Shayne Jackson covers Sales Enablement for the Gartner Sales Research Practice. Mr. Jackson advises and produces research for Chief Sales Officers and Sales Enablement Leaders on topics involving Sales Enablement.
His extensive global experience leverages a programmatic approach to training, content and tools that elevate sales teams' effectiveness. His specialties include:
-Sales new hire training and onboarding
-New product introduction for sales teams
-Continuous learning programs that elevate sales skills and knowledge
-Channel partner programs and enablement
-Communicating to sales teams
He has over 25 years of global experience. Before joining Gartner, he established and led sales enablement functions, managed channel partners and supported sales teams EMC (now Dell Technologies), SimpliVity (acquired by HPE) and Applause.
At Applause, Mr. Jackson established and ran a global Sales Enablement function that included the following programs:
Multiweek sales onboarding program and certification
Quarterly training
Knowledge reinforcement
Sales Kickoff
Rollout of sales methodology
Applause
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SimpliVity (acquired by HPE)
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EMC Corporation (acquired by Dell Technologies)
Director of Sales Enablement, Global Financial Services
Sales Enablement
M.B.A., Business Administration, Clark University
Information Technology and Management, Worcester, Massachusetts
B.A., Psychology, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts
1Establishing an impactful sales enablement function
2Designing and deploying effective sales training
3Messaging sales teams
4Designing new hire training that accelerate sellers' ramp to productivity
5Reinforcing training with rubrics to check seller knowledge and skills