Jerry Vieira is a Certified Management Consultant and President & Founder of The QMP Group, a Portland-based consulting firm specializing in market strategy and marketing and sales organizational effectiveness. QMP has helped clients from Montreal to New Mexico, Seattle to San Diego, and Chicago to Dallas meet the challenges of growth.

Author of three books, Jerry is a cited expert – regularly speaking and writing about market strategy, the adoption of innovation, new business development effectiveness, and sales process improvement. He has addressed a wide range of public, private, educational, and business audiences: National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) annual conference, Helsinki School for International Trade, Stanford University’s Japan Trade Center, American Electronics Association (Chicago), Portland’s Partnership for Competitiveness, Institute of Management Accountants, Oregon Association of CPAs, Vistage and Excell CEO Executive Forums, the Licensing Executives Society, the Hogan Center for Performance Excellence, KPMG and Price Waterhouse high tech forums, Strategic Planning Institute, Oregon Executive MBA program, Willamette University and the Portland State University MBA and Executive Ed Programs.

His articles on market strategy, sales, management and the economy have appeared in Industry Week, CEO Refresher, Marketing News, The Quality Journal, Business Marketing and Chief Executive Magazine. In addition, Jerry has published two books, “Navigational Selling®” and “The Consultancy Navigator®” – and has a third in editing “Winning Against the Big Ships: Market Strategy for Small to Mid-Size Business-to-Business.”

His varied career included executive and management assignments in engineering, manufacturing, marketing & sales. Jerry has a BS Degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College, a second BS Degree in Music from Portland State University, and an MBA from the University of Rhode Island.

His talks are insightful, inspiring, entertaining, and informative. In the words of one enthusiastic listener, who said…“I learned and was inspired.”