Jim Dion, founder
and president of Chicago-based Dionco Inc., is an internationally known
consultant, keynote speaker, trainer, and author of the best-sellers
Retail Selling Ain’t Brain Surgery, It’s Twice As Hard,
Start and Run a Retail Business
and
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting and Running a
Retail Store.
Jim consults,
trains and speaks on
consumer trends, retail technology, selling and
service, retail merchandising and operations,
marketing and
leadership.
With a BS, MS
degree in Psychology from Chicago State University and
a
Ph.D. (abd) in Industrial Psychology
from the Illinois Institute of Technology
combined with
over 30 years of
progressive retail experience working at Sears, Levi Strauss
and Gilmore Department Stores, Jim is one of
the most sought after consultants and speakers in the US and
internationally.
As a
consultant, he has helped hundreds of retailers large and
small successfully reposition their retail business, including
Ritz-Carlton, Harley-Davidson, Hummer, Poster Plus, The Hat Shack,
and Potomac ABC to name a few.
A PC expert and a Microsoft Developer, Jim has
conducted major retail system and POS installs at retailers
nationwide. He also studies and evaluates new retail POS, EDI,
merchandising systems and relationship marketing software. He has
been a judge for the Microsoft© Retail Developer Awards as well as
for CIO Magazine Top 100.
Jim's
speaking and training practice
includes hundreds of keynote
speeches, seminars and workshops for some of the largest companies
in the US and internationally. Companies like Microsoft, Maytag,
Vestel (Turkey), IBM, Honey-Baked Ham, Williams-Sonoma, ASICS, JDA,
Swarovski, Macy’s and others have all benefited from Jim's insights on
retail selling, merchandising, technology, and consumer trends. Jim
is also a frequent speaker for leading associations, including the
National Retail Federation, the Association of Golf Merchandisers, Narta (Australia), the National Shoe Retailers Association, the
National Sporting Goods Association and many others. He is a faculty
member in the MBA program at Harley-Davidson University and works
with Harley-Davidson dealers around the world.
A writer for hundreds of national and
international trade magazines and a regular contributor at
www.allexperts.com, Jim is consistently ranked at the top for
his insights and practical advice. He has also appeared on
NBC, Fox News, First Business and CNN Turkey.
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