David J.P. Fisher

Sales Manager

I work with our sales leadership to create best-in-class resources for our salespeople and customer-facing team members to leverage social media and social networking platforms.  My goal is to help them create more effective relationships through engagement and authentic conversations.  

To do that, I'm responsible for creating a strategic roadmap for our social selling program and then executing upon it.  That ranges from building and delivering training and coaching programs to helping to craft the assets our team needs to communicate the SAS story.

Principal Sales Enablement Program Manager - Global Social Selling Lead

Sr. Sales Enablement Program Manager - Global Social Selling Lead

RockStar Consulting

I started RockStar to support people with their personal and professional development.  I've worked with thousands of sales professionals, entrepreneurs, and small business owners to develop foundational sales skills and digital acumen.  Currently my work focuses on helping sales and marketing leaders leverage digital tools and LinkedIn to improve their online presence and build more and stronger relationships with existing and potential customers.

I work principally as a lead consultant and trainer, helping to develop messaging and content while also delivering trainings and coaching to our clients.

I've written over 400 articles and 12 books, including the best-sellers Hyper-Connected Selling, Networking in the 21st Century on LinkedIn, and Networking in the 21st Century: Why Your Network Sucks and What to Do About It.

RockStar Consulting is a professional development consultancy focus on providing LinkedIn coaching and messaging support, social selling training, and fractional sales coaching/management services.  

We help people become RockStars in our home of Chicago and around the world.

President

The Sales Sherpa™ Path

I deliver keynotes and workshops for associations, conferences, financial service firms, sales teams, and entrepreneur groups around the country and world.  My work helps professionals walk the Sales Sherpa™ Path, a sales approach that focuses on the convergence of social selling, networking, and old-school sales skills.  The goal is to position yourself as a trusted resource even before your buyers become prospects.  

My most popular topics include:

Being the Sales Sherpa: Winning More Business by Leveraging Digital Influence and Creating Human Connection
Networking in the 21st Century: Finding Sales Success Through Connection
The Social Sales Leader: Engaging and Enabling Your Team on Social
Sales Skills 7.0: Creating Opportunities by Integrating the Online and Offline World

Keynote Speaker, Author, & Trainer

The Beer, Beats, & Business Podcast

A semi-regular podcast featuring interviews with entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and artists. All 7 seasons  are available on the major podcast apps.  I was the host on the microphone and also ran the production side.

Podcast Host and Producer

The C-Suite Network

C-Suite Network Advisors are select industry thought leaders who provide services for C-Suite executives and enterprise businesses. These business experts and thought leaders consist of a mix of consultants, speakers, authors, podcasters, TV contributors, trainers and coaches.

C-Suite Network Advisor

Ajax Workforce Marketing

Ajax was a branding agency that specialized in Workforce Marketing, and was the only official partner of LinkedIn for branding and training in North America.  My particular focus was internal and external training and development.  I developed training programs so that the employees of our client companies could make LinkedIn and social media an integral part of their daily business life (one that makes their jobs easier and more effective).

Focus Areas: LinkedIn training, social media strategy, sales, networking, business development, training programs, communication skills

Director of Training

Brinks Home Security

I managed the Chicago sales force for one of the most recognized brands in the world.  I interviewed and trained new hires as well as managed a team of sales reps (including three of the top 20 reps in the company).  I facilitated the communication between our sales team and all aspects of product delivery to make sure we delivered what we promised.

Focus Areas: sales management, training, recruiting, interviewing, territory management, sales, marketing, security systems

Cutco/Vector

As a district manager for Vector Marketing, I had the opportunity to run all aspects of a half a million dollar a year sales company.  From P&L budgeting to marketing, business planning to training, I did it all.  During my career there I trained and coached over 1,500 sales representatives, and spoke in front of groups from 5-500 over 20 hours every week.  It gave me the opportunity to hone my coaching and speaking skills on a massive scale.

Focus Areas: sales, training and development, marketing, entrepreneurship, business planning, recruiting, staff development, sales meetings

District Manager

I was one of the college kids selling Cutco knives in people's homes to help put myself through school.  I would eventually do thousands of presentations (strictly through referral) at kitchen tables around Chicagoland, selling almost a quarter of a million dollars in cutlery - becoming one of their top salespeople and eventually a National Top 10 scholarsip winner.   It was an amazing opportunity for a young professional, and I learned the value of a product you can stand behind, a solid sales presentation, and engaging with your customers with questions to find the needs you can solve.

Focus Areas: sales, lead generation, referrals, direct sales, customer service, cutlery

Field Sales Manager

The modern seller needs to effectively mix digital literacy and traditional human-to-human interaction to be successful.  I work with our sales leadership, marketing, and sales enablement teams to bring the best training, content, and assets available to our front line sales and customer-facing team members.

I want to help them build digital influence and create stronger personal connections that create results.  To be success with social selling, you need to be both "social" and "selling".

In all of my work, my goal is to teach professionals how to be Sales Sherpas™.   When they walk the Sales Sherpa Path they harness the power of relationships to uncover new opportunities and make existing business easier.

I have written 12 books including the best-sellers “Hyper-Connected Selling” and "Networking in the 21st Century".  I am also the host of "Beer, Beats, and Business", a podcast that shares my casual conversations with leaders in sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

And if you were curious about my nickname, I played the drums in a band for many years.  Though I don't play as much anymore, everyone still uses the nickname I earned back then. So the next time we chat, feel free to call me D. Fish.

If you are looking to leverage LinkedIn, social networking, and traditional human-to-human interaction to win more business, reach out and connect.

Global Social Selling Lead - Sr. Sales Enablement Program Manager 

Dr. Jim ( ജിം കണിച്ചിറയിൽ ) Kanichirayil

Cascading Leadership

Podcast booking and production agency helping B2B SaaS HRTech, TATech, EdTech, and K12Tech organizations remove friction from their sales and marketing process. 

Developed and produced close to 1K audio and video podcast/live episodes. 

Created/Hosted/Produced - The Cascading Leadership Show, Talent Strategy 60 Show, Building Elite Sales Teams, and the Engaging Leadership Show. 

Hosted and produced two top 10% global B2B podcasts (Cascading Leadership Show and Engaging Leadership Show).

Founder

EngageRocket

EngageRocket is an employee engagement and performance management platform that helps businesses build engaged teams, empowered managers, and elite organizations. 

Trusted by the top companies in 14 countries and spanning 20 diverse industries—including Sephora, Toyota, Nikon, CGS-CIMB, and Epson—EngageRocket provides continuous listening and real-time analytics to support impactful management action. 

Helped establish the US footprint for EngageRocket. 
Leveraged content-led sales approach to gain traction in the marketplace. 
Defined and executed outbound sales motion. 
Owned the end-to-end sales and marketing process. 
Owned the partnership function and built referral partner network. 
Hosted and produced over 300 episodes of the Engaging Leadership Show. 
Interviewed over 200 senior and executive leaders in HR, TA, L&D, IT, Sales, and K12.

VP of Growth, Product Evangelist 

Thinkers360

Thinkers360 takes a holistic view of thought leaders and experts, beyond their social media activity, and looks across all their personas – such as academic, advisor, analyst, author, consultant, entrepreneur, executive, influencer and speaker – and all the types of thought leadership content they produce.

Top 10 Thought Leader in DEI and Sales, Top 25 Thought Leader in Human Resources 

Mattingly Solutions

I am a GTM advisor for Mattingly. 

About Mattingly Solutions: 

We partner with our clients to build a data-driven strategies that result in more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations.

Our DEI solutions include measurement consulting, 1-on-1 advisory coaching with DEI leaders responsible for building and executing DEI strategy, DEI capacity building (e.g., DEI task force and ERG/BRG support), and behavior change interventions that give employees and leaders the tools to make others feel valued, respected, seen, and heard.

Mattingly Solutions takes a user experience approach to co-creating and implementing DEI strategies with our clients. Our DEIx™ Framework combines human/employee experience methodology with your company’s data, organizational science, peer-reviewed research, DEI best practices, your organization’s values and goals, and PhD-level subject matter expertise to help you measure, build, implement, and assess impact of your DEI strategy and interventions.

Using our framework, we partner with our clients to build upon foundational DEI strategy work that results in a data-driven, prioritized, agile, actionable, and sustainable DEI culture change movement.

GTM Advisor and Board Member 

Yardstick

18 months.

That's the typical shelf-life for a sales leader in B2B Tech.

The reason?

There are several actually.

Win rates at 10-15% or lower.

Quota attainment at 30% on average.

Sales rep turnover tremendously high.

All of those costs add up and that's BEFORE you factor in the economic landscape.

Can sales leaders continue to have this failure rate and expect to survive?

No.

So what's the fix?

There are several but for accelerating growth organizations, you should be looking at your sales interviewing and onboarding processes.

And that's where Yardstick can help.

I've partnered with the Yardstick team as their Product Ambassador because sales hiring and onboarding is broken.

What better way to start the process of solving the problem than teaming up with a CEO who's got a track-record for successful startup launches and exits?

I'm looking forward to helping sales organizations stop their revolving door of reps.

Let's talk.

Product Ambassador 

RevGenius

RevGenius is a community of revenue generating sales and marketing professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other.

Community Member 

Salescast

Salescast is the operating system for the B2B podcasting community of sales, marketing, and revenue professionals. We have an inclusive online community, courses, tutorials, events, guest matching, and even world class managed production services. Our mission is to connect 100 million sellers to the power of story.

TrainYo 🏳️‍🌈

TrainYo 🏳️‍🌈 is creating fair opportunities for all in the technology sector 😎

We’re on a mission to help companies scale their sales orgs quicker, with more predictable revenue by providing them with pre-ramped, ready to go SDR’s who have gone through our Free TrainYo SDR program. 👩🏽‍💻 🧑🏼‍💻

We’re passionate about fair representation & creating fair opportunities for everyone!🏳️‍🌈 🎉 🥳

Instructor

Strively.org

Strively’s mission is to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces in the tech sector. Through partnership with technology companies, we aspire to change how people are perceived and impacted by society’s most complex problems: mass incarceration; human trafficking; young adults at risk of incarceration; and housing shortages. We succeed together by supporting and serving a population of talented, motivated, and capable individuals who are ready for their opportunity to disrupt the cycles of inequities.

Volunteer Instructor 

Circa

What type of organization are you building? 

How are you building a bold, audacious, and innovative organization that harnesses all of the brilliance that's locked within? 

Are you building  the type of organization that candidates dream about working for and competitors envy? 

Where do you find yourself on the journey to becoming an elite leader in an elite organization? 

These are the critical questions we help our clients answer. 

The answers to all of these questions are rooted in your talent strategy. 

Unfortunately, many organizations take a piecemeal approach to their talent strategy which results in most of their talent getting left behind. 

Don't risk losing the engine that drives your business by ignoring what's most important. 

As a leader, you need to convince them to stay every. single. day. 

We deliver an end-to-end talent solution that helps you attract more talent, attract more diverse talent, retain that talent, and develop them for the long term. 

Our competition wants to keep you on the talent attraction hamster wheel. 

We partner with you and help stabilize your talent ecosystem so you can focus on realizing your organizational potential. 

The new talent landscape requires transformative talent solutions. 

We are the industry leaders in delivering scalable, innovative talent solutions that expands your reach, enhances your profile, and keeps you compliant. 

We are the straight line that connects your mission, vision, values, and purpose to your shoot the moon results. 

Partner with us and let us help you realize your organizational potential.

Growth - Commercial Partnerships Team 

Helping Busy HR Teams Build Elite Organizations | Highlighting Innovation and DEIB in HRTech | Talent Strategy Nerd | Professional Megaphone | Researcher | Writer | Podcaster |

One of the biggest challenges that B2B SaaS teams face is being able to cut through the noise their customers are dealing with. 

No amount of emailing, calling, or pitch slaps in the DMs is going to overcome that challenge. 

Today's buyer is in self-service mode and if sales and marketing teams want to meet them where they are, they will need to operate with a collaboration mindset. 

Sales and marketing teams need to seek to understand before trying to be understood. 

And it needs to be done in a way that's authentic. 

That's what I help teams accomplish. 

I've helped organizations build markets and segments from the ground up. 

I've done this in IT staffing and recruiting, HRTech, TATech, and in the K12 tech space. 

If you're not getting traction in your target markets and need help, we should have a conversation.

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Dr. Jim ( ജിം കണിച്ചിറയിൽ ) Kanichirayil

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