Episodes

  • Episode 319: Karen Kelly, Founder and CEO of K2 Performance Consulting: Who Are You BECOMING?

    Episode 319: Karen Kelly, Founder and CEO of K2 Performance Consulting: Who Are You BECOMING?
    Jul 2 2025
    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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kelly-sales-trainer-/) You can check out Karen’s website here (https://linktr.ee/karen.k2perform). You can check out Karen’s podcast, the K2 Sales Podcast here. (https://www.k2perform.com/resources/podcast) You can subscribe to Karen’s newsletter here. (https://www.k2perform.com/resources/blog) For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited)
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  • Episode 318: Ken Rusk, President at Rusk Industries: People First Leadership

    Episode 318: Ken Rusk, President at Rusk Industries: People First Leadership
    Jun 25 2025
    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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-rusk-2656a7175/) You can learn more about Ken and his team here (https://www.kenrusk.com/). For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited)
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  • Episode 317: Megan Prince CRO @ Zeni.ai , Sales is About BECOMING…Not Attaining.

    Episode 317: Megan Prince CRO @ Zeni.ai , Sales is About BECOMING…Not Attaining.
    Jun 11 2025
    Megan Prince is the CRO of Zeni. Zeni is what happens when AI meets accounting and the Zeni team is turning heads with industries all around the world. Megan is one of the most exciting CRO’s in AI to watch right now. She’s an elite leader who has had an incredible run from SDR to CRO…and has created a leadership style any leader would benefit from learning. She blends individual development with accountability, delivers results without sacrificing culture, and starts with Mindset…not just mechanics…as the ultimate lever for performance. Today Megan joins us and shares why the best leaders focus on what people are becoming as the ultimate roadmap to what the team ultimately is attaining in an episode unlike any other we’ve had in show history. You can connect with Megan on LinkedIn here. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-prince-60a782121/) You can check out Zeni here (https://www.zeni.ai/). For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited) Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.
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    1 hr
  • Episode 316: Gal Aga, CEO of Aligned :Helping Your Sales Team Dance with Flawless Alignment

    Episode 316: Gal Aga, CEO of Aligned :Helping Your Sales Team Dance with Flawless Alignment
    Jun 4 2025
    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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/galaga/) You can learn more about Aligned and their tools here. (https://alignedup.com/) For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited).
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  • Episode 315: Bill Rice, Founder & CRO of Kaleidico, and the Bill Rice Strategy Group- Modern Challenges Require Modern Systems

    Episode 315: Bill Rice, Founder & CRO of Kaleidico, and the Bill Rice Strategy Group- Modern Challenges Require Modern Systems
    May 28 2025
    Bill Rice is a former Air Force officer trained in counterespionage who now uses that same precision to decode market complexity and build wildly successful revenue engines. As founder and CRO of Kaleidico and the Bill Rice Strategy Group, he’s helped clients generate over 500,000 leads a year and fuel record sales growth. His emphasis is highly strategic systems that scale. Today Bill joins us to discuss why systems are the secret to wild success and how elite leaders use systems in ways that separate them from the average leader. This conversation will help you realize that systems aren’t just pieces of technology…and why you will struggle to scale until you learn the role of elite systems as an elite leader in this important conversation. You can connect with Bill on LinkedIn here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/billrice/). You can learn more about Bill and his team here (https://billricestrategy.com/). You can subscribe to Bill’s newsletter here. (https://www.myexecutivebrief.com/) For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited) Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.
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  • Episode 314: Alex Gabbert, Director of Brand Communications for Publicity for Good: Sales Leadership: The Art of SHOWING what’s Possible

    Episode 314: Alex Gabbert, Director of Brand Communications for Publicity for Good: Sales Leadership: The Art of SHOWING what’s Possible
    May 22 2025
    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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgabbert/) You can check out Publicity for Good here. (https://publicityforgood.com/) For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited) Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.
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  • Episode 313: David Knight, CEO of Avarra.ai - “Driving Range” Leadership

    Episode 313: David Knight, CEO of Avarra.ai - “Driving Range” Leadership
    May 15 2025
    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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrknight/) You can check out Avarra.ai here (https://www.avarra.ai/). For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited) Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.
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  • Episode 312: Ben Lamorte, Founder of OKRs.com - Choosing Alignment Over Assignment and Finding the Power of OKR’s.

    Episode 312: Ben Lamorte, Founder of OKRs.com - Choosing Alignment Over Assignment and Finding the Power of OKR’s.
    May 8 2025
    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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benlamorte/) You can check out OKRs.com here (https://okrs.com/). You can check out Ben’s “OKR Field Book Preview” here. (https://okrs.com/the-okrs-field-book-preview/) You can check out Ben’s Approach to Implementing OKRs here. (https://okrs.com/coaching/okrs-coaching-remote-program/) For video excerpts of this and other episodes of the Sales Leadership Podcast, check out Sales Leadership United Here. (https://www.patreon.com/c/SalesLeadershipUnited) Be sure to check out the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel here.
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    1 hr