“Connie and the team that she assembled helped my organization create a thoughtful, problem-led sales and marketing approach in alignment with our values. Connie listened to our needs from day one and was open to refining her approach over the course of our work together. Her contributions included coaching and mentoring our team, facilitating virtual training, advising our sales process, and completing market diagnostics work. I would highly recommend Connie to any organization working to build a purpose-driven approach to their sales and marketing.”

Leslie Llado - Social Impact Leader at Splash International

What People Are Saying

“I worked with Connie for several sessions starting in late 2020. Her warmth, patience, empathy, and insights were exceptionally helpful as we navigated challenging decisions and personal doubts. I'd highly recommend working with her as a coach.”

Weldon Kennedy - Co-founder at Enda



“I worked with Connie on the launch of a UK sales team for a Swiss company. She quickly grasped and understood the drivers of the business and created an effectively prioritized strategy for training team members, implementing partnership selling and influencing leadership to bring about wider change.”

Sara Robertson - Top 100 Women in Tourism, Entrepreneurship Development at The University of Edinburgh

 

“As a startup we lacked some of the experience and resources to know how to put together the right skills training for our sales and customer experience teams. Connie was able to expertly and quickly design an organizational playbook and field tools that we now don't know how we would do without. She went above and beyond to ensure the materials were right for our company and its people. She even supported us on how to deliver our own training and coaching to our team, making sure we acquired the skills and experience to support ourselves as the business grows.”

Mariama Kamara - Founder & Director at Smiling Through Light

“Connie was an exceptional coach at my company. She helped provide results-oriented and simple skill sets to the Sales and Marketing teams which further helped with the overall team motivation. A diligent and a very capable consultant, she’ll be as successful at your company as she was at ours.” adcsadcsavsafvasfvafsva

Lyn Tukei - Marketing and Communications Lead at Xente


“Connie's been a pleasure to work with, providing steady and unwavering support in quite challenging times. She's provided support to ventures on strengthening their governance, strengthening sales and leadership within teams, and has generously shared her network by making critical connections to experts. I look forward to working together again, Connie!”

Georges Mikhael - Waste and Water consultant at Aguaconsult Ltd



“Connie is one of the few external consultants that I came across who managed to understand our people and business with so little time. We were facing problems with the competency of our staff and a lack of process and tools. Connie engaged with us in successfully diagnosing sales, human resources, SLAs, KPIs and internal communications gaps. She helped as an advisor to make recommendations and design strategic solutions. We are now able to apply her techniques in our day-to-day business which resulted in hiring the right people to lead the relevant teams and begin to use technology to track, measure and improve our processes and results. I recommend her expertise to businesses looking to grow and evolve.”

Muhammed Lubowa - Founder at All In Trade Limited

At Tukole.ug, a marketplace connecting Enterprises to skilled, on demand blue collar labor and providing total facilities maintenance services to businesses, we were facing challenges with our sales funnel and complex B2B sales and we did not know how to put in place a process to predictably increase our sales. We asked Connie for some coaching through strategy, sales training and sales collateral development support. She managed to help us in creating value propositions which increased our turnover by 60%. She also supported us in designing tools such as sales strategy, frameworks for training, recruitment frameworks, a B2B and B2C sales playbook, sales KPIs, and a CRM to help us achieve our goals faster.

We are now able to better manage our sales funnel, and drive sales efficiently. Thank you Connie for your passion for sales coaching, your dedication to mentoring, and your excellent sales advisory. The tools and strategy advisory was critical to us increasing our revenue.

Your coaching was well rounded and improved our general management systems as well and to date we still benefit from you sharing your networks with us and we are better set up for scale thanks to the systems we developed with you.

Allan Okello - Business Lead at Tukole Makerspace Limited

  • “Connie has been my best Coach so far. She customizes her coaching to your business needs, and that's amazing!. I have had great results in selling . I converted over 100 prospects in 6 months immediately after her training, and that was for online deals where I didn't have to meet these people face to face. I'm now a better manager of my sales pipeline than before. She will give you more than you pay for because she goes an extra mile of teaching you extra lifelong skills. Thanks Connie for the good work!”

    Jackie Kaitesi - Co-Founder & Director Of Business Development at Venjoh Engineering Limited

  • “It was a pleasure working with Connie. During this time, we worked together on multiple projects related to sales training and management. Connie is a person with a strong ownership and driving for results all the time. She sees and can address everything from the big picture to the details. Connie is creative, energetic, solutions oriented and highly motivated with great communication skills. She is an asset to any company that she’s with.”

    Johnson Kiwango - Director of Operations and International Expansion at Zola

  • “Connie is very warm, empathetic, and approachable that you would want to share everything with her. Not only did she help my organization build out the go-to market strategy, but she is also a great coach and mentor! She listened to my needs and guided me towards my goal with precise and actionable plans. I can see my growth and change by just having several sessions with her!

    I really enjoy working with her and hope we have another opportunity to work together again!”

    Linzi Lee-Blodgett - Project manager

  • “Connie is a good coach in DQ sales and is a good communicator. She has the passion for listening and understanding people as a means to improve how one understands and helps their customers in intelligent decision making.”

    Washington Cozva - Head of Partnerships and Sales for Southern Africa at Kickstart International

    “Connie is a true sales expert, both in terms of strategy and execution. Having spent minimal time with our startup, she was able to immediately add value, identifying areas of improvement and creating and executing innovative strategies to help achieve our growth ambitions. A pleasure to work with, I would highly recommend her.”

    Rory Skinner - CEO & Co-founder at Creatify

  • “I did not feel like I was a salesperson until I was coached by Connie. I was pitching and making a lot of guesses, but now I feel extremely qualified. Connie was able to diagnose the gaps in my knowledge, from basic skills such as listening and setting the agenda, to advanced sales frameworks to resolve blocks, close confidently and get referrals. I now have structure to every conversation. I know how to handle objections, and talk to the right people. I go to meetings with a lot of confidence regardless of who I am meeting. I do not feel intimidated. She definitely helped me to shift my attitude. The work she did with me on generating warm leads and referrals was able to help me double the sales I had closed. I now feel more professional, competent and I am able to take pride in my profession.”

    Raphael Etonu - Sales Lead at Xente

  • “I was particularly impressed by Connie’s ability to command a room effortlessly and articulately coach the investees during her presentation at the first REPP Academy hosted in London where we met. That skill often takes years to develop among public speakers, but it seemed to come perfectly naturally to her. After the Academy, I approached her and asked her to mentor me in public speaking and leadership which she gracefully agreed to do. Six months later, I was able to defend my thesis with confidence and passed. Through her coaching I have garnered a skill that I get to keep for life. Connie would be an asset to any team.”

    Judith Were - Finance & Funding at PowerGen

“I had the absolute pleasure of receiving coaching sessions from Connie while I was part of a sales team for a mid-size social enterprise. I could tell that she was coaching from experience and had a genuine desire to see me and my team succeed. She taught me management practices to keep myself organized and to better support my team as a manager. Many of these practices and tools I’ve taken with me into my next role and am still getting value from. She is an excellent teacher and a skillful coach.

During this time, I also attended a workshop she facilitated which drove deep discussion amongst my team and created an openness that we hadn’t previously achieved.

Connie has a unique and valuable ability to mix empathy with effectiveness. She views and treats people as humans first and genuinely works to create solutions for challenges that impede the success of both people and organizations. Her perspective is so balanced.

“I can’t recommend enough Connie’s consultancy services. She is someone you will see results from and want to have stay on your team permanently! Her insights, strategies, and approach are invaluable. You will be empowered, confident and motivated. This is an investment any organization or team will see dividends from for years to come.”

Liz McNeil - Sales Management & Communications in Health and Hygiene

“During a remote Discovery Connie was able to connect with our CX and sales teams so uniquely and genuinely over video calls. In only one hour, she was able to make them feel comfortable enough to share challenges they had never felt they were able to articulate. Her particular approach (beyond the WRP frameworks) brought a renewed desire for the team to get it right for their customers. She helped the team really remember the Why of it all. She also helped the leadership by asking questions that enabled us to see challenges we didn't even know we had. This diagnostic exercise was thorough and invaluable in informing us what changes needed to happen to achieve a world class CX team.”

Daniel Oparison - Head of Brand Strategy, Marketing & Customer Experience at Paga Tech

  • “I attended a workshop that Connie held on the topic of Mitigating Sales Challenges. The session was experiential, and thought provoking in a way that was different to most of the other sessions I attended that week. She spent more time asking us questions and helping us to think differently about our barriers to success and her focus was on how to build your people so they can build your organization. Connie was able to share her experience of working with multiple solar organizations in Africa over the past 6 years. It was certainly refreshing to hear from a consultant who wants to freely share relevant knowledge and insights and genuinely wants to see all of our organizations succeed.”

    Karl Boyce - CEO at ARC Power

  • “After working closely with Ms. Smith, she has proven to be a reliable and skilled coach as well as Technical Advisor on leadership, project management and sales. She can easily adapt to different cultural contexts and mostly assisted the team with shifting our internal culture and to then support external social behavior change. She has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt when it comes to carrying out her duties as well as working as a team contributing to achieve the planned goals and objectives.”

    Theo Hamukoto - Director of Sales at Elephant Energy

“During the summer of 2017, Connie designed and delivered a five day training course for my team of 8. My company is based in Jordan and is focused on the importation and distribution of sports nutrition across multiple sales channels including two retail outlets and B2B sales.

Connie built a connection with the entire team from the get go. She delivered a highly engaging and superior quality sales and organizational management training that added demonstrable value to my team and organization almost instantly.

She expertly overcame cultural and language barriers to deliver training across multiple areas including high level sales strategy setting, partner selling, attitude management, sales cycle execution and problem led selling. In addition to the overall planned training sessions, Connie ran a number of one-to-ones with senior members of the team to coach them on their personal style and selling approach.

I was thoroughly impressed with the approach she took in the weeks leading up to the training where she spent time discovering the challenges faced by my organization and used her findings to tailor her training in order to address these challenges.

I have previously seen Connie prove herself as a high performing sales person, yet during this engagement, she demonstrated a great ability to coach others into becoming high performing sales people capable of running effective sales organizations.

I would highly recommend Connie to any organization looking to enhance their sales and management capability.”

Louie Omeish - Founder at Cross Jordan for Food Supplements

  • “I had the privilege of working with Connie as her manager, her colleague and co-trainer for several years. Connie is incredibly talented in managing both sales and project related tasks because of her ability to influence stakeholders and achieve results. Her unique experience in the UK commercial sector and African social enterprise environment makes Connie a great leader in this space.”

    Davide Castorina - Sales & Marketing Consultant, Trainer and Executive Coach

  • “Connie is a fantastic facilitator of workshops. She is very accessible and able to capture the attention of a diverse audience. Her participative style, also sharing real-life examples, allows attendees to think differently and practically about their own challenges. I would highly recommend her.”

    Killien de Renty - CEO & co-Founder at upOwa

  • “I had the pleasure of attending a sales workshop hosted by Connie. She was genuinely interested in learning about our experiences and challenges in this sector, particularly about common problems that organizations face in developing countries. Her approach of focusing on people to achieve your goals was very insightful. Connie is a great teacher and coach, I can highly recommend her.”

    Tamer Teker - Operations Lead at OnePower

“I was introduced to Connie in 2019 while organizing a capacity building event for investors of the Africa-focused energy access fund I worked for at the time. Her credentials from prior engagements in Sub-Saharan Africa were stellar and her charisma and enthusiasm about meeting Africa's electrification targets were immediately evident. I invited her to hold a workshop on “Mitigating Sales Challenges” as part of the event, which brought off-grid companies operating throughout Africa together. Having never met the audience, she was able to connect with senior leadership representatives and provide immediate insights and a refreshing approach to the topic of Sales and scaling sales teams. Topics she introduced included helping them review how to set goals realistically, identifying what pitfalls lay ahead, and giving some practical advice about projecting and planning for sales results. What Connie brought is a holistic approach that not only looks at data, metrics and results, but also at people, behaviors and inputs. This allows her to really help organizations and their leaders to think differently and reflect on how they can shift their results.”

Will Pearson - MD at Triskel Global

  • “Connie is one of the most marvelous networkers I have ever met, which is clear from her calm composure and evident emotional intelligence from the moment you meet her. Her willingness to give without the requirement of return is a credit to her character, and she would be an asset to any business or counterparty she works with.

    Connie has been a key interviewee for my book on sales, generously sharing her wisdom, and has crucially helped me to source the Head of Sales for my own business - who is in her own right a wonderful person and top performer. I would trust Connie’s judgement of character and personal recommendation without hesitation.”

    Jamie Harmer - Founder at React News & Exceptional Sales Career

  • “Working with Connie for the last 5 years I have seen her transition into many roles in our company and develop personally as well as professionally. She started in our academy and proceeded to deliver for us in Africa as a Sales Field Coach, Trainer, Leadership Coach, Discovery Consultant and as part of our internal sales team where she performed project management and business development. Her diverse background lends itself to allow her to be adaptable and an asset to any business she works with. One of Connie's key skills is being able to work independently and drive projects forward, knowing when to pull in resources and delegate. She is an exceptional woman who has a bright career ahead of her.”

    Scott Roy - CEO & Co-Founder at Whitten & Roy Partnership