Maria Boulden got a degree in Chemical Engineering because she learned that a Chemical Engineer would be the highest paying engineering job possible. She was a rising star at Drexel University and landed a co-op role at DuPont while still in college. Since most of the sales roles were held by engineers back in the late 1990's / early 2000's it wasn't that hard of a transition when she landed her first sales role.

She became a Sigma "Black Belt" within Dupont - which was a big program for quality improvement in the 90's -

Maria found a way to balance family and work although it cost her the "fast track" in promoting, but it led her into a career in data and commercial application. Later she went on to Gartner and now is retired, but looks back to share some great lessons.

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Lynn Hidy has been helping inside sales teams and sales leaders for years. Her new book, "Mastering Inside Sales Leadership: Your Get-It-Done Leadership Success Guide" is available January 8th.

Lynn and I sat down to talk about sales leadership and career pathing in sales.

More about Lynn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnhidy/

Learn about her new book here: https://masteringinsidesalesleadership.com/

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Episode 212 here, with a great sales leader named Shay Keeler, VP of Sales at Common Room.

Shay spent 4-1/2 years at Outreach, starting as an Account Exec and getting promotions throughout her stay there. Now she is at Common Room as VP of Sales. We talked about her meteoric rise in various organizations - what it takes to get a promotion into a new role or one you've never done before, and how selling is different in the age of AI.

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