As a former professional athlete and championship football coach, Jeff leveraged those experiences into a business career as a dynamic sales leader who owned and successfully operated multiple businesses and held key Vice President of Sales positions within start-ups, mid-market, and Fortune 500 corporations.
Jeff knows how to lead, work with others, and drive the change necessary to achieve results and enable an organization to reach its goals. Leveraging expertise across all areas of running a sales organization and within varying sizes of different organizations, Jeff helps his clients identify, create, and pull the "high impact levers" that get them to desired outcomes as quickly as possible.
He successfully helped found and lead the sales divisions for three start-up corporations, including a technology company acquired by AT&T for a 20X valuation increase for its shareholders upon exit. He founded and operated a regional retail organization and led significant sales turnarounds at large and mid-size telecommunications companies.
Growing revenue, achieving profits, developing your people, and transforming the foundation, systems, and infrastructure for long-term success have been key achievements for organizations leveraging Jeff's services and expertise.
"Jeff maintains a reputation for being a hard-charging servant leader who wins through collaboration and acting with the end in mind."
Education: Jeff holds an M.S. from St. Cloud State University, an MBA from Northcentral University, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Personal: Jeff and his wife Jackie have three children. Jeff enjoys coaching youth sports, fitness, entrepreneurship, motivational speaking, philosophy, and the financial markets. He and Jackie also volunteer time doing community education and advocacy work for families and individuals afflicted with eating disorders.
