Blakely Graham

About Blakely Graham

I spent 20+ years in the Salesforce ecosystem—the last 12 building TaskRay from bootstrapped startup to mission-critical enterprise application, eventually exiting in 2021. The exit was the goal, right? Except no one tells you what comes after. The burnout. The identity crisis. The realization that most of what I learned about leadership came from painful mistakes, not business school.That\'s why I co-founded Not All Business with Heather Cooper—a podcast we call \"Sex Ed for Leadership.\" We\'re two former rival CEOs who became friends, tackling the conversations everyone avoids about the messy reality of building and leading. The awkward questions. The failures nobody wants to admit. The things you can\'t Google at 2am when you\'re questioning everything.My leadership philosophy is simple: work shouldn\'t be life, but it should empower people to build meaningful lives. When a company\'s culture aligns with this, brilliance happens. But getting there? That\'s the hard part we actually talk about. Listen to Not All Business wherever you get your podcasts, or connect with me here on LinkedIn.

Experience

1. Investor

   TaskRay

   Nov 2021 — Present

Education

• Western Washington University

  BA, Finance

Skills

• Strategic Partnerships
• Agile Project Management
• Product Development
• Product Management
• Lead Generation
• Saas
• Start-Ups
• Marketing
• Product Marketing
• Agile
• Enterprise Software
• Strategy
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Crm
• Salesforce.com
• Analytics
• Squarespace
• Cloud Computing
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Operations
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Operations Management