Kak Varley is a highly experienced sales professional and sales leader. We talk about the essence of sales and value: The company's value to the salesperson, the salesperson's value to the company, the value of the company's products/services to customers.

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Rich Blakeman is the sales leader's leader. He's personally grown and led sales forces, and has helped clients transform their sales forces. His experience with sellers covers a broad range of industries, and he's successfully gone deep into sales organizations to build sales excellence. We talk about how nothing moves without great discovery: understanding the customer, their world, and their aspirations.

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Holly Duckworth is an accomplished speaker and mindfulness practitioner. Her most recent book, "Sell More, Stress Less" is a guidebook with 52 weekly affirmations on mindfulness in sales. We talk about mindfulness and intention to be of value to your customer/client is foundational to performing discovery in a truly customer-centric way. THAT enables sellers to uncover value gaps and to co-create innovative solutions with clients.

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Valerie Bertrand consults on wealth and investments, but that's the tip of the iceberg that is her offer. She dives deep into clients' motivations, desires, and mental blocks to help them realize true wealth. What she does feels like so much more than your run-of-the-mill investment advisor, and also much more than a counselor....by combining a unique blend of two pretty standard professions, she has developed a highly differentiated, highly valuable service. We talk about that, and how significant her discovery and differentiation is in her business.

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Tricia Benn of the C-Suite Network talks about her work with the C-Suite Network and that organizations Hero Club. Tricia is in charge of building strong communities of business leaders. We talk about "the 5 Keeps for right now": Keep customers engaged , Keep employees focused keep cash flowing , Keep showing Continuity, Keep your spirits up.

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Steve Lishansky and I are kindred spirits. Like me, he helps organizations transition from sales forces to teams of trusted business consultants. We talk about understanding the outcomes beyond what a customer knows to ask for. Steve says that "the ability to facilitate [customer] clarity about what is most important to them is the ultimate differentiator".

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David Veech knows leadership, from his time in the armed forces, to being a leadership coach, trainer, and facilitator. We talk about his work, about creating meaning for people, about aligning everyone in the organization around customer value.

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Tina Greenbaum is a psychotherapist with a "performance under pressure" practice. Her clients include top athletes and executives. She comes onto the ValuClarity Podcast to discuss how every sales professional in the world could stand to increase their window of stress tolerance.

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Kerri Salls, best-selling author of Multiply Your Business Value in 3 Steps, specializes in helping clients grow the value of their businesses. She starts with internal value: people, process and values that operationalize best practices into a business. This results in increased external value: value to a buyer of the business.

We also discussed what this means in the context of the current COVID-19 (at least when we recorded this episode), and how the lockdown exposes the truly important in our businesses...what may have been a back-burner initiative is now critical.

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Darrell Amy, Author of the upcoming book, "Revenue Growth Engine" and I talk about putting customer value at the center of Sales and Marketing Alignment. Rather than settling inter-department disputes in favor of either sales or marketing, the "winner" should always be customer value focus.

Darrell believes that value (and articulating it in the form of messaging and then dialogue) is the fuel of the sales and marketing engine. Your technology stack, processes, playbooks might be great engine components, but without value....they amount to a powerful engine without anything to power it.

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