EXPERT ON:
◉ Customer Experience & Branding
◉ Decision-Making & Emotional Intelligence
◉ Effective Communication
◉ Entrepreneurship & Innovation
◉ Faith in Action
EXPERIENCE:
◉ Automotive Industry Leader – Lifelong career from salesperson to one of the youngest Chevrolet dealership owners.
◉ Trainer & Consultant – Helps dealers recruit, hire, and train high-performing automotive sales teams.
◉ Faith & Leadership Speaker – Ordained minister, FCA coach, and former Marshall University football player featured in We Are Marshall.
Bill Forbes has been in the automobile business his entire life, starting first as a salesperson, then onto owning his own Chevrolet-Chrysler-Plymouth- Dodge-Jeep dealerships at the age of 29. (He was told that he was the youngest person ever to become a Chevrolet dealer up to that point in time)
He presently assists automobile dealers in recruiting, hiring and training Automotive sales people. During his time in the car business, he also became a bi-vocational Methodist pastor, and has since been ordained as a Southern Baptist minister and is a member of the Council of Southern Baptist Evangelists and the National Speakers Association. (NSA) He is now also in the ‘Coaches Ministry’ with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)
He is a graduate of Marshall University, where he played football on a full scholarship. He was a member of the “Young Thundering Herd, as depicted in the movie, “We Are Marshall.”