Today's episode is with Tom Glason. Tom is the co-founder and CEO of Scalewise which helps ambitious B2B tech scale-ups accelerate growth by providing unique and flexible access to a community of world-class Scale Experts. He's also the founding member and Chair of the London chapter of Pavilion - a private community for high-growth revenue leaders.     I am a big fan of Scalewise, the Sales Impact Academy and I recently joined Pavillion. Tom definitely created a lot of value for people like myself, but also for companies in the start- and scale-up world.   Topics we discussed, and unfortunately, we ran out of time:  

• How he stumbled into sales
• The hard lessons you learn from telemarketing and picking up the phone
• Hard work paying off
• His background and degree in sports psychology
• How he met his wife when she offered him a job
• His experience launching a juice bar
• Tech and enterprise sales
• How he founded Pavillion (formerly Revenue Collective) to build a community around tech sales
• The latest report on interim and fractional leadership
• How this lead to him founding Scalewise and building a platform to get companies and interim and fractional revenue leaders together
• The average tenure of a CRO being 18 months
• The change of work patterns for C-Levels pre Covid but then the accelerated change due to Covid
• Redundancies and recession
• Flexibility and work life balance
• Sales Impact Academy - creating content and qualifications for sales leaders
• Tom on Linkedin if you want to get in touch Volker is a sales, strategy and leadership consultant working as an interim CRO. Find out more on his website or subscribe to his newsletter.

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