Sandor Sommer

Glencoco

A marketplace connecting outbound callers with innovative companies looking to scale.

Contract 1099 Business Development Representative

Neurodivergent Selling

Podcaster

Brand30

Member

RightBound

Crescent City Solutions

Owner

KELLER WILLIAMS CCWP

One of the top producing agents in the Market Center. Leadership Council Member for two years. Mentored new associates and taught cold call prospecting methods and strategies for successful onboarding.

Leadership Council

Demaria Films

Executive Producer for Documentary Film, "The Key To Me." In collaboration with James DeMaria, Director. I can assure you that the success of this project was solely centered on James' expertise. I brought passion and relationships that provided financing.

Executive Producer

Charm City Kettlebells

Helped people get in the best shape of their life with the most efficient and intelligent processes.

Equifirst Lending

Account Executive with National Sales Division.  Outbound cold calling to branch managers/owners to create  opportunity for  a discovery call and then a branch presentation on helping the loan officers build an origination business with predictable revenue.


 Generated revenue by advocating loan solutions that would assist brokers and loan officers at Carteret Mortgage and Allied Mortgage in creating consistent revenue for their branch, and  books of business, while providing service that allowed them to grow their customer base. The main two tools to build our relationship was that I trained the LOs on retail loan origination. The better they did the more opportunity we had to serve them and thus create more revenue. We also had a very huge industry disrupter and is quaint now. the loan officers took ownership of their files and were interfaced with our underwriting engines so we didn't have to input any data. There branch did it all. It gave them a lot more ownership and strengthened the relationship to become unbreakable. It saved us a lot of resources and headaches as well. Total win win  

Managed pipeline of loans in our underwriting and processing departments.

 Broke quota every single month by average of 142%.

National Sales, Account Executive

Knox Financial Group

Top performer inbound mortgage origination. Specialized in guiding consumers through the debt consolidation process to position themselves for long term financial health.

Loan Officer

Results-driven Sales Development Representative with a proven track record at Rightbound.io, excelling in cold calling and consistently surpassing quota by 131%. Skilled in utilizing a comprehensive sales stack, including Salesforce, Outreach, and Vidyard. Experienced realtor at Keller Williams and successful entrepreneur, having managed a nationwide pet delivery service. Accomplished podcast host, ranked 13th in Mental Health category on Podimize, and a Brand 30 Cohort Member. Holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and completed a Tech Sales Bootcamp at Aspireship. Passionate about driving customer satisfaction and embracing challenges across diverse industries.

Sandy Sommer

Fleetio

Director, Talent Development

Growthwave, LLC

Built my own coaching and talent development practice where I led over 500 hours of coaching for 60 clients across more than 12 high-growth tech companies.

Led tailored 1:1 leadership coaching for founders, executives, managers and high performing ICs. My coaching efforts consistently led to increased self-efficacy, engagement, resilience and retention.

Developed & facilitated leadership programs for Seed—Series D companies, driving notable improvements in communication and cross-functional collaboration amongst senior teams.

Designed and led a career development workshop series for Maven, which earned a 4.8 rating. Students report leveraging my "Career Storytelling" framework to ignite motivations, clarify their sense of purpose, and help communicate their career ambitions.

Selected as a keynote speaker for the MMANC's Annual Conference in 2022, where I spoke about the process of experiencing burnout and cultivating career resilience.

Additionally, I used my industry expertise and unique perspectives to create an impactful content marketing strategy, expanding my online reach by 4x and enabling further business development.

Founder, Coach & Consultant

Maven

Built and facilitated "The Career Storytelling Sprint" for Maven, a cohort-based course platform. Ran a marketing campaign to attract paid participants. Resulted in a 4.8 rating and a 100% completion rate.

Course Instructor

Gong

As Gong's founding Learning & Development hire, I established their L&D practices from the ground up. I introduced innovative programs focused on elevating the entire employee experience at Gong, including manager training, structured career development, and regular performance feedback cycles.

Within my first 3 months, I designed and delivered a manager development program for 100 people leaders at Gong. Quickly, these sessions demonstrated their value and led to markedly improved leadership effectiveness scores and higher employee satisfaction.

I also pioneered "Grow at Gong," an impactful quarterly feedback and career development initiative. Leading cross-functional stakeholders, I built Grow at Gong from concept to launch. I helped drive a stellar 97% completion rate amongst 450 participants in the first cycle with a focus on user experience and ease of adoption, earning strong executive endorsements.

Sr. Manager, Learning & Development

Blend

As Blend's first dedicated Learning & Development hire, I joined the company around 90 employees. I built L&D, organizational effectiveness, and sales enablement functions from the ground up, establishing Blend as an employer of choice by focusing on the entire employee experience.

I introduced numerous enterprise-wide programs - manager enablement, career development, leadership coaching, performance management and more – that consistently drove high participation and adoption rates above 90%. These programs delivered tangible results tied to Blend’s business KPIs including strengthened leadership bench strength, increased cross-functional collaboration, and decreased regretted attrition.

Promoted twice in 3.5 years, I managed a high-impact 4-person Learning and Organizational Effectiveness team. I directed overall strategy and initiatives alongside key partners like HRBPs to boost leadership assimilation, team effectiveness, and strategic alignment.

I led the deployment of monthly employee engagement surveys and platforms, achieving 96% participation and establishing a data-driven approach for assessing organizational morale, satisfaction, and areas for improvement. This provided the data foundation for Blend to implement informed, engagement-boosting people practices at scale.

My focus on elevating Blend’s learning culture and employee experience through targeted leadership development, career growth opportunities, and performance enablement has solidified their reputation as a great place to work.

Manager, Learning & Organizational Effectiveness

Pandora

Co-founded training team to build a world-class onboarding program ("The Academy"); ensured remarkable new hire experiences through interactive and practical learning; trained 400+ employees, consistently earning 80-90 eNPS; decreased time-to-productivity by 4-6 weeks, earning executive endorsement.

Led a change management initiative to improve organizational capability AND boost engagement scores; built & scaled a global skill development program ("Mobilize") for 450+ using blended learning; results include hitting revenue goals and a 23% increase in employee engagement (effective satisfaction, career development, etc.)

Delivered strategic enablement and talent development strategies for 20 senior leaders through customized assessments, diagnostics and leadership coaching; resulting in 17% increase in employee engagement scores related to trust & confidence in the leadership team.

Promoted 2x in 3.5 years.

Specialist, Training & Organizational Development

BayPoint Benefits

• Managed a book of business driven by my own outside/inside sales efforts. 
• Led email marketing campaign efforts to build sales pipeline.
• Designed marketing collateral, decks, and cold-calling scripts to improve sales development process.
• Contributed to corporate blog and social media, leading to an increase of 300% in engagement. 
• Completed the Wharton Group Benefits Associate (GBA) accreditation while working full-time.

Sales Development Representative

Hey, I’m Ryan. I lead strategy, development, and execution of programs that achieve critical business goals AND drive growth and development for your most important asset, your people. 

I’ve led efforts to cultivate renowned leaders and high performers at companies like Gong, Pandora, Blend, and now Fleetio. 

I bring a wide array of experience, including:
• Talent Development
• Learning & Development
• Organizational Effectiveness
• HR & People Operations
• Sales/CX Training & Enablement 

My former managers tell me that my greatest strength is crafting human-centered solutions that deliver meaningful enterprise-wide results. 

I’ve consistently delivered impactful, well-branded, and sustainable programs that earn 90+ ratings from participants AND strong executive endorsements.

Here are a few examples of the work I’m most proud of:

• At Gong, in my first 60 days, I designed and delivered a leadership development program for 100 people managers that drove a 20% increase in manager capability and effectiveness ratings. 

• At Blend, I built & facilitated 10+ programs, including onboarding, manager training, leader development, performance management, engagement metrics, career development, competency frameworks, feedback programs, coaching, and organizational effectiveness.

• At Pandora, where I was promoted to lead organizational development, I led a change management initiative to upskill over 450 employees, which drove a 23% boost to engagement AND directly contributed to Revenue Operations hitting targets. 

I’m highly responsive to stakeholders and eager to build trust. I aim to understand constraints and co-create wins. I blend my compassion for people with tech startup/scaleup experience to scale positive results & impact for all programmatically.

Why do leaders value partnering with me?
I bring experience creating change across all levels and functions. I’m driven by developing untapped potential in individual people, teams, organizations, and the business as a whole. 

Simply put: I guide strategic learning & talent development that fuels business growth. 

I love to chat about my work. DM’s are open.

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