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Biography

From the Oil Field to the Sales Field: About Maura Schreier-Fleming

Do you think it's important to learn auto mechanics when you buy your first car? That's what Maura did so she would not be a helpless female when she got her first car (a used Toyota Corolla!)  This led her to the oil business where she spent over 20 years successfully selling industrial lubricants and working with distributor sales staffs to motivate them to sell more. Maura founded Best@Selling in 1997 to to focus on the best job in the world-- selling and to make it easier for sales professionals to be successful.  By focusing on real-world skills and strategies in a simplified, uncomplicated manner, it's more likely this learning will be applied in the world of selling. 

Maura Schreier-Fleming is a versatile, results-oriented speaker, trainer and consultant who has worked with numerous clients to improve sales performance. Maura works with business and sales professionals who want to get better results from their work.  Her presentations focus on the skills and strategies that improve sales, teamwork and management.  Her clients enjoy her approach that makes learning practical and effective. She identifies sales strengths and gaps and implements solutions for improving sales performance through specific sales training. She has considerable experience with selling and the sales process having spent over 20 years in the oil business. Her customers included Bell helicopter, Northeast Utilities, Georgetown Steel, Stanley Works, General Tire and other commercial customers.  She sold over $9 million of industrial lubricants her last year in the oil business.  Her sales work included selling with the sales staff of oil company distributors.  Many of these sales professionals worked on commission and her products paid lower commissions. Nonetheless, Maura helping them close business allowed her to become one of Chevron's top salespeople in the country.  Maura has a proven track record in coaching sales professionals to improve their sales results.

As a sales catalyst, Maura has designed and developed many highly effective training courses and brings a broad base of experience to her clients and sales consulting. 

Her semi-monthly column "Selling Strategies" appears in The Insurance Record.  She writes the monthly "Street Talk" column for Jobbers World. She is a guest columnist with the Dallas Business Journal where her column is called Customer Connections. Her articles on selling and business have appeared nationally.  She has been quoted extensively in the media including Selling Power magazine, Entrepreneur and The New York Times.  Her book Real-World Selling for Out-of-this-World Results is an important tool for sales professionals.   She is a contributing author for The Balanced Engineer: Entering the New Millennium. Maura is often interviewed on the radio to discuss selling and business. 

Maura serves on the Advisory Board of Automotive Expert Women of AskPatty.com. Ask Patty provides women consumers an opportunity to send questions about car buying, selling, repair and maintenance to a panel of expert automotive women and is a safe online place to share and discuss their car buying experiences. You can read more about Maura's recommendations to women car buyers.

Maura is passionate about promoting math and science education and engineering in the United States. She is the producer and host of the television show IEEE in Action.  She is a member of the National Visiting Committee for the Convergence Technology Center in Frisco, Texas. She is also a board member of Sci-Tech. 

She is the Professional Activities Chairperson for the Dallas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is also a board member. She received the 2006 Professional Achievement Award from the IEEE-USA Board of Directors for "promoting community awareness of the practice of engineering." Maura received the 2004 Outstanding Women of Today (Small Business) Award from Altrusa, International, Inc. of Richardson Texas. She chaired the 2002 YWCA Women of Achievement Program in Dallas.

Maura is passionate about promoting math and science education and engineering in the United States. She is the producer and host of the television show IEEE in Action.  She is a member of the National Visiting Committee for the Convergence Technology Center in Frisco, Texas. She is also a board member of Sci-Tech. 

She is the Professional Activities Chairperson for the Dallas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is also a board member.  Maura received the 2004 Outstanding Women of Today (Small Business) Award from Altrusa, International, Inc. of Richardson Texas.  She chaired the 2002 YWCA Women of Achievement Program in Dallas. 

Maura is a former Lubrication Engineer for Mobil and Territory Manager for Chevron. Her unique experiences are:

• Author of Real-World Selling for Out-of-this-World Results (2002)

• Experience with a variety of industries: Fleets, Staffing, Manufacturing, Distributors, Computer Software

• Dallas Section Professional Activities Chairperson for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

• Member National Speakers Association

• American Society of Training and Development

• Received Sales Recognition from Cummins Engine Co.

• Received National Sales Recognition from Chevron

• First Female Lubrication Engineer in U.S. for Mobil Corporation

•  M.S. in Textile Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

• B.S. in Textile Chemistry, Cornell University