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CEO at Foundation | Hiring Strategists & Creators
Ross Simmonds is the founder of Foundation, a content marketing agency that combines data and creativity to develop & serve ambitious B2B brands.
Foundation provides content marketing services to organizations all over the world ranging from some of the fastest-growing startups & consumer products to the Fortune 500.
Ross and the team at Foundation have launched marketing initiatives that reach millions of people on channels like LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, & YouTube. In addition, they've planned, created and distributed content assets that have resulted in millions in revenue for a wide range of brands.
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Wall Street Journal bestseller: Human-Centered Communication 📖 Learn to break through ever-increasing digital noise and pollution, build trust and engagement, and grow reputation and revenue.
Goals:
👋🏾 To help you communicate, connect, and convert in a more personal and human way
☀️ To wake up every day excited to make things and to make things more effective
👪 To invest in my family
🌳 To be outside
💰 To require less, spend less, and give more
🌎 To leave things better than I found them
Specialty Short List:
🎧 Podcast host - The Customer Experience Podcast.
🎓 Educator - content writer, producer, and editor; speaker and presenter.
📙 Author - Rehumanize Your Business (Wiley, 2019).
📒 Author - Human-Centered Communication (Fast Company Press, 2021).
🔬 Marketing strategist. Messaging specialist. Branding enthusiast.
🎯 Multi-channel and multi-media campaign builder.
Specialty Longer List:
Content creation | Collaborative participation | Teaching & training | Listening | Connecting goals to strategies to tactics | Short form promotional messaging | Speaking - particularly when well-versed and personally passionate about the topic | Writing - particularly with brevity and clarity | Quipping | Collecting, arranging, processing and editing words and images | Adobe Creative Cloud - Premiere, AfterEffects, Photoshop | Also, I've run TONS of email marketing to engage, educate, and nurture.
Brief History:
After a year of driving a full-sized school bus to two dozen cities (story in the Experience section of my profile), I spent a dozen years leading marketing teams inside local television stations in Grand Rapids (MI), Chicago, and Colorado Springs. As boredom with the work crept in, I earned an MBA and did project work for a variety of companies to explore interests and identify transferrable skills. In that process, I connected deeply with the team and mission of a bootstrapped software startup, BombBomb.
When I joined BombBomb, we had fewer than 10 employees. Since then, we've enjoyed +2,000% growth in team size, +32,000% growth in customer size, and +52,000% growth in revenue. We're a team of 125 people (based in downtown Colorado Springs but also distributed) who are on a mission to rehumanize people who've been dehumanized by system or circumstance; we're funding the effort by helping people rehumanize their business communication with video email and video messages.
I've now spent a decade helping people enjoy clearer communication, human connection, and higher conversion by replacing some of their faceless, digital communication with simple, personal video messages in emails, text messages, LinkedIn messages, Slack messages, and similar. I've sent more than 14,000 videos myself and co-authored two (and a half) books on the what, why, who, when, and how of this "relationships through video" movement.
#CustomerExperience
#HumanConnection
#HumanCentered
#SalesProcess
#VideoTraining
#VideoTips
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Creative Director at Responsive
Creative Director and Designer based in Portland, Oregon. Experienced in creating visuals and concepts that effectively work across a wide range of digital mediums including online experiences, email campaigns, social media, video and mobile applications. Clients include American Express, BlueVolt, Brocade, Dexcom, Disney, GE, IBM, Kroger/Fred Meyer, Lionsgate Films, Rehau, Sage Live, Sony Pictures Releasing, Three Ireland, TriQuint Semiconductor and Warner Brothers.
View portfolio at: dimpflmaier.design
Chief Executive Officer at HubSpot
Summary Qualifications
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President, CEO and Board Member at HubSpot, a modern CRM company that helps millions of companies transform the way they market, sell and serve customers.
A tech industry veteran, with more than 25 years of experience in leading high-performance teams with empathy and curiosity. Served as Chief Customer Officer at Dropbox, where I was responsible for embedding customer focus across the organization. Before Dropbox, I was VP of Sales Strategy and Operations at Workday, where I helped quadruple revenue and scaled the sales organization. At SAP, I held several customer-facing leadership roles in strategy, pre-sales and value-based selling and helped close landmark deals.
Recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Business by San Francisco Business Times. Frequent speaker at SaaS / customer centric conferences and guest lecturer at Berkeley. Passionate about customer centric growth and scaling high-performance teams.
Senior Analyst at Gartner
I create data-driven content that helps businesses navigate emerging technology trends. My work has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and Journal of Accountancy.
Head of Marketing at Mailmodo | Creator of market-edit | IIT (ISM), Dhanbad
Digital Marketer with experience in branding, market research, inbound and outbound strategies and execution, SEO, product and content marketing.
Leading marketing at Mailmodo since its launch. Have been part of the 0-1 Mil. journey and working on the 1-5 Mil. bit
Head of Marketing at Attentive AI. Helping businesses to digitize with geospatial technologies and property intelligence.
Previously, Marketing Lead at Workozy, a SaaS field mobility solution.
Also, Coiled Tubing Engineer at Halliburton with more than 4 years of experience in technical design of well intervention and stimulation jobs, conducting operations for Well Intervention using Coiled Tubing and Stimulation, managing on-site teams, handling clients, creating business development plans and documents and managing resources.
Growth at Quill Inc & CoHost | Helping brands create podcasts
Ali is an experienced growth marketer with a passion for data. She was previously the co-founder and CMO of branded podcast agency, Origins Media Haus, which was acquired by Quill Inc. in 2020.
Her work has been published in many publications including Rolling Stone, the Tim Ferriss blog, Toolbox, Notable Life, and Bay Street Bull. She's also worked directly on driving Quill's coverage in publications like Forbes, Inc, FastCompany, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and Bloomberg.
Ali has contributed to Quill's many accolades including the best small business award by CanadianSME, the top companies in content marketing award, and launching the Quill Podcast Awards, a notable podcast industry awards ceremony that sheds light on independent creators.
Currently, the Director of Growth Marketing at Quill Inc., Ali excels in merging creativity with data in order to successfully build and grow a brand. Some of Ali's specializations include SEO-driven content marketing, paid acquisition, CRO, strategy creation and execution, and performance reporting.
Freelance Writer and Editor seeking opportunities
I'm a freelance TV and lifestyle writer with a penchant for words and experience working for a variety of print, digital and social media platforms. As a former editor in chief of TV Guide Canada and a past president of the Television Critics Association I've had the opportunity to hone my interviewing, research, writing and editing skills while working with a strong network of publicists, writers, executives and managers. As a freelance writer for the past eight years I've furthered those skills by writing both branded and non-branded content for clients, capturing voices and tones while learning several CMS systems and implementing SEO strategies. I'm an organized and motivated self-starter with a Bachelor of Journalism who adheres to deadlines, works to submit clean copy and loves putting pen to paper... or at least proverbially in this digital world.
Co-founder & CEO of Toolpath
I’m a lifelong entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Toolpath. We're building a distributed machining platform to make it faster, easier, and less expensive for product designers and manufacturers to prototype and produce high-precision CNC parts.
Prior to Toolpath, I started CallRail and served as CEO from 2011-2021. CallRail has been been recognized as a Best Workplace by Inc. Magazine and named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies for six consecutive years (#107 in 2016). During my tenure as CEO, CallRail reached $75 million in annual recurring revenue and more than $10M in EBITDA.
In 2005, I started BimmerShops with the goal of being the most comprehensive directory of independent BMW repair shops. We’ve become a one-stop resource for the BMW enthusiast who wants the highest-quality service for their vehicle. Since then, we’ve expanded to help drivers of all makes of European automobiles, including Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Audi, and Volkswagen vehicles.
My career building businesses and internet things began in 1998, when I was 14, by creating Dumb Laws. It ran from 1998 – 2019, attracting tens of millions of visitors.
I grew up in Columbus, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2005. Outside of work, you can occasionally find me snow skiing, waterskiing, mountain biking, or wake surfing.
Today, I live in Peachtree City with my wife Allison and three daughters. We have a golf cart, a swimming pool, and a goldendoodle. It’s delightful.
B2B Sales Sensei - I teach B2B Sales Pros how to Level Up to win bigger, better & more using principles of psychology. Sales leaders: Ready to have MORE of your sellers hit quota? Ask me how to get them Psyched2Sell!
I left corporate America and founded LDK Advisory Services in 2014 because I felt there are far too many sales methodologies, trainings, and content that deliver a "one size fits all" approach. These so-called trainings and overly theoretical methodologies set revenue leaders and their sellers up to fail miserably. I simply could not bring myself to "templatize" my clients.
Sales people have one of the most difficult jobs, today. They need someone in their corner to be a staunch advocate for their success. I am devoted to helping remove obstacles in sales professionals' path - even if, sometimes, they are in standing in their own way. That's where compassionate coaching comes in.
If you want to create some change in the near term, you can show sales people what they have to do. If you want to create lasting, positive change in behavior, you have to teach sales professionals how to think in a way that will help them achieve their greatest potential.
I believe the only way that sales enablement activities really work and stick is when they are highly customized and personalized based on a unique sales team in a distinct culture. If people and culture don't support sales enablement programs, they just won't work.
That's why I am here, to help sales leaders create high performing sales organizations that are fueled by the culture and designed to accelerate growth.
GENERAL:
Sales Enablement consultant and sales performance coach with over 20 years experience in B2B Sales, Sales Support and Sales Enablement. Working with visionary Senior Sales Leaders to develop high-performance sales teams with the knowledge, skill and will to drive profitable growth.
WWW.LDKADVISORY.COM
Areas of Expertise:
Psychology in Sales: Psyched2Sell Sales Training
Sales Enablement
Sale Performance Coaching
Sales New Hire Onboarding
Transforming Transactional Sales Professionals to Consultative Sellers
Within my business, I leverage the Sales IQ eLearning platform. It is a leading sales enablement solution for B2B selling, which enables me to use blended online, face-to-face learning and coaching. I have chosedn to be a Gold Partner for Sales IQ because I know it serves B2B sales professionals in their learning and development journey. The Sales IQ model incorporates best practice adult learning principles to improve results across four key domains: Creating pipeline, winning opportunities, growing and retaining customers, and leading teams. Review my Sales IQ partner page here: https://salesiqglobal.com/anita-nielsen/