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Dean serves Technology Sales Enablement Professionals. He has extensive experience in the buy side of technology, advising customers in purchasing and implementing solutions, including interacting with CIOs on six continents. His experience also includes sell-side work in sales-focused marketing functions such as pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, product marketing, customer insights, and market analysis. Dean is a thought leader in sales enablement, helping technology vendors adapt their marketing programs to focus on a customer's business outcomes rather than product features or functions.
Dean has spoken extensively around the world to audiences at events such as Sourcing Interests Group, Outsourcing World Summit, RUSSOFT, and the China Outsourcing Summit. During his tenure at META Group, he managed conference tracks, created hundreds of presentations, and spoke at conferences globally. His work has been widely published by news organizations such as CIO Magazine and Forbes.
Dean received a Bachelor of Science in accounting with a minor in philosophy from Brigham Young University, followed by an M.B.A. in marketing from The University of Connecticut. He is also a Certified Outsourcing Professional by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
Insights Into Building Battle Cards That Help Sales Reps Win Deals
Sales reps need battle cards to anticipate and counter competitors' claims in sales conversations, but today's battle cards are little more than side-by-side product comparisons. Sales enablement...

Effective sales reps display a strong competency �often unconsciously � of establishing mindshare with their customers. The best ones influence customers and beat competitors by focusing on the...
Insights Into Building Battle Cards That Help Reps Win Deals
To justify your investment, sales battle cards must help sales outmaneuver competitors and ultimately increase their overall win rate in competitive deals. Given the siloed way competitive insight is...
To accelerate the work of sales enablement professionals in overhauling sales battle cards, Forrester organized a group of experienced practitioners who helped create Forrester’s battle card...
