The Southwestern Advantage sales and leadership program is a division of the Southwestern corporate family (est. 1855), comprised of 14 different operating companies. Southwestern is the world leader in the development of salespeople.
Each of our companies was founded or built by an alumnus of our program. Our portfolio of companies range from Great American – the largest school fundraising company in the world, Southwestern Investments – the #1 Raymond James office in the world, Southwestern Consulting – the nation’s fastest growing sales performance consultancy, to companies in real estate and insurance sales.
At the core of the Southwestern family is Southwestern Advantage which is a summer program where 2,500-3,000 college students come to Nashville for a week of intensive sales development training on how to run their own business selling educational products directly to families in their homes throughout the summer.
The Southwestern family of companies does over $340M in annual revenue and has had over 20% growth for the past 3 years. Our corporate philosophy is “We build people, and those people build great companies.”
Each of our companies was founded or built by an alumnus of our program. Our portfolio of companies range from Great American – the largest school fundraising company in the world, Southwestern Investments – the #1 Raymond James office in the world, Southwestern Consulting – the nation’s fastest growing sales performance consultancy, to companies in real estate and insurance sales.
At the core of the Southwestern family is Southwestern Advantage which is a summer program where 2,500-3,000 college students come to Nashville for a week of intensive sales development training on how to run their own business selling educational products directly to families in their homes throughout the summer.
The Southwestern family of companies does over $340M in annual revenue and has had over 20% growth for the past 3 years. Our corporate philosophy is “We build people, and those people build great companies.”

