Justin Schmidt

I am a marketing leader who wants to build cool things, tell cool stories about those things, and do it with cool people. 

When I think about my favorite moments in my career, they are all centered around building something new with a group of smart people and we’re all thinking through how we’re going to make the thing in front of us work as best as possible for the given use case. Over the years, I built things that I would use myself (or did use myself);  I loved sharing the excitement over that thing with others. Even better was building things that drove demonstrable value for our clients. There is nothing better than marketing a product that gets me excited about the way it can be used and about the problems it solves. This is why I like startups so much! I really enjoy the creative process from the initial marketing strategy to marketing execution and how I get to go back and forth between the 50’ and the 50,000’ view.
 
For me, building also means building teams. I have been so fortunate to have built amazing teams over the years. I am proud to have built a large network of people and it brings me so much joy to see how their careers have grown since our time together. I am the type of leader that cares more about my teams success than my own. I want to help my teams become better and I believe that if my team members grow, the company’s goals will fall into place.
 
I want to bring a product to market that delivers measurable value. I need to do all of this with smart people who challenge me and push me to be better. Marketing is storytelling with an objective. I love bringing ideas to market and telling a story to someone about how the offering we have is going to not only solve their immediate problem but also help them take advantage of new opportunities in the future. I’ve been doing this my whole career, and it is something I must continue doing.

I am always interested in expanding my professional network. If you would like to connect or have any specific questions about what you see above, please contact me at justin (at) justinschmidt.me.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 
Revenue Growth
Product Marketing
Marketing Strategy 
Demand Generation
Executive Leadership
Revenue Optimization
Content Development
Business Development
Brand Strategy and Identity
Innovative Solutions Creation
Transformation & Turnarounds 
Product Development and Launches
Business Development and Expansion 
Startup Operations and Market Growth
Team Leadership, Empowerment, & Development

VP of Marketing

Compt helps companies build, streamline, and scale employee perk stipends that delight teams and give companies a more productive and engaged workforce.

Everyone has different needs, and we think that when perks take this into account the value to the employee goes beyond just beer or catered lunches and becomes so much more.

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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