MEHDI FAKHARZADEH has been a member of the Round Table since 1967 and has 14 COT and 20 TOT honors. A Gold Knight of the MDRT Foundation, he has been an MDRT Annual Meeting speaker numerous times. He has also been a member of MetLife’s President’s Council and Leaders’ Conference. Fakharzadeh has been involved with the New York Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Passaic-Bergen Association, Association of Advanced Life Underwriting, and is a charter member of the International Forum Club. In 2000, he received the highest recognition in New Jersy with the Israel Siegel Award. A book about him titled, Nothing is Impossible, is in its fifth printing.

Mehdi is not only  a top salesman in the company and one of the top life insurance salesman in the nation, but also  a true champion as a human being—consistently honest and always concerned and interested in the next fellow. Has the ability to empathize and sympathize. He is master judge of human nature and human relations.  The book “Nothing is impossible” is on his life and his sales methods captures the indomitable spirit of a remarkable individual who rose to the TOP against the greatest odds.

In the year 1950, 32 year old Iranian applied for a job at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York. Twenty years later, Metropolitan Life honored an immigrant Iranian as top producer among 21,000 sales people. The secret behind his success is he live and work with simple principles. These principles are powerful enough to change your life – if applied sensibly and diligently, no matter what work you do or where you live and what language you use.  success is he live and work with simple principles. These principles are powerful enough to change your life – if applied sensibly and diligently, no matter what work you do or where you live and what language you use.

Miscellaneous Information

• Feature Write-up in July, 1974 Issue Fortune Magazine
• Listed issue of “Who’s Who In America”
• 1978 – Book about Mehdi titled “Nothing is Impossible” – now in it’s fifth printing
• March 8, 1979- Guest speaker – On the same platform as former President Ronald Reagan at the Sales Executive Club of New York and the NY Hilton
• Guest Speaker many times at Association of Life Underwriter meetings
• Guest Speaker many times at Million Dollar Round Table meetings
• Article written about Mr. Mehdi being #3 among Top Ten Insurance Salesmen in the “Financial Security Digest”, November 1983
• Metropolitan Life Ad appeared in NY Times April 1987, June 1988, September 1990 and in the Wall Street Journal April 1988
• May 1987 appeared on National Television – 4 hour program sponsored by American  College PA
• October 1988 was selected as an Honored Alumni of Brigham Young University School of Management
• Appeared in Iran Times every year since March 1992 
• Appeared on TV – 3 hour program called “Simple Solutions to Complex Problems” 21/02/1996– sponsored by American Society of CLU & ChFC
• 1998 – another book published “Everything is Possible”
• 1999 – Goodwill Ambassador & Honorary Citizen City of Houston, TX,
  
• May 3, 2000 - awarded highest recognition in the State of New Jersey  the “Israel Siegel Award”
• 2000 --GOLDEN LAUREATE AWARD  HIGHEST AWARD IN METLIFE