Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground – Episode 161: Transforming and Accelerating Careers with Christine Rogers

Christine Rogers is the President and COO of Aspireship, a company helping tomorrow’s leaders by ensuring they perform at optimum level in their current roles with training, interview preparation, leadership development, and career development coaching. Aspireship looks to proactively match such leaders with fast-growing employers in need of talented and ambitious professionals. Christine has previous experience as a Senior Director of Sales for large corporations such as MINDBODY Inc. and Infusionsoft. However, she is also an experienced entrepreneur, having previously owned Room 4 Baby, a baby and children’s store in Gilbert, AZ, where she supervised all aspects of a small baby business, from sales staff supervision to payroll and contract negotiation. Christine currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Christine joins us today to reveal how identifying difficulties in hiring consistently good talented people for selling environments led to the creation of Aspireship, a course platform allowing someone without experience to learn foundational selling. She explains how such untapped potential – when trained – can be matched with a company whose focus is on the employee’s competency and ability rather than their previous resume. Christine takes a holistic look over workforces and why she thinks it’s important everyone in a business, from marketing to accounts, should understand selling when representing a company. She also discusses the role of leadership when placing new hires in an organization and how vital these leaders are for the success and longevity of such placements.

“Do a roleplay. Feel how it feels. Are you understanding those concepts and can you do it?” – Christine Rogers

This week on Breaking Barriers:

• Why everybody is a salesperson – or should be – inside your organization
• The benefits of a workforce having the skills to ask good questions
• Why all workforce members should be able to articulate the value of their organization
• How to set up your sales team for success
• Why you need a leader in place to monitor the progression and development of new hires
• The qualities you should be looking for in your next leader

Connect with Christine Rogers:

• Aspireship’s Website
• Aspireship on LinkedIn
• Aspireship on Facebook
• Christine Rogers on LinkedIn

Connect with Hire Ground:

• Hire Ground’s Website
• Hire Ground on LinkedIn
• Hire Ground on Facebook
• Hire Ground on Twitter
• Cloe Guidry-Reed on LinkedIn
• Adam Moore on LinkedIn

This podcast is brought to you by Hire Ground

Hire Ground is a technology company whose mission is to bridge the wealth gap through access to procurement opportunities. Hire Ground is making the enterprise ecosystem more viable, profitable, and competitive by clearing the path for minority-led, women-led, LGBT-led, and veteran-led small businesses to contribute to the global