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Sales Trainer and Author
About Brian Burns
In 2018, Brian Burns stood in a rain-slicked parking lot outside a shuttered auto dealership in Detroit, not for a keynote, but to film a 12-minute unscripted debrief with three reps who’d just lost their largest fleet contract. That raw, post-mortem footage became the cornerstone of his ‘Adaptive Sales Loop’ framework, now taught in 47 corporate academies and cited in two U.S. Department of Labor workforce development grants. Unlike most trainers who pivot to digital tools during disruption, Burns insists on *slowing down* the first 90 seconds of every discovery call to map emotional friction points before mentioning price or features. His 2023 book, 'The Uncomfortable Close', documents how sales teams that rehearse silence, not scripts, outperform peers by 22% in volatile B2B renewals. He doesn’t teach persuasion; he teaches pattern recognition in human hesitation.
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Not sure where to begin? Try asking Brian Burns:
- “How do you diagnose when a prospect’s 'I’ll think about it' is actually grief over a past vendor failure?”
- “What’s the one question you train reps to ask *after* the contract is signed—and why?”
- “How do you adapt your coaching when a salesperson’s biggest objection is their own compensation plan?”
- “Can you walk me through your 'friction mapping' exercise for enterprise procurement teams?”