Mahan Tavakoli is Regional Vice President for Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., one of the largest and most successful training organizations in the world with offices in over 90 countries. Over the past ten years Mr. Tavakoli has lead the expansion of Dale Carnegie to new markets in Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Latin America helping start the fastest growing operations worldwide in countries as diverse as India, Egypt, Romania and Colombia. For the past four years he has been responsible for Dale Carnegie Training's operations in Latin America. In each of the four years Latin American operations have outpaced the growth of the entire organization by more than double digits. In addition to his operational responsibilities Mr. Tavakoli consults with numerous Dale Carnegie Training clients worldwide and is often featured as a key note speaker on business issues to senior executives of Global 500 organizations.