Dean Hyers: Emotion Control Skills

Dean Hyers began making movies as a teenager, became an entrepreneur in his twenties, and has stayed on these twin paths all his life. Upon graduating from Gustavus Adolphus College, Dean launched his own interactive media company, Digital Café, as his entrée into the movie business. Through Digital Café, Dean developed commercial software products, and directed electronic promotions for mainstream Hollywood blockbusters like Godzilla, Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: the Movie, and Die Hard III.

Upon selling Digital Café to advertising heavy-hitter Campell Mithun in 1999, Dean returned to the director’s chair with his debut feature, Bill’s Gun Shop, which he also produced. The film was released through Warner Bros, after Dean took top honors at the SMMASH Film Festival and won Minnesota’s top directing prize, the DL Maberry Award for Directing.

Dean began teaching acting and emotion-control skills to government undercover agents from the United States and Canada, and then formed SagePresence, where he speaks professionally and trains business professionals to design messages and master their presence under pressure when they speak, pitch new-business, manage clients, and lead teams.

Leveraging everything he knows from film, agent training, business ownership, and business speaking and coaching, Dean coached $3 billion in winning, competitive sales presentations.