About Us
What We Believe About TECHNICAL SALES...
Sales is a TEAM Sport
Enterprise B2B software sales is not an individual sport. AEs & SEs need to take responsibility for their part of the sale and function well as a team.
Winning Demos are TEAM Victories
Just like a no-hitter in baseball is a TEAM victory. SEs 'throw the pitches' but the TEAM has to be in the game.
He/She Who Buys a Shovel...
Doesn’t want a Shovel. They want a HOLE. But they don’t just want a hole, they want a fence or a tree...
People Buy From People
At the end of the day, people buy from people. PERIOD! In today's world, it is more important than ever before to be human in our jobs.
What We Believe About TRAINING...
Training is "Drawing Out" more than "Putting In"
The root word of “Education” is educe - to “draw out”. Training is more about drawing out that which exists more than putting a bunch of new stuff in.
We know what to do. Are we doing what we know?
Not KNOWing what to DO is rarely the problem. Not DOing what we KNOW more likely is. In our programs, we help your teams with BOTH!
The Socratic Method Of Teaching (and Selling)
The best teachers use questions to help students discover answers for themselves. The best sellers use questions to help customers convince themselves.
Learn as much from our Actions as our Words
We are experts in running and facilitating online meetings. We practice what we preach. The team will learn as much from what we DO as they will what we SAY.
Meet our Co-Founders
Chris White
Co-Founder & Managing Director
The author of The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers, Chris began his career as a software developer in the early 90’s. After 15 years as an IT consultant, he got his first job as a sales engineer and learned very quickly that there was far more to the profession than "being able to move the mouse and talk at the same time". He became the #1 sales engineer in his organization and five years later moved into management. Discovered the team members he had inherited were making many of the same mistakes he made when he first entered the profession and, out of necessity, created the very first version of his training program for his team - with great results. That was in 2010.
Fast-forward 10 years, with stints as account executive and sales enablement leader along the way, Chris launched Tech Sales Advisors (originally DemoDoctor) based on the success of his book. Having given and/or observed literally hundreds, if not thousands of software demonstrations during his career, he openly shares his experience with others and tells countless stories from the field. Because he has experience in both sales and presales, he understands both sides of the equation and speaks from a platform of empathy, respect, and neutrality.
After collaborating with Kerry Sokalsky for several years, most notably co-authoring the Presales Buyer's Guide, in 2024 Chris and Kerry merged Tech Sales Advisors and Presales Mastery to form Tech Sales Mastery, the standard in technical sales excellence.
Kerry Sokalsky
Co-Founder & Managing Director
The former President of Presales Mastery, Kerry has 20 years of presales and sales enablement leadership experience at both dynamic software startups and Fortune 50 firms. Kerry founded Presales Mastery in 2018 to address the need for personalized demo enablement through high value 1-on-1 coaching.
An accomplished demo and presales trainer and coach, Kerry brings his clients both first-hand demo experience, having delivered over 1,000 custom enterprise demos over his career, along with a breadth of management and enablement perspectives, having led global presales and sales enablement teams at multiple organizations.
Why Tech Sales Mastery?
Content
Our world-class material is based on
industry recognized frameworks –
relevant to BOTH AE’s and SE’s alike.
Approach
You may be thinking “Sales training is boring”, and we agree! Traditional sales training IS boring and doesn’t work!
People
Our consultants are sales professionals with extensive technical sales experience. We practice what we preach.
ASLAN Training & Development
Sales Training that Eliminates
The Hard Sell & Builds Trust.
All our facilitators have a track
record of success - Data, IOT,
Business Apps, High Tech.