Growth Solutions For The Private, Public & Third Sectors.
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Testimonials
“Sophie brings a wealth of insights into what a world class sales operation looks like drawing upon her global experience built up over many years.
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She successfully led our sales transformation, demonstrating skill, knowledge and wit in navigating our culture. Working strategically and operationally, she asked the right questions, challenged our thinking and provided answers, all in a way that recognised the speed of change we could accommodate. As a practitioner, her technical contribution was outstanding, delivering solutions throughout the process. It is safe to say without Sophie’s help we would not be where we are today that being a future focused, organised, and efficient sales operation.
I would recommend Sophie to anyone with the need to transform their sales function. Highly recommended."
“Sophie is a consummate professional, delivering high quality outcomes with an incredible work-rate. Utterly reliable and always positive, she drives and supports both individuals and groups to really get the most out of themselves; to identify and deliver stretching, but practical solutions to business challenges.
Sophie is armed with an incredible toolkit of knowledge and experience, which always ensures some of the best thinking around is applied to your issues.
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I would recommend Sophie Taylor, without hesitation."
Julian McKenzie
Director of Sales & Account Management
Enterprise and Innovation
“Sophie demonstrates a thorough understanding of the challenges that commercial sales and marketing people encounter in a higher education business-to-business sales context. Sophie comes equipped with a range of practical solutions and approaches that she has developed.
At a time of growth, Sophie conducted a review and presented the findings. To assist us achieve a one-university sales story, Sophie provided us with sales materials, a go-to-market approach and followed this with the design and delivery of high-quality interactive workshops which engaged the team, provoked thinking and built our knowledge.
I’m happy to recommend Sophie."
“The Market Development Programme delivered by Sophie and her team rapidly engaged our people and customers. It provided excellent insight that grew our understanding of our customers and enabled Sophie to create a lead generation campaign that quickly and effectively built our pipeline and delivered high-quality meetings for our sales team to attend. We extended the work with Sophie to a programme of workshops that engaged our senior management team and key stakeholders to our strategic aims and goals. Sophie arrives with all that is required to transform an empty workspace into a productive and engaging workshop. Through Sophie’s design process the workshops were well conceived. Sophie’s facilitation method and approach is outstanding and gets the most out of people. It’s meaningful, engaging and fun.
I have no hesitation in recommending Sophie to anyone looking for a one-day workshop or multiday programme to drive transformation or organisational performance"​
“I was referred to Sophie as a professional workshop facilitator who could help me deliver a team away day for 25 people at an offsite location. Sophie handled my enquiry professionally and demonstrated great questioning and listening skills, enabling her to understand what I wanted to achieve.
Sophie’s organisation and planning skills are evident, every detail was thought through, she gave me the confidence that everything would work well. Throughout the process I was given the opportunity to input and comment on suggested ideas and was provided alternatives. Sophie is equipped to stage, lead and manage great corporate away days. On the day, she engaged the team, made us all feel included and got the best from us.
Well done Sophie! I happily recommend Sophie to others looking to engage their teams”.
“Sophie was good for us, successfully facilitating the entire change project online through multiple workshops and meetings.
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She accurately interpreted our business, designed two new sales target operating models to enable the delivery of our sales strategy. From there, she led cross-functional working party meetings to implement the models. Well done Sophie, we couldn’t have achieved it in the same time without you!
I would recommend Sophie to anyone looking to transform their sales operation."
“Sophie quickly got to grips with our situation and demonstrated that she clearly understood our goals, our business and the sector we operate in. She offered great insight into how we might approach and structure our business as we looked to scale up.
She supported us with thinking around our strategy and execution plan and contributed lots of ideas and suggestions along the way.
Sophie is incredibly creative and able to articulate her ideas in a clear and straightforward way. She really helped me create actionable steps and tangible improvements for the business. If you are looking to work with someone who can bring experience, models, ideas and enthusiasm.
I’d recommend Sophie and her can-do approach to you."
“Sophie developed an approach to the market and successfully led sales conversations with C-Suite executives resulting in commercial sales revenue."
"Sophie quickly understood our situation and delivered ideas, energy and know-how, providing support through the strategy development process."
"A great way to engage the team! Sophie designed and facilitated a one-day workshop that enabled us to create a strategy for our sales growth program. The workshop featured Sophie's pinboards, giant strategy-related templates all of which enabled us to quickly work through various exercises in what can only be described as an immersive and visual environment.
We successfully examined the external and internal business environment, identified what's important to us and how we rated ourselves. We then developed a customer value proposition and messaging to drive our campaign. I took away a meaningful action plan to take forward.
Sophie got the best from us. If you're looking to grow, I recommend investing in a workshop of this type with Sophie. Thank you Sophie!"
"Sophie applied her clear and logical thinking to lead the remodelling of our WWP Learning & Development LTD. business."
"Sophie demonstrates a clear understanding of current business challenges and how they can be answered with education based solutions."
