Kara Mcguire Email & Phone Number

Kara Mcguire is a Saas Sales Leader turned Chief Family Officer at Career Break. She possess expertise in leadership, team building, consulting, career path planning, public speaking and 19 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I worked for Kara for 5 years and without a doubt - she was the best leader I have ever reported into. Kara is highly intelligent, emotionally aware, data-driven, tough, competitive, transparent, approachable, hard-working, caring, and passionate. These attributes have enabled her time and time again to be running top-performing sales teams in multiple organizations. Her knack for developing strong relationships with her reps and peers helps her understand what truly drives them to bring out the best in people and set them up for success. This has not only changed her sales reps professional development - but also their lives. Kara has developed multiple top reps and leaders in her career journey. She is the leader that people follow from org to org and put in requests to join her team. Because of all this and more - Kara is not only someone you should want leading your sales organization - she is the type of leader your sales reps would want to lead it, too.", "I worked with Kara daily for two years. She managed the sales team while I was building the customer success org. In many places, there is tension between sales and Customer Success, but that was not the case when working with her. She was always open to feedback and searched for ways to improve the sales motion and the handoff between her team and mine. She leads from the front and leads by example, and does not afraid to pull up her sleeves and do a hands-on activity. She always supported her team, and whenever she felt something could be at risk, she always raised the flag with ideas and solutions. Some of our important deals were closed by her, and I never felt that she moved on to hunt new ones. She always continues to check the status of the customers she closed and continues to work together with the CSM on expansion plans. From a personality aspect, she is one of the kindest people I met, a team player that cares about the people and the company. She is a professional Account Executive that puts effort into the discovery process, understands customer pains, and can demonstrate the value that resolves the pain in a strategic business way and not a transactional one. I spent enough time with her during closing negotiations and renewals and saw how she handled challenging situations with respect and assertiveness and focused on value and win-win results. And for the question, if I would work with her again, the answer without thinking twice is yes.", and "It is an truly an honor of mine to write a recommendation for Kara. I had the privilege of working with Kara for 2 years while building out a new office. We were tasked with the hiring and development of 108 sales professionals and managers. During this time, Kara recruited talented sales professionals, developed training, facilitated multi-team contest, and helped develop the leadership team all while driving a team of 12 to achieve some of the highest goals across the company. Kara has an incredible eye for identifying talented sales professionals. She is thorough in her assessment and provides candid feedback to make the right decision. She quickly hired some of the most driven and successful team members we had in the office. Her team ranked the highest in success metrics across all teams in the company and consistently exceeded revenue targets. One of Kara’s strongest leadership traits was her approach to coaching. She leveraged several software solutions to create more efficient practices and identify improvement ares for each individual. She takes a strategic and forward thinking approach to drive her team towards a shared vision. She delegated tasks to top performers to promote career growth and challenge her team members to develop their leadership skills. Kara is a results focused leader that is deeply passionate about her people. She exceled at guiding and motivating her team members and fellow leaders. She is a natural problem solver, easily identifying and proposing solutions to increase results. It is tough to find someone as dedicated to professional development as Kara is. She collaborated with other leaders to facilitate weekly training. She brought forth great ideas for continued education and different sales philosophies to build a well rounded team. Personally, I always enjoyed getting Kara’s feedback on ideas and collaborating with her during 1/1’s. She always was willing to take on additional tasks to help us build a stronger team. Kara would always offer advice to help coach and develop other leaders on our team. It was truly a pleasure to work with Kara and I look forward to watching her career grow to new heights!"

Listed skills include Leadership, Team Building, Consulting, Career Path Planning, and 20 others.

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  Claremont Mckenna College

  Psychology