Sales Leadership Podcast

Karen Kelly is the Founder and CEO of K2 Performance Consulting and the K2 Sales Academy. For over 20 years she’s been helping B2B Enterprise Sales Teams and Enterprise Sales Leaders become more confident, more intentional, and win in every market condition. She helps those she works with have the greatest years of their careers by changing how they think. And today she joins us in a master class on how to create your greatest year…not by being more aggressive, not by being more active, and not by being more busy…but instead by being more intentional. This is an episode that will help you think different and as a result…lead better in a conversation you don’t want to miss. You can connect with Karen on LinkedIn here. You can check out Karen’s website here. You can check out Karen’s podcast, the K2 Sales Podcast here. You can subscribe to Karen’s newsletter here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here.

Ken Rusk is a leader who has built wildly successful organizations and teams starting from the ground up. And he’s done it by emphasizing people and cultures first. This is someone who walks the talk of “People First” and he has the results to prove it. He’s the founder of a wildly successful organization that hasn’t just been able to produce head turning results…he’s maintained an incredible 95% retention rate of his team in one of the most high-turnover rate industries in the world. Ken has been featured in places like Forbes, the USA Today, and Fox News…and today he joins us and shares a framework you can implement immediately. This framework has helped literally thousands of leaders build teams that operate with consistency, predictability, and without sucking the life out of those who work there. You can connect with Ken on LinkedIn here. You can learn more about Ken and his team here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here.

Megan Prince, CRO of Zeni, has a dynamic background in sales, rising from BDR to an elite leader in the AI bookkeeping space. She emphasizes the importance of mindset, stating that personal growth is vital for success. Megan shares her journey from door-to-door sales and integrates mindset training into leadership development. Accountability is reframed as a constructive practice, and she highlights the value of mentoring and intentionality in personal growth. The conversation focuses on 'becoming' your future self, cultivating a positive culture while achieving goals.

Gal Aga is the co-founder and CEO of Aligned. Gal and the team at Aligned are transforming how B2B sellers and buyers work together. Gal has been in the B2B SaaS Sales game for over 17 years and has helped scale teams from $1MM to $100MM in ARR and has held every possible role along the way. Today, Gal joins the show to share how sales orgs can make it easier for buyers to buy, for salespeople to project-manage opportunities, to identify new buying signals, and how leaders can coach in ways they’ve never been able to coach. Getting this right will help you shorten sales cycles in the realm of 30% and increase win rates by 15%...and do it very predictably. You can connect with Gal on LinkedIn here. You can learn more about Aligned and their tools here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here.

Bill Rice, founder and CRO of Kaleidico, is a former Air Force officer turned revenue strategist. He shares insights on how elite leaders leverage strategic systems for exceptional growth, emphasizing that technology alone is insufficient for scaling success. The conversation highlights the importance of perspective in sales leadership, fostering a culture that embraces failure for innovation, and utilizing modern tools to navigate contemporary challenges. Bill's military background informs his approach, making this a must-listen for leaders seeking to evolve.

Alex Gabbert is the Director of Brand Communications for Publicity for Good. For over a decade, Alex has been helping businesses and salespeople build high performing teams, achieve record-setting success, and create mindsets that help them not only manage challenges…but more importantly…navigate their careers to achieve outcomes they’d previously only dreamed of. Alex joins the show and shares some really important insights around the role of leadership and why possibilities > activities in sales leadership and how Elite Leaders can move past just emphasizing what to say and how to say it and instead get to that next level of “What to Achieve.” Helping your team members become more purposeful is one of those catalysts that moves a leader from a good one to an elite one. And this episode will help you think differently about how you engage your team as a leader. You can connect with Alex on LinkedIn here. You can check out Publicity for Good here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.

David Knight is the founder and CEO of Avarra.ai, an AI company that’s arming sales teams with the kind of intelligence that turns potential into performance and guesswork into game plans. David has a 30+ year track record leading GTM teams and building revenue engines that don’t just grow—they dominate. He’s been instrumental in scaling MULTIPLE Billion Dollar recurring revenue machines at Market leaders like WebEx and Proofpoint. He’s been in the trenches, in the boardrooms, and on the front lines of tech revolutions. In his leadership journey, David has learned the importance of creating teams that are “Customer Ready.” How elite leaders need to help create intentional improvement…not just incremental effort. Today David shares how elite leaders treat creating readiness in ways very similar to how elite golfers treat their driving range in an episode that will change how you think about “readiness.” You can connect with David on LinkedIn here. You can check out Avarra.ai here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.

Ben is the President and founder of OKRs.com. For those unfamiliar with this concept…OKRs stands for Objectives and Key Results. And Ben has more OKR coaching experience than anyone on the planet. He has literally helped thousands of leaders learn how OKRs are different than performance metrics and how to use them as a navigational tool…not just a management tool. In this episode, Ben shares stories from some of the most iconic companies in the world and how OKRs led to a massive transformation…and more importantly…how each of you can as well to create inflection points that change the trajectory of YOUR team. You can connect with Ben on LinkedIn here. You can check out OKRs.com here. You can check out Ben’s “OKR Field Book Preview” here. You can check out Ben’s Approach to Implementing OKRs here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.

Judy Weber is a former attorney turned business owner turned performance coach who works with elite leaders worldwide. Her success frameworks have been featured on NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, Forbes, and many other mainstream publications. Her mission is to help leaders create life-changing years without sacrificing the things that matter most in order to do it. Today she joins the show to share how leaders can treat connection with others as a skill and how every leader can be intentional in places that matter most and see how small changes create massive…disproportionate results. You can connect with Judy on LinkedIn here. You can learn more about Judy and her Company here. You can check out Judy’s Podcast, Joyful Business, here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here.

Michael Barbarita is the founder and CEO of Next Step CFO. For nearly 20 years, Michael and his team have helped organizations of all kinds implement systems that fuel growth without burning out. In his work, Michael has developed a framework for creating compelling offers that impacts every part of the sales process. Creating more, high quality opportunities…spending time on the right opportunities….improving opportunity sizes…improving win rates…and shortening cycle time. And while any one of these are worth a sales leaders’ attention…his framework will help you in all 4. This is an episode that will help you build systems you can count on…fast. You can connect with Michael on LinkedIn here. You can learn more about Michael and his work here. If you want to be considered to be published in Michael’s next book, you can apply here. For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here.