Reza Ispahany

About Reza Ispahany

Award-winning sales leader with a proven talent for transforming businesses by building and scaling teams, programs, sites, and regions across numerous industries. Adept at employing flexible tactics to tackle emergent business and market challenges.Intuition for recognizing future leaders through recruiting, mentoring, and training top talent to achieve highly coveted skills. A collaborative communicator who deftly navigates high-volume and challenging environments, promoting synergy and encouraging streamlined solutions across global and organizational initiatives. History of success implementing proven salestactics, including elements from Sandler, “The Challenger Sale”, “The Transparency Sale”, MEDDPICC, and GAP Selling.A few accomplishments include: Revitalized struggling Team Manager and Sales Representative program in less than five months, elevating performance to become the #1 program across the company in three of the last four years, leading to three President’s Club awards. Developed scalable sales cadence for pipeline, using unique outbound sales processes to achieve #1 program rank in conversion and percentage to sales goal company-wide within the first three months. Instituted an internal onboarding process that accelerated quota attainment speed per sales rep by 150%, developing dozens of new sales reps to attain President’s Club status within a year of hire. Launched Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Legal, Engineering, and Energy sectors within sales teams via multiple offices across the US, Canada, Mexico, and the EU by championing innovative revenue-generating methods. Recognized globally as the company’s leading Sales Director for staff development with multiple revenue awards. Established an Agile and cross-functional team culture in R&D, Production, Marketing, Digital Media, Sales, Event Management, And Delivery functions to meet evolving market conditions, scale accordingly, and seize opportunities. Led and managed 60+ annual conferences, generating multimillion-dollar revenue streams from direct inside sales efforts.Want to know how I can help you create raving fans inside and out of your business? Message me here or send an email to r••••••••@gmail.com and let’s chat!

Experience

1. Sales Manager

   Republic Services

   Aug 2025 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   At Republic Services, we’re always exploring new ways to partner with customers to create a more sustainable world. From our network of state-of-the-art recycling centers, to converting gas generated by our landfills into renewable energy, to helping companies set and meet their ESG goals – we deliver real sustainability solutions that deliver results.

Education

• Ryerson University

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Marketing, Sales

  1997 — 1999

• Sheridan College

  Business Administration, Marketing, Sales

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Sales Skills Training
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Strategy
• International Sales
• Sales Operations
• Recruiting
• Sales Process
• Cold Calling
• Change Leadership
• Online Research
• Retail
• B2b
• Lead Generation
• Sales
• Marketing
• Sales Recruitment
• Sales Management
• Event Management
• Employee Engagement
• Training
• New Business Development
• Leadership
• Situational Leadership
• Coaching
• Business-to-Business (B2b)
• Crm
• Employee Training
• Management
• Business Development
• Marketing Strategy
• Market Research
• Account Management
• Inside Sales
• Change Management
• Negotiation