Jill Konrath

Chief Sales Officer, Author, Speaker & Trainer

Jill Konrath, a leading-edge sales strategist and business advisor, is a popular speaker at annual sales meetings and association events. She helps sellers crack into corporate accounts, speed up their sales cycle and win big contracts.

She's the author of the instant sales classic, Selling to Big Companies, an Amazon Top 25 sales book for 4 years running. In 2008, Fortune selected it as one of eight "must read" sales books, along with classics such as How to Win Friends & Influence People, The New Strategic Selling and Getting to Yes.

Satisfied clients include IBM, GE, Microsoft, 3M, Hilton, AAA, CoxTarget Media, General Mills, Medtronic, UnitedHealthcare, Bombardier, Business Journals, RSM McGladrey, Imation, eFunds, Acresso, UniFirst, OpenPeak and many more.

As a thought leader in the selling and marketing arena, Jill also publishes an industry-leading newsletter with nearly 30,000 subscribers from around the world.
In addition, she's launched a number of initiatives in the past few years:

• Great Sales Give: On this hot new site, Jill gives away valuable sales resources each month for free along with drawings for other cool sales goodies.

• Selling to Big Companies blog: Check out Jill's blog for fresh ideas, sales advice, videos, white papers, articles and more. 

• Sales SheBang: For women in sales; professional development, conference and community; features women sales experts. 

• Get Back to Work Faster: For job seekers; Jill gives away her newest book, Get Back to Work Faster, plus runs a series of free webinars with guest experts.

Jill has written hundreds of articles on sales strategies and is frequently quoted in top business media. She's appeared in Success, Inc., WSJ Start-Up Journal, Entrepreneur, New York Times, Business Journal, Selling Power, Sales & Marketing Management as well as countless online publications and radio shows.

Her expertise has been cited in the following books: Smart Selling on the Phone & Online, Negotiation Rules!, The Contrarian Effect, Stories That Sell, Masters of Sales, Top Dog Sales Secrets, Get Clients Now, The Girls' Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business, Play Your Best Hand, Get Slightly Famous, Why Johnny Can't Sell, and Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

In 2004, Jill was selected as a FAST 50 semi-finalist by FAST Company magazine for creating a web resource for small business owners. Additionally she was selected as a "Women Changemaker of the Year" by the Business Journal of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Her joy in selling, combined with an innate ability to teach, led her to present countless training programs for colleagues, create a myriad of sales tools, coach dozens of trainees and to work on new product launches - in addition to her sales job! This was the impetus for starting her own sales consultancy.

Personal

Jill and her husband Fred share their home in White Bear Lake, Minnesota with Cali, the cat. Their daughter Katie, who writes a popular creativity blog called Get Fresh Minds, just landed a new job at Brainstore in Switzerland.

Their son Ryan studies aviation at the University of North Dakota and is also the starting wide receiver on the football team. This fall, they'll be going to football games around the country: Texas (2x), Arkansas, Louisiana, California and Utah, as well as many weekend trips to North Dakota.

In her spare time, Jill loves to do New York Times crossword puzzles, take long walks, read (she suffers from ARD-Addictive Reading Disorder) and write.

In addition to her work in the sales field, Jill is a Founding Mother of Awesome Women, a nonprofit focused on creating a world in which "every woman's voice makes a difference." She's also an active member of the National Speakers Association.

Contact Information

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Email: jill at sellingtobigcompanies dot com

Phone: area code 651 number 429-1922