Sean Burke

SBI, The Growth Advisory

Partner

Dedicated to driving company value creation, through aligned teams, goals, and execution.

Content Creator

Prometric

Chief Operating Officer

Chief Client Officer

LivePerson

➤ Team: 6 Direct & 110+ Total | New Logo & Account Growth | Strategic Partnerships & Alliances
➤ Turned around a North America underperforming team to rise to top #1 rankings

➣ Enabled triple-digit percentage booking growth in two years, with team quota achievement of 174%
➣ Repositioned and restructured sales team to crush quotas, assigning a QB (Quarterback) to drive strategies in real-time along with sales teams.
➣ Increased New Logo Bookings 10x in 5 quarters, outperforming all other teams by a minimum of 1.6X.
➣ Fueled sales pipelines and filled competitive gaps using the Sales Velocity Formula.
➣ Planned and implemented account penetration strategies, onboarding a new SDR (Sales Development Rep) team.
➣ Collaborated with strategic partners Apple, Facebook, Google, Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Cognizant, Infosys, and TTEC.
➣ Improved sales productivity by rolling out an objective sales assessment to measure sales skills, followed by customized performance plans for each leader and representative to address their gaps.
➣ Created a company culture of “We” that encouraged teamwork, rewarded performance, and motivated employees.

Senior Vice President Of Global Sales

SVP of Sales, Partners, and Solutions

PandaDoc

➣ Advised Senior Leadership Team on Growth Strategies. The company is now valued at over $1B.

Advisor

SBI | Sales Benchmark Index

➣ Consistently surpassed annual goals, while managing transformation projects with Thomson Reuters, HERE, and Inmar.

Principal

KiteDesk

➣ Led all company operations, including sales, marketing, customer success, finance, human resources, product, and engineering.
➣ Product Ranked #1 on Siftery, G2Crowd rating of 4.8/5.0
➣ Maintained year-over-year growth in excess of 200%.

CEO & Cofounder

Spectrum

Helped Integrate Sales and Marketing Team (Telovations - Spectrum)

Telovations

➣ Recruited to help position the company for sale. 
➣ Sold the business to Bright House Networks(6th largest US Cable Company).

Six Disciplines

➣ Oversaw all aspects of the business including P&L, client engagements, CEO and leadership coaching and accountability, sales and marketing, and regional PR.

President

From 1990-1994 – I was a salesperson and loved every minute of it (I broke records, built amazing client relationships, and put hundreds of thousands of miles on my Honda Accord).

From 1994 to 2018, I co-founded and helped grow nine early-stage companies.  Seven of these nine companies successfully exited for over $600M.

During these years, I learned about mergers & acquisitions, product-market fit, managing cash flow, evangelical sales, raising funds, making & losing millions, how to creatively accomplish much with very little $, and much more.

In 2018, I said to myself, “Ok, it’s time for something completely new.” 

Since then, I have consulted for or led, large teams within Private Equity backed or Public Companies. The companies that I have helped over this time have experienced value increases of over $2B.

In 2022, I made the decision that I want to continue to lead teams and assist companies and their clients in obtaining breakthrough results.

But my passion has always been focused on answering one question:

“How can companies build a revenue generation system that can forecast and achieve its goals, year after year?” 

It’s taken me 25 years of grinding, experimenting, failing, and retrying to finally be able to answer this question and now I am sharing it with others.

I help:

➡️ CEOs – who are looking to solve 8-figure revenue problems

➡️ C-Level Commercial Leaders – my blueprint will help you call your shots and make them

➡️ VP of Sales – Put you on the fast track to C-Level Commercial Roles

➡️ Salespeople – Teach you how to identify a winning sales team to join

➡️ Private Equity and VC Firms – use a consistent sales system across your portfolios

My content sharing:

✅  Daily LinkedIn posts AM EST

✅ Sign Up for The Levers Newsletter - https://sean-burke.com/levers/ (Every other Saturday Morning AM EST)

✅ My website - https://sean-burke.com

✅ More options to come

☘️

Sean Burke  🍀

Avi Sakhalkar

ZPE Systems

Commercial/CX Leader, APJC (ZPE, a Legrand company)

Leader, Global ISR/BD Team (ZPE, a Legrand company)

RUN AT BEST

RUN AT BEST® provides simple sales techniques for SaaS Solutions & Services Sales.

RUN AT BEST® categorizes the complexity of sales in a logical structure combined that puts you in the customer's shoes. Regardless of the seller's experience, RUN AT BEST® provides a common language to plug in existing knowledge and learnings and provides a guideline to focus on what is relevant. 

The goal is to increase sales performance by >20%, create a stress-tested, reliable forecast, in which we argue value through an easy-to-understand methodology, and qualify the opportunities via an app.

All relevant dimensions are structured with the RUN AT BEST® acronym and put in the correct procedural order. Relationship, Uniques, Needs, Authority, Timing, Budget, Enemy, Solution and Take Control.

Trainer, Sales Methodology

Nutanix

- Nurtured relationships with Accenture, Capgemini, DXC, Kyndryl, ATOS, TCS, Wipro, HCL, Infosys
- Accountable for driving net new bookings through the GSI & Alliances route to market. 
- Executed the GSI-specific GTM strategy to develop a robust pipeline with enterprise accounts. 
- Align Nutanix solutions with GSIs and Alliances in building a joint offering for industry verticals.

GSI Business Leader, APJ

Eaton

Leader, Channel, GSI & Alliance

Datacenter Architect & Sales Engineering

Corporate Account Manager

Customer-Centric | Driving Resilient, Automated & Secure Networks.

Curious & Adaptable with cross-industry experience of running Channel, OEM Sales, GSI's, Tech. Alliances, Distribution, and Marketing. Passionate about Startups, GTM, identifying and growing RTM.

In doing so, I Learn, Drive Value, Deliver Outcomes, & Build Relationships.


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