Steve Johnson, President

Steve Johnson is the founder and president of The Next Level Sales Consulting whose goal is to help their clients to improve their bottom-line sales performance. In his first ten years in sales, Steve was a top award winner for Dale Carnegie, one of the largest training companies in the world. He was recognized as being in the top 1% of a worldwide 1,000-person sales force. Steve has been on over 8,000 face to face sales meetings and has made over 150,000 calls to schedule meetings, follow-up and close sales. You can tell by looking at him that he has been rejected 142,000 times. He is a top achieving expert in the trenches and knows how to coach others to become top performers.

In the last 35 years, he has:

  • Trained over 10,000 sales managers and over 90,000 sales people
  • Created over 800 customized programs
  • Interviewed over 2,500 executives and over 5,500 sales people

Steve is also the co-author of a new book, “Next Level Sales Coaching: How to Build a Sales Team that Stays, Sells, and Succeeds,” which is a 2020 Amazon.com best seller.

He is also the co-author of a 1996 LA Times bestseller “If You’re Not Out Selling, You’re Being out Sold.” and a 2006 Amazon.com bestseller “Selling is Everyone’s Business.”

Steve lives in Manhattan Beach, California with his wife, Elisa, two children, Matthew (Notre Dame 2022), Anna (Santa Clara 2024), and their dog Buster.

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