Zachariah Rodgers

Teaching Experience

- Coached, mentored and developed physical and mental skills with a minimum of 18 boys baseball players aged 16-19 for 7 seasons

- Trained over 300 new sales agents on effective persuasion skills and financial literacy to onboard agents for 3 companies, effectively increasing sales revenue by approximately 43%

- Supervised 12 sales teams on interpersonal communication and presentation strategies for 3 years

- Managed over 40 new hires on professional hospitality service for 5 years

- Coached and developed persuasive speaking skills for 4 teams with individuals aged 18-23 on the University of South Dakota's trial team for 3 years

Leadership

- Accomplished sales strategist leading by example finishing consistently #1 amongst 3 companies and competing against over 300 sales specialists

- Proactive in collaborative strategy development designating times and roles for group trainings accomplishing leadership's expressed and unexpressed needs

- Interpersonal and professional leadership by motivating young athletes effectively getting the highest production at the individual and team level yielding multiple championship seasons

- Meeting individual's where they are at currently in skill building from a multitude of ethnic, cultural and age differences tailoring my approach to each individual

Creative Problem Solving

- Utilized a critical thinking approach on a micro and macro level to maximize sales teams opportunities and conversion rates by modifying the algorithm's qualifying criteria increasing opportunities by approximately 18% per sales agent on average and converting 43% higher on the sales floor as a whole

- Demonstrated improvisational problem solving by coaching low sales performers on live calls streamlining interpersonal communication strategies in real time increasing conversions by approximately 32% on average per individual

- Executed proficient multitasking by prioritizing low level performers development to high performers development while maintaining my results as a top performer finishing consistently in the top 1% of 3 companies