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Demystifying Executive Presence for Women in Sales w/Julie Hansen, Performance Sales & Training

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Julie Hansen was my guest in this interview. She is a sales presentation expert and the founder of Performance Sales and Training, helping sales professionals communicate with greater confidence, clarity, and influence.

I’ve done a women’s program at a number of corporations called The 5 Behaviors of Sales Sabotage and What You Can Do About It. Women, more than they may realize, often sabotage their own efforts with unconscious behaviors that hurt them more than help them.

Executive presence is a key requirement for success inside and outside your company, and if you are in a sales role, presence and the ability to “influence” conversations has never been more critical to achieving revenue goals.

In talking with Julie, we covered the following topics:

How Julie defines executive presence.

Why women in sales must invest the time to develop their executive presence.

Whether or not, executive presence is assumed to be a natural strength in men versus women.

How women can maintain their own style and personality but also be savvy to times when adapting leads to greater success.

The things that can undermine credibility for women in the workplace.

Strategies to consider when speaking up in meetings matters or when women feel they are not being heard.

Finally, we talked a few specific things that women can do – besides investing in one of Julie’s Programs – to improve their presence now.

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About Julie – Connect with her on LinkedIn, Twitter

Julie Hansen is a sales presentation expert and the founder of Performance Sales and Training, helping sales professionals communicate with greater confidence, clarity, and influence.

Julie is also the author of two books on sales:  Sales Presentations for Dummies and ACT Like a Sales Pro!  and she was recognized as one of the “35 Most Influential Women in Sales” by SalesHacker.

Julie spent 20 years as a sales contributor and leader. She also worked as a professional actor, performing in over 75 plays, commercials and television shows including HBO’s “Sex and the City.” 

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Know Thyself and Be Unapologetic About It with Gladys Agwai, Ignite Within

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Being excellent at the craft of selling isn’t just about understanding how to use technology to your advantage, or having the best sales skills to do the job. Important? Yes. But, often, without realizing it, we get in our own way. Hidden biases and beliefs could be hindering our ability to reach our full potential. Inner work may be required, which can only happen if we stop long enough to evaluate what’s going on.

In this interview, I talked with Gladys Agwai, Founder and CEO of Ignite Within. She believes – and is on a mission to share that belief – that all of us need to get to know who we really are, be who we really are and be unapologetic about it.

During the interview, Gladys answered these questions:

What she means when she asks people to get clear about themselves and be unapologetic about it.

What the impact is of not being clear about who you are, what you want, and why you want it.

What often keeps us from being clear.

When in the space of uncertainty, how we can find certainty to avoid being stuck.

What we expect once we have clarity about ourselves.

How we go about getting clarity without allowing others to define it for us.

Gladys also reminds us that in order to gain more clarity and make changes in our lives, we must do the work. See below for a bonus offer of a FREE workbook from Gladys to do just that.

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During the show, Gladys offered to send you her FREE workbook Clarity in 2018: Be The BEST Version of YOU!  Text 4042387621 – enter the word TAG – to get your copy.

About Gladys:

Gladys Agwai, Founder and CEO of Ignite Within.  After 30 years as a global corporate executive in the US, Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya, across multiple industries and functions, she leveraged her experiences to make this transformative transition as a business owner.  Ignite Within provides inspirational and progressive growth programs for professionals and business owners with a focus on clarity of purpose and objectives with a plan.  She is the author of IMPOSTER: Five Strategies to Become Your Authentic Self as well as an international speaker, coach, teacher, and strategist.

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