Sell By Being Human

Summary: Alison Shea is a Learning Development Professional who has lead learning and development teams for global organizations. She's won a variety of awards in L&D for her work in creating DE&I Prgorgamming, for LMS Implementations, and for Virtual Meetings. She also recently launched an awesome newsletter called the Learning Manifesto in which she shares her insights from her over 20 y...

Summary: Brad Harmon is the Industry Sales Executive at Oracle. Brad has a long history working as a strategic enterprise seller working with some of the largest companies in the world. He's had consistent success at being a #1 rep and in 2021, he achieved 300% of his annual quota. He is a dedicated, self-starter sales professional with various experience across many different industries. In this...

Summary: J. Scot Heathman is the Owner and Founder at Elevating Others - A professional coaching business focused on creating the best conditions for creating the highest rate of personal and professional climb. He is an executive coach and servant leader who is a Jedi at growing emotionally intelligent and resilient leaders. Throughout his 25+ year Air Force career, Scot developed solid leadershi...

Chris Bogue is a writer, comedian, and entrepeneur that happened to make the jump from the stage to the sales game. He's done stand up comedy, improv, and performed in front of audiences his whole life. When he got into sales to pay the bills, he realized that alot of the same skills transferred from his improv life into his sales life. So to stand out, he started making fun sales video content. I...

Summary: JR Butler is the CEO and founder of Shift Group - a company transitioning elite athletes to sales professionals with free foundational skills training and job placement in tech. A former athlete himself, JR understands the challenges that come with switching careers without losing your identity and succumbing to depression, substance abuse and other roadblocks preventing people from livin...

Summary: Ravi Rajani is an author, speaker, and sales consultant. He's the founder of Ravi Rajani Consulting and host of The Influential Communicator Podcast. His mission is to help B2B SaaS sales teams present their story, solution and message in a way that gets attention, builds trust and wins new business without competing on price. I met Ravi through a mutual connection on LinkedIn and right a...

Summary: Kristin A. Meekhof is an author, life coach, writer and obtained her M.S.W. from the University of Michigan. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience. A nationally recognized expert on resiliency and gratitude, her best-selling book, A Widow’s Guide to Healing, was inspired by her own personal experience with widowhood, grief, and healing. When Kristin is not writing she enjoys t...

Summary: Amarpreet Kalkat is the founder at Humantic AI and co-founder at Frrole AI - Companies he founded with the mission to humanize the internet. He founded Frrole AI in 2014. It was one of the first companies to bring AI to consumer intelligence. It led to Forrester naming Frrole AI as one of the only 7 products out of hundreds in its “AI In Consumer Intelligence” report in 2020. In 2021, he...

Lindsay Mitrosilis is the Founder, Lead Strategist & Agency Owner at Mitrosilis Consulting. She supports entrepreneurs who are ready to take on the dark horse of social media and harness the most powerful business tool out there...LinkedIn! Lindsay has helped hundreds of people use LinkedIn to create a profile that attracts their ideal employer (aka ideal clients) and find opportunities (aka b...

Jonathan Mahan is the Co-Founder of The Practice Lab - the first ever training community for sellers ready to develop their skills like athletes, performers, and musicians do theirs. The Practice Lab programs help sales people cut through the clutter of tips and tactics to learn the most impactful core sales behaviors that make selling feel good and net meaningful results and deliberately practice...

Summary: Laurie Ruettimann has been telling work-life stories and building groundbreaking solutions to drive better employment experiences, increase retention rates, and improve job satisfaction for more than 20 years. Through her storytelling, she casts a spotlight on innovators who are advocating for driving better employment experiences that benefit everyone — individuals, managers, employers,...

Summary: Stephanie Rogers is the host and creator of Story Jam and Story Serenade, two acclaimed live lit, live music shows which feature diverse personal narrative storytellers and original songs which echo each story. Since 2018, Steph and a team of talented coaches, writers, performers, and producers have offered hundreds of workshops, classes, and retreats through Story Jam Studio. The Studio...

Summary: Cyndi Bishop is an experienced client support specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the eLearning industry. Skilled and knowledgeable in K-8 Education, eLearning, Moodle, Training and Customer Service. She is a professional who’s passionate about building client relationships and serving them with her all. Cyndi has a Master's degree focused in Educational Leadership and Po...

Summary: Emet Ozar is a seasoned Program Manager with 15 years experience in technology and education sectors passionate about creating effective processes and programs, managing relationships and using data to drive informed decision making. She was born and raised in California. After graduating with a degree in Learning, Design, & Technology from Stanford University, Emet worked primarily i...

Summary: Constantine Johns is the Regional Sales Director at Workiva. Constantine is constantly a top performer and dedicated person of influence with a demonstrated history of overachieving and continuous development. He is passionate about serving his partners and leaving a long-lasting impact on everyone he interacts with. He is dedicated to his journey of self-awareness and self-development, w...

Summary: Jason Wasser is a therapist and coach for professionals, entrepreneurs, family businesses & athletes. He has an interest in working with high performance individuals through his consulting and coaching practice. He utilizes integrative and alternative medicine modalities to amplify his successful outcomes with his clients. He enjoys working with clients who are looking for something d...

Summary: Vincent Pugliese is a conference speaker, leader of a mastermind group and an author. His journey takes him through being one of the greatest sports photographers in the country, working through the newspaper industry, to becoming an entrepreneur, starting his own photography business and writing two books - The Wealth Of Connection and Freelance to Freedom. Freelance to Freedom is full o...

Summary: Joseph Bennet Jacobi is an American former slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. He had a nineteen year career as an elite athlete with the US canoe and kayak, including ten national championship titles, two Olympic games appearances and has won an Olympic gold medal in the C2 event at Barcelona. Today Joe works as a performance coach, collaborating with leader...

Summary Jason Walker is described by his colleagues as a "Down to Earth Seller". He describes himself on LinkedIN as The Conscious Seller and an LMS Whisperer. He showed me how he is all these things and more in our conversation. So much of sales is making people feel that they have someone that cares about them and Jason goes even farther with an approach that says - his client's deserve someone...

Summary: Creative outreach. Wacky prospecting ideas. Gimmicks! How do you separate out the difference between an out of the box prospecting idea that's effective and ones that are really just cute gimmicks in the moment? I brought on Jeremiah Griffin, Head of Sales at the Sales Rebellion to talk about this. Jeremiah describes himself as a professional attention getter and crafter of creative copy....

Summary: Emily Davidson Dukes is an Account Executive at Docebo - a Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enterprise Learning Management System. Before discovering her passion for sales, she worked as a high school English teacher for Madison County Board of Education. In this episode we explore the links between teaching and selling and how Emily utilized her teaching skills to become a bette...

Summary: Jack Wilson is the Senior Director of Enterprise Sales at Seismic - The industry leading enablement platform. Jack's superpower is the ability to guide complex organizations and individuals to discover unique super powers of their own. Traditionally he's done this through consulting and one to one coaching helping his clients and students to surface untapped potential, blow past their goa...

Summary: Tyler Meckes is an Account Manager at Dooly - a company focusing on winning more deals by improving Salesforce hygiene, running a winning sales process, and eliminating low-value work for salespeople. In college, he obtained both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Exercise Science from Bloomsburg University. Hi graduate studies allowed him to further hone his research/analysis, professio...

Summary: Torin Ellis is a diversity strategist, Founder/CEO at the Torin Ellis Brand, Co-Host of the Crazy and the King Podcast, and a published author. As a tenured diversity practitioner, he leads a nimble diversity boutique consultancy with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) strategy through the lens of recruiting Through his work he ensures teams effectively attract,...

Summary: Rachel is on a mission to humanize the workplace by igniting resilience, connection, engagement and compassion in organizations, associations and their leaders and teams. Recognized by Forbes as a Next1000 honoree in 2021, the #1 Health Promotion Professional in the U.S. in 2015, a 40 Under 40 Game Changer in 2019, and one of The Daily Record’s Leading Women of 2020, Rachel is a national...