DAHLIA LEESE

Raleigh, NC 910-***-**** ac26ga@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/dahlia-leese/

CONSULTATIVE SALES + CLIENT RELATIONS

Proven Experience in Highly-effective Sales

Resilient, quota-exceeding, multilingual, client-centric human capital with 15+ years of surpassing goals in b2b and b2c outbound as well as field sales environments. Heterogeneous and diverse, demonstrated effective leadership in the areas of building sales teams, training and motivation, increasing market-share. Internal and external client-relationship management. Unique experiences in 9-year successful business-ownership making real business-decisions. Knowledge in Agile practices and Design Thinking as well as project initiation, planning and budgeting. Versatile, fast learner, wears many hats simultaneously, sets priorities.

HubSpot Academy Inbound Sales • C-level Overall Relationship Management

Social Media • Team Management • Public Speaking • Continuing Education Advocate

Meticulous • Strongly-Organized • Eye For Detail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Speak With A Geek, Raleigh, NC 2016-Present

Member Services Consultant

High-impact fact-finding conversations with Hiring Managers and C-level decision-makers about what makes their companies great to work for

Discretionary selection of quality companies that are worthy of our members’ (highly-skilled IT expertise) consideration

Onboarding of quality clients to facilitate the next steps handed over to Recruiting

AppleOne Employment Services, Raleigh, NC 2015-2016

Full-Cycle Staffing Consultant

Intensive, self-generated, outbound cold-calls and visits acquiring new business and referrals

Strong job advertisement placements on CareerBuilder, Monster and LinkedIn to increase inventory

Collaborated as a team to fill open job-orders by sharing star-candidates, resulting in preferred-vendor status by Wells Fargo, Tyco, Plexus, PepsiCo and Cone Health to name a few

Left to take care of cancer in the family

CommercialAsia.com, Singapore 2013-2014

Business Development Manager & Public Speaker contract

Exceeded KPI’s by an average of 83%

Persistent lead-generation, cold-calls, visits and trade-show participation to increase subscription to digital-advertisement space in all areas of commercial realty

Weekly travels to Malaysia for high-impact speaking engagements to developers, agency-owners and agents resulting in 8 new subscriptions on average Australia New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ Bank), Singapore

ANZ Banking Corporation, Singapore 2011-2013

Symantec Corporation, Singapore contract

Represented by InMedia Solutions Singapore

Outbound Call-Center Sales Manager, Recruiter & Trainer

(promoted from Team Lead one month into role)

Aggressively increased New-To-Bank market-share to 41%

Led and motivated 2 teams of outbound agents, comprising of 22 direct-reports, selling b2c Credit-cards and Personal Loans

Led due-diligence, audit and compliance aspects

Delivered excellent escalation-management and rapport with client and its customers, as expressed by bank’s top-management team

Aggressively increased sales/renewals/Proof-of-Concept appointments, of Symantec cloud-based DR, HA solutions via calls to Malaysia and Indonesia

Istanblue Pte Ltd, Singapore

Co-Owner, Sales & Marketing Head, Trainer 2002-2011

Executed retail-business from concept to fruition, from 1 kiosk to 1 brick-and-mortar plus 4 new kiosks

Saw to intricacies of all aspects of Marketing, Sales, Publicity and Partnerships

Relentless, ongoing persistence in creating huge presence both locally and regionally, while being a mother to 4 little boys

Embassy of The Republic of Turkey, Singapore 1998-2000

Secretary to both Commercial Counselor & Economic Counselor contract

Century 21 Australia Pty Ltd, Singapore 1996-1998

Real Estate Investment Consultant contract

EDUCATION

TECHNICAL SKILLS

University of California, Irvine MAC OS, Windows OS, MS Applications, Salesforce,

Certificate in Project Initiation, Planning & Budgeting HubSpot, Nutshell & ZOHO CRM’s, Skype, WebEx

Citrix GoToMeeting

HubSpot Academy Inbound Sales Certificate

Break Into Software Sales Certificate

PMP (pursuing)

University of Leicester, UK

BA Business Management

Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

Diploma In Banking & Financial Management Studies

LEADERSHIP & SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

Represented College At National Level In Tennis, School Prefect and Class Secretary Throughout High School, Represented High School At National Level in Track and Cross-Country, Girl Guide/Scout.

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