PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Jim Hardee
Business Development Consultant
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Executive Summary
Jim Hardee's experience includes over 30 years of sales, marketing, and business operations expertise encompassing direct sales, inside tele-sales, and operating executive responsibilities serving large, medium and smaller sized companies. Jim is a proven leader who has consistently exceeded nearly every sales goal during his career. He has done this across complex products, services, markets, and geographies. As a result Jim's 30 year career at IBM accelerated upward even as IBM downsized. While at IBM Jim led the world wide development of the Companies $750M small business Web business, $1.2B inside tele-sales for IBM.Com Americas, and developed a Midwest Community Bank segment to achieve over 175% of plan. Jim excels at leading people through change management issues to ensure delivery on key management goals. An especially effective leader of sales and services organizations, he quickly retools organizations and processes to deliver value to a business by lowering operational costs and maximizing its existing resources.
Executive Experience & Specialties
Jim has extensive experience in business development, small business services outsourcing, business model alignment, call center management, top grading sales and management talent, customer segmentation, and world class sales organization design and implementation. His industry expertise spans Professional Employer Organizations, Community & Regional Banking, State & Local Government, Information Technology, and Education industries.
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Location & Hours
850/644-3090