Rob Humphrey

Senior Account Executive, Education Vertical

Canva

Canva is on a mission to empower the world to design. Visual communication is critical to stand out and be remembered. With Canva Enterprise business teams (sales, marketing, HR) can self-serve create on-brand visual content at scale. Creating faster time to market. Less reliance on agencies. More time back for in-house designers.

Strategic Accounts 

LinkedIn

Managed strategic sales initiatives as a founding member of LinkedIn's fastest-growing vertical.  Experience in SaaS and Ad-tech sales. 

Achieved $500MM in net revenue throughout my career, showcasing exceptional sales acumen.  

Honored with LinkedIn's prestigious MVP award, recognizing outstanding contributions and leadership.  

Co-created the "Get Hired" video series, engaging over 50,000 students through keynote talks at 100+ universities.

Strategic Account Executive

Transformational tour stop number three, I lead a high performance team of digital media experts. I support awesome customers in the ultra fast growing  Higher Education vertical. My speciality is helping schools reach prospective students, ensure current students harness the power of networking, and to make the connection with alumni more of a two-way street. I love to crush silos, do work, and dream big.

Co-created "Talent Connect Live" - a live stream experience for virtual attendees. In 2014 the stream was watched 15K viewers, in 2019 several million watched the stream.

Senior Manager, Creative Content Marketing

Annual quota busting sales leader that was hired to get shit done. That's it, that's all. I transformed the traditional thinking about the sales relationship, pioneered social selling strategies, and significantly impacted the creation, growth, and scale of LinkedIn's first and largest business - Talent Solutions. 

The numbers: Top 1% global revenue producer, #1 sales rep in category, ranked #1 in media solutions every quarter for 14 straight quarters, most highly recommended internal speaker (sales kickoff etc) 80+ NPS.

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Conceptualize, produce and deploy specialized programs for NGOs, Non-Profits, Government, and private sector organizations globally. The majority of what brain power I have is dedicated to global initiatives that ensure educational and economic opportunity for everyone.

The  numbers: #1 in terms of performance in North America (AE), #5 Globally (AE), #1 Rated speaker at annual global sales meeting.

Talent Solutions Account Executive

Harmonix Music Systems

Supported engineering and art hiring for Rock Band 2 and other projects. Created social recruitment strategy, executed on strategy, and reached key milestones. Among first users of LinkedIn Recruiter

Game Art and Engineering Recruiter

Strategic Sales @ Canva | LinkedIn MVP | Snowboarder

I dream big, do work, and have fun. 

At LinkedIn I became the top rep in the world setting records unmatched, and named MVP during an epic 18 month sales year. I delivered  $500,000,000 net to LinkedIn. I did it without losing my soul.

Much of my success was based on a building a trusted personal brand. I spent years attempting to visually tell my story, and almost gave up. Then I started using Canva. It became almost like cheating. People were excited to see what ideas I came up with and I could really devote my energy to creating mutual success. 

My best sales year at LinkedIn was when I abandoned Powerpoint and started using Canva. So, joining the Strategic Sales team at Canva for me is a dream come true.

Global Client Director

Entrepreneurial creative sales professional and founding member of the fastest growing vertical at LinkedIn. Delivered $200MM to the business inside 5 years, recipient of the most coveted sales award at LinkedIn (MVP), and friend and mentor to many. 

Co-Creator of Get Hired  - A video series focused on our student and young professional member base

Traveled to over 100 colleges and universities completing keynote talks to over 25,000 students. High NPS sales keynote and sales kickoff speaker.

Former LinkedIn MVP discovers previous accomplishments mean absolutely nothing.

Back at LinkedIn, I went rogue and ditched PowerPoint entirely for Canva. Every. Single. Presentation. 

That same year? I became a LinkedIn MVP in an 18-month competition eclipsing $100 Million in net revenue during that period. 

Coincidence? Nope. I finally found a way to tell a story and really convince customers to dream big, not just spend money with LinkedIn.

Now I'm on the other side of the table, selling what people think is "just a consumer design tool" to the enterprise. 

I am watching Fortune 500 teams realize they can move at the speed of creativity, performance marketers can catapult ROAS, and sales teams can get more creative without the "brand police" calling!

Coach K wrote about "shared confidence" in his book—the idea that when one person believes, it lifts the entire team. That's exactly what I'm seeing here...

We're not just building a new sales org; we're building something that makes people more productive and successful.

The real MVP? This team.

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I am still here. 

That is what my mother says every single time I call her.

I recently updated her fit with a bunch of "I am still here" swag - she wears it proudly.

Also, she just celebrated her 93rd birthday, so I updated her LinkedIn headline to match the swag.

The message is this: You are still here! So, enjoy this beautiful day.

In a sales role, your direct manager has more impact on your mental health than your partner, bff, or therapist. 

Think about it 🌈

Canva. Enterprise Edition. 

Think about it.

So you have a LinkedIn profile. Congratulations on completing this crucial step in your unpaid full-time job of looking for a job that requires 5 year

Open article: Your LinkedIn Profile: A Beacon of Hope in the Void by Rob Humphrey • 3 min read

Your LinkedIn Profile: A Beacon of Hope in the Void

We have a crazy big dream that by the end of our lifetimes, everyone on this planet will have their basic human needs met. Canva 🩷

A few years ago, we shared our 2 Step Plan:

1. Build one of the world’s most valuable companies
2. Do the most good we can do

We have a crazy big dream: that by the end of our lifetimes, everyone on this planet will have their basic human needs met. It’s terribly sad that this is still considered a crazy big dream, but thanks to the support of our community, the Canva Foundation is committing another $100 million USD to support people living in extreme poverty to take another step towards this.

Since 2021, our partnership with GiveDirectly has provided $50 million in direct cash transfers to more than 85,000 people in Malawi. Families have used this support to send children to school, access healthcare, start small businesses, and invest in livestock and tools that help create long-term security. Each story is different, but all prove a simple truth: when people are trusted to decide what they need most, the impact is extraordinary.

This new $100 million commitment will reach another 185,000 people, helping families transform their lives, while creating ripple effects that strengthen entire communities. It is, without a doubt, the best money we could ever imagine spending.

We’ve created a short documentary from journalist David Begnaud's visit to Malawi: https://lnkd.in/gpDpkW8h

We’re still very much on a learning journey, if you’d like to learn alongside us, visit our blog: https://lnkd.in/gn4TTJrg

With over 30% of Canva’s value dedicated to doing good, every subscription and every design fuels this mission. Thank you for being part of it ❤️

Open video: On the Ground in Malawi: Stories of Change with Canva & GiveDirectly on youtube.com

On the Ground in Malawi: Stories of Change with Canva & GiveDirectly

In mere weeks the white room will be calling, who is with me?

Tired of  an endless stream of talking heads videos with three tips on [insert topic}?

Then hit that follow button and ride with me this winter…

❄️

Huntington National Bank

Manage cross-impact enterprise data strategy, data risk management and data governance project deliverables within the Data & Architecture organization.

Sr Project Manager

Western Union

• Oversaw application development, product development, new client implementation, platform modernization/optimization and system/data integration projects spanning multiple domains.
• Led distributed, cross-functional teams utilizing agile, hybrid and waterfall project methodologies to include coaching/guiding agile delivery teams on adopting the Scrum framework and related agile processes.
• Collaborated with project team members, business/product owners, technology leaders and other key stakeholders throughout all aspects of project/sprint planning, scheduling, and execution, as well as in identifying risks/issues, and resolving impediments. 
• Worked closely with product owners in prioritizing and maintaining healthy product backlogs via ongoing backlog refinement, user story grooming/estimating, and managing dependencies.
• Facilitated agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives) to optimize team delivery, performance, and velocity and to identify team/process improvements.
• Developed project plans, managed project budgets, used Jira workflows, created dashboards/reports and measured project/agile metrics to monitor progress and ensure project/sprint goals and timelines were met.
• Planned and coordinated project implementations, product releases and production system deployments.

Sr Project Manager/Scrum Master

Nelnet, Inc.

• Managed the delivery of a multi-project portfolio of software development, new client implementation, business integration, data conversion and process improvement projects.
• Collaborated with business and technology leaders to define program execution in alignment with company strategy, core values and resource optimization goals.
• Developed project plans, oversaw project deliverables, managed project budgets. and issued project status/metrics reports to keep company leadership and project stakeholders informed of project progress.

Program/Project Manager

Results-driven project leader with extensive experience overseeing medium-to-high complexity projects. Enthusiasm for leading and coaching agile delivery teams. Capable of pivoting between the role of Project Manager and Scrum Master. Talent for putting project structure in place and engaging teams. Passion for being part of agile transformations and helping drive agile adoption via delivery approaches that balance process and execution.
• Financial services background encompassing banking, money services, mortgage services, consumer lending and education financing.
• Highly qualified in organizing, planning, and managing IT projects end-to-end with project administration, budget management and reporting responsibility for projects spanning 3-months to 2+ years with an IT spend up to $7M.
• Effective in managing distributed delivery teams of 8 to 65 resources (onshore/offshore/SOW contract).
• Skilled in negotiating product backlog priorities and tradeoffs with product, business, and technical owners to ensure product/solution roadmaps remain aligned to strategic intent, customer value and improving the customer experience.
• Observant, situationally aware and capable of anticipating roadblocks, identifying problems, risks, and issues, making insightful decisions, proposing alternatives, and removing impediments.
• Accomplished in building trusted relationships with leadership, internal business partners, external clients, vendors, and other project stakeholders to ensure project alignment with business objectives, corporate strategy, core values, revenue targets and contractual commitments.
• Facilitative in team interactions, collaboration, communications, and dialogue which improve transparency, promote information sharing, and build a common understanding of project progress/performance.
• Recognized as a high performer with demonstrated abilities in prioritization, organization, planning, reporting, negotiation, influencing, conflict resolution, mediation.

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