🐶 Jacco van der Kooij

Do you know a large Midwest family? Well, if you do, then you know me.  I am the youngest of eight, raised in a small farmers'​ village in the Netherlands. If I picked an apple from the wrong tree on my way home from school, my parents would know about it before I got off my bike.

The family name is like a bank account, and my family has put their savings in it for over 50 years.  We are not rich, but the van der Kooij's are known for our hard work, and willingness to help others. So we never needed a lot of money. For my family, our reputation is the most valued asset and trust is the currency we trade in.  Every day.

Fast forward to today, a time where the subscription (SaaS) business model is impacting organizations big and small.   Why?  Because in the subscription business you MUST make a client successful!  You have to earn an honest word-of-mouth reference by exceeding a client's expectation. You have to work hard and build a reputation. I recognize this as these are the norms and values I was raised on, and I know exactly what to do.

Welcome to my village. Pop. 12,000. Established 2005.

Founder

Winning By Design helps customer to design, build and scale their sales efforts.  With offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Antwerp, Shanghai and Sydney we help clients big and small with a process driven approach to sales.  The right process executed by trained professional will help you earn more business from the right customers.

Jacco van der Kooij

Jacki Leahy ✨

You can’t solve for what you can’t see. 
And you can’t bank on what’s broken. 

Achieve the revenue engine stability you need – so you can hit your numbers and scale with precision. 

We help early‑stage SaaS CROs uncover what they don’t see, eliminate the friction dragging down their revenue engine, and build predictable growth.

As your fractional RevOps partner, we don’t just analyze dashboards — We roll up our sleeves and tackle one rock per quarter that unlocks the biggest opportunity for revenue potential. 

Tools, systems, metrics — no stone left unturned (but no overbuild either).

What you'll get working with us:
- Clarity on hidden bottlenecks: funnel leaks, tech misalignments, process chaos
- Quick‑impact fixes that your CFO will endorse (yes, you’ll have the backing—not just an expense line)
- Sustained stability: build a foundation that scales, so growth isn’t fragile

If you’re a CRO in an early‑stage SaaS company and want a mini diagnostic call: 30 minutes where I audit your revenue engine, map out your biggest opportunity, and give you two moves you can execute this quarter to create certainty.

DM me to book that call, or click [https://calendly.com/activatethemagic/gtm-ops-diagnostic] to schedule.


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Feb 2024 Cohort

Co-Chair of the #revenue_operations channel

CCO School Graduate (February 2022). Learned strategies, tactics, and novel approaches to ensure delivery of customer impact.

What if there was a group that identified, cultivated and celebrated the incredible women shaping what careers look like?

OOP it already exists! And it's chock full of inspiring baddies chomping at the bit to support and contribute to your trajectory.

It's Wednesday Women of course!

Thank you for building a dream community ... and letting me be a part of it too!

💖 you Leslie Greenwood & Melissa Moody!!

Jacki Leahy 🪄

Fractional RevOps for GTM Certainty | Ideal for $5–50M ARR B2B tech | We are your team of curious, tenacious RevOps experts who take it off your plate and make it work. Period. 🪄

The best play you can run in 2026, is the play that ONLY YOU can run.

If your outbound strategy is still trying to write the best email headline, you've already lost. 📧💀

What's the ONE SIGNAL that always predicts interest in a demo?

It's not job changes. It's not funding rounds. It's not "they visited your pricing page."

It's the signal that only EXISTS in your world.

For a CRO at an LMS platform? It's when a company posts 5+ sales jobs in a single month. Rapid hiring means someone's about to onboard a bunch of reps who don't know the product, the pitch, or the process. That CRO knows chaos is 3 weeks away. 🚨

For a friend running outbound at a sales training company? It's when AEs get promoted to leadership within 6 months. New managers who haven't been taught how to coach yet? Gold.

This is how GTM is done in 2026. 

Building your own signal requires actually knowing your ICP cold. What breaks right before they need you? What hire suggests chaos is coming? What tech stack combo screams "this is going to hurt soon"?

Cookie-cutter signals get cookie-cutter results.

Your edge is in the specificity. 🎯

That's why I (all-caps) LOVEEE Common Room ❤️ You can build plays around signals you didn't even know you could track — the weird, quirky ones that actually matter to YOUR business (and no one else's) 😜 

PS: Everyone say Hi, Freddy! Welcome back to LinkedIn, Freddy! 🐶 

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💡 I'd love to hear your take:

What's your secret signal? The one that makes you go "oh, THEY need us" before they even know it themselves?

#Outbound #GTM #RevOps #ProprietarySignals #SalesStrategy #CommonRoom

🚨 What My Gen Z Chief of Staff Taught Me This Week

"Unc."

As in . . . Uncle. 

You know the one. Shows up to Thanksgiving, asks what you do for work, zones out halfway through, and goes: "So... accounting? That's good. Stable. You should stick with one company for 30 years. Buy some T-bonds. Do they still have pensions?"

That energy. But make it RevOps.

It's like "ok boomer" but softer, like a checkered argyle sweater. More... "aw sweetie, bless your heart."

Here's when it's appropriate to drop an "unc" in RevOps:

Example: "You're still using validation rules for that? Okay, unc."

🧓 Someone suggests a 47-step approval process for a $500 software purchase
🧓 Your manager insists on a project charter with a Gantt chart for updating a picklist
🧓 "Make sure you're testing in a sandbox first!" — I mean, yes, but also... unc energy
🧓 The person who backs up their Salesforce data to a USB drive they keep in their desk drawer

Look, I LOVE an unc move sometimes. Sandboxes are non-negotiable. But if you're out here treating every small change like it needs a steering committee and a risk assessment?

Bestie . . . you might be displaying symptoms of unc behavior. 
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What's the most "unc" thing you've seen in RevOps lately? What's the most "unc" habit you're never letting go of?

👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 

#RevOps #FridayVibes #GenZChiefOfStaff #UncEnergy #Salesforce

me: perusing client slack channels to get a sense of what’s being built

* sees the phrase “integrate with the LMS” *

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