Adjunct Faculty
Kelly Breslin Wright has over 30 years of experience in leadership, sales, operations, and strategy. Kelly is a passionate believer in the power of infusing culture into the sales approach. She helps companies integrate vision, mission, core values, and storytelling into their go-to-market strategies and execution to best motivate, engage, and inspire customers and employees. Kelly has promoted and led this Culture Driven Sales methodology as a C-level executive, as a public and private company board director, and as an adjunct university professor.
Kelly has served as an Independent Director and Advisor for multiple Boards. Earlier in her career, Kelly spent 12 years at Tableau Software, where she led worldwide sales and field operations as Executive Vice President of Sales. She joined as the company’s tenth employee and first salesperson, and she helped grow Tableau into a multi-billion dollar public company. Kelly grew Tableau’s worldwide sales and field operations from zero to $850M in revenue and managed over half of the company’s 3,400 global employees. Before Tableau, Kelly spent time at Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Bank of America, Dale Carnegie Training, AtHoc, and Southwestern Advantage. She earned her BA from Stanford University and MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Kelly is active in multiple women on boards organizations and speaks regularly on topics including sales, go-to-market, growth, culture, transformation, leadership, high-performance teams, and diversity.
