John Renken

CEO

My goal is to help over 415,000 Veterans on Linked In in their sales careers increase their 💰 income by at least 30%

🪖 CEO Sales Platoon
🎯 Professional Sales, Leadership & Mindset Coach for Southwestern Consulting
📣 Corporate Sales Trainer and Speaker

Southwestern
Southwestern Consulting is unique as we are comprised of a team of sales practitioners. Meaning we are all top sales producers first & professional trainers second. We take pride in the fact that we know what it takes to reach the next level in sales & help change the habits of your sales team because we are doing it in our on business every single day.

Sales Platoon
Focuses on leveraging and translating highly skilled, resilient, dedicated, adaptive & disciplined men & women from active duty to a career that aligns well. A career in sales. This DOD authorized Skill Bridge takes transitioning military & gives them a life & career that isn’t on top roofs, under floors or patrolling the highways for $20 an hr.

🔊 Global Speaker
🎙️ I deliver keynote presentations, live or virtual events on Leadership & Sales
🎙️Developed speaking & training program implemented across the military recruiting stations on how to recruit better

Along the way I have collected a crazy amount of experiences.
Family and Travel
👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 I am a father of 4 wonderful kids (one is now in the Air Force)
🗻 Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro
🗺️Visited 30 countries

US Army & 5th Special Forces Group
⛩ Served in 1/187th Rakkasan
🤼‍♂️ Army Combatives Master Trainer
🎖 Awarded Title of Kentucky Colonel
🔫 Developed and implemented an Active Shooter & Insider Threat course (ARC)across the Military & Corporate America
🇩🇪 Trained NATO & Dutch Special Forces in Afghanistan
🇦🇫 Trained Special Forces in Germany & Embassy detail

Mixed Martial Arts
🥊 6 time MMA world champion
🥋 1st degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
🍿 Featured in Fight Church & The Saint – Two documentaries highlighting my MMA Career & faith
📰 Featured on front page of New York Times

Business and Leadership
🥇 Over 25 years of sales & coaching experience of top 1% producers
🧩 Brokered a multi-million dollar Joint Venture between a US Company & Afghan Company while in Afghanistan.
🔥 Rebranded 2 companies & grew their social media accounts from 3000 to over 30,000 followers
🏦 3 years of B2B experience direct selling company incentives
🫵 Top recruiter for 2 years
📖 Authored Fighting Preacher & currently working on my 2nd book
🎥 Featured in Sales based Reality TV show