Genius Drive

Genius Drive is a value advisory and consulting firm, committed to empowering B2B solution providers to better articulate value in each customer engagement and throughout the buyer’s journey. From ideating differentiated value storytelling, to delivering training, automating processes, and delivering field support, Genius Drive accelerates outcomes throughout the value lifecycle.

Founder & Partner

Humans have been telling stories for centuries. Cave paintings. Tales by the fire to pass on key knowledge. We are wired by evolution to better connect, engage and retain through stories.

Does your company consistently communicate your value proposition throughout the customer journey?

Articulate your Value Story, Quantify your Value 

Enterprise Value Collective

The Enterprise Value Collective is a vibrant community dedicated to fostering meaningful conversations, knowledge-sharing, and growth around the subject of enterprise value. Whether you're a leader or practitioner in sales, customer success, value engineering, sales engineering, marketing or enablement, or simply someone interested in the subject, our community is designed to be your go-to hub for insights, best practices, and the latest trends.

Founder 

Pavilion

Executive Member

Chief

Chief is a private network focused on connecting and supporting executive women leaders. Our members are rising leaders making decisions today and influencing change tomorrow. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for the most powerful women executives to strengthen their leadership, magnify their influence, and pave the way to bring others with them.Chief is a private network focused on connecting and supporting executive women leaders. Our members are rising leaders making decisions today and influencing change tomorrow. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for the most powerful women executives to strengthen their leadership, magnify their influence, and pave the way to bring others with them.

Member

Alteryx

I had the privilege of leading Alteryx's Worldwide Customer Advisory organization, which was accountable for driving revenue growth, increasing market share, and ensuring partner satisfaction across our commercial and public sector accounts. The GTM organization was comprised of over 1,000 sales professionals and contributed to over $800M in revenue.

My role involved leading growth initiatives and overseeing the delivery of comprehensive business strategy consulting, advanced analytics, and deeply technical insights to large enterprises, helping them drive enterprise transformation initiatives. As the leader of the Worldwide Customer Advisory team, I managed six direct reports and oversaw a total of 40 team members across a range of specialist teams, including Value Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Advanced Technologies, and Field Executives. Additionally, I established Excellence teams to drive technology innovation and best practices in program management, enabling us to scale our services and exceed our clients' expectations.

Throughout my tenure, I fostered a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. My team's success in driving revenue growth, market share expansion, and partner satisfaction was a testament to our unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional value to our clients.

Head of Worldwide Customer Advisory

Pioneered cross-functional efforts to identify critical gaps in the customer buying journey, which led to the development and implementation of key programs resulting in significant increases in revenue, customer satisfaction, and renewal rates.

Scaled the value engineering team from 0 to 10 team members globally. Led the creation of a self-service value platform that was adopted globally by the sales team. Influenced $40M+ annually across 750+ opportunities and led to 250% increase in deal size and 13 percentage points improvement in close rate.

Sr. Director, Value Engineering & Go-to-Market Strategy

Joined Alteryx to lead and drive strategic initiatives that enabled the company to drive toward $1B in annual revenue.

I established the Value Engineering capability from the ground up and spearheaded the creation and refinement of VE team materials and methodologies, while partnering with the global sales organization to ensure successful implementation.

As part of the Marketing organization, partnered closely with demand generation and growth marketing teams to infuse value messaging into all phases of the customer journey.

Scaled the VE team globally as the organization experienced exponential growth, and contributed to driving business growth by engaging as a trusted partner with customers.

Director, Value Engineering

Alation

Alation built the top Machine Learning Data Catalog, highly rated as a leader by Gartner, Forrester, and Dresner Partners. 

Sales Strategy: Spearheaded the creation of a repeatable sales process that reduced the time to decision from 9 months to under 4 months. I trained Sales, Customer Success, and Sales Engineering teams to create repeatable "plays" that enabled new clients to evaluate complex technology with ease.

Customer Success Strategy and Enablement: Developed a repeatable customer deployment plan and trained our Customer Success teams to deliver and project manage the process. Defined value quantification, enterprise business case, and implementation KPIs to ensure renewals and client adoption. Created implementation best practices, ideal customer profiles, and delivered training for the entire company, with a focus on sales and customer success.

Sales Development: Created a territory strategy in collaboration with Marketing and Business Development teams that resulted in the successful creation of pipeline in the region. Onboarded and expanded new prospects and customers with renowned clients such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, Amherst Holdings, USAA, 21st Century Fox, Magic Leap, Express Scripts, and TechnipFMC.

Product Strategy: As a liaison between the VP of Product and Director of Professional Services, played a pivotal role in creating a feedback loop from customers to the product management and engineering teams, ensuring agile and customer-focused product development. Fostered relationships with key strategic partners to identify product gaps, which resulted in a product roadmap shift to support gamification of data stewardship.

Strategic Sales 

Cisco

Duo Security, owned by Cisco, protects organizations against data breach by making security easy and effective. In an industry full of network, endpoint, application, and data security products, they design security for people.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments: 

✓ Partner Relationships: Created relationships with new Direct Market Resellers, Value Added Resellers, Referral Partners, and Technology Partners in region to support territory growth. 

✓ Insights to Drive Revenue: Discovered inefficiencies in sales operations process and designed solutions to drive revenue. Advocated, deployed, and trained sales team on using automated prospecting solutions such as Salesforce.com integration with data.com, and tools such as Tableau and SalesLoft.

✓ Territory Management and Data Analytics: Created process for data-driven territory allocation to sales team using Tableau to analyze market opportunity and lead flow to strategically allocate the appropriate territory size and location. 
 
✓ Revenue Generation: Central region responsible for $5M in total sales. Attained 200% of quota in 2016. Developed 3x pipeline in the region for 2017. Awarded Most Valuable Player in first three months at the company.

Enterprise Account Executive

Tableau Software

Tableau is business intelligence software that allows anyone to easily connect to data, then visualize and create interactive, sharable dashboards. It's easy enough that any Excel user can learn it, but powerful enough to satisfy even the most complex analytical problems. 

Responsibilities/Accomplishments 
 
✓ Revenue Creation: Consistently reached 115-150% of sales goal. Quota: $1.2M-$1.5M. Promoted twice in three years (above average career progression).
 
✓ Professional Services: Recognized as leader in selling consulting services. With quarterly quota of $25,000, achieved 200% of services quota every quarter. 

✓ Partners: Effectively generated at least 10% of revenue through the channel. Leveraged Direct Market Reseller relationship to win strategic accounts. Spoke to sales team at Global Sales Kick Off 2015 on How to Win with Partners.
 
✓ Awards: Received President’s Award for top revenue generation in 2015. Ranked in the top 6% of salespeople in the company in revenue delivered.

The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Located in New York City, The Mount Sinai Medical Center is a 1171-bed, tertiary -care teaching hospital acclaimed internationally for excellence in clinical care. The Friedman Brain Institute focuses on neural injury and repair, cognitive function and neuropsychiatry. 

As an Officer for The Friedman Brain Institute, I was responsible for driving major donor fundraising efforts to advance its mission. My focus on relationship building enabled me to develop and maintain meaningful connections with New York's top philanthropists, including business executives and world-renowned physicians.

I grew my portfolio of major donor prospects and donors from 60 to over 100, with a focus on cultivating relationships with those capable of giving up to $1 million.

Through strategic planning and execution, I secured one-on-one in-person donor meetings, and effectively utilized these opportunities to establish and strengthen donor relationships for long-term support of The Friedman Brain Institute and Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. My efforts helped to drive sustainable growth and progress towards achieving our philanthropic goals.

Development Officer, Major Gifts

Archstone

Nation's leading luxury residential retailer with locations in the most desired neighborhoods in the top cities in the US, including New York, Boston, Los Angeles, etc. Serving high-end clientele with a focus on white glove service after the sale.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments:

✓ Affordable Housing Program Management - Managed the applications, renewals, and compliance of the affordable housing program.

✓ Prospecting/Portfolio Management: Provide superior one-on-one service to portfolio of over 700 clients using Solution Selling. Cultivated corporate partnerships that produced $850,000 in revenue over six months.

✓ Closing Sales: Tailor closing technique to customer preferences to ensure the highest rate of final conversion. Close deals of $50,000+ on average. Closed four deals in first two days at a struggling location totaling $180,000.

Program Manager 

WHAT WE DO

🌟 We help you articulate and quantify your company's value proposition.
🌟 We harness in-house knowlege and research to tell your value story for each persona.   
🌟 We enable and empower your GTM team to speak the language of value.   
🌟 We partner with you to build and deliver business cases to close your top deals.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Technology or tech-enabled companies who want to pivot from a product feature/function conversation to a value/outcomes conversation.

👨‍💼 Chief Executive Officers
👨‍💼 Revenue Leaders
👨‍💼 Marketing Leaders
👩‍💼 Customer Success Leaders
👩‍💼 Sales Enablement Leaders

KEY CUSTOMERS WE WORK WITH

🌟 Pigment
🌟 Crisp
🌟 InterSystems
🌟 Scale Computing
🌟 Eleven Systems
🌟 K1X
🌟 Mediafly
🌟 Sphere
🌟 Triptych
🌟 Plastic Bank

CLIENT RESULTS

✅ Increase Win Rate by up to 20 percentage points
✅ Increase Deal Sizes by over 54%
✅ Achieve up to 70% open rates on prospect outreach
✅ Accelerate sales cycles
✅ Increase competitive advantage

HOW IT WORKS

Engage us to:

🔎 Articulate your value story.
🔎 Train the whole GTM team to tell the same story and gain value selling skills. 
🔎 Bring expert workshop facilitation and outside research to bring clarity through an outside perspective.
🔎 Create foundational value content to empower your GTM organization.

WHY IT WORKS

Our approach creates your CUSTOMER as the HERO. By clearly understanding their challenges and telling the story to achieve their intended outcomes, it is a win-win.

🏆 Thought Leaders in Enterprise Value for 30+ years
🏆 Neuroscience Based Methodology combined with the Power of Storytelling
🏆 Proven results in building impactful value programs

WHO IS IT FOR

☑ B2B Technology Providers
☑ B2B Solution Providers
☑ Financial Service Providers

READY TO TALK?

Email: amorley@geniusdrive.com

When I am not driving value adoption, across the enterprise, you can find me exploring the world of the arts. For fun, I took a professional floral artistry program and enjoy gathering the freshest blooms and making something beautiful. My favorite part is to give an arrangement as a gift! 

Growing up in Wisconsin, then moving to Florida, my happy place became the sunshine and the beach! I also learned to ski in the beautiful Tetons and am still working to claim title as an intermediate skiier. 

I look forward to connecting with you!

April Morley

Lucia Kanter St. Amour

Under the Sisterhood

UTS is a social impact company that addresses the critical gaps in women’s health education, diagnosis, and treatment. As CLO, I'm responsible for: legal guidance on general business operations, partnerships, and organizational practices; contract review and negotiation with vendors and partners; policy development ensuring legal, ethical, and privacy compliance; risk awareness and mitigation; recommending practical strategies that project the organization’s integrity and vision; addressing potential legal issues related to employment and board members; liaising and supervising outside counsel; partnering with cross-functional teams to effectively communicate the organization’s mission, support its programs, and amplify its social justice initiatives.

Chief Legal Officer

Pactum Factum

Chief Legal/Negotiation Officer for various corporations, NCAA athletes, and organizations; U.S. mediation liaison to Supreme Court of India 2022-2023; have mediated/negotiated 1000+ cases; host of "Forces of Good" podcast. Seasoned employment law and negotiation expert. Pactum Factum Press publishing.

Attorney | CLO | Publisher

UN Women

VP, San Francisco  - the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. UN Women USA is the official, membership-based non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for UN Women, the United Nations agency that advances gender equality and female empowerment globally.  Events and projects include: Cities for CEDAW a nationwide, grassroots effort to encourage local governments to become more gender equitable; EVAW - an effort to End Violence Against Women; The Gender Equal Pay coalition; HeForShe, a social movement campaign providing a systematic approach and targeted platform through which men and boys become agents of change for the achievement of gender equality; Women In Climate Change Gender Action Plan; Bi-annual Global Voices Film Festival

Vice President - UN Women USA

Spectrum Strategies for Autism

501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing sibling programming; and rescue dog matching, placement and training to families with children with Autism and other special needs.

University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)

Teaching:  Negotiation / Mediation Clinic / Mediation Certification for Professionals / Special Education  Law. 2003-2012 taught regular course(s) on-site each semester. I tried to retire, but noooooo. They wouldn't let me 😂 2013-present continue on faculty as hybrid (remote and on-site) coach and instructor

Law Professor (Adj.)

International Chamber of Commerce

Serving as judge and mediator for ICC mediation competition in Paris, France

Mediator and Judge

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Teaching Negotiation practical skills course and supervising independent studies

Lecturer

EEOC

One of the small team of original designers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s pilot mediation program in 1996 for the San Francisco Regional Office, and later mediated EEOC cases from San Jose to Sacramento

Mediator

Judicial Council of California

In-house employment law attorney for the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), the policymaking body for the entire California court system for 58 counties and the Supreme Court of California. I advised the Judicial Council, the Chief Justice of California, and trial and appellate court judges and court officers, contributing to major policy and legal decisions on employment and labor issues that affect the entire judicial branch of California. During that time, I was also selected by the California Division for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) as a representative attorney for the judicial branch to conduct ongoing discrimination and harassment training through live, televised, satellite broadcast programming to court employees statewide. The target 20,000-member audience consisted of judges, human resources professionals, court directors and court staff. Broadcasting live with a studio audience, I also co-hosted CJER’s production of “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  A Celebration of Justice,” as part of the Division’s Continuing The Dialogue television series. The content of many of the broadcasts drew upon expertise in the field of Civil Rights and various discrimination and fair employment laws.

Attorney - Office of the General Counsel

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Upon dissolution of boutique labor & employment firm in San Francisco, joined Orrick's Employment Law group and handled all aspects of litigation and client counseling. Closest clients I worked with included Gap, Apple, Oracle, Electronic Arts

Employment Litigation Attorney

VP Emerita UN Women | Attorney Action Figure 🦸🏻‍♀️ | Arresting Author | Chief Negotiation Officer | Plucky Podcast Host | Irreverent Int'l Keynote | "What Box?" Bellwether

📚 World domination through literary seduction. Elegant. Defiant. Irresistibly true. Are you ready for what's next (October 13, 2025)? MY WRITING IS ORGANIC USING REAL INTELLIGENCE (AI wishes it could write like me)

I'm not bossy. I'm BOSS. A UN Women VP, provocatrice, attorney/law professor turned negotiation GOAT . . .

(Buckle up. This is ..."a lot")

🦸🏻‍♀️ I help women harness the power of everyday negotiation—from conning a toddler into eating peas to running the boardroom. I authored the Little Black Dress of negotiation books. Why?

Because negotiation isn’t just for business. It’s everybody’s business 🧐

(But you don’t need me to “empower” you. Nor do I sell a “masterclass” or certification from my own “institute”)

🌍 World Mediation Peace Activist. Benevolent & incurable explorer (dubbed “creative savant”—you know who you are). A bit wild at ❤️‍🔥, I struggle with purpose and disrupt with goodwill—through advocacy, teaching, writing, broadcasting, philanthropy, art & sports.

🗣️ Polyglot. Passionate about people & social progress. JEDI agent (not a Star Wars ref). I’ve practiced law in private, public & non-profit sectors; have taught internationally, including over two decades as faculty at two University of California law schools.

I get that people are messy multitudes—and how they actually behave in conflict & decision-making.
What makes me next-level? Decades of deep experience in negotiation, behavioral economics, game theory, plus dope training in:

✔️ Emotional micro-expressions
✔️ Lie detection
✔️ Neuroscience & decision analysis

Oh, and I know the #1 most stealth negotiation skill. 😎

(Kinda like x-ray vision. Hint: it’s NOT “speaking your truth.”)

WHAT I’M NOT:

❌ A sales/marketing bro who built my expertise off a “masterclass”
❌ A brand
❌ Your income stream
❌ After your 💰 or approval
❌ One to trademark words. Ahem™ 🙄 (you know the type)

Special needs parent & dog whisperer—chaos doesn’t faze me, and persistence is my default setting. CEO of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing dogs & sibling support for families with special needs kids.

🫶 Turn-ons: Cake, shoes, pour-over coffee, decent literature
🤢 Turn-offs: NIMBYism, vapid buzzwords, elitism, posers

💡 Meyers-Briggs type? ENFJ-A (same 2% club as Obama & Oprah).

🕸️See more on pactumfactum.com, but TLDR: 
I’m 95% human Labrador (begs the question: what’s the other 5%?). Find it endearing or annoying. That's on you. Either way, I’ll be me because, as Oscar Wilde said, “Everyone else is taken.”

P.S.
❌ I don’t do casual Zoom coffee chats
✅ I’ve already overpaid it forward

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