Bill McCrary, founder and CEO of StrategicPartner, Inc., was a speaker at the 23rd Annual Convention of Digital Graphics Group International (DGI) held November 11- 15 in Dubai, U.A.E.

As CEO of one of the most successful sales training institutes in the United States, McCrary discussed The 7 Deadly Sins of CEOs, focusing on the most common, yet subtle reasons that most CEOs fail and how those weaknesses are greatly accentuated in uncertain times, like today.

DGI is a consortium of international companies in the graphics industry representing Belgium, France, Australia, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Finland, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, Greece, Norway, the Netherlands, and the United States of America.

Other presentations included information from

the books The Blue Ocean

Strategy and The Speed of

Trust as well as information regarding technology up- dates, family businesses, brands, digital communications, and sales growth.

StrategicPartner, an authorized licensee of Sandler Training, is a sales force development firm with offices in Columbia, Greenville, and Charleston.

McCrary has over two decades of sales, sales management, and sales training experience including his work for two Fortune 100 companies, Georgia- Pacific and American Home Products Corporation.