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How I Lead
I sell and lead with urgency, clarity, and accountability. Sales teams do not need more theater. They need a clear target, a clean process, better coaching, stronger discovery, tighter qualification, and leaders who are willing to inspect the work without turning the culture into a police state. My leadership style is simple: set the standard, remove friction, coach in real moments, and help people win. I believe the best sales leaders are operators. They understand the market, the product, the customer, the pipeline, the forecast, and the person sitting across from the buyer. They do not hide behind dashboards. They use them to find the truth. I have spent my career in technology, data, SaaS, marketplaces, PropTech, and enterprise sales. I spent 19 years at CoStar helping build a category-defining company, and I know what it feels like when a company has urgency, ambition, and a market to win. That is the environment where I do my best work. How I Use Technology I do not use technology to look busy. I use it to get sharper. AI is not just a writing assistant. It is a research engine, a sales coach, a market analyst, a discovery planner, and a force multiplier when it is used correctly. I recently built my own internal AI-powered sales research and outreach planning tool to help diagnose how to sell a specific product into a specific company and persona. It helps identify buyer priorities, likely pain points, competitive pressure, objections, messaging angles, and where a deal is likely to stall. That is how I think about sales technology. Not as decoration, As leverage. The goal is not to replace judgment. The goal is to make better judgment possible, faster. How I Kick Behind I learn fast. I compete hard. I ask better questions. I get close to the customer. I simplify complicated products. I turn ambiguity into action. I know how to sell across personas, from executives and finance leaders to operators, technical stakeholders, and frontline users. I am not looking for just any job. I am looking for the right company, the right mission, and the right seat. I want to be part of a company with a real product, real urgency, and a real market to win. A company that needs someone who can sell, lead, coach, build, adapt, and bring practical AI fluency into the revenue motion. I have been humbled. I have been tested. I have also built, sold, led, learned, and kept going. If you are looking for a senior sales executive or sales leader who brings experience, intensity, curiosity, AI fluency, and the ability to help a team get better, I would welcome the conversation. Michael 248-550-1999 |
Why This System Works
Sales teams perform best when expectations, accountability, and strategy are consistent. This operating system creates a predictable rhythm that aligns individual goals with team execution, continuously strengthens deal strategy, and develops stronger sales professionals over time. By combining structured planning, disciplined pipeline review, and deliberate skill development, the team improves not just activity levels, but the quality of decisions that ultimately drive revenue.
Outcomes
• Stronger pipeline quality through disciplined deal inspection and strategy refinement
• Higher win rates by identifying risks early and improving positioning before deals stall
• Continuous professional growth as reps sharpen research, planning, and execution skills throughout the year