The Truth about Leadership Growth, Grit, and Resilience

The Truth about Leadership Growth, Grit, and Resilience

Behind every "professional journey" is a human being dealing with doubt, growth, and reinvention. Rick also offers candid insights into what people don't see behind the scenes of SE management: politics, career development, and the emotional intelligence needed to truly lead.

Why Now Is the Best Time to Start a Business, Even in a Down Market

In this episode, host Ramzi Marjaba sits down with Raphael Joseph, a former software engineer who became a sales engineering leader and is now the founder of his own specialist recruitment firm for SEs. Raphael shares how he stumbled into sales engineering from banking, scaled a global SE team from 1 to 40, and later built a recruitment business tailored to the unique challenges of hiring pre-sales professionals. Shownotes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show332

Risking Your Strong Leadership Role To Plunge into the Startup World

Sometimes you just have to quit your job to start your own thing. And sometimes this job is a Leadership Role at a very well-respected organization such as Salesforce. And sometimes the job is the Global Enablement Leader. That's what our guest Guillaume Huynh-Ba does. Guillaume shares how his sales engineering foundation shaped his career, why he transitioned into enablement, and what he learned while scaling training programs across different regions and teams at Salesforce. Show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show331

Building Professional Success On A Foundation Of Devastating Failure

Whether you're an SE considering management, a leader looking to motivate your team, or someone curious about the intersection of sales and technical expertise, this episode is packed with insights on resilience, leadership, and continuous improvement. shownotes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show330

Build a Genuine Connection By Having Interesting Communication

You can be a good solution engineer but still suck at different aspects of the job. That's because there are too many skills that Solution Engineers need to work on, it's almost impossible to be great at all of them. Even if we break them down, technical skills versus soft skills, there are still many that SEs might not be good at. Examples of soft skills include listening, storytelling, demoing, de-escalating, handling objections, and many more. It isn't easy to be great at all of them. And yet, even if you're not great at something, it doesn't mean you cannot work on it. It doesn't mean you cannot turn your weakness into a strength. And that is what Evgeni did. He turned his perceived weakness, speaking, into one of his better strengths and used it to get better at building relationships with his customers.