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Sales to Leader Foundations™

Build the foundations for the leader you need to become.

You were good at sales.

Then you became responsible for everyone else's.

Suddenly you're managing different personalities, having difficult conversations, dealing with underperformance, trying not to micromanage — and still expected to deliver the number.

There's plenty of leadership advice out there.

But what should you actually focus on next?

That's what Foundations is for.

Clarity matters.

Gartner found sales managers with clarity about their responsibilities are 3.2× more likely to have strong team performance.

Foundations helps you work out what actually matters in your role, with your team — and turn it into a practical 90-day plan.

This isn't a generic coaching conversation.

Before we meet, you'll complete the Sales to Leader Transition Assessment and a short questionnaire about your role, your team, and the challenges you're facing.

Then we'll spend 60 minutes together working through what's really happening — and turn it into a practical 90-day leadership plan.

Thirty days later, we meet again for 30 minutes — not a courtesy call, a working session. What did you actually do? What happened when you did it? Where do you need to adjust?

Conversation One
The Plan60 minutes
  • Review your Sales to Leader Transition Assessment
  • Identify your 2–3 biggest leadership blockers, across Mindset, People, Decision Making and Team Ownership
  • Work through the real challenges you're facing with your team
  • Use relevant Sales to Leader frameworks to help you think differently
  • Decide what needs to change — and what doesn't
  • Build clear 30, 60 and 90-day priorities
  • Agree the actions you'll take immediately
Conversation Two
The Follow-Up30 minutes, 30 days later
  • Retake your Sales to Leader Transition Assessment and see what has shifted since we started
  • Review what you actually did against your plan
  • Work through what happened when you tried it — including what didn't go to plan
  • Adjust your priorities based on real experience, not guesswork
  • Leave with a clear, updated plan for the next 60 days
Matt Dunford
Matt Dunford
Author & Founder, Sales to Leader
Matt has led sales teams for two decades — through retail and telecoms at Three UK, and into channel sales at Apple — including more than one promotion into leading a team he'd previously been part of. He's the author of OH SHIT, I'M THE SALES MANAGER, written after watching good people stall in this exact transition again and again — not for lack of information, but because nobody was holding them to it. Foundations is that same commitment, in its most direct form: two focused conversations to get you real clarity and a plan you can actually use.
"He had a rare ability to see potential in people and give them the confidence to see it in themselves. Matt knew how to balance compassion with accountability — when to support, when to challenge, and how to have the difficult conversations that ultimately made you better."
Kam Parmar
Director, Kiasa Heating
£379
Two 1:1 coaching conversations + your personalised 90-day leadership plan.

Two focused 1:1 coaching conversations.
Your personalised 90-day leadership plan.
30 days of real-world application.
A follow-up to review what happened and reset the next 60 days.

No generic leadership theory. No pretending I know more about your team than you do. One focused process to work out what matters most, turn it into a plan, and see what happens when you actually put it into practice.

Your first 90 days shouldn't be guesswork.

Want support beyond the plan?
Foundations clients can choose to continue working with Matt through ongoing 1:1 coaching after their follow-up — built around whatever's actually come up since your plan was built.
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