John is a self made millionaire, dedicated to helping others to achieve financial independence so they too can achieve their dreams.

John began his professional career in the environmental industry as a field chemist. He inspected military bases throughout the United States to identify hazardous and non-hazardous waste, and devised plans to transport and dispose of the waste materials safely.  Through tenacity and a strong work ethic, John transformed his field experience into a highly successful sales position and worked his way to the top of the ladder as a national sales representative.

Working too many hours to achieve and maintain this success, and at the risk of loosing his wife and family, John quickly took action to save his marriage. In 2000, he quit his corporate sales position one morning and that afternoon he started up his own national environmental company, ICON Development.  The company provides consulting, transportation and disposal services, recycling program for companies all over the United States.  John grew this company exponentially by capitalizing on his experience and knowledge in the industry. Within 14 months he exceeded $5 million in gross revenues!

Concurrent to  starting up ICON Development, John became inspired to create passive income and achieve complete financial freedom so that he could spend more time with his beautiful wife and two beautiful daughters.  In 2000, John also founded Cribs, LLC a real estate investing and property management corporation.  Through innovative and creative investing techniques that he developed, John turned this company into a million dollar business in just over a year. His specialty and expertise includes investing and profiting in multi-family housing units.  John also pursues the single family housing market as well as flipping homes. “Investing is all about strategy and designing the appropriate strategy to meet your dreams.”

After developing two multi-million dollar companies John embarked on his third successful company The Dessauer Group – teaching real estate investing as your gateway to life freedoms. Through The Dessauer Group, John has expanded his business to include delivering educational, inspirational and motivational products and presentations on investing and developing your freedoms.  He has presented throughout North America and has shared the stage with such notables as John Childers – world renowned speaker, trainer and author, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Dolf de Roos, author of Real Estate Riches, Robert Allen, author of Multiple Streams of Income and Nothing Down, co-author of the One Minute Millionaire, Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the One Minute Millionaire and Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Miller, real estate investor/mogul, and self made millionaire Loral Langemeier, author, wealth coach, and lecturer.  His goal is to help people invest in real estate with an outcome that positively changes their lives and brings about their life dreams.  “I’m doing this because its more than just money, the big payoff for me is time. I can leverage my time a lot more with our real estate company and be able to teach other people to do what I did, not only to develop passive income but more importantly to develop residual income that comes in monthly.  Once they have this financial freedom, all they will have to decide is what to do with all the time they will have and whether it’s to spend it with a loved one, to develop a new business, to help people who are less fortunate, travel, etc.  The fun comes in when they’re making these decisions.” 

John has a B.S. Biology and a B.A. Business Administration from St. Ambrose University, in Davenport, Iowa.