Executive Sales Leadership Coaching
Coaching for CROs, VPs of Sales and Revenue Leaders
Today’s CROs and Sales VPs face relentless pressure to shorten sales cycles, hire and retain top performers, forecast with precision, and drive consistent execution. All while leading through rapid change, rising complexity, evolving buyer expectations, and market volatility.
Advice can help. But meaningful change happens when you take a step back, assess what’s truly working and confront what isn’t.
That’s where coaching comes in.
The gains aren’t found in one-off tactics. They come from aligning behaviour, people, process, discipline and then building the habits that deliver, repeatedly. True breakthroughs happen through structured, continuous improvement - not heroic sprints.
The Real Challenges Sales Leaders Face
Across the organisations I work with, the themes are consistent:
Forecast confidence - the number is visible. The predictability is not.
Inconsistent execution - strong individuals. Weak operating rhythm.
Founder and board tension - expectations escalate faster than systems mature.
Scaling from talent to structure - high performers promoted into leadership without a playbook.
Personal sustainability - carrying the weight of revenue responsibility alone.
These are not capability gaps. They are leadership system challenges.
My Approach
Every engagement begins with diagnostic clarity.
We assess:
Revenue structure
Leadership operating rhythm
Stakeholder alignment
Personal leadership patterns
Organisational friction points
From there we define a structured roadmap.
Coaching typically runs for a minimum of six sessions, often longer for CROs leading transformation. Between sessions there is practical application, reflection and real-time adaptation.
My background includes global P&L responsibility, leading organisations of up to 1000 FTEs and managing major transformation initiatives across multiple geographies.
This matters because coaching revenue leaders requires lived experience of revenue pressure.
AI Enabled Sales Leadership
Modern revenue leadership now includes AI enablement.
Through my partnership with Curvo and my work in AI driven deal coaching, we explore:
How AI should support leadership rather than replace judgement
Where deal coaching creates leverage
How to use data without losing human leadership instinct
AI does not fix poor leadership instead it either amplifies clarity or confusion.
Executive coaching ensures it amplifies clarity.
Start With a Diagnostic Conversation
If you are leading revenue and want sharper clarity, better execution discipline and stronger leadership presence, we begin with a structured conversation.
What Executive Sales Coaching Delivers
Effective sales leadership coaching sharpens three areas simultaneously:
1. Strategic Clarity
ICP definition and discipline
Revenue model alignment
Growth pathway clarity
Decision confidence
2. Execution Discipline
Deal inspection versus deal coaching
Pipeline hygiene and forecasting logic
Sales cadence and operating rhythm
Performance accountability frameworks
3. Leadership Maturity
Leading through others rather than rescuing
Influencing founders and boards
Communicating with confidence and calm
Building culture intentionally
The result is not just improved sales performance, it’s improved leadership presence.
Typical Outcomes
Leaders I work with typically report:
Increased forecast accuracy
Improved sales cadence and discipline
Greater confidence in board conversations
Stronger alignment across revenue functions
Reduced firefighting
Higher team ownership
Revenue leadership can be lonely and structured coaching removes that isolation.
“Erlend helped me cut through the noise and focus on what mattered, not just in our revenue plan, but in how I led my team. It’s the clearest I’ve felt in years.”
🎧 Featured Podcast: Funnel-Vision with Erlend Asker
In this episode of Funnel-Vision, I share reflections from 25+ years in leadership — from running global sales and services teams to coaching senior leaders through change, complexity, and high performance.
The conversation touches on:
What today’s sales leaders are really up against
The evolving relationship between sales and professional services
How AI is influencing leadership, not just process