Background
Mike brings to the Sales Kitchen two and a half decades of successful selling, marketing and sales management experience. He has worked for two regional and four national firms achieving increasing levels of responsibility as well as developing innovative ways to grow the business. Mike has cooked up solutions to increase sales on many industry powerhouse brands including
- Hood Ice Cream
- Perdue Chicken
- Butterball Turkey
- Healthy Choice Cold Cuts
- Superior Farms Lamb
- Chung’s Egg Rolls
- CLR Rust Remover
- Tarn-X Silver Polish
He is a sales specialist and earned both his BS in marketing and MBA from Northeastern University in Boston; and in March, 2010, Mike earned certification as Six Sigma Green Belt. Career Accomplishments include:
- Over 30 years experience in sales and sales management achieving increased levels of responsibility
- Director of Sales for a $185 million consumer products brand
- Director of Customer Marketing for a $600 million region.
- Obtained hundreds of new product authorizations and distribution.
- Landed dozens of new customers.
- Founder and Chief Sales Officer of sales consulting and coaching firm with world headquarters in Naperville, Illinois.
About Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper is Head Chef and Chief Sales Officer, at Sales Kitchen, a sales leadership, coaching and business development consulting firm headquartered in Naperville, Illinois. He has managed, coached or trained more than 1,800 sales professionals and earned numerous awards for leadership, sales achievement and for being a difference maker.
Coop advises businesses like yours to do BIG things and get your sales smokin'. Clients typically need a Sales Director or Sales Leader because they have BIG sales goals but sales results are undercooked. He will lead and guide your sales team to actually achieve those goals by developing and delivering cooked-to-order, revenue-producing sales solutions for you. Sales Kitchen ~ Heat Up Your Sales!