The road Krish Dhanam took to becoming one of the most dynamic speakers in America began in southeast India with the dream of moving to America. He arrived in New York City in 1986 with nine dollars in his pocket and a burning desire to achieve the levels of success hed seen in the American-made movies he viewed as a child.

Dhanam won a sales contest and a ticket to a seminar conducted by Zig Ziglar. That chance encounter in 1991 led to an association with Zig and his company, Ziglar, Inc., that exists until this day. From telemarketer to Vice President of Training for Ziglar Training Worldwide and Director of International Operations for Ziglar Training Systems, Dhanams climb to the top has been phenomenal. He learned firsthand what it takes to be a stand-apart speaker from his mentor, friend, and now colleague.

Dhanams professional speaking career has taken him over a million miles. He has shared the speaking platform with Zig Ziglar more often than any other speaker, offering a dynamic, energetic, engaging, and often riveting speaking style that can take a listener from laughter to tears and back again in an instant. His message of hope, his passion for freedom, and his immigrants perspective leave his audiences inspired, grateful, and challenged.

Dhanams background, experience, and wisdomwisdom that comes only by climbing your way to the topposition him perfectly to teach and inspire you and your organization. If you want your people to have a can do attitude and to approach problems proactively from their own initiative, contract Dhanam. If you want your people to accept responsibility for their own actions and to communicate effectively, engage Dhanam. If you want your people to understand that work is a privilege, that teamwork will result in achieving goals, and that goals achieved result in hope and gratitude, Dhanam is your man.

His client list is the whos who of global enterprise and he has received accolades from some of the most distinguished corporations including The United States Army, Christian Dior, Steelcase Industries, Apollo Hospitals, EDS, Texas Instruments, Pepsico, and Energizer Batteries.

Today Dhanam is the co-founder of a training company, author of The American Dream from an Indian Heart, and a contributing author to the book Top Performance written by Zig Ziglar. In the year 2008, following a calling on their heart to do something for their motherland, Dhanam and his wife Anila formed Mala Ministries.