Vala Afshar: Going from Customer to Evangelist

Vala Afshar, my guest on the Disrupt Yourself podcast, is here to answer the burning question:

What is a Chief Digital Evangelist?

For starters, that’s the role Vala fills with Salesforce, the dominant player in the sphere of CRM technology.

Vala, with his prior company, was an early Salesforce customer. He used Salesforce and innovated with it for years before he went to work there. He became “the first evangelist hired at Salesforce, so it was new territory.”

In addition to all things Salesforce, Vala talks about this—the nontraditional job search, and the nontraditional candidate vetting. His insights into how savvy, forward-thinking companies will be hiring in the future is worth a listen too.

Download the complete transcript and links in the show notes at WhitneyJohnson.com.