With more than 20 years of experience in leadership roles with companies like Microsoft and Gartner, Jaime Diglio knows firsthand what it takes to thrive. As the CEO of inFirst Consulting, she trains sales professionals and leaders to put their best foot forward in every interaction. Listen in as Jaime and John talk about the importance of embracing your own personal value proposition, honing your superpowers in a tech-dominated world, and remaining resilient in the face of adversity. The sales landscape is changing, but Jaime believes that embracing the foundational human element of sales will lead the future generation to success.

Are you looking to level up your Sales skills and stay relevant in the evolving world of AI?  Check out www.jbarrows.com and let's Make this Happen together!

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About Jaime:

Jaime Diglio is a high-performance professional coach and speaker who helps sales leaders and teams WIN in their careers and in life. She spent 20 years crushing sales targets at Gartner, Microsoft & Slalom. In her recent TEDx Talk: "From WAR Room to WIN Room: Change your Room, Change your Life" she shares a bit of her proven formula for success which includes aligning inner strengths with goals or what she calls “Your Real AI.”

Pablo Dominguez spends most of his days partnering with portfolio companies to help them build their teams, but he’s also an incredible author. His new book, “What A Unicorn Knows,” focuses agility and lean business practices. In today’s episode, John and Pablo talk about the reasons why agility is the key to sustainable growth in today’s unique market, the differences between strategic planning and a year-long strategy, and the impact of ChatGPT on companies and individuals alike.

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Are you looking to level up your Sales skills and stay relevant in the evolving world of AI?  Check out www.jbarrows.com and let's Make this Happen together!

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Drew Sechrist is the founder and CEO of Connect The Dots™, an organization that uses innovative AI to help people discover new connections in their email metadata. As Salesforce.com’s 36th employee, he helped that company grow from $0 to more than $1 billion in revenue. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, John and Drew talk about the impact Salesforce.com had on their individual careers, the benefits of creating an exceptional sales culture, the power in leveraging a personal network, and much more.

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Connect with Drew directly at: [email protected] or visit www.ctd.ai 

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In this episode John takes a different approach and instead of interviewing a guest he shares his deeply personal keynote speech that he has only delivered once before. In this keynote John shares the challenges he has faced over the past few years ever since his father died and the journey he has been on to find the characteristics of companies and people who always seem to keep growing even though tough times. After speaking with hundreds of executives and studying dozens of companies he has identified 3 main characteristics that keep these companies and individuals moving: Alignment, Execution and Gratitude. After learning these characteristics John shares how he applied them to his own life and business and keep himself going after realizing he had stopped growing and was stick in neutral.

Are you looking to level up your Sales skills and stay relevant in the evolving world of AI?  Check out www.jbarrows.com and let's Make this Happen together!

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Scott Barker’s career in sales has been incredibly successful. He’s been a sales manager, a business development representative, and even a strategic advisor for some incredible organizations. Most recently, he co-founded and became a partner of a venture capital fund known as GTMfund, and he’s seen firsthand what it really takes for an early-stage company to get off the ground. Listen in as John and Scott talk about his experiences, the importance of creativity and connectivity, the lack of fundamental sales knowledge in the SaaS space, and differences between the science and art of sales.

Are you looking to level up your Sales skills and stay relevant in the evolving world of AI?  Check out www.jbarrows.com and let's Make this Happen together!

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Valerie Fridland is a professor at the University of Nevada at Reno, and she earned a PhD in the interesting and important field of sociolinguistics. She recently authored “Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing the Good for Bad English,” a book that examines the relationship between language and society. In today’s episode, John and Valerie explore the impact of language on our everyday lives and discuss how society forms preconceptions about people based on their language. They also dive into some of the linguistic techniques that sales professionals can use to speak with power and purpose.

Are you looking to level up your Sales skills and stay relevant in the evolving world of AI?  Check out www.jbarrows.com and let's Make this Happen together!

Connect with John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbarrows/

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Get her book: Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

For more information about John, visit: https://johnmbarrows.com

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Dr. Howard Dover is the a sales coach and director of the Center for Professional Sales at the University of Texas at Dallas, and he has years of experience in sales, marketing, and education. Dr. Dover believes that rising interest rates, technology, and ineffective education have created a serious problem in the sales profession, but there is still light at the end of the tunnel. Listen in as John and Dr. Dover explain why there’s still plenty of opportunity in sales for those who reach out and take it.

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Rhonda Petit has been in sales her entire professional life. She was influenced by her parents - a police officer and a nurse - who found their purpose and calling as incredibly successful Amway sales reps. Today, she’s a successful author and sales coach who helps sales professionals find their own purpose by focusing on emotions, beliefs, and mindsets. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, John and Rhonda discuss their shared love of sales, the importance of a solid belief system, how to overcome the perils of imposter syndrome, and much more.

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Ulf Arnetz has founded several incredible companies and describes himself as a serial entrepreneur. He’s the founder and chairman of Howwe Technologies, which is a unique platform designed to help CEOs plan, implement, manage, and align their strategies through to the front line. In today’s episode, Ulf and John discuss the ability to predict trends at just the right time and why it’s an entrepreneurial superpower. They also talk about how to avoid failure when it comes to implementing executive strategies, the difference between vision and strategy, tips for treating everything like an experiment, and more.

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As a coach, author, speaker, and podcaster, David Weiss is a busy man. He’s also the founder and CEO of DealDoc, and he’s the CRO of The Sales Collective, an organization that helps companies use science and data to increase revenue. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, David and John have a very tactical conversation centered around discovery in sales, and David explains the MEDDPICC discovery process that changed his life forever. They also discuss what they believe is one of the major reasons for poor sales performance in a down economy: the lack of fundamental sales knowledge and techniques.

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