D. Wendal Attig, Branding Expert and Executive Coach for Small Business and Private Practice Professionals

D. Wendal Attig is an award-winning marketing communications strategist, author, international speaker and consultant, who coaches more than 5,000 senior level management, marketing, advertising and sales professionals -- annually-- on increasing their competitive edge through the impact of corporate positioning and branding.

He is a nationally recognized keynote speaker for corporate and association audiences.

D. Wendal's highly acclaimed book- Blow the Whistle on Your Competition -- How to Brand Position Your Company to Win in the Marketplace of the Mind™ was released in March of 1999 by the Ampersand Publishing Group. He is co-founder of the organizational pre-branding feasibility methodology known as BrandFactors™.

D. Wendal, principal of The Advisory Team -- a Seminole, Florida-based strategic brand design and coaching practice-- founded the company following 20 years of experience in Fortune 500 client-side marketing and advertising management and senior agency management roles including:

Vice-President, New Business Development with Martin Advertising
Vice-President, Brennan / Ackerman and Associates
Director of Advertising and Marketing Communications for Progress Energy Corporation -- a Fortune 500 Investor-owned energy conglomerate.

His earlier career highlights include television news, commercial and remote-sports television, writing, producing and directing with ABC-TV affiliates in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Buffalo, New York, with special assignments for ESPN, and ABC Sports, in addition to radio and television broadcasting in Asia and Europe with the American Forces Radio & Television Service. He completed his undergraduate work in Advertising and Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University in 1981.