Square Stories

Reva Pellerin serves as a Business Development Manager at Vidyard, an exciting and very COVID-relevant company helping B2B organizations use video to tell their story and communicate in a more human way. Vidyard provides users the data to understand how video is impacting their business, and Reva's five years there have been focused on helping organizations leverage video as a way to tell their story and humanize interactions in an increasingly automated world.

Outside of work, Reva is focused on her husband and young daughter, and the dreams they share to one day move on to more land and perhaps even grow their own food. An extremely empathetic person whose work is aligned with her values, Reva has a lot of wisdom to share regarding how to find a path in life that both resonates with you, as well as serves your dreams.

Kelly Donahue-Piro's career has come a long way since dressing up as the mall Easter Bunny during high school. These days, she's doing the impossible: making insurance feel not only necessary, but fun.

Widely recognized in her industry as a real game-changer, she’s the Founder and President of Agency Performance Partners and Co-Founder of sister marketing company, Agency Appeal.  An in-demand speaker at regional and national insurance conferences, a social media and digital marketing trailblazer, Kelly has words of wisdom others need to hear. 

In her years of consulting, marketing, training, and public speaking, she’s worked with more than 1,000 insurance agencies, largely consisting of independent business owners of all sizes.  Well known within the industry, Kelly regularly earns accolades like “insurance visionary,” “a total rock star” and “the real deal.” 

Ryan Hogan built a multi-million dollar organization within its first year of business, while also serving in the U.S. Navy. As the co-founder and CEO of Hunt A Killer, Ryan is dedicated to finding ways to merge fictional storytelling with real-life experiences through event activations, responsive membership boxes, obstacle racing, film, and premium content platforms. 

Ryan finds great freedom in entrepreneurship and attributes the growth of his business largely to the committed community that engages with his products. His goal is to bring the world closer together with immersive entertainment, and lucky for him, during a pandemic, there's nothing more appealing than an experience that allows you to forget about your present reality and connect with people in a new way.

There was a time, not too many years ago, when Keegan Chapman was the team enforcer on her soccer team. She was the best at “taking out” the other teams’ best player. Today, this  competitive streak is put to use as the Vice President of Sales at Victory Lap, self described as the world’s leading Sales Education company. She works daily to provide aspiring professionals with world class education and career opportunities, as well as give companies access to the most prepared and in-demand sales talent pool on the market. 

Before Victory Lap, over 7.5 years, she held 14 ever more important positions at Groupon. Her experience working there prepared her to create a work/life balance where she is both completely passionate about her work while also making sure to maintain boundaries for a robust life.  

As someone who grew up as a part of a family business, Courtany McNamara learned how to speak to clients like she would speak to her dad: listening to them deeply while trying to understand their unique situation and pain points.

Today, Courtany is a Sales Manager at Insightly, a company that  provides customer relationship management software for businesses of all sizes across a range of industries. She’s tasked with managing a team focused on growing relationships with existing customers, and her goal is to inspire her team to be creative problem-solvers, while also advocating for cultural initiatives to better their sales organization and drive success.

If you've ever wondered what exactly makes a marketing technique effective, well then, Will Leach has your answers, and we're willing to bet those answers will surprise you. That's because Leach is an expert in all the ways that non-conscious factors affect your decision-making processes. 

As the founder of the Mindstate Group, Leach works to provide behavioral science-based tools and resources to help businesses build consistently effective marketing that drives people to listen, care and act. With over 25 years of behavioral insights experience, and a book title to his name, Will Leach is passionate about understanding how we make decisions. And how to even the playing field so that all businesses, not just the big guys, can use this information to their advantage.

Kasey Jones has a long term career aspiration: she wants to be a modern-day, female, tattooed, cursing version of Mr. Rogers, but specifically for entrepreneurs.  She has defined her career leveraging creative and innovative methods to help business owners build long-lasting relationships with the people that matter most to their business - buyers, partners, and community.  

Kasey founded her company, A Better Jones, with the mission to help founders build successful, high-growth businesses. Over the years, she's learned that her specialty is in helping polymath founders create authentic personal brands that make a difference and grow their revenue. And she does all of this with so much charisma, empathy, and good sense, that she'll knock your socks off.

Jess Roman is a woman of the world. Currently the national director for Meltwater in Canada, she’s enjoyed an extremely unique upbringing: born to Romanian parents in Paris, she spent most of her formative years attending an international school in Togo, West Africa.

Her skills include a profound ability to change, which she learned at a young age, has been evident in her uncommon success in the world of sales. One of her greatest achievements to date is establishing Meltwater's Montreal office at the age of twenty-four, where she took the company from zero to four hundred customers in about two years.

Tamara McMillen has spent many prosperous years in the world of sales, holding positions such as Executive Director of Sales at Virgin Media and a variety of senior sales positions at Verizon Digital Media Solutions and Hitachi Business Systems.

Today, California native, now living and working in London, Tamara McMillen is focused on improving the industry and is currently encouraging all businesses to adopt a wider vision when it comes to wellbeing in the corporate agenda. Her willingness to overcome obstacles and help become more authentic versions of themselves at work is apparent in all that she does.

When she began her career, Suzanne Ratti was told repeatedly that there was no place for a woman in sales. Luckily for her, she persevered despite what everyone told her, and today she runs her own company, Ideas360, a sales-driven marketing company that helps small-to-mid-sized businesses create strategies, content, and accelerate growth. Suzanne's passion for solving, instead of selling, has allowed her to succeed as a consultant for a huge variety of companies, including Fortune 500 companies like Xerox and SmartCEO.