Lee Salz

CEO

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States29 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Award-winning author of six bestselling sales books.
  • Dynamic keynote speaker on sales management strategies.
  • Founder of innovative sales consulting firm, Sales Architects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Sales Management Consultant with expertise in developing high-performance sales strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementSales Strategy

Other Skills

BootstrappingBusiness ArchitectureCompensationDeferred CompensationEmployee TrainingEntrepreneurshipHiringKeynote SpeakingLeadershipLeadership DevelopmentManagement ConsultingMarketing StrategyMentoringMetric ManagementNew Business Development

About

When salespeople aren’t winning deals at desired levels or volumes, executives turn to Lee B. Salz. Lee is a leading sales management strategist and founder of Sales Architects®. He has helped hundreds of companies, in various industries and sizes, create marketplace disruption – leading to explosive, profitable growth. Lee challenges executives to blast through the artificial barriers that impede their success. He is an entrepreneur, results-driven consultant, and dynamic keynote speaker. Clients say he has a gift for architecting sales success by helping them: • Evaluate and hire the right salespeople • Onboard them effectively into the roles quickly and effectively • Ensure the sales strategy is aligned with business objectives • Formulate the Sales Differentiation™ strategy to win more deals at the prices you want® • Develop the sales architecture® framework which defines each step of the process • Create discovery programs that drive deal conversion • Track performance through metrics and act on deficiencies • Structure sales compensation to reinforce the process and drive desired behaviors He is an award-winning, bestselling author of six books including: “Sell Different!,” "Sales Differentiation,” and “Hire Right, Higher Profits.” He is also a columnist with the Business Journals, serves on the Sales Education Advisory Board, and is the Program Advisor to Kansas State University's Strategic Selling Institute. He is frequently sought by the media for interviews on sales and sales management issues. He has been quoted and featured by the media including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Selling Power, Sales and Marketing Management, ABC News, MSNBC and many more leading publications. When he isn’t helping companies profitably grow, you’ll find Lee in the gym preparing for his next powerlifting tournament. Most recently, he won the 2021 Minnesota State Bench Press championships.

Experience

Harpercollins leadership

3 roles

Author of "The First Meeting Differentiator"

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos

Author of "Sell Different!"

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Sales ConsultingKeynote SpeakingSales ManagementSales Strategy

Author of "Sales Differentiation: 19 Powerful Strategies to Win More Deals at the Prices You Want"

Sep 2018Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Sales ConsultingKeynote SpeakingSales ManagementSales Strategy

Kansas state university - national strategic selling institute

Program Advisor and Strategy Coach

Apr 2015Jun 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Sales education foundation

Advisory Board Member

Sep 2014Feb 2024 · 9 yrs 5 mos

Business journal

Featured Columnist - Sales Management Strategies

May 2014Present · 11 yrs 10 mos

  • Writes the Sales Management Strategies column for the Business Journals.

Sales & marketing management magazine

Editorial Advisory Board Member

Feb 2012Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Revenue accelerator - sales onboarding & enablement

Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2011Present · 15 yrs 2 mos · Minneapolis

  • The Revenue Accelerator is a first of its kind technology system designed to help companies quickly onboard and enable salespeople into their respective roles. It is a blend between onboarding technology, sales enablement, and learning management that helps to ensure new salespeople succeed...fast! It is designed for companies of all sizes and industries.
  • Learn more at http://www.TheRevenueAccelerator.com

Virtual business training - business expert webinars

Chief Executive Officer

Feb 2008Dec 2016 · 8 yrs 10 mos

  • Business Expert Webinars is the leading provider of virtual business training on-demand. We help speakers, consultants, authors, and trainers monetize their expertise through the additional of eLearning to their portfolio.
  • Visit http://www.BusinessExpertWebinars.com

Sales architects

Sales Management Strategist | Keynote Speaker | Consultant

Jan 1997Present · 29 yrs 2 mos

  • Sales Architects is a leading sales management strategy development firm specializing in helping salespeople "Win More Deals at the Prices You Want!" Executives look to us for help building scalable, high-performance sales organizations through hiring the right salespeople, effectively onboarding them, and aligning their sales activities with business objectives through process, metrics and compensation. We help salespeople differentiate both what they sell and how they sell resulting in more profitable sales.
  • Lee can be reached at lsalz@SalesArchitects.com, by phone at 763.416.4321, and via his website at www.SalesArchitects.com.
Sales ConsultingKeynote SpeakingSales ManagementSales Strategy

Education

Binghamton University

B.A. — History

Jan 1988Jan 1992

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