Kelly Shaw shares his 50-year journey in sales leadership, revealing how focusing on quality rather than quantity builds stronger customer relationships and creates "raving fans" who become lifelong clients and referral sources. He explains how understanding personality types, finding the right mentors, and genuinely caring about customers can transform ordinary salespeople into extraordinary performers.

• Traveled extensively through Spain and Europe, maintaining a second home in Malaga
• Developed leadership style from Marine Corps experience and studying great military leaders
• Specializes in turning around retail operations by identifying the right metrics and salespeople
• Demonstrated how focusing on close ratios and customer satisfaction beats pure volume metrics
• Believes in selling as a service: "Selling isn't doing something to somebody, it's doing it for somebody"
• Recommends understanding customer personality types through frameworks like DISC
• Advocates for scripts that salespeople can internalize and make their own
• Emphasizes finding mentors who have achieved what you want to accomplish
• Suggests joining mastermind groups when direct mentorship isn't available
• Believes in surrounding yourself with people who energize rather than drain you
• Recommends always asking "why" to understand customers' deeper motivations

Download Kelly's free book through the link provided and reach him at kshaw@highticketteams.io for help with hiring, training, and motivating salespeople.

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Emma Rainville shares her journey from nearly losing her marriage to building a thriving fractional COO business that helps entrepreneurs strategically plan for both business success and personal fulfillment.

• Developing operational frameworks that consider the whole person, not just business metrics
• Strategic planning to respond rather than react, saving time and reducing stress
• Building and trusting a capable team through effective hiring, training and leadership
• Overcoming ego to learn from others and grow faster
• Finding the right masterminds to accelerate business growth
• Creating strategic systems that allow for both business and personal priorities
• Recognizing when you need outside operational help

Check out Emma's new book "Scope" on Amazon, with free Kindle versions available during her book launch. Visit shockwavesolutionsllc.com or specialopspodcast.com for free resources including Emma's "Visionary Vault" with hundreds of free courses on business operations.

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Technology expert Mark Wormgoor shares his journey from tech specialist to leadership coach, revealing how effective tech leadership requires balancing technical expertise with genuine people management skills. He explores how the widening gap between agile startups and slow-moving corporations creates both challenges and opportunities in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape.

• Understanding the critical transition from technical expert to people leader
• Defining exceptional leadership in tech as a combination of team leadership, technical breadth, and business acumen
• Embracing AI through small, quick pilots rather than long-term implementation programs
• Recognizing how technology's accelerating pace requires shorter planning horizons and more iterative approaches
• Identifying three core qualities of effective tech leaders: vision, boldness, and stakeholder engagement
• Helping tech teams adapt to constant change by balancing stability with innovation
• Supporting first-time tech leaders by focusing on team development rather than personal technical contribution
• Encouraging CTOs to spend half their time outside their department connecting with other business functions

Visit The Maverick CTO at themaverickcto.com for technology leadership resources, or contact Mark through Tairi (T-A-I-R-I.co) for technology consulting services.

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