Our South Overland Park Team

Kurt is a top-tier coach and facilitator with Sandler Training, a company of elite consultants and coaches who work with Fortune 500 companies, business owners, emerging leaders to senior executives to develop teams, companies, and lives that go beyond mere performance, and break through some of their biggest challenges. He has also worked with Dr. Paul White, who along with Dr. Gary Chapman took the concepts of “The Five Love Languages” and applied those concepts to work-based relationships in their follow-up book, “The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace”.While Kurt has lived all over in places like Pebble Beach, California, Chicago, Illinois, and New York City, however, he is a hometown son of Wichita, Kansas. Kurt enjoys painting and creating live art events, serving at his nephew’s lemonade stand (Finnian’s Lemonade and Stuff), and taking pauses in life’s hustle and bustle to enjoy some freshly roasted coffee.

Joan Stephens is Client Success Director & Accounting Director at Daniel J Stalp Consulting Inc, a Sandler Systems franchise.  With 25 years experience working with Sandler,  Joan manages finance and customer success for our clients. Joan enjoys helping people, playing piano, reading and spending time with her family. You can reach Joan at joan.stephens@sandler.com or at 208.573.5227. 

"Dan has 29 years of experience leading, training, and coaching high-performing sales professionals and sales leaders.For the past 16 years, he has been leading through his Kansas City Sandler Training office which specializes in working with presidents, owners who sell, and peak performer sales professionals who are doing well and want to push through to the next levels in their career.He has risked everything and started over twice career-wise in 1993 as a benefits broker and again in 2005 with his Sandler Training office.Dan has co-authored three books ""The Reunion"" (2011), ""Another Reunion"" (2013), and “The Last Reunion” (2020) about career significance and how pursuing what you were “meant to do” - along with being grateful - plays an instrumental role in being the best you can be. The website for all 3 books is: www.thereunionbooks.comHe is blessed to be a mentor with the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program in Kansas City. He is asked to be interviewed on numerous panels, podcasts, and radio programs concerning sales, sales management, and leadership. Dan is also a keynote speaker around the United States speaking on “Career Significance”, “The Power of Gratitude”, and “How to Effortlessly Lead”.When not being mistaken for a certain celebrity, Dan and his wife Lisa of 31 years are in the “empty nest” stage of their lives with two daughters and a son living in Dallas and a college-aged son at the University of Kansas."