Lancashire-based training company Sales Geek has launched a new operation dedicated to professional development training.
The move sees husband and wife team Mike and Sarah Ode joining the Sales Geek family as directors of a new business, Sales Geek Professional Development.
Mike and Sarah join Sales Geek on the back of running their own successful business Potential Unearthed for over 12 years, providing professional development and leadership training across the country to clients including the NHS, Capita, BT, Crown Paints, Amey and The University of Salford.
Sales Geek managing director Richard Few said: “We are thrilled to welcome Mike and Sarah into Sales Geek family as our Professional Development Geeks. I have first-hand experience of the energy they bring, having previously undergone their training myself, which I can honestly say was some of the very best I have ever received. So it was a real no brainer when the opportunity came up to work together.
“Up until now Sales Geek has focused on developing sales skills. This new venture takes our offering to a new level, enabling us to have a holistic approach, developing our clients as leaders and as people. Mike and Sarah really fit in with Geek values and culture and bring all their expertise and drive to Sales Geek in an area that is a natural fit with our existing products and services.”
Sales Geek is a multi-award-winning provider of sales training with clients across the world. Its online Sales Geek Academy and Hub provide on-demand sales training available around the clock, alongside services delivered in-person for clients that prefer face-to-face interaction.
Sales Geek Professional Development director Mike Ode said: “The opportunity to join the Sales Geek family came at just the right time for us. In our previous roles we were often being asked if we provide sales training, while the guys at Sales Geek were often being asked about professional development training, so the coming together felt very natural as a way of providing clients with a holistic range of training that’s highly in demand.
“We provide leadership, management and personal development courses and training, both face-to-face and virtually, aimed at everyone from senior management and directors, through middle management, down to aspiring managers, who are interested in consolidating what they already know, while finding out more about the latest management techniques aimed at getting the best from today’s employees.”
