Lisa Earle McLeod – Sales Leadership Expert

“She’s smart, she’s funny and
her advice makes sense.” 

-Steve Schick
Head of Business Development
The Entrepreneur’s Source

Organizations like Apple, Kimberly-Clark and Pfizer hire Lisa McLeod to create passionate, purpose driven sales organizations.

Stephanie Newkirchen, a partner at Deloitte Consulting says,

“Lisa showed us how to be more passionate and purposeful about our jobs and how to use passion as a competitive advantage in the workplace. Through her work, we were able to close bigger deals and close them faster.” 

Lisa is also a best-selling author.

In July The Washington Post named her book, The Triangle of Truth, a top five book for leaders.

In September, her book Forget Perfect was featured on The Today Show and the NBC Nightly News.

Lisa writes leadership commentary for Forbes.com and has been quoted in major news outlets such as  The New York Times, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal.

She is recognized as:

  • A sales leadership consultant whose clients range from financial services to pharmaceuticals.
  • A sought-after keynote speaker who has rocked the house everywhere from Ann Taylor to The United Way.
  • A problem-solving expert whose conflict resolution book was hand delivered  to every member of the 2011 Freshman class of Congress.  (She’s also an optimist who is still working on getting them to read it!)
  • A humor writer whose essay collection Finding Grace When You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear was endorsed by Betsy Bombeck and featured on Oprah.com.

Lisa began her career with Procter & Gamble, where she established herself as a sales leader and highly-skilled sales coach. After leaving P & G she went on to become the Vice President of Business Development and National Accounts at Vital Learning (formerly McGraw-Hill Training Systems).

She established her own firm in 1993.  She’s spent over 10,000 hours coaching sales people and leaders and has conducted over 500 workshops and keynotes.

Lisa and her husband Bob live in Atlanta.  They are the parents of two fabulous teenage daughters.

Lisa – The Back Story 

Lisa was voted “Most Talkative” in her high school class. (Classmate Sandra Bullock won “Most Likely to Brighten Your Day,” proving that they both chose the right careers.)

From that talkative start, Lisa began to recognize that the way we communicate with each other determines our success or failure in every endeavor. When she started her career in sales she was fascinated to see how small nuances in communication could affect the outcome of an entire organization.

Lisa’s first book, Forget Perfect, was the result of spending years on the road doing seminars.  In countless after hours dinners and early morning coffees with participants, Lisa could see  that work-life divide we’ve created is false.  People are just people.

By digging behind surface behaviors she could see the way people’s internal dialogue effects the way they show up for work and life. She recognized that we all want the same thing – connection and meaning. We want to know that we make a difference.

Lisa’s purpose is to help people recognize the value of their own lives.  When you realize how much your words and actions truly matter, you’re more inclined to bring your best into any situation.

When one person changes, it affects everything, and everyone, in their orbit.

It’s true, you really are the one the world has been waiting for.

And so is everybody else.