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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Sales is the most under studied, under taught profession in the world. Yet it's the lifeblood for every organization and employs tens of millions of people around the globe.Victory Lap has reimagined sales education and workplace learning to bring the very learnable skills and behaviors of sales to the masses. We help students around the country launch or.

South Bend, IN, US

The goal of this entrepreneurial selling course is to demystify sales and help students build the confidence, competence, and strategies to succeed within a variety of business environments.This course covers the fundamentals of sales and how to build a sales process that consistently wins new business. Students will leave with the skills and confidence to.

New York City, New York, US

All-Star mentor given to top 1% of Techstars mentorsAdvising founders on GTM and sales strategies

Chicago

Evanston, Illinois, US

Collaborate along side the Adjunct Professor in the New Venture Development course. In this class, startups launch real world tests to form product market fit and gain conviction whether to proceed with their venture or not. I teach and coach these students in all things sales related to getting early traction with their ventures including but not limited.

San Francisco, California, US

Participating in ODET (On Deck Ed Tech) fellowships.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Our mission is to deliver engaging, rigorous, and personalized literacy instruction for every student, in every class, every day.Hired as companies first VP of Sales post Series A to lead national growth strategy. Through my leadership, we expanded from 12-30 states in 12 months.

Chicago, IL, US

Created Groupon Inc. Sales Onboarding Department (now Groupon University) to increase engagement in the workplace, reduce attrition, and generate more money faster from our new hires. After a 60 day pilot with 8 reps in June 2013, the "GroupOn-Boarding Program" scaled to train, develop, and strategically onboard over 400 sales reps and 7 sales managers.

Chicago, IL, US

Managed team of 15-25 inside and outside sales professionals and $20MM+ annual budget. Chosen out of 40+ sales managers to lead key pilots pertaining to Groupon Rewards, Groupon Now, and "daily deal" unique offerings. I worked closely with sales operations and marketing to build model for rollout to the remaining 100+ markets.

Chicago, IL, US

Achieved 125% of GP goal during first 6 months in sales role while mentoring 3 new hires.Promoted to Divisional Sales Manager, fastest sales rep to manager promotion in company history.

- Primary residences were St. John, USVI and Rome, Italy. - Spent time traveling to more than 30 cities across Eastern and Western Europe.- Built the initial canvas for Victory Lap, of which I launched 6 years later

Selected to be one of 10 individuals to start the Chicago office for this $3B Verizon spinoff

Reporting directly to COO while overseeing 3 divisions: Customer Service, Product Development, and Recruiting. Responsible for leading and developing team of 5 managers while driving performance across each platform.Successfully reduced turnover by 40%, optimizing candidate targeting and internal interview processes.

Ranked #1 in sales out of 15 BDM's (most of which had 5+ years of sales experience) Promoted to lead east coast recruiting efforts to ramp engineering team from 10-80 hires in under 12 months. Successfully developed an on-campus recruiting strategy leading to 25 engineers across top east coast universities relocating to San Diego to begin career at Fanbox..

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

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