Jan 13 2025 41 mins
In this weeks’ Scale Your Sales Podcast episode, my guest is Alina Vandenberghe.
Alina is the co-founder and co-CEO of Demand Gen Conversion Platform Chili Piper. Her company is used by GTM teams at Monday.com, Rippling, Home Depot, and more. In 2022 her company reached a Billion-dollar valuation. She also runs a foundation focused on non-Violence, co-chairs a woman organized focused on electing Harris as the next president and is a mom of two boys.
In today’s episode of Scale Your Sales podcast, Alina shares her expertise on the evolving sales landscape, highlighting data-driven decision-making, cultural diversity, and the impact of remote work on achieving work-life balance. She discusses the challenges sales leaders face in balancing quotas with genuine customer relationships and reflects on her inspiring journey from Ukraine to becoming an industry leader. Alina’s story showcases resilience, a drive for financial stability, and a vision for inclusivity.
Welcome to Scale Your Sales Podcast, Alina Vandenberghe.
Timestamps:
00:00 Revolutionizing Sales Culture and Embracing AI Challenges
05:11 Resilience and failures are underappreciated in success.
07:20 Hiring focus: drive to change, not victim mentality.
12:58 Remote work pros/cons; desires transparency, social impact.
15:03 Employees diverse, motivated by financial stability, impact.
18:51 Eastern Europeans valued for strong work ethic.
23:39 AI complicates sales, demands trust-building partnerships.
28:12 Train sales team to meet ICP needs effectively.
31:00 CEO feels lonely, disappointed, seeks local wisdom.
35:29 Nonviolent Communication transformed introversion to extroversion.
37:55 Inspired by diversity, self-expression, and environment.
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Janice B Gordon is the award-winning Customer Growth Expert and Scale Your Sales Framework founder. She is by LinkedIn Sales 15 Innovating Sales Influencers to Follow 2021, the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Customer Experience Nov 2020 and 150 Women B2B Thought Leaders You Should Follow in 2021. Janice helps companies worldwide to reimagine revenue growth thought customer experience and sales.
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