Richard Harris™

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States33 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of SaaS sales leadership experience.
  • 5x Salesforce Sales Influencer from 2021 to 2025.
  • Proven track record in increasing sales funnel conversions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales expert with extensive experience in sales training and operational guidance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementSales TrainingSales OperationsAccount Management

Other Skills

Full Funnel Sales TrainingOperational GuidanceSales SkillsRevenue IncreaseSales Process CreationSales ProcessData-Driven Sales ManagementSales CoachingSales ConsultingForecast AccuracyOperational EfficiencySales Cycle ImprovementCRM HygieneInside SalesLead Generation

About

Do you desire customized sales training? Is your team behind on quota? Are your teams' deals pushing? Is your team struggling with qualification, discovery, negotiation, and closing deals? Are you a founder trying to figure out found-led sales? And now you’re wondering how fix the problem? You’re not alone. I’ve met countless sales leaders and founders who face these struggles every day. If you're interested in learning or teaching your reps how to Earn The Right to ask questions, which questions to ask, and when to ask them, I have good news for you. This is exactly what we do. My Journey: ► Seasoned SaaS sales leader, sales trainer and advisor with 20+ years of experience. ► 5x Top Salesforce Sales Influencer ‘21 - ‘25 ► 5x: Top 25 Influential Sales Leader AA-ISP’s ► Owner The Harris Consulting Group ► Co-Founder Surf and Sales Clients: @Google @Visa @Zoom @Salesforce, @intercom @salesloft @terminus @gainsight @pandadoc @pandora @humaninterest, @doordash, and more We focus on teaching your reps how to earn the right to ask questions, which questions to ask, and when. Whether you are an early-stage or expansion stage start-up, or a Fortune 500 company, we will increase sales funnel conversions to revenue faster. "Humanizing Sales - Training that feels good and works" - Nicholas D - Enterprise Sales Leader "Richard worked with me to create a new sales process we could call our own. He didn't try to make us fit a certain mold." Dave K - VP Sales Contact us for a free consultation. If it doesn't fit, we will be the first to tell you. https://TheHarrisConsultingGroup.com/contact-us/

Experience

33 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
11 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Pavilion

Executive

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Executive member in support of others to help them learn from my mistakes so you don't have to make them and learn from others as well.

Salesforce

2 roles

Salesforce Salesbalzer Advisor

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 Salesforce Top Sales Influencer To Follow

Apr 2021Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Atrium - data driven sales management

Strategic Advisor

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • No more Sunday nights prepping for your Monday meetings and using your best "guestimate" to what action items you will be deploying to improve revenue outcomes.
  • You cannot have predictable sales forecast without knowing which inputs are affecting every stage of the sales cycle, this is what Atrium does.
  • It gives you the real data insights used to make data-driven decisions and, specifically how to coach your team to improve their skillset and overall EQ

Wonderway

Strategic Advisor

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • The world's only and best Sales Coaching platform that provides coaching to your team on EVERY. SINGLE. CALL
Data-Driven Sales ManagementSales CoachingSales OperationsSales Management

Humantic ai

Strategic Advisor

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Remote

  • Chapter 1 of selling is humanization in the Humantic AI book.

East bay school for boys

Board Member

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Berkeley, California, United States

  • Founded in 2010 and enrolling 100 students in grades 6/7/8, EBSB's Mission is to empower middle school boys to cultivate their intellectual, physical, and emotional selves to become the engaged, thoughtful, and courageous men of tomorrow.
  • While perhaps best known for its innovative Work program (21st Century shop class), EBSB's creative and rigorous academic program dives deeply into the humanities, math, science, Spanish, and physical education. Students also benefit from music, Capoeira, electives, sports and more.
  • Key Aspects of EBSB:
  • ACTIVE, ENGAGED LEARNING
  • East Bay School for Boys believes boys engage and learn more in an active, hands-on learning environment. Our Work program is at the cutting edge of the Maker Education. Coupled with outdoor education and service learning, students design, build, and nurture their world and grow to love learning!
  • DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
  • We strive to create a school community that reflects and celebrates the racial, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity of the Bay Area.
  • Almost half of our student body and faculty/staff are people of color. Half of the families receive tuition assistance. We teach an anti-racist curriculum, facilitate affinity groups, and practice restorative justice.
  • REDEFINING MANHOOD
  • We seek to expand the concept of manhood as defined by popular culture. EBSB students develop a sense of identity not from what a “man is supposed to be,” but rather by challenging themselves, learning from mistakes, expressing emotions with respect, caring for others, and standing up for justice.
Sales Operations

Gtmfund

GTMRamp Member

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

  • The investor network consists of GTM executives who've seen zero to IPO. We're here to help exceptional founders with great products successfully scale their go-to-market and grow revenue

The harris consulting group

2 roles

Author - Owning Your Job Search: Your step by step guide from application, to salary.

Feb 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Some people loathe the interview process and can often feel discouraged and downtrodden by the whole experience.
  • This book breaks down the application and interview process step by step. Designed to give you the courage and confidence to be bold, without coming across as a jerk. Specifically designed to help you get more interviews, short-listed through the process and more job offers.
  • Full of tactical advice including:
  • 1. How many companies should I apply to in a day?
  • 2. How do I leverage LinkedIn in my job search?
  • 3. What kinds of questions make me standout from other candidates?
  • Amazon Link: https://rharris415.com/OwningYourJobSearch

Founder

Jan 2013Present · 13 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Our clients ask us to help them with Full Funnel Sales Training and Operational Guidance.
  • Whether you have SDRs with no sales experience, AE's who have been doing their role for years, Customer Success Reps where you want to focus on upselling and cross-selling opportunities, or you simply need a Sales Operations and Sales Process creation, review/audit with recommendations we will be able to speak to your unique use case and provide truthful feedback and guidance.
  • Clients tell us they like our ability to focus not just at strategic levels but also at tactical levels. The sales team exits training with a better understanding of WHY things work and more specifically what they need to say to their prospects to increase conversions throughout the funnel.
  • Our clients tell us that we improve the following:
  • ► Increased Revenue
  • ► Improved Pipeline Volume and Velocity
  • ► Shortening Sales Cycles
  • ► More Accurate Forecasting
  • ► Faster Onboarding
  • ► Improved Sales Skills: Prospecting, Discovery, Objection Handling, and Closing Techniques
  • For a list of clients click here: www.theharrisconsultinggroup.com/clients
  • @intercom
Full Funnel Sales TrainingOperational GuidanceSales SkillsRevenue IncreaseSales Process CreationSales Management+1

Regie.ai

Strategic Advisor

Feb 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Sales CoachingSales ManagementAccount Management

Setsail

Strategic Advisor

Sep 2020Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Driving revenue and improving sales cycles while reducing reliance on manually input of CRM hygene
  • Setsail automatically captures and enricheses the data while also rewarding and reinforcing the right behaviors of your sales team so they can use the learnings on all opportunities.
  • Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to measure real buying signals. The company aims to enable clients to unlock the sales team's potential by rewarding what matters.
Forecast AccuracyOperational EfficiencySales Operations

Boostup.ai

Strategic Advisor

Oct 2019Present · 6 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Improve your forecast accuracy by over 25%.
  • Recapture 20+ operational hours a week from manually assembling your reports and forecasts.
  • Get early warning alerts based on deal risk and engagement.
Sales TrainingSales ConsultingSales Management

Uncrushed

Board Member

Sep 2019Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

  • UNCrushed is a platform and community for mental health awareness.
  • 1 in 5 adults in America experience a mental illness, yet nearly 60% of adults with a mental illness don't receive mental health services.
  • Our mission is to raise awareness of the many mental health challenges faced and how people have overcome them.
  • Many people around us are suffering from challenges such as grief, depression, addiction, burnout, anxiety and PTS, yet they remain nameless and faceless.
  • Through people sharing their stories of experience, strength, and hope, our community will reassure you that you are not alone and no longer need to suffer in silence - there is a different path.
  • Only through talking about these challenges, can we help to break down the many stigmas associated with mental health.
  • WAYS OF ENGAGING:
  • Please help support this cause at https://www.uncrushed.org/take-action
  • Want to talk? Post in our private LinkedIn group or email us at: contact@uncrushed.org
  • Want to share your story? Email us at: shareyourexperience@uncrushed.org
  • Want to partner? Email us at partnerships@uncrushed.org
  • Follow us on:
  • LinkedIn Company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncrushed
  • LinkedIn Community: https://lnkd.in/gZB_pNW
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/uncrushed
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncrushed.org/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncrushed_org/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncrushed_org
Sales Cycle ImprovementCRM HygieneSales Management

Surf and sales

Co-Founder

Nov 2017Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Costa Rica

  • Going small means going big. The Hershey's Kiss of sales conferences
  • Intimacy at scale where the in-between moments create equal value to the sessions.
  • Where focus on self-improvement yields to life-changing results.

Beck technology ltd

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Fieldedge

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Terminus: account-based marketing

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Pandadoc

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Proofpoint

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Vindicia

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Farmlogs

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Vcom

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Hytrust

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Studylog systems, inc.

Consultant

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

Modern sales pros

MVP Member

Dec 2016Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Modern Sales Pros is the world's largest community for leaders in sales, operations, enablement and related disciplines. Our mission is to help our community learn how to solve the biggest challenges they face (and would otherwise bang their head against the wall trying to solve). Our 13,000 members learn from each other through our online message board and through amazing in-person events.

Datanyze inc.

Consultant

May 2016May 2016 · 0 mo

Revel systems

Consultant

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr

Litmos by calliduscloud

Consultant

Jan 2016Jan 2016 · 0 mo

Calliduscloud

Consultant

Jan 2016Jan 2016 · 0 mo

Datahug

Consultant

Jan 2016Jan 2016 · 0 mo

Socialchorus

Consultant

Jan 2016Jan 2016 · 0 mo

Dynamic signal

Consultant

Jan 2016Jan 2016 · 0 mo

Sales hacker, inc.

Director of Sales Training & Consulting Services

Jun 2015Present · 10 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Focusing on "Full Funnel Sales Training" Sales Hacker and The Harris Consulting Group have teamed up to support the inside sales and outside sales helping their reps improve conversion ratios throughout the entire sales funnel.
  • We help you strike the balance between volume, velocity, and overall quality of real-world sales training based on your unique circumstances.
  • Clients: Callidus Cloud, Datanyze, Gainsight, Udemy, LevelEleven, TopOpps, PushPay, RevelSystems, Helm Operations, Spanning, ZignalLabs and a host of others.

Traind.net

Board of Advisors

Jan 2015Present · 11 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Leveleleven

Consultant

Nov 2014Dec 2014 · 1 mo · Greater Detroit Area

  • Sales Training - Understanding the Buyers' Journey, Email & Voicemail Strategies, Lead Gen Best Practices

Topopps (acquired by xactly

Advisor

Jan 2014Mar 2021 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Greater St. Louis Area

  • Acquired by Xactly
  • 📈 Focused on original Go To Market ideation and Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Creation
  • 📈 Recommended website changes to drive more top of funnel inbound activity
  • 📈 Trained Sales Team in cold calling, email, and additional outbound strategies
  • 📈 Trained Sales Team on best qualification, discovery, negotiation, and closing tactics

Yozio

Consultant / VP Sales

Oct 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • ► Yozio is a cloud based solution to help companies activate, retain, and grow mobile users by tracking, optimizing and personalizing organic user acquisition channels.
  • ► Sales Training - Understanding the Buyers' Journey, Email & Voicemail Strategies, Lead Gen Best Practices
  • ► Secured clients: Pinterest, Eventbrite, Wanelo

Spanning cloud apps (an emc company)

Consultant

Aug 2013Aug 2013 · 0 mo · Austin, Texas Area

  • ► Best Practices & Implementations including: Lead Generation and Sales Methodologies

Gainsight

Consultant

Jul 2013Jul 2013 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • ► ► Best Practices & Implementations
  • ► MQL>SQL Flow
  • ► Lead Generation
  • ► Sales Processes
  • ► Sales Training
  • ► SFDC Reporting and Dashboards.

Outboundengine

Consultant

Jun 2013Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Austin, Texas Area

  • ►► Best Practices & Implementations
  • ► Sales Processes
  • ► Sales Training
  • ► SFDC Reporting and Dashboards
  • ► Leadership Development Programs

Mashery (acquired by intel)

2 roles

Director of Sales Operations and Lead Generation

Jan 2012Jan 2013 · 1 yr

  • Mashery is the leading provider of API management services in the cloud enabling companies to easily leverage web services as a distribution channel. With its on-demand SaaS solution, Mashery takes away the cumbersome process and plumbing around managing web services/APIs.
  • Mashery provides all the ingredients required to get web services up-and-running quickly, easily and successfully while ensuring that they will scale: usage/access management, tracking, metrics, commerce, performance optimization and developer/community tools all come pre-packaged. Mashery enables web services providers to focus their time, resources and capital on building their core software, not on creating web services management infrastructure.
  • Managed all sales operation for a quickly growing worldwide SaaS salesforce including reporting, sales process, training and systems. Projects include development of new processes and programs designed to increase sales productivity – improving systems, tools, training and communication.
  • ►Highlights:
  • ► Coordinated 3 Sales Kickoff Meetings for 50+ sales and sales related staff members resulting in increased product knowledge
  • ► Implemented new sales process Q4 2012
  • ► Implemented certification process where Lead Gen Team with average passing score of 90%
  • ►Track record of creating $1.2m in first year ACV attributed to Lead Gen team

Director, Lead Generation

Jul 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • ► Scaled a SaaS lead generation team from 5 to 10 in 60 days while transitioning role from west coast to east coast offices.
  • ► Designed and implemented all training materials and sessions for lead generation team.
  • ► Double digit growth of meetings set for Inside and Field sales teams yielding significant increase in revenue opportunities.
  • ►Offered additional responsibility to oversee Sales Operations within 6 months of hire date.

Telecom, inc.

Director of Sales

Jul 2010Apr 2011 · 9 mos

  • Overall responsibility for 70+ person outbound call center based in Oakland, California

Dotnext, inc

2 roles

Director, Client Sales and Support

Jan 2010May 2010 · 4 mos

  • ► Managing day to day operations for 3 distinct companies under corporate umbrella
  • ► Managed all customer support team activities
  • ► Retool customer support team from being reactive only to being proactive
  • ► Grew revenue in department from under $100k annually to over $500k annually in first 30 days
  • ► Responsible for managing customer issues and sales from 3 different product lines
  • ► Responsible for providing feedback to Executive team on strategy, development and overall company growth

Sales Manager

Jan 2009Dec 2009 · 11 mos

  • ► Provide leadership in the direction and coordination of activities for Inside Sales Department in online ad sales
  • ► Managing day to day sales for new online advertising web portal
  • ► Rebuilt sales team from 4 to 11 sales reps in less than 45 days
  • ► Responsible for building training curriculum for entire center of 50 sales representatives
  • ► Responsible for providing feedback to Director of Sales on strategy, contests, and overall center management

Pc guardian

VP of Sales

Oct 2003Nov 2008 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Executive Team Membership ● Grew retail sales division to over $500,000 in less than 3 years ● Grew revenue from $3m to $8m in 3 years with Inside & Channel Sales Teams ● Extensive experience in Channel Sales & Channel Sales Management ● Negotiated and executed sales strategies with 3 new distribution partners in the last 3 years ● Established comprehensive training program for entire staff ● Created and managed all employee compensation and bonus plans ● Contributed to re-design of company website including content management ● Contributed to creation of all sales collateral ● International Sales Management responsibilities ● Cross functional participation with the Engineering, Marketing and Operations departments for new and current product development.

Riverdeep / the learning company

Inside Sales Team Manager - Software

Apr 2001Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Novato, CA

  • Software Sales Team Manager ● Grew software sales staff from 21 to 45 in under 15 months ● Transitioned sales organization to Cedar Rapids facility ● Established training program for new staff including supervisors, support and inside sales representatives ● Supervised communications between inside sales and district area managers ● Performed daily/weekly/monthly reporting of sales activity encompassing all facets of the organization including call counts, decision maker contacts, talk time ● Managed all marketing efforts throughout the sales organization. ● Cross functional participation with the reseller channel, outside sales team and other sales organizations within the company.

Village voice media

Classified Sales Manager

Aug 1993Mar 2001 · 7 yrs 7 mos

  • Grew annual sales from $500,000 to $1,500,000 in 12 months (Cleveland) ● Grew annual sales from $2,000,000 to $3,500,000 in 6 months (San Francisco) ● Managed the inside sales team responsible for the sale of advertising for large metropolitan newsweeklies in the United States. ● Managed sales teams in San Francisco, Cleveland, and Denver ● Established training programs for new and existing staff ● Performed Daily/Weekly/Monthly reporting of sales activity ● Managed all classified marketing efforts throughout the sales organization.

Gap inc.

Assistant Manager

Jan 1992Jul 1993 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Opened first Gap Kids Store in Tucson, Arizona ● Responsible for all hiring and training of new hires ● Responsible for merchandising store in accordance with company guidelines ● Responsible for growing sales from $1.5M in first year.

Education

University of Arizona

Bachelor of Science — General Business Administration

Jan 1987Jan 1991

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