Walt Kehn

Current

• Owner at Training Emporium (Self-employed)

Past

• Regional Vice President of Sales at Nationwide Financial
• Regional Director of Investment Sales at Waddell & Reed
• Senior Financial Advisor at Waddell & Reed Financial Services

• Division Manager at Waddell & Reed Financial Services
• District Manager at Waddell & Reed Financial Services
• Registered Representative at Waddell & Reed Financial Services

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Education

• University of Northern Colorado
• University of Colorado at Boulder

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Websites

• Training Emporium

Walt Kehn’s Summary

♦ WALT KEHN: Trainer │Training Consultant │ Sales Trainer │ Public Speaking
♦ INDUSTRIES: Professional Education │ Financial Services │ Sales
♦ LOCATION: Greater Denver Area
♦ INVITE me to connect at walt5688@msn.com.

Why I am here on LinkedIn:

• I am seeking opportunities to provide training and consulting services to companies and organizations to help educate, motivate, and enable their members to achieve higher levels of achievement, skill and expertise towards improving their bottom line. I am also seeking opportunities to create, develop, implement and deliver training strategies and curriculums.

• I am particularly experienced and talented in creating and delivering high-energy, motivational presentations that engage my audiences, and create an empowering environment to accomplish various learning outcomes in a fun and participatory format.

• In my tenure as a corporate training director, I developed a strong reputation around my teaching, training and speaking abilities, with a particular focus on providing entertaining yet face-paced programs on a variety of training, sales, and informational topics.

• I have over 25 years experience in creating and delivering public seminars and workshops for prospective clients, existing clients, and professional peers.

• I have created and recorded several series of web-based training and teaching programs for use in a large sales population environment.

• I have strong interpersonal communication skills, and excel in personal coaching settings to teach and empower individuals in a variety of situations.

If you would like to connect to me, send invitations to walt5688@msn.com.

Walt Kehn’s Specialties:

Training and coaching, sales training, instructional development and design, public speaking and presentations, web-training, client management software (Siebel), PowerPoint, Windows and Microsoft Suites.

Walt Kehn’s Experience

• Owner

  Training Emporium (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Certified Kolbe Consultant.

• Regional Vice President of Sales

  Nationwide Financial

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NFS; Financial Services industry)

  January 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  Wholesaler of Variable Annuity products to Wirehouse and Regional Stock Brokers and Financial Advisors. Educate sales professionals on product features, sales ideas, and presentation skills. Conducted public client and prospect seminars for Financial Advisors.

• Regional Director of Investment Sales

  Waddell & Reed

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WDR; Financial Services industry)

  May 1995 — May 2004 (9 years 1 month)

  Sales and Product training for 60+ Divisional Offices in 16 Western States. Financial planning, investments, sales and public shareholder presentations. Created and delivered training materials and public educational and sales oriented meetings.

• Senior Financial Advisor

  Waddell & Reed Financial Services

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WDR; Financial Services industry)

  January 1994 — May 1995 (1 year 5 months)

  Financial Planning specialist to extensive book of clients. Prepared and implemented various savings, investment, retirement, insurance, tax and estate planning strategies, as well as presenting public seminars on relevant Financial Planning and Money Management topics.

• Division Manager

  Waddell & Reed Financial Services

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WDR; Financial Services industry)

  January 1984 — January 1994 (10 years 1 month)

  Division Sales Manager. Recruiting, training, administration of large financial services office. Extensive seminar and training responsibilities to maintain a successful and productive office.

• District Manager

  Waddell & Reed Financial Services

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WDR; Financial Services industry)

  June 1983 — January 1984 (8 months)

  District Sales Office Manager. Recruiting and training responsibilities in addition to maintaining successful financial planning practice.

• Registered Representative

  Waddell & Reed Financial Services

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WDR; Financial Services industry)

  June 1982 — June 1983 (1 year 1 month)

  Personal financial planning practice. Designed and implemented financial planning strategies for a successful personal practice.

Walt Kehn’s Education

• University of Northern Colorado

  Masters , Education , 1975 — 1978

  Graduated with a 4.0 average from the Education School.

• University of Colorado at Boulder

  Bachelors , Education , 1971 — 1975

  Activities and Societies:

  Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Mu Alpha

Additional Information

Walt Kehn’s Websites:

• Training Emporium

Walt Kehn’s Interests:

Photography, camping, live music and performance, fine wine

Walt Kehn’s Contact Settings

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