Chuck Blakeman is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, and best-selling author who has built thirteen businesses in ten industries on four continents. He is also an internationally acclaimed writer and speaker, best-selling author with the #1 Business Book of the Year, Top-Ten Business Book of the Year, TEDx speaker, and world-renowned business advisor. His latest book in 2025, Sell Less; Earn More, is acclaimed by business owners for its practical approach to growing a business without aggressive sales tactics.
Chuck has worked with many international corporations, but his great passion is for small business owners and independent sales people; see www.3to5Club.com. He also has decades of experience re-humanizing the workplace with larger companies including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Eli Lilly, TAP Pharmaceuticals, Sun Microsystems, Johns Manville and many more.
His company, Crankset Group, helps business owners and independent sales people find freedom in their business, not from it, make more money in less time, get off the treadmill, and get back to the passion that brought them into business.
Chuck was a regular Inc. magazine contributor for years, and now writes for Entrepreneur Magazine. He has appeared in CNN online, NYTimes online, Entrepreneur, Success, and many other publications. He also has a broadly acclaimed podcast for business owners, Get Off The Treadmill Podcast.
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