About the episode

• EP. 2.10
• • April 1, 2021 •
• 51:55

About the episode

• EP. 2.9
• • March 5, 2021 •
• 48:24

Jordan interviews Jack Frangipane, President of Jack Frangipane Leadership LLC. Jack is an expert in medical device sales leadership development. In this conversation, Jack and Jordan take a deeper dive into Jack’s processes and methods for sales leadership development in the medical device industry. We discuss the use of diagnostic self-questions, approaches to adding value to experienced sales representatives, intentional conversations for discovering underlying motivations to drive greater performance and much more!

About the episode

• EP. 2.8
• • February 26, 2021 •
• 48:24

Jordan interviews Ben Auzenne, VP of Sales at Blatchford US. Ben knows how to identify the DNA of top medical device sales performers. He’s known for building diverse sales teams that turn in extraordinary and sustained performance, year after year.  In our conversation, Ben shared some of his methods and advice for finding Sales Representatives that will take your team to the next level.

About the episode

• EP. 2.7
• • February 12, 2021 •
• 32:31

Jordan interviews Bradley Phillips, the President of Prestige Nationwide LLC. Bradley has worked for some of the top medical device companies in the world and rose rapidly through the ranks at Medtronic before leveraging his significant Neuromodulation pain sales expertise, contacts and relationships into starting a consulting business for himself in this niche of the industry. In this discussion, we talk about how Bradley made this decision, the steps he took, the challenges in running his own business and the rewards of becoming a business owner.

About the episode

• EP. 2.6
• • February 3, 2021 •
• 1:04:33

Jordan interviews Adolph Escobedo. Adolph has extensive experience in leadership development, gained from the US Navy, Acelity/KCI and his own consulting business, in creating and running medical device sales management development programs and training.  Adolph shares with us his expertise in identifying, promoting, and developing individual contributors into top medical sales managers.  He addresses what Sales Representatives can do within their current role to prepare to take on sales management responsibility, and goes in depth with the immediate transition from a top performing rep into sales management. Adolph and Jordan also discuss the key steps on how to manage a team of former peers and how to ask diagnostic questions of your sales team without causing undue concern in order to get the best possible information on how to help accelerate performance.

About the episode

• EP. 2.5
• • January 29, 2021 •
• 42:58

Jordan interviews Aaron Dickens. Aaron joined the Army right after graduating from college as a junior military officer (JMO) and subsequently spent nearly six years there rising to the rank of Company Commander prior to being honorably discharged. In this interview Aaron shares how the military training he received, which included significant leadership positions, prepared him to excel in B2B sales then pharmaceuticals and ultimately medical device surgical sales management at some of the top companies in the world.

About the episode

• EP. 2.4
• • January 21, 2021 •
• 27:32

Jordan interviews Sheldon Hanson. Sheldon was highly successful in medical sales with 5 President Club awards under his belt working for top industry companies, including Stryker and Medtronic. He was working among the highest levels with implantable, programmable medical technology for chronic pain when he got the opportunity to take a leap into information technology. Nearly a year after he took it, Jordan wanted to check in with him to see how it’s going.

About the episode

• EP. 2.3
• • January 13, 2021 •
• 46:23

Jordan interviews Dick Emmitt. Dick Emmitt’s venture capital firm, the Vertical Group, has been involved in some of the largest deals in the medical device industry. From the first ever billion dollar merger between Boston Scientific and Scimed, to the nearly $4 billion dollar acquisition of Kyphon by Medtronic and the more recent IPO launches of Outset Medical and Silk Road Medical, the Vertical Group has been at the helm guiding and shaping the medical device industry as we know it today. Listen in as one of the principal financial architects of the medical device industry touches on the past and describes how he assesses startup organizations of the future!

About the episode

• EP. 2.2
• • January 6, 2021 •
• 53:09

Jordan speaks with Charles Ross, Executive Location Development Pastor at Next Level Church and former Sales Manager at Medtronic Deep Brain Stimulation. Charles reflects on how his life’s journey led him to evolve his career path and how his time in medical device sales still has an impact on his work today.

About the episode

• EP. 2.1
• • January 1, 2021 •
• 15:59

Jordan shares how his experience has taught him that applicants should be cautious when applying for a job online. From bloated resume databases to a lack of communication, there are plenty of reasons to lose out on an opportunity simply by applying online when an in-person approach would have been more effective. Jordan gives advice on what better practices to use and how to avoid these fateful pitfalls.