Maryellen Gleason

I’m a top-performing salesperson, sales manager, and sales director who wins business by solving the customer’s real problem. As a branch director, I ran a $300M P&L, managed global named accounts, and took my branch from 94% of objective to over 100%. I’ve sold at the C-suite level into Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, including Motorola, Safeway, Discount Tire, and Convergys. My public sector wins were true public-private partnerships. To win back a $14.6M contract with Maricopa County, I led my company, a publicly traded corporation, through filing a special competitive tariff with regulators. For major state contracts, including a State of Arizona statewide agreement that has generated more than $100M since, we invested in infrastructure and worked with the state on contract terms and other tools so that both the government and the company would succeed. My approach is simple: learn what drives the customer, analyze their business deeply, and build a deal where everyone wins. Sometimes that means telling a client not to buy, and that honesty is why they trust me and come back. The same instinct produced a single $25M gift in my philanthropy work. Whether you need a fractional sales leader, an interim director, or a closer for your biggest opportunities, I’ll help you turn your ambitions into signed deals and lasting customer success.