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Russell N. Devan is a successful entrepreneur, coach, trainer, consultant, and accomplished sales leader. He was born and raised in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the

McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, where he majored in, Business, English, and Sociology.

Russ' sales experience began in the summer of 1970 with the Hanover Shoe Company, where he continued in retail and direct sales through college. In 1977 he became a Territory Manager with the Lees Carpet division of Burlington Industries. Devan received the President's Honor Club, a distinction awarded to Lees' top 1% of sales performers, an achievement based on volume and increase in an assigned territory.

 In 1982, Russ left Burlington to start his own sales training and marketing company. He assisted the sales organizations for corporations in the petroleum, home improvement, telecommunications, and nutritional supplements industries for the next eight years. He is a published author on the subjects of networking, personal development, and sales training.

In January of 1991, Russ established the Success by Design Institute, Inc., a premier Sales Training & Marketing consulting firm and one of the pioneers of network "Online" training. The primary focus of the institute is to built sales organizations and enhance the clients' marketing efforts. Success by Design's mission is to create a new "value-based" model for how selling, recruiting, and training can accept. Russ refers to as "Un-training." Specifically, Russ addresses the common dilemmas:" Where do I go;" "What do I do;" and "How do I do it?" One Success by Design's client observed that its sales explode from one million per year to nearly three million monthly in less than three years. Until 1993, SBDI placed in Chicago, Illinois. Then Russ moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, and his wife Karen and daughter Brooke. He expanded his business horizons and pared the company's name to Success by Design, Inc.

Russ DeVan featured in the premiere edition of Success Magazine's "Working At Home" in 1995 as one of "the top 24 home-based business entrepreneurs in America." His example has been honored by his peers through training subject material by various media sources worldwide. A published author, DeVan's articles were featured six times in the Direct and MLM Sales Industry publication: UPLINE. He was one of the original five UPLINE "Masters" that influenced hundreds of thousands of Independent distributors. Russ DeVan has shared the stage and program with such notable personalities as Tom Hopkins, Bob Proctor, Les Brown, Jim Rohn, and Dr. Ben Carson.

Russ built a sales organization with a health supplement company that exceeded 25,000 distributors and generated $1.9M per month in sales in just nine months from 1996 to 1997. He is a well-known architect of the first "matching bonus" in a network marketing compensation plan. Russ is proud to have worked with and personally sponsored. His single most successful TV infomercial personality in history is Tony Little -"America's Personal Trainer" who remains a close personal friend.

From 2013 -2015, Russ served as President of "Wake Up America" a fledgling media company whose mission was to shift the paradigm of information and entertainment programming through television media and the internet.

Russ is the most recognized for his dedication to professionalism, integrity, and commitment to the service of others.

 A gifted speaker, DeVan currently conducts Success by Design webinars, seminars, and individual coaching and consulting for individuals and the sales teams of Corporations throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, Asia, and the United Kingdom.