Bill Walton, Executive Consultant with The Advisory Alliance, brings over 17 years of experience as sales trainer and sales strategy expert to his clients. He has worked extensively in the Manufacturing, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Management Consulting industries. Bill has particular coaching and training expertise in Sales Effectiveness, Market Communications and Management Development.

Prior to founding his own practice, Bill was a Senior Vice President with Manchester Inc., a leader in Executive Coaching. At Manchester, Bill specialized in coaching senior-level executives to effectively assimilate into new organizations and assess the future leadership capability of their teams. Previously, Bill worked for the Forum Corporation, a leading sales training and consulting organization serving Fortune 500 companies. While with Forum, he specialized in such content areas as Strategic Prospecting, Global Relationship Management, and Client Retention.

Bill's background also includes 10 years in the Consumer Products industry as a sales manager, market analyst and training specialist. As the Sales Promotion Manager for Tambrands, Bill trained the domestic and international sales forces of the world’s leading feminine hygiene brand. Bill also enjoyed several years at Nestle Foods where he was recognized for developing and leading high performing teams. As a Senior Corporate Account Manager, Bill also penetrated new verticals for AC Nielsen, a leader in syndicated market research and software.

Bill is a featured guest on CNNfn and is an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Continuing Education. He is a featured contributor to Human Resource Executive Magazine and an active member in The American Society for Training and Development, the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, and Sales and Marketing Executives International. Bill also sits on the board of Sell-Masters, a sales performance acceleration forum designed for helping people who sell to achieve outstanding results.

Bill graduated magna cum laude from Connecticut State University with a degree in Business Administration and received a Masters in Human Resource Education from Fordham University.