Ed Stalling Email & Phone Number

Missoula, Mt

As a story coach I help salespeople, researchers, and analysts better communicate their stories. Whether it's a written research report, a sales proposal, a presentation, a sales call or a full-blown stand-up sales pitch, I'm the coach that can help you hit it out of the park. I help market research and CX teams get better at providing insights instead of data dumps, helping them advance the art of discovering and communicating insights.

Missoula, Montana Area

In-demand live and studio drummer-percussionist performing over 100 gigs a year with a variety of artists, primarily jazz but all genres. I give private lessons for drum set with a speciality in jazz, improvisation, and creativity on the kit. I also give lessons to non-drummers on rhythm. Currently working and performing with The John Floridis Trio, Canta Brasil, Jim Driscoll Trio, The Captain Wilson Conspiracy, Kimberlee Carlson Quartet, Joan Jen Jazz Quintet, Ed Norton Big Band, Basement Boyz, and others. Have performed as a sub with Montana artists including Tom Catmull, The Big Sky Mudflaps, Cash For Junkers, Mudslide Charley, and Jenn Adams. In Minneapolis, held the drum chair for one big band and subbed for five others, and performed in over 30 musical theater productions in the pit orchestra.

25 years serving the biggest brand names in the world as a market research, CX and sales professional from the trenches to the board room. Research Manager discovering and delivering insights to Fortune 100 clients; Account Manager retaining and growing our largest global accounts; Business Leader with P&L responsibility for growing our business with global clients in the technology sector; Chief Storyteller responsible for improving our ability to discover and communicate insights globally, designed and delivered an extensive training program around the ingredients of insight; Sales Leadership and Sales Strategy & Positioning coaching our sells force and aligning marketing and sales. Specialized in the art of discovering and communicate insights -- the ingredients of the insight process - and our major clients would bring me in for keynote talks and workshops to provide insights into the insight-generation process and the art of our craft. I was the guy brought in to ensure the biggest results-presentations and reports hit it out of the park.I was the guy the President would fly in to coach sales teams for the must-win sales pitches -- from presentation coaching to message development, to ensure the perfect pitch.Long time member of Maritz' Research Leadership Counsel, the top experts in the company charged with advancing the art and science of market research.Passionate about advancing the art involved in insight discovery and communications, utterly convinced that market research and customer experience can be creative and fun. Well, maybe not as fun a jazz drumming, but fun nonetheless.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Part of a small skunk-works team that brought consumer marketing and branding to old-line commodity wood products, including branding, marketing strategy, packaging, PR and advertising. We created pull-through marketing to add value to consumer wood products.

I sold a B2B research idea to three of the world's largest forest products companies, conducted the research, analyzed the data and presented the results to my Corporate sponsors. This also became my Masters Degree thesis. My papers won the prestigious "Wood Award" from the Forest Products Society (which recognizes and honors outstanding graduate student research conducted in the field of wood and wood products.) This was the first time a marketing paper had ever won.

Wrangell, Alaska

Surveying some of the remotest areas left on earth, getting paid to explore and discover and tromp around in rugged, wet, wild places, living on an island in a real community where people watch out and care for each other.

Master'S Degree, Marketing And Forest Products

Bachelor'S Degree, Forest Management/Forest Resources Management