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Brent Widman, ConsultantBrent Widman, Consultant

Brent is a partner, team leader, sales coach, consultant and sales keynote speaker with Southwestern Consulting, a division of The Southwestern Company – a corporation that has been a leader in sales training for over 160 years!

As a sales coach, speaker and team leader he dedicates his time to helping business owners, managers, and producers by getting the results not only from themselves, but from those people around them.  At Southwestern, we are more than just teachers of sales expertise, we are also practitioners first, coaches second. Which means we aren’t just asking people to do it, we are actively doing it ourselves.

His main goal is to help you achieve the goals you want to achieve by holding you accountable, using the tools from Southwestern, leading topic-specific books, motivation and inspiration. Click here to read more about Brent Widman


Southwestern Consulting logoThe Southwestern Consulting Team

Having developed top performing salespeople worldwide since 1855, Southwestern established the vision in 2001 to create a Sales Performance practice to deliver sustainable business results globally.

Southwestern Consulting™, a Southwestern company, consists of specialist practices that support clients in every aspect of sales, including Sales-Business Consulting, Sales-Leadership Coaching, Keynote Speaking and Motivational Training Conferences. All follow the same principles and ethics, taught by Southwestern, which foster long-term sales growth. Click here to visit the Southwestern Consulting website


Brent’s Team


Shannon Bridges, Business & Social Media Coordinator

Shannon joined Brent’s team as his Executive Assistant in the Spring of 2019.  She grew up in Mobile, AL along the beautiful Gulf Coast.  Shannon graduated with honors in three years from the University of Alabama with a degree in International Marketing and a Minor in French.  After living in New York City and Atlanta, GA, Shannon and her husband of nearly 22 years moved home to Mobile to raise their family.  In her previous life, Shannon has worked as an Analyst in a top tier HR consulting firm, in a prominent NYC law firm in the recruiting department, and as a Manager developing and running the online sales for her family’s brick and mortar textbook and teacher supply store.  Her most challenging endeavor to date has been as a stay-at-home mom for her four young children.  In addition to her responsibilities with Brent, Shannon team teaches Sunday School to College students with her husband at her church, sings in the Young Adult Ensemble, spends lazy days on the beach and river with her children and husband, Douglas.  Her family’s newest hobby is sailing which they often enjoy as a family on Mobile Bay.  Shannon is here to to help support Brent and his clients to become the best in their respective businesses!