Paul Epstein: Sales Leadership
Sales leadership speaker, keynote presenter, and purpose-driven culture expert Paul Epstein helps organizations activate purpose, build high-performing teams, and drive growth through Playing Offense.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Former NFL and NBA sales leader with experience across major league organizations
- Led national sales efforts for Super Bowl XLVIII
- Oversaw a $1 billion campaign with the San Francisco 49ers during Levi’s Stadium launch
- Helped grow Los Angeles Clippers revenue from 28th to 2nd in the NBA
- Formats: Keynote speaker, leadership advisor, sales performance expert
- Audiences: Sales teams, business leaders, executives, sports organizations, and companies seeking to build purpose-driven cultures and high-performing teams. Outcomes
- Outcomes:
- Activate purpose as a daily driver of performance and decision-making
- Build resilient, accountable, and high-performing teams
- Shift from reactive leadership to proactive, “Playing Offense” growth strategies
- Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Keynote Topics:
Playing Offense - Leadership
In Paul Epstein keynote message on the Power of Playing Offense, he shares the stress-tested secrets to unlock organizational performance, combat burnout, inspire teams, and scale purpose and positivity through any environment, no matter how dismal current conditions appear.
See how Playing Offense can become your ultimate ‘people solution’ amid uncertainty.
This keynote is for you if…
- You believe leadership is the engine that fuels organizational purpose and its culture.
- You have a bias to action, and are committed to leading self, leading others, and leading impact, at a championship level.
Playing Offense: Sales Performance
This keynote is for you if…
- You are driven to compete in today’s relentless market.
- Grit, agility, and a resilient mindset are the table stakes.
- Learn from Paul Epstein a 15-year NBA and NFL sales leader, who has walked through the same fires.
Playing Offense: Culture
This keynote is for you if…
- You are growing weary of the never-ending battles of finding, engaging, and retaining talent.
- Learn the keys to org and local culture where people know they belong, can thrive, and will stay, because they matter.
Talent Short Bio
Paul Epstein is a sales leadership speaker, bestselling author, and Chief Purpose Advisor known for helping organizations unlock performance through purpose-driven leadership and intentional culture. With a career rooted in professional sports, Paul brings real-world experience from the NFL and NBA into the business arena, equipping leaders and teams to perform at a higher level.
Paul began his career with the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers in an entry-level sales role and quickly rose to become sales manager, contributing to a dramatic turnaround from 28th to 2nd in league revenue. He later played a key role in helping stabilize the New Orleans NBA franchise during a critical period when the team faced relocation.
He went on to the NFL, where he worked in the league office leading a national sales campaign for Super Bowl XLVIII and later helped oversee a $1 billion revenue initiative with the San Francisco 49ers during the opening of Levi’s Stadium.
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From Coach of the San Francisco 49ers to leadership and sales speaker, bestselling author, and Chief Purpose Advisor, discover Paul Epstein path to become the most trusted voice on leading battle-tested teams and building purposeful culture through The Power of Playing Offense.
Paul Epstein has been in the sports industry since his career began, serving in the NFL league office leading a national sales campaign for Super Bowl XLVIII…
From an entry-level sales position with the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers franchise, Paul worked his way through the ranks on the power of his passion and willingness to follow his guiding purpose: to make an impact.
He eventually became the Clippers’ sales manager, helping them rise from 28th in league revenue to 2nd before moving to a position in New Orleans to help the city save their floundering NBA team— then in danger of being relocated.
Paul then followed his purpose to the NFL— serving in the league office, leading a record-setting Super Bowl XLVIII national sales effort, and overseeing a $1 billion campaign for the 49ers while opening Levi’s Stadium.
Inspired in part by the message Paul Epstein late father left with him, that every day is an opportunity to impact lives for the better, Paul went on to take his biggest leap of faith yet.
Paul Epstein left the boardrooms of major sports leagues to begin sharing his message of purpose, activating your WHY, and Playing Offense in life and work around the globe. He became an in-demand speaker and thought leader, authored the critically lauded The Power of Playing Offense, led a leadership development lab for a $3 billion organization, and continued to hone his process for putting purpose into daily action.
Today, Paul continues to share his message in keynote talks, books, his Playmakers podcast, a successful coaching practice, and as Chief Impact Officer for Purpose Point as well as Chief Purpose Advisor for the WHY Institute.
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