Everyone has a unique sales leadership journey. No matter where you are in that journey, the right development strategy can help you reach your leadership goals and create the organization of your dreams.
NICE TO MEET YOU
Rebecca Gebhardt, President of Rise Up Consulting
We are passionate about helping sales leaders get off on the right foot and find success early instead of correcting bad habits that were formed due to a lack of training and development. Our founder, Rebecca, retired from the insurance business after building a top 1% sales team that brought in over $50 million of revenue at age 33. We have helped Rise Up Consulting clients increase sales over $70 million in less than a year of working with us.
Rebecca's story is a bit unique for someone in sales enablement consulting. She has a degree in Human Resources and is a self-described instructional design nerd, but she also spent 15 years on the frontline of selling and scaling sales teams. She has experienced what many of our clients experience, and being able to relate to what they are going through has been key to guiding them through the process.
Rebecca has also never worked in corporate America. (Her sales teams were contracted through organizations as 1099.) As a true entrepreneur, she tends to think a little differently, and help bridge the gap between executive teams' strategic focus and the sales teams' execution. She's focused on people and results, and understands the accountability to both.
It's our mission to guide sales leadership teams to shorten the learning curve of leaders, find wins faster, and strengthen leadership pipelines. It never gets old seeing the good guys win.
Our Ideology
Our world is too reactive. Instead of getting good at helping sales teams with problems, why don't we create training programs to proactively to help them help themselves?
Most companies don't have formal and duplicatable programs for sales leaders that are personalized to their unique situations. They put their effort in tactical solutions to bypass the sales leaders lack of knowledge, which creates more problems.
After researching and listening to our clients, we created our accelerator programs, customized corporate programs, workshops, and keynotes.
We work with value and vision-driven companies who believe that building great leaders requires personal and professional development.
"Rebecca gives solid solutions from her own success in sales leadership. She brings another set of eyes to the table. As a leader, I want more of what I can do better."
- Amanda Arndt, VP Leadership and Development, Globe Life
"My sales leadership has improved because I've been able to create a system for tracking progress, communicating that progress, all while effectively being able to still run my own book of business. "
- Cantley Krafft
"The content and accountability is powerful. Where else are you going to find this type of training!?"
- Leaderboard to Leadership® Participant
Why We Do It
Thoughts from our President:
My first experience as a sales leader was atrocious. I was focused on results over relationships. Recognition instead of impact. It was only when I focused on the impact I could make on the lives of my team that I found success as a sales leader.
With that success brought questions. I remember asking for more insight as to what the best sales leaders at my organization really do, but was told to just keep recruiting more people and work harder.
I understand how frustrating and lonely it can be doing a new role for the first time. I see how leaders at organizations don't want their new sales leaders to struggle the way they had to. I know what its like to want to devote the time to creating a development program for sales leaders and not have the resources or bandwidth to do it.
Whether its an individual sales leader who completes our on-demand Leaderboard to Leadership® program or a sales organization that hires us to create a customized leadership development program and partner with the L & D team, seeing the impact made on the bottom line and in the lives of the leaders we serve never gets old.
