This idea is now widely known as the Health Savings Account employee benefits design. His second company, RedBrick Health, an employee wellness company, was sold to Virgin Pulse in 2019. Dave pitched venture capital investors and secured its investors and first customers. His third company, Surest (formerly Bind), simplified health insurance and made it more affordable. Before its sale to United Health Group, Bind grew from 0 members to hundreds of thousands of members.His final company, Second Story Sales, is a sales consultancy that helps companies grow revenues and talent.SPEECH TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS:◆ Your Role MattersBuyers want to commoditize sellers and wait to meet with sellers until all requirements are developed. Smart sellers know their role matters and find ways to co-develop requirements that solve customer needs. Audience members learn about ways to make "your role matter."◆ Everyone Influences: Sales Skills For All Of UsEveryone sells, but not everyone is a salesperson. Learn how to be more persuasive and influential and better sell yourself.◆ Selling Your Sales Story: It’s A Piece of CakeSecond Story Sales uses its experience reviewing thousands of sales pitches to help audience members learn the components of a compelling sales story to help win customers. It is a piece of cake!◆ Innovations in Health Care: Not An OxymoronSecond Story Sales has seen innovation from investing and operating start-ups. Second Story Sales shares emerging healthcare and healthcare financing trends.

Minneapolis, Us

Second Story Sales is the leading sales pitch, training and consulting firm in the country. We have lived the difficulty and exhilaration of starting companies, pitching investors, winning customer deals, and successful liquidity events. We understand how to get the message and the presenter ready for these company-making events. Since our founding in 2009, we review hundreds of videos of sales pitches per year from established and start up companies, and have helped many young companies secure funding, customers, and successful liquidity events.

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Minneapolis, Mn , Us

Surest (formerly Bind) is a personalized health plan that saves premiums and employees out-of-pocket amounts. It allows employees to know what health care services are covered and how much they will cost before accessing care. Before its sale to United Health Group, Bind grew from 0 members to hundreds of thousands. Dave led self-insured sales, account management, consulting relations, and fully insured distribution during his tenure.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Treehouse Health (treehouse-health.com) is focused on supporting innovation and entrepreneurial growth for both large and emerging healthcare companies.

Minneapolis, Mn , Us

Bind is on-demand health insurance. Unlike traditional health plans that charge you for services you may never need or want, Bind lets you pay for what you need, not what you don’t, and adjust your coverage when those needs change—on your terms. For both employers and employees, Bind eliminates the problem and expense of excess health insurance. Using actuarial science, pattern recognition and machine learning, Bind drives down costs without compromising quality or coverage. Bind is health insurance unbound.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Dave co-founded RedBrick Health, a health and wellness company dedicated to rewarding healthy lifestyles. As co-founder, Dave was involved in pitching for funding to Kleiner Perkins, Fidelity Ventures, Highland Capital, and Versant Ventures. Further, Dave was responsible for forging relationships with clients like Target Corporation and Ridgeview Medical Center and managing the sales, account management, marketing and communications, pricing, and reporting teams. RedBrick Health combines constant technology innovation and deep consumer insight to reinvent the health and wellness category. The platform creates a personalized, persuasive and rewarding consumer experience delivered through web, mobile and live interactions. The result is engaged consumers, healthier behaviors, better outcomes, and more substantial returns on everyone’s investment in health.RedBrick Health was sold to Virgin Pulse in 2019.

Us

Dave was one of the early employees of Definity Health, the inventors of Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), and the pioneer of Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plans (CDHPs) where he was responsible for regional employer sales, consumer sales, and account management growth. In four years, sales for the company grew to $100M and David lead the sales efforts on companies like ConAgra, Charter Communications, Coors Brewing, and Sara Lee. Upon the company's sale to United Health Group, he became President of the Healthcare Transformation Group within United's National Accounts Division and grew net new revenues for United by $50M in two years.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us