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Fun, informative and revealing: I was pumped when I left!

Darrell charged my batteries to a level I didn’t know existed. I’m now more charged than ever to take my career to the next level!

Excellent, thought-provoking presentation! Has shifted my thinking on how to present myself!

Darrell’s presentation is full of energy and got our ordinarily reticent group involved and talking!!

Darrell gives life lessons that will promote your career, but the real value plays out in improving your quality of life.!

Your recession-proofing presentation was fast-paced and a lot of fun. Your handout is one of the best I have ever seen – it ensured participant engagement and brilliantly supported your key messages. The exercise on ‘unique-ifying’ yourself really helped me get a better feel for communicating my own value proposition!

Your recession-proofing presentation was fast-paced and a lot of fun. Your handout is one of the best I have ever seen – it ensured participant engagement and brilliantly supported your key messages. The exercise on ‘unique-ifying’ yourself really helped me get a better feel for communicating my own value proposition!

Thanks for a great presentation to my group of executives. You did really good job engaging the group. Your handouts were very helpful and the exercises I think really opened the eyes of many as to how important networking the right way is to one’s job search. I have received many excellent comments back on your talk. I know the executives all benefited having you as our speaker!

Thanks for a great presentation to my group of executives. You did really good job engaging the group. Your handouts were very helpful and the exercises I think really opened the eyes of many as to how important networking the right way is to one’s job search. I have received many excellent comments back on your talk. I know the executives all benefited having you as our speaker!

I highly recommend that you get people you know to listen to Darrell's words.

Mr. Gurney, thank you so much for addressing our CFO networking group the other evening. I received many compliments from the members for another great speaker; another fantastic South Bay FENG networking meeting. The content of the material and the delivery of the message were outstanding: clear, crisp, and full of energy. The personal branding exercise was fun, interactive, and of particular interest to our group. Please let me know if I can help you in any way; referrals, introductions, anything I can do to help get your message out!

You are awesome with how you can energize the room and convey great, useful info in a very short period of time. You also have very good command of the audience, a great sense of humor and quick, witty answers and comments. I know people were delighted with the workshop!

Senior marketing executives know how to promote and sell a brand, but they often don't know how to sell or brand themselves. So Darrell was particularly effective in getting the folks in this chapter meeting thinking out of the box and creatively about branding and using other techniques for their career search!

Thank you for speaking at our national Professional Business Leadership Institutes in Dallas and Atlanta. I know all the participants got tons of value out of your talks!

Darrell’s presentation on ‘How to Recession-Proof Your Career’ to the Orange County chapter of the Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG) was very well received by the membership (about 65 attended). Much of his focus on personal accomplishments helped people to focus on what value they bring to employers and to their friends and families. It gave everyone an opportunity to reflect on the positives in their lives and careers, instead of worrying about the effects of a prolonged transition period and other causes of angst. Everyone left the room with a positive outlook and an understanding of their value and brand!

Darrell, I'm happy to report that we had 161 registrants RSVP for your career webinar and 167 participants in attendance! We've never had any of our career webinars go over 100%. Again, thank you for presenting the '10 New Year Command-Your-Career Resolutions' as I believe it really does speak to our alumni!

Darrell is the best teacher I know of the most important career-building skill of all – ‘the art of networking.’ Among the 16 top experts on the faculty at Beyond B-School today, I believe he should be at the top of the list for MBA career services to engage to give their students a skill they will benefit from their entire professional careers!

I believe the two presentations that were brought to our students over the past couple of days were not only informative but were a way to help them create better lives for themselves and get them on a pathway to success.

We had Darrell come speak today for two of our groups: an undergraduate student population and a graduate student population. His message was on point and exactly what we wanted to have our students hear about a method to have them go out and take their job search to others.

Darrell, the presentation you gave last week on 'Backdoor Job Search' was top-notch! The webinar provided an excellent forum for alumni and guests to ask questions and voice opinions. Thank you for such an informative and pleasant session!

The presentation was extremely well received. Darrell is a very engaging speaker, but more to the point, his subject matter was very relevant for graduating seniors and mid-career professionals who may find themselves in transition at a future date. I can highly recommend Darrell for presentations to groups like this or, for that matter, to any group where networking skills would become important.