In 2005, Dave Horne left a thriving executive career to follow his passion. Having been blessed with almost three decades of career success, he set out to “pay it forward” and help others create winning vocations.

His original concept was simply to write a book documenting general lessons learned about how anyone could build a good career. It quickly became obvious that such a book would either be far too long or way too superficial to be useful.

This became the impetus for Career Secret Sauce. The concept is quite simple; there are millions of people looking for an inside track to success in their chosen career and thousands of successful people who want to “give something back” by sharing what they know.

The Career Secret Sauce series will run the gambit from career strategies for functional vocations like sales, marketing, or product development through industry tracks like dentistry, public sector, or realty.

Dave Horne has never been one to ask someone to try something new before he’s tried to do it himself, so he wrote the first book in Career Secret Sauce series – 9 Winning Strategies for Building a Great Career himself. The first book provides college students with career success techniques for getting started on the right foot while still in college and making sure your first job is a career home run.

Holtkamp and Leger was founded in 2008 to provide expert first-time career success authors with the full range of services necessary to convert their precious know-how into a bestselling book.