Calvin Caves

About Calvin Caves

Calvin is a Business & Sales Transformation leader with experience marrying leadership, sales psychology, and strategic thinking with audience and revenue growth. With more than two decades of experience, Calvin has maintained a successful track record of expertly collaborating cross-departmentally, transforming organizations, and building future-oriented teams. Throughout his career, Calvin has continuously fused his love and passion for meaningful relationships, sales, and strategy with curiosity-induced critical thinking to recognize challenges and act on emerging opportunities.With a robust background in B2B sales, specifically the Oil and Gas Industry, Calvin boasts strong influencing, negotiating, and analytical skills. His expertise spans contract management, risk mitigation, and data analysis. In his early years, Calvin served as an Office Sales Manager for the Texas Army National Guard, developing and implementing sustainable state sales marketing plans. His career success and achievements evolved from a strong desire and responsibility to deliver quality client recommendations and management. It was this that firmly established his capabilities and solid reputation in the Oil & Gas industry. This innate drive accompanied Calvin in his most senior roles, where he impacted bottom lines by reversing downward revenue and audience trends through iterating business strategy and pivoting focus. This approach and an ability to sell a vision across a nationwide network of local sales teams saw him impact multiple organizations. Through this array of experience, Calvin has built an extensive network, unique perspective, and understanding of innovative impact. This exposure also strengthened Calvin\'s skillset as a trusted, confident, and authentic leader who has built capable and enterprising teams. Calvin believes in the growth mindset and empathetically approaches the honor of mentoring and coaching others to excel.Outside work, Calvin owns Honeybee Management Company, a small agricultural business working with honeybees.

Experience

1. Owner Operator

   Bluebonnet Apiary, Llc

   Jan 2017 — Present · Scurry, TX, US

   Studying the sustainability of honeybees. Increase bee populations through studying the science of energy biology. Providing companies with opportunities to meet their UN Sustainability needs.Identified as the SME for all bee related events within surrounding cities and counties. Building business relationships with community and business leaders to drive revenue.Apprentice level Master Beekeeper for the State of Texas through the Texas A&M Bee Lab. Driving revenue with high margins and applying to the growth of the company.

Education

• Ashford University

  Business Administration and Management, General

  2010 — 2012

• Seagoville High School

  High School Diploma, High School Diploma

  1997 — 2002

Skills

• Operations Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Budgets
• Purchasing
• Process Improvement
• Business Development
• Human Resources
• Salesforce.com
• Customer Retention
• Leadership
• Customer Service
• Strategic Planning
• Team Building
• Management
• Contract Management
• Account Management
• Sales Management
• Sales Presentations
• Energy Management
• Veterans
• Sales
• Direct Sales
• Marketing
• Project Planning
• Leadership Development
• Personnel Management
• Project Management
• Preventive Maintenance
• Training
• New Business Development