Sales Leadership Podcast

Episode 316: Gal Aga, CEO of Aligned :Helping Your Sales Team Dance with Flawless Alignment

June 4th, 2025  |  59 mins 57 secs

alignment, coaching, connection, gal aga, priorities, rob jeppsen, sales, win rate

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.

Episode 314: Alex Gabbert, Director of Brand Communications for Publicity for Good: Sales Leadership: The Art of SHOWING what’s Possible

May 22nd, 2025  |  59 mins 57 secs

alex gabbert, coaching, growth, intention, rob jeppsen, sales

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.

Episode 313: David Knight, CEO of Avarra.ai - “Driving Range” Leadership

May 15th, 2025  |  59 mins 57 secs

coaching, david knight, enablement, practice, readiness, rob jeppsen

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.”

Episode 312: Ben Lamorte, Founder of OKRs.com - Choosing Alignment Over Assignment and Finding the Power of OKR’s.

May 8th, 2025  |  59 mins 57 secs

alignment, ben lamorte, coaching, metrics, okrs, rob jeppsen, sales

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.

Episode 281: Bowen Moody, CEO and Co-Founder of Wonderway: Using AI to Become an ELITE Coach

June 5th, 2024  |  57 mins 9 secs

ai, alignment, bowen moody, coaching, rob jeppsen, sales, sales leadership

Bowen Moody is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderway. Wonderway is an AI tool to help develop salespeople faster with Elite coaching and the RIGHT use of AI. Bowen works with sales teams all around the world helping teams successfully onboard teammates faster, ongoing adaptation and adjustment to stay in alignment with the markets and how they change, and help people become more successful faster…and stay successful longer. Today Bowen joins us to help every listener think about coaching and development differently and identify where AI helps leaders coach better, more consistently, and do it in a way that helps every leader become an Elite leader they want to be.

Episode 192: #191: Bryan Gray of the Revenue Path Group — Moving Past Problems and Creating Priority with Your Buyers

August 10th, 2022  |  59 mins 24 secs

bryan gray, coaching, priority, problem solving, rob jeppsen, sales, sales leadership, value collapse

Bryan is the Founder and CEO of the Revenue Path Group. Bryan’s team helps steer their organizations through times of high velocity and uncertainty and overcoming the biggest current threat facing sales teams: Becoming a commodity in your prospect’s eyes. Bryan joins the show and shares insights on why problem-based selling isn’t enough and how to become a priority with the buying teams you engage with at a time where Value Collapse is becoming a sales epidemic…and how to overcome it.

For an eBook to reinforce this conversation check out www.valuecollapse.com.

To order Bryan's Book, The Priority Sale, head to www.revenuepathgroup.com/book.

To learn more about overcoming the 3 Cs...head to www.revenuepathgroup.com

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Episode 190: #189: Sam Stull of GCPay — Using “Show Me” Sales Leadership to Create Legendary Results

July 27th, 2022  |  1 hr 11 secs

coaching, credibility, example, gcpay, leadership, rob jeppsen, sales, sam stull

Sam Stull is the head of Sales for GCPay. GCPay is a SaaS platform experiencing tremendous growth helping contractors automate functions that have been inefficient, costly and difficult to manage. Sam is a self-taught sales leader who has put together a 10 year run of sales leadership with head-turning successes. He joins us today to talk about why Elite Leaders need to build credibility in what they do…not in what they say.

For video snippets of this and other episodes, head to Sales Leadership United at www.patreon.com/salesleadershipunited.

Episode 189: #188: Tim Strickland of ZoomInfo — Execution: Never Just a Numbers Game

July 20th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

coaching, execution, market, numbers, rob jeppsen, sales, sales leadership, tim strickland

Tim Strickland is the Chief Revenue Officer for ZoomInfo. ZoomInfo’s suite of modern go-to-market software, data, and market intelligence is used by thousands of sales and marketing teams worldwide to uncover new opportunities and accomplish their goals through otherwise unknown insights and drivers of engagement for customers and prospects around the world. In this episode, Tim shares how world-class execution has led to massive growth at scale, regardless of the market conditions.

Head to www.zoominfo.com to learn how insight-driven engagement can fuel next-level execution with your team.

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Episode 185: #184: Valerie Young of Impostor Syndrome Institute — How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome

May 23rd, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

coaching, goal, imposter, leader, quota, sales leadership, syndrome

Valerie Young is an internationally-recognized impostor-syndrome expert. She is the Co-Founder of the Impostor Syndrome Institute and is committed to stamping out Impostor Syndrome worldwide. Valerie has been leading the charge against Imposter Syndrome since founding the Impostor Syndrome Institute in 1982 and has helped many of the world’s most iconic companies successfully address Impostor Syndrome. To learn more about Valerie, her work, and the “Rethinking Impostor Syndrome” solution, visit www.impostorsyndrome.com.

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Episode 172: #171: Alex Newmann of Newmann Consulting Group — Curiosity: The Fuel of Every Elite Sales Team

February 2nd, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

alex newmann, coaching, curiosity, leadership, sales

Alex Newmann helps sales teams scale fast. His newest playbook for prospecting has turned heads worldwide and will help you add systems that fuel effective and efficient prospecting. In this episode, Alex shares how curiosity fuels rapid success and how sales leaders can build more curious teams. To get Alex’s playbook, please visit https://www.alexnewmann.com/prospecting-playbook. To get a copy of Don Cash’s hiring guide, send an email to [email protected].