Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 022. Read the complete transcript from this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Gary Milwit is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Stone Street Capital, headquartered in the D.C. Metro area. Gary is a former High School Football Coach, Teacher and Athletic Director who left public sector work in 2000 after being recruited by Earth Networks to run their education and government sector business. In 2006, Gary was recruited by Stone Street Capital and has held the role of Senior VP of Sales, Senior VP of Business Development, Chief Operating Officer and in late 2016 he was asked to take over leadership of the company and was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer. Gary is a multi-award winning sales leader, trainer and coach. In 1996, he was named as the Maryland State Athletic Director Association's Athletic Director of the Year. In 2012, he won Best in Execution Award from the American Association for Inside Sales Professionals and in 2013 he was named the American Association for Inside Sales Professionals' Executive of the Year. Under Gary's directions, Stone Street Capital won the Institute for Excellence in Sales Best in Sales Training Awards in both 2015 and 2016. Listen to amazing interviews with the top sales leaders on the globe on the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

This is episode 021. Read the complete transcript of this podcast and dozens of others on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! Jen Burns is the Managing Director of Business Intelligence and Operations at Interfolio, a D.C.-based education technology firm serving the higher education market where she is helping to position the organization for scale and profitable growth. She has been in Sales, Sales & Revenue Enablement and Operations for the past seventeen years. Jen spent years in various sales and business development capacities, was in human capital consulting for a few years and then shifted into enablement and operations building out teams from the ground up to deliver efficiencies and business process improvements while driving innovation to the buyer and to the customer journey. She is the president of the DC Chapter of the Sales Enablement Society.

This is episode 020. Read the complete transcript of this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! Telesa Via is the Vice-President of Sales for Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants. She has global responsibility for helping bring this brand together with sales to Corporate Individuals and Associations. She runs a team that provides services all around the globe. Telesa started her career with the Ritz Carlton, eventually moving to the Hyatt brand and then moving to Kimpton, where she became the VP of Sales in 2016. Learn from the greatest sales leaders on the Sales Game Changers podcast!

This is episode 019. Read the complete transcription for this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast site. Today, we are talking with Darrell Gehrt, affectionately known as DG. Darrell is currently a Vice-President of Sales at Cvent, the largest event technology company in the world headquartered in the D.C. Metro area. Cvent has several U.S. offices including Dallas, Portland and Atlanta and a burgeoning international business which boasts offices in London, Singapore, Australia and India in which DG has direct reports. DG joined Cvent as a Senior Director of Sales in 2013 and has been given increased responsibility each year and today sits on Senior Management and owns all sales efforts for the Mobile App Division within Cvent and has heavy influence in Marketing, Product Roadmap and Post-Sales activities. Prior to joining Cvent, DG's career was highlighted with Sales and entrepreneurial endeavors with the focus on emerging CRM technologies. His first true sales position was selling cell phones on a straight commission basis in the early 1990s.

This is episode 018 Read the transcript of this podcast on The Sales Game Changers Podcast. Ben Mathew is Senior Vice President at Accel Partners and Salesforce Ventures backed CARTO, the Location Intelligence platform that helps enterprises turn their location data into business outcomes. He is responsible for global sales, sales development, sales operations, pre-sales engineering, professional services, customer support and customer success. Prior to that, Ben ran Growth Engine Consulting, a Consulting and Advisory practice focussed on growth strategies for technology startups and docufyi, a contracts management software company. Before that, Ben was VP of Sales and field operations for BI company, Logi Analytics, where he initially joined to start the embedded analytics OEM practice and built it up to be the global leader in that space.

This is episode 017. Learn about Paul McConville's journey to become a hugly successful sales leader on the Sales Game Changers Podcast! Check out the complete transcript of this podcast here. Paul McConville is a leader in SaaS and analytics businesses. He is SVP of Sales and Account Management at Hobsons with global responsibility for the success of their 12,000+ K-12 and higher education clients. He was previously Chief Officer at Jornaya, a Comcast Ventures and Edison Partners backed consumer analytics business. He spent 10 years at TARGUSinfo and led sales and marketing prior to the acquisition by Neustar for $657MM. He is the father of 3 daughters and husband to a wonderful wife. When not competing in business, he competes in tennis and basketball.

This is episode 015. Read the complete transcript to this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Website! Mike Schmidtmann of Trans4mers is a Business Coach working with owners and Sales Leaders in the Information Technology field. He works with many high profile sales people including some who make seven figures and more. He helps them open new accounts, win new logos and expand their share of customer spending. After building IT Sales organizations for 25 years, he also now works with owners and managers to help them grow their businesses more effectively. He teaches innovative practices to hire great people, win new business, and improve profits.

This is episode 014. Listen to Tory Clark's complete podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast. Tory Clark is a former college basketball player turned Regional Sales Training Director for Cintas. He currently overseas Sales, Training and Development for all sales partners at Cintas from Philadelphia to the pan handles of Florida. Just eight years ago, Tory started his sales career after a two-year program as a Management Trainee in Raleigh, North Carolina. During Tory's first two years in sales, he earned back to back Diamond Level Award years where he finished in the top 5% of the company in sales. Following Tory's second year, he was promoted to a Sales Manager in Virginia Beach where he rebuilt a sales team to a dynamics growth machine in just two years. Following Virginia Beach, Tory was granted another promotion as a Sales Manager for the Washington, D.C. market. In just three years Tory lead his market new business growth and sales partners on his team being promoted. Tory graduated from Elizabeth City State University with a Business Management and Minor in Marketing degree.

This is episode 013. Check out the complete transcription of this episode on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! Payroll Network's Joe Young Says to Treat Your Sales Career Entrepreneurially for Optimal Success Joe Young is the Executive Vice-President with Payroll Network, the largest independent payroll and human capital management services provider headquartered in the D.C. Metro area. Joe has been with Payroll Network since 2010 and since joining the company in a Business Development role has assumed responsibilities for leading their Sales, Business Development and New Client Implementation Team. Prior to joining Payroll Network, Joe's career was highlighted with sales and entrepreneurial endeavors in the financial services, technology and sports marketing industries. Joe's first true sales position was selling corporate hospitality packages for major golf events including the 1997 U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club.

This is episode 012. Read the transcript of this podcast here! Sarah Lash is the Regional Vice-President of Enterprise Inside Sales for the Americas Business at Tableau Software. Tableau was recently named a Top 10 place to work by the Washington Business Journal after opening their doors in D.C. in 2015 with Sarah's assistance. She's been a dynamic inside sales leader for over 10 years, specializing in working with junior talent, both new to sales and to leadership and helping them find their path. Prior to her tenure at Tableau, she was Director of Sales Development for Cvent, leading a Global Sales Associate Program focusing on lead generation and front end sales cycles. She started her career at DLT Solutions as an Inside Sales Rep before transitioning into leadership.

This is episode 011. You can also read the transcript to this interview on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! Born into media, Jeffrey grew up in a family-owned and operated full service advertising agency where marketing and advertising were literally part of the menu at the dinner table. For the past 17 years he has worked with hundreds of local and national companies on creative media concepts and execution. Jeffrey currently is a Director of Federal and National Sales for WTOP and Federalnewsradio.com. WTOP is the number 1 revenue producing radio station in the country and has evolved from a radio station into a digital news organization that currently provides outreach to its massive radio, digital and social audiences. In addition, it offers external digital services to its clients so that WTOP can provide marketing services beyond its proprietary audience, helping clients target any audience through digital marketing. He's a certified facilitator of the creative problem solving process and is a 5-time finalist and 2013 winner of the National Sales Manager of the Year Award presented by Radio Ink, a leading industry trade publication. Graduate of University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, Jeffrey actively coaches youth sports and cheers on Maryland basketball and brings his 3 sons and trip along with his wife to as many of their games as possible.

This is episode 010. You can also read the transcript to this interview on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! John Asher is author of the new sales best-seller Close Deals Faster. He is the co-founder and CEO of a D.C.-based business providing sales advisory services to companies from startups to Fortune 500. John has been in sales for over 40 years. In his navy career, John managed a 2 billion dollar submarine combat systems program in the Pentagon. In his second career, he co-founded a Northern Virginia-based engineering company that grew at compounded growth rate of 42% per year for 16 straight years. His current business has provided sales aptitude assessments, sales training and sales process improvement workshops in 22 developed countries and I'm also proud to say that John's company is a sponsor, a platinum sponsor of the institute for Excellence in Sales. He is also the author of the new best-seller Close Deals Faster now available on Amazon. John has been recognized by Vistage International as one of their top sales speakers on the planet.

This is episode 009. You can also read the transcript to this interview on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! Anthony Robbins is currently the Vice President of the AT&T Global Public Sector Defense Team, a team of 1,000 employees, headquartered in the DC Metro area. He has spent his 30 year career serving the federal marketplace supporting Civilian, National Security, Public Safety and Defense agencies. In 2016 Anthony was recruited by AT&T to lead their defense business. Prior to this, Anthony held numerous leadership positions including Senior Vice President of North America Public Sector at Oracle, Vice President, Federal at Sun Microsystems, Inc., Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and President of SGI Federal at Silicon Graphics, Inc. Anthony has been recognized by the Executive Mosaic Wash 100 for his network modernization vision. He is a FedScoop 50 Industry Leadership Award Winner and a Federal 100 Award Winner. Currently, he sits on 3 boards; the AFCEA-DC, USO Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore and PSC Board of Directors.

This is episode 008. Kevin Carr is the Vice President of Sales for Nexus Systems where he leads a team that includes Direct Enterprise Reps, Inside Sales, SDRs and Sales Operation. Kevin has more than 25 years of high-tech sales experience of which more than 20 were in leadership roles. He's led teams from 2 to 250 with quotas as high as $250M. Prior to Nexus, Kevin was Senior Vice President of Sales at Deltek.

This is episode 007. Read the transcript to this podcast here!www.salesgamechangerspodcast.com/timkoubek Tim Koubek is the President and CRO of TrackMaven, a 5 year startup that was just named #183 on the Ince 5000 for Fastest Growing Companies. He's led sales functions at various startups and large companies to include RealOps, NFR, Contact Solutions, BMC Software and Conviser Duffy- a startup within Harcourt Brace - some of which have led to successful exits for the employees and investors. Over the last 26 years, Tim runs basketball camps with his brother in Upstate New York for over 900 campers a year. A coach at heart with a competitive spirit that we will explore over the next 30 minutes.

This is episode 006. Paul Keefe is currently the Director of Sales for Dataprise, a Maryland based IT managed services provider, where he is reshaping the sale organization. He has been in sales for thirty-five years, mostly in the telecommunications industry. Paul spent ten years in Boston as General Manager for XO Communications where he established and managed XO's Massachusetts operation, building it into a $60M business, leading the sales, marketing, customer service, finance, operations, and engineering efforts. He also spent time at XO's headquarters running client services and sales operations.

This is episode 005. Heather Combs is 3Pillar Global's Chief Revenue Officer. She oversees 3Pillar's Marketing and Client Services teams. In her role, Heather is responsible for continuing 3Pillar's double digit annual revenue growth. Heather believes that success in business depends on a positive client experience. As such, she leads and develops her teams to deliver first-rate, quality services in the digital software product industry. Additionally, Heather works closely with 3Pillar's delivery organization to ensure 3Pillar customers are receiving quality, cutting-edge software products. Heather has served an executive as Chief Business Development Officer at HRCI and Aronson. She was also Chief Sales Officer at Hanover Research. Heather attributes a great deal of her success in sales and business to the 13 years she spent as a consultant for the Corporate Executive Board.

This is episode 004. Will Fuentes is the head Sales Trainer for The Maestro Group, a Virginia based Sales and Marketing Consultancy. He has been in sales for over 20 years spanning retail, software, and most interestingly meat, as he started his sales career at a butcher shop. Will spent 8 years with national retail chains training their sales staffs and managing stores. He then built a retail SaaS company that was on the cutting edge of in-store personalization and assisted sales. Over the last 2 years he has been hired by multiple organizations to train their sales people to close more sales, accelerate the sales cycle and increase deal value. On this podcast, he shares insights into how to provide a higher level of value for your customer in order to grow your career.

This is episode 003. Caroline Turner is PowerToFly's Chief Revenue Officer. She oversees sales and customer success and is preparing this three year old startup for their next round of funding by putting in place a repeatable revenue process. On the podcast, she shows how passionate she is about understanding the buyer and delivering products that are easy to buy, easy to use, and meet an urgent market need. She discusses how to effectively participate in all aspects of the sales process including getting into the weeds and understanding each step of the buying process, training sales teams how to close deals and run sales calls. She also discusses how to set the strategic goals for the revenue teams.

This is episode 002. LiveSafe Sales Vice President Mark LaFleur talks about his successful career in sales and gives great tips on how emerging sales professionals can grow their careers.

This is episode 001. Learning Tree Senior Sales Vice President Brian Green talks about how to take your sales career to the next leader while discussing sales leadership, customer service, and entrepreneurship. Brian was the Institute for Excellence in Sales's Member of the Year in 2016. He is a true sales leader with great stories and lessons to share.

This is episode 000. Institute for Excellence in Sales Co-Founder Fred Diamond introduces his new podcast, the Sales Game Changers Podcast. He interviews three sales leaders each week on their successful careers seeking tips to help sales professionals take their careers...and sales...to the next level. Subscribe to this podcast to learn about how the world's top sales leaders achieved their success and implement the tips they share!