Salesforce
After 10 really amazing years at Gartner, it was time to think about the next step in my career. Salesforce offered me a great opportunity to evangelize sales and innovation to the market and their customers — and it was something I just couldn’t pass up. When you’re in the fourth or fifth chapter of your career, it’s important to make sure you’re going somewhere for all the right reasons. I wanted to go to an organization that is making a difference from both a business standpoint and, more importantly, from a social standpoint. With initiatives such as 1-1-1, I really like what Salesforce stands for AND it’s one of the most admired companies in the world to work for. I will be the Global, Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist. My focus will be helping companies reimagine how they can not only grow bigger but grow better with innovative business models and technology. I consider myself a ‘recovering sales rep’ — I’m excited to meet sales leaders from some of the largest and most successful sales organizations in the world who are using Salesforce technology, to improve performance and enhance customer experience, in order to uncover best practices and insights which can be shared more broadly. I have spent the past 15 years as a channel chief and advising some of the largest technology companies on how to improve their indirect channel performance, and I’m looking forward to tapping into our huge partner ecosystem which supports Salesforce globally.