C. Lee Smith and Audrey Strong

Manage Smarter

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Join hosts Audrey Strong and C. Lee Smith on the #1 sales management podcast as they dive into management, leadership, business, sales, company culture, talent retention, revenues, performance metrics, hiring and more. From debunking sales myths to learning how to manage with and without measurements, you'll learn something new with every episode and will be able to implement positive change throughout your workplace. Available on all major podcast outlets and all episodes available on ManageSmarter.com

Author

C. Lee Smith and Audrey Strong

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Business

Podcast website

salesfuel.com

Latest episode

Apr 12, 2026

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Episodes

179: Tevis Trower: Game-Changing Leadership 27.06.2021

Tevis Trower is founder & CEO of Balance Integration, author The Game-Changer’s Guide to Radical Success, knows that building a great organization begins with cultivating true greatness from the very top.  Tevis is a pioneer in optimizing corporate cultures, and has been heralded as “corporate mindfulness guru for the new millennium.” Tevis has coached high performers and top executives for powerf...

178 Amy Franko: The Modern Seller-How To Become One 13.06.2021

Amy Franko is the Founder & CEO of Amy Franko Associates. With over 20 years of client-facing sales experience, Amy’s career includes sales roles with global companies IBM and Lenovo before pivoting into entrepreneurship. Today her firm works with mid-market technology and professional services organizations to grow sales results, through both sales strategy and skill development programs. Her boo...

177 Tom Connally: Military Principles for Affecting Change 06.06.2021

Tom Connally, is an experienced leader, strategist, and change agent with proven performance leading, building, and fixing organizations by creating a culture of performance. In over 30 years of Marine leadership, he led organizations from 50-3500 personnel, with budgets up to $2.8B. Tom served as a Director for two defense companies, before founding Connally Consulting where he helps leaders impr...

176 Dr. John DeMartini: Building Wealth Post COVID-19 30.05.2021

Dr. John Demartini, bestselling author, educator and leading human behavior expert. Dr. Demartini is the founder of the Demartini Institute, which has helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and individuals break through their limitations and find success.   In this episode, Audrey, Lee and John discuss:  ·      Identifying what you value most ·      The Six Steps to Building Wealth ·      S...

175 Don Long: Find Your Impact Areas 23.05.2021

Over the past three decades, Don Long has founded/co-founded six different companies to total over $100 million dollars in lifetime revenue. The last company he built went into the top 1,000 companies in the United States in that particular industry. He is the author of two books The Blueprint of God and the international bestselling book Sell or Don’t Eat; as well as three courses The Blueprint M...

174: Jonathan Raymond: Good Authority 16.05.2021

Jonathan Raymond is the author of Good Authority and the CEO at Refound. He learned the hard way what happens when you lose your way as an executive, the impacts it can have on your team, your business, and your life. More importantly, he learned how to turn that dynamic around, how to drive performance by becoming more human with a team rather than less. He has worked with a wide variety of leade...

173 Krister Ungerbock: Talk SHIFT to better leadership 09.05.2021

Krister Ungerböck is a successful tech CEO who has been featured in national publications such as NPR, Forbes, Inc, and Entrepreneur for his practical, unconventional communication insights on compassionate leadership, emotional intelligence and employee engagement. His unique insights are informed by real-world experience leading teams in three languages while growing a global company 3,000% (fro...

172: Reland Logan: Social Media for Lead Gen 02.05.2021

Reland Logan specializes in helping entrepreneurs + influencers turn their social media into scroll stopping money makers without the time suck. She is passionate about diversity in marketing and actively works to create change through her podcast and sitting on the American Marketing Association DEI subcommittee. If you really hope to have a money-making social media, massively increase revenue (...

171 Brett Putter: Culture Change Checklist 25.04.2021

Bretton (Brett) Putter is an expert in company culture development who is consulted by companies and leaders worldwide to help design, develop and build high-performing cultures. He is the CEO of CultureGene, a culture leadership software and services platform. Prior to founding CultureGene Brett spent 16 years as the Managing Partner of a leading executive search firm based in London working with...

170 Dr. Jean Latting: Bridging The Workplace Racial Divide 18.04.2021

Jean Kantambu Latting, DrPH, LMSW-IPR is President of Leading Consciously, LLC, and Professor Emerita at the Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW), University of Houston. As a consultant, researcher, and educator, Jean focuses on leadership in multicultural and diverse organizations. While at GCSW, the Jean Kantambu Latting College Professorship of Leadership and Change endowment was established...

169: Clint Pulver: Boost Employee Retention 11.04.2021

Clint Pulver is an Emmy Award-winning, motivational keynote speaker, author, musician, and workforce expert. A Professional Drummer for over 20 years, he's played with top headlining fellow musicians in venues like the Vivint Arena, the Stadium of Fire, and the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. In 2010 he founded the UVU Drumline known as the Green Man Group, which he directed for six years and went on...

168 Michele Ashby: Getting Women Leaders On Boards 04.04.2021

Michele Ashby is CEO & Founder of ACE LLC, Ashby Consulting Enterprises LLC. Her focus is on educating, supporting and teaching women how to attain corporate board positions through the ACE Board Certification Programs for Women. Ms. Ashby has a diverse background which includes 30 years as a gold specialist/analyst, financial expert, independent corporate director and successful entrepreneur. She...

167 Ed Eichhorn: Controlling Healthcare Benefits Costs 28.03.2021

Ed Eichhorn established the Medilink Consulting Group in 2006 to provide management, marketing, sales and strategic planning advice to medical product and service companies. Ed provided strategic lobbying advice for medical societies during the writing of the Affordable Care Act. He also co-authored and published Healing American Healthcare, A Plan To Provide Quality Care For All While Saving $1 T...

166 Luis Gonzales: Multicultural Managing & Difficult Conversations 21.03.2021

Luis Gonzáles is a Master Facilitator for Fierce Inc. He is a communications consultant, coach, and trainer, with more than 25 years’ experience in helping improve business outcomes for organizations. He has successfully driven learning initiatives incorporating effective communication, cross-cultural communication, customer satisfaction and soft-skills training and has worked in India, Mexico and...

165 Larry Olsen: Performance-Driven Neurology 14.03.2021

International speaker, author, and executive coach, Larry Olsen, has years of experience working with Fortune 50 companies, championship teams, and entrepreneurs on establishing their vision and sense of purpose. Larry understands that perception is truth, and his innate ability to customize his approach for each client’s success truly sets him apart. Every person is different, and Larry’s approac...

164 Katie Zink: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 07.03.2021

As the Founder and Principal Consultant for Social Construct Consulting, Katie Zink helps visionary leaders create a positive, dynamic culture that hears, recognizes, and supports all voices. Over the last 11 years, Katie has advocated for causes in the community affecting at-risk youth, career-readiness efforts, after school programming, and accessibility services. Her mission is to help organiza...

163 Jonathan Kazarian: Better Remote Events 28.02.2021

Joining us today is Jonathan Kazarian, the founder & CEO of Accelevents, a one-stop shop for event organizers who want to create a unique and engaging virtual event experience. In the current environment, many companies are choosing to transition their live events to a virtual format and Jonathan is the expert when it comes to helping companies making this process as seamless as possible. #virtual...

162: Jon Berghoff: Exponential leadership and Collective Wisdom 22.02.2021

Jon Berghoff is the Co-Founder and CEO of XCHANGE, a scientific approach to unlocking collective wisdom. Over 350 global thought leaders, community builders, and industry-leading coaches and consultants have leveraged the XCHANGE Approach to facilitate transformational group experiences with their clients. When companies like BMW, Facebook, NASA, and Keller Williams have wanted to bring large grou...

161 Tracy Goodwin: Vocal Techniques to Greater Influence 15.02.2021

Our guest this week is Tracy Goodwin, whose company is called Captivate The Room. She is an expert at helping individuals find their voice and share it with the world. Over the last 30 years, Tracy has coached hundreds of people around the globe, including CEOs, leading Hollywood actors, entrepreneurs, and leading influencers on how to sound more confident and make a big impact with their message....

160 Kevin Davis: How and Why Sales Managers Fail 01.02.2021

Kevin F. Davis is the founder and president of TopLine Leadership. Over the past 25 years, more than 20,000 sales managers from many of the world’s most successful companies have attended his 2-day workshop on sales management leadership. Kevin is the author of three books:• Getting Into Your Customer’s Head• Slow Down, Sell Faster!: Understand your customer’s buying process and maximize your sale...

159 Peer Advisory Groups for Building High-Performing Teams 31.01.2021

Our guest today's mantra is "The Power of We Begins With Me" Leo Bottary is the Founder/Managing Partner of Peernovation, LLC and author of the new book, Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About Building High-Performing Teams. His mission is to prove that we learn better together. In this podcast, Lee, Audrey and Leo discuss: *Teams vs. Groups - Benefits of both models *How Peer...

158 Seth Greene: Lead Gen Using Direct Response Marketing 24.01.2021

Seth Greene is a Nationally Recognized Financial Services Direct Response Marketing Expert. He is the author of eight best-selling marketing books, and book 7, Market Domination for Podcasting is on the shelves at Barnes & Noble, Target, and Wal-Mart now. Seth is the co-host of the #6 rated podcast in 2019, the SharkPreneur podcast with Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington, and the SharkPrenuer financial...

157 Kevin Harris: Servant Leadership and Radical Mentoring 17.01.2021

In 2002, Kevin Harris underwent a dramatic change as husband, father, and believer through his experience as a mentee in a Radical Mentoring group. He is now the President of Radical Mentoring, a non-profit focused on encouraging and equipping churches and mentors to use Jesus-style relational mentoring to create environments for people to be real and develop authentic relationships. Before joinin...

156 Audie Penn: Lean Principles 10.01.2021

Audie Penn is the Managing Partner with Faro Partners. He is a board advisor, executive consultant, and certified lean practitioner at the bronze, silver, and gold level. He represents the Society of Manufacturing Engineers as a member of the Lean Alliance where he participates in the certification oversight and appeals committee. "Leaders tend to spend too much time telling people how to do their...

155 Improving Lead Gen and Expanding Marketing 03.01.2021

Sky Stephens, co-founder of the Association of Professional Builders, a leading business coaching company dedicated to improving the residential construction industry for both builders and consumers. Since 2014 Sky has been helping builders double the size of their businesses through profitable growth. The Association Of Professional Builders excels in providing cutting-edge systems, world-class s...

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