Statement of Faith
To radically (different than the world) and relentlessly (focus & work/effort/ ethic) add value to and impact lives in a way far greater than I can ever hope for or imagine by His work within me, all for the glory of God.
About Don
Don is a seasoned businessman, professional, and entrepreneur with franchise, global, and small business expertise. He’s also an accomplished professional speaker, writer, and author on a variety of topics including business development, franchise development and growth, faith in the marketplace, and personal relationships.
Everything that Don delivers whether in seminar, workshop, webinar, or 1 on 1 format provide immediately applicable value to the attendees. Don coaches, consults, teaches, and speaks about things he’s lived and done not theory. When working with Don in whatever capacity you’ll see a very measurable ROI for your coaching, consulting, and training investment dollars.
The early years…
He had a strong upbringing and was raised in an environment with high trust and integrity. Don is often reminded of the example his father would live out like giving back money to a cashier who had handed him the wrong change. Don also often tells the story of his mother’s instructions as she sent him off on his first paying job at 16: If you don’t give 110% you’ll be fired!” Not surprisingly he grew to have a tremendous and disciplined work ethic that would serve him well in his career and business dealings. And he does business in a very high trust, high integrity, relational manor.
Leading into his professional career…
He contributed heavily to the investment in his education without burdening his parents. In fact, he ended up providing about 50% of total education cost by working 50 – 70 hours a week during the summers, working all holidays from school, and almost full-time hours his senior year. It should be noted that neither he nor his parents had any debt regarding his education upon his graduation. Secondly the impact was that he decided at that point that he never wanted to be in a situation where he couldn’t do what he wanted to do because of money. Again, that’s been a strong driving force in his work ethic and business and success disciplines. Even in college he took on leadership roles in his local fraternity chapter and in student and Greek government bodies.
An exciting and successful ‘corporate’ career…
Most of Don’s career out of college was with two fortune 200 companies. He landed his first sales job with the office products division of the 3M Corporation. And there with the help of a fabulous sales manager and mentor and now longtime friend, he launched his sales and business development career.
the follow up discipline he taught himself. This led him to his long-term career with a global company locally headquarter in the Harrisburg PA area – AMP Incorporated (now TE Connectivity.)
Don moved up the ladder in this Fortune 200 company about as quickly as you can in a conservative company. His 7 moves in 20 years there led him through positions of technical sales, global account management, global account leadership doing business in 30 countries, overseas market and business development experience living in Japan and speaking Japanese, P & L and capital expenditure responsibilities, and ultimately being selected as one of 100 leaders in the company to be part of the executive development program.
Stepping out on his own…
After AMP was acquired, Don decided that it was time to make the leap and step out into starting a company of his own. so, he joined the master franchise/area developer ranks of an international franchise company entering the U.S. market. In fact, he was the pioneer being the first developer in the U.S. and ultimately the longest tenured in the company in all of North America until his divesting of the territories in 2015.
Establishing his own credentials and expertise…
Building on his own big company global experience he learned and added franchise industry expertise as he helped build this company into an industry leader around the globe. One that would lead in both the coaching/personal development/training area as well as the franchising industry. He’s now personally become one of the top and longest tenured people in the coaching industry.
He also developed his own skill sets around relationship building personally and professionally. Don now weaves that into how he sells and develops all of his businesses today. He currently works with franchisors in all areas, often specializing in how to grow their concept. Additionally, Don is a franchise broker/consultant, helping people every day decide whether business ownership is right for them. And then finding they the right match to increase their probability of success
In addition to franchise consulting…
He’s also been training and speaking for 13 years and a writer and author for 10 writing for a regional Christian newspaper, at large for a business journal, blogging, and now published in 2011 with his first book Can You Relate?
Don Schin with Jeffrey Gitomer
The personal side of Don…
Don has been married for 40 years to Kim who have two grown children and 4 grandchildren.
Don and Kim are very active in their community through their church. Don also serves on several board of directors in business and non-profit including chairman of the board at Bethesda Mission and formerly on the board of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber of Commerce. He was also recently asked to serve for an organization named Baseball Chapel as the chaplain for the AA baseball team the Harrisburg Senators.