Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 884.

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This is a Women in Sales Leadership sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

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The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

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On today's show, Gina meets with Marty Overman, Executive Vice President of Americas Sales at Darktrace.

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MARTY'S TIP: "It's okay to have a plan and change it. That doesn't mean the plan was wrong, it doesn't mean it failed, it just means you got new information and you've got to pivot and be comfortable with that."

This is episode 883.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

Today's show featured an interview with Kim Napolitano, Executive Director of Global Industry Relations at Hilton; and Dave Caldwell, Managing Vice President of Sales at Maritz.

Find Kim on LinkedIn. Find Dave on LinkedIn.

KIM'S TIP: "Be fully engaged with that person in that moment in time and take a genuine interest in them. Relationships are what move business forward."

DAVE'S TIP: "When you get an opportunity to be in front of somebody, you have to be even more intentional than ever. Respect that they are giving you their time to meet in person."

This is episode 882.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

Today's show featured an interview with Charlie Baker, Vice President of Federal Sales at Granite.

Find Charlie on LinkedIn.

CHARLIE'S TIP: "Every customer has a purpose and a goal they're working toward. Your job as a salesperson is to understand that mission, align with it, and figure out how you can best support their success."

This is episode 881.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

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Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

Today's show featured an interview with Zach Gropper, Founder and CEO of Insight Revenue; and Allison Davis, Head of Client Solutions and Sales at Office Hours.

Find the State of Revenue 2026 report here.

Find Zach on LinkedIn. Find Allison on LinkedIn.

ZACH'S TIP: "Know your customer doesn't mean what kind of budget do they have and what are their timelines. Know your customer is the things like, what really is their aspiration? How do they differentiate themselves?"

ALLISON'S TIP: "In a world of AI slop out there, that human-to-human connection becomes increasingly important. I even go back to the good old days of sales where it was smile and dial. No one's dialing anymore. If you want to reach a key executive, pick up the phone and call them."

This is episode 880.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

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Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

Today's show featured an interview with Ariel Hitron, Co-Founder and CEO of Second Nature AI; and Jay Fortuna, Senior Vice President of Talent and Operations at GoHealth.

Find Ariel on LinkedIn. Find Jay on LinkedIn.

ARIEL'S TIP: "The top sellers always think they know everything, and then they come into that and they see that there's some things that they don't know. We all have something to learn. Then you see them improve and then everyone else flocks into that."

JAY'S TIP: "I'm going to get consistent feedback on what it is that I need to work on. It is going to be very clear to me of what it is, why I'm missing, how I'm getting scored on it, how I can do better. Then I can immediately take another attempt at it."

This is episode 879.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 16.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Heather Harlos, Global Vice President of Marketing, Programs, and Enablement at Coro.

Find Heather on LinkedIn.

HEATHER"S TIP: "Don't be afraid to make a mistake, as long as you're willing to adjust quickly. Some of your best ideas, some of the best things you'll produce will actually come out of messing up first and correcting quickly."

This is episode 878.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

This is a Women in Sales Leadership sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

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On today's show, Gina meets with Courtney Broadwell, Vice President of Channels at Geordie AI.

Find Courtney on LinkedIn.

COURTNEY'S TIP: "If somebody is kind enough to give you feedback, you take the feedback, and you take it well and you leave with a smile on your face and you say thank you, and you action on it."

This is episode 877.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

This is an Office Hours: Sales Professors Unplugged sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 16.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Andy McGowan, Director of the Center for Professional Selling at Virginia Commonwealth Universisty; and Daniel Kane, Director of Training, Systems and Processes at Curbell Plastics.

Find Andy on LinkedIn. Find Daniel on LinkedIn.

ANDY'S TIP: "Sales is hard. It's not easy. You have to learn to talk to people… You have to get out there and you have to talk to people."

DAN'S TIP: "Invest in yourself… invest in your own learning too. You want to go buy that book, that book about sales, go buy it. Go spend the 12 bucks, go spend the 15 bucks, read it and learn from it and pass it on."

This is episode 876.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 16.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Corey Brubaker, Head of Enablement at Vumedi; and Amit Bakshi, Founder and CEO at WingRep.

Find Corey on LinkedIn. Find Amit on LinkedIn.

COREY'S TIP: "The organizations that are winning are the ones that are creating the fastest learning loops. They identify what's happening in their customer conversations. They coach against it quickly. They reinforce those right behaviors, and then they constantly improve."

AMIT'S TIP: "Don't try to improve 10 things. Just pick one and really, really focus on that. A lot of times it's just getting back to the basics. Curiosity, judgment. Just remember the essence of what good sales is. It's not about AI. It's about using AI to get back to the basics."

This is episode 875.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 2nd.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Andy Hershey, Vice President of Strategic Sales, Americas at Cribl.

Find Andy on LinkedIn.

ANDY'S TIP: "Research, who's the best seller you or anyone in your network knows, who's the most successful person that's mid-career or late-career, and reach out to them. Ask them to mentor you."

This is episode 874.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

This is an Office Hours: Sales Professors Unplugged sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 2nd.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Dr. Sterling Bone, Professor and Director of Huntsman ProSales at Utah State University - Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.

Find Sterling on LinkedIn.

STERLING'S TIP: "Trust your mechanics, trust your process, trust your systems, but find your soul and rediscover your soul of why you sell. I think it's taking a minute and thinking, why is it that what we do changes lives? How do we really impact? What are the real benefits that we provide?"

This is episode 873.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 2nd.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Carmen Sorice, EVP of Business Development and Cost Management Solutions at E78.

Find Carmen on LinkedIn.

CARMEN'S TIP: "Be proactive. Don't wait for the phone to ring, or the text to come in, or the email to come in. Be proactive. As an OEM partner manager, try and anticipate what your partners are seeing. Be proactive, communicate in a proactive manner, act in a proactive manner."

This is episode 872.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

This is a Women in Sales Leadership sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

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On today's show, Gina meets with Bina Shah, Advisor at Outliveme and Former Group Sales Develpoment Director at Oracle.

Find Bina on LinkedIn.

BINA'S TIP: "No matter where you are in your tenure, showing up every day with authenticity and the work ethic to do the best you can, and how do you uplift the organization. In those important boardroom meetings, in those important C-level meetings, internal or external, what brought me credibility is talking with a point of view backed by data and standing up for myself."

This is episode 871.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 2.

Learn more here.

Today's special two-part show featured an interview with John Carey, Senior Vice President of Global Channels at SAS, and Tom Snyder, Co-Founder of Funnel Clarity.

Find John on LinkedIn. Find Tom on LinkedIn.

JOHN'S TIP: "Understand the customer first, because if you can't understand the pain of the customer, how do you identify whether you can be of any assistance? If we're not driving value, we can't be in the conversation."

This is episode 870.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on October 2.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with John Carey, Senior Vice President of Global Channels at SAS, and Tom Snyder, Co-Founder of Funnel Clarity.

Find John on LinkedIn. Find Tom on LinkedIn.

JOHN'S TIP: "Skills are one of the biggest differentiators between AI experimentation and AI execution. If we're going to move AI into the business, we're going to need people who can connect AI initiatives to business goals. They're going to be able to prepare data, manage change, and measure outcomes."

This is episode 869.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

This is a Women in Sales Leadership sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

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On today's show, Gina meets with Kristyn Hogan, Global Vice President of Partner Sales at Cisco.

Find Kristyn on LinkedIn.

KRISTYN'S TIP: "Know where you want to go. You don't have to know how you're going to get there, you don't have to know exactly what it is, but have a big crazy dream of where you want to go, invest in the relationships and people who are going to push you and help you get there."

This is episode 868.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

This is an Office Hours: Sales Professors Unplugged sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on September 11.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Ann Sojka, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Cincinatti.

Find Ann on LinkedIn.

ANN'S TIP: "One huge life motto of mine is no ask, no get. If you never ask, the answer is always no. It takes a lot of courage to be bold and ask difficult questions, but if you don't ask, you're never going to get it."

This is episode 867.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on September 11.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Joel Jackson, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Technology Sales and Client Adoption at Red Hat.

Find Joel on LinkedIn.

JOEL'S TIP: "It's not the most technical rep that survives ever. It's also not the most intelligent one that survives. It's the one that is adaptable to change. I think adaptability starts with being curious."

This is episode 866.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

This is a Marketing and Selling Effectiveness sub-brand of the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

On today's show, Fred Diamond and Julie Murphy meet with Tony D'Angelo, Vice President of Public Sector at Fivecast.

Find Tony on LinkedIn.

TONY'S TIP: "Master your craft. Be an expert. Don't apologize for what you do. Be proud of it. We're solving problems, we're bringing technology to people that have real problems and solving those problems."

This is episode 865.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube here.

The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast. Read the announcement here.

FeedSpot named the Sales Game Changers Podcast at a top 20 Sales Podcast and top 8 Sales Leadership Podcast!

Subscribe to the Sales Game Changers Podcast now on Apple Podcasts!

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

The Institute for Effective Professional Selling has launched the Partner Revenue Academy for partner account managers who are looking to become more effective active sellers. The next 6-session cohort launches on September 11.

Learn more here.

Today's show featured an interview with Dr. Andrew Loring, Associate Director, Reynolds and Reynolds Sales Leadership Institute and Senior Lecturer at Texas A&M University.

Find Andrew on LinkedIn.

ANDREW'S TIP: "We can't be perfect at everything. There are areas of the sales process where we're naturally going to excel, and others where we need to double down and work a little bit harder."