Giant Impact

GiANT is a growth company.  We grow organizations by making their leaders more valuable and their companies more profitable. GiANT utilizes events, leader training, resource publications, executive training and strategic growth planning to impact leaders and their companies. GiANT’s resource partners include leadership expert and best selling author, Dr. John Maxwell, as well as author of the Fred Factor and Encore Effect, Mark Sanborn.  

GiANT invests in people. The purpose of the company is to add value to organizations of all shapes and sizes by increasing the capacity of its leaders and growing healthy companies that serve well their employees and co

Sandler Training  - Al Simon

Mr. Simon is the founder and President of Simon, Inc., an eight-year –old sales performance training, coaching, and business development consulting company based in the metro Atlanta area. An authorized licensee of Sandler Training, Simon specializes in equipping business owners and sales professionals to be effective and consistent with their business development strategies, tactics, and attitudes. An author and regular columnist for the Gwinnett Business Journal, Simon also authors the “Simon Says” weekly sales tip.

A 1977 graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. degree in Industrial Management, Mr. Simon has 32 years of direct sales experience using many different sales strategies and approaches. Consistently the top performer in sales volume in his corporate career before starting Simon, Inc., he has mastered the art of selling in both simple and complex sales cycles. Mr. Simon has also successfully managed salespeople in highly competitive, high-risk situations.


Sandler Training is the world leader in sales performance training and coaching, and sales management training and coaching, with over 250 locations in fourteen countries. Sandler-trained professionals have developed their skills and acumen in the world of person-to-person deal-making. They are productive and effective in keeping control of the sales deal while keeping and growing the trust level with their prospects and clients.