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Podcast: Work-Bench
Date: May 1, 2020
Title: Weathering the Storm: 2008 and Now with Kelly Breslin Wright
Length: 46 Minutes
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Kelly Breslin Wright, former Executive Vice President of Sales at Tableau, shares her experiences and key lessons learned from building and scaling Tableau from $0 to $1B and managing over half of the 3400 person global team, including learnings from the 2008 financial crisis. Kelly shares tactics for enterprise founders and sales leaders on how to scale companies, best engage with customers and motivate teams. As a current board member of multiple enterprise startups, Kelly also shares how she is seeing companies weather enterprise sales during this time.

Check out our blog post recapping the top takeaways: https://medium.com/work-bench/mission-vision-purpose-how-a-challenger-sale-can-help-you-weather-the-storm-588e7b075647

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