Unique Genius Superhero Interview: Greg Gardner “Selling Authentic”

January 15th, 2013

The Unique Genius Superheroes Interview Series is about ordinary people who have created businesses they love around their purpose.

Everyone has a purpose (or “calling”), and there are always ways to turn your purpose, any purpose, into a business you love. It’s easier to live your purpose daily when it’s a part of your work.

Greg Gardner is a musician, composer, father/husband, and works at the Sales Performance Office at IBM as a Sr. Sales Performance Coach. He loves helping salespeople perform better thus leading a better life. He also believes in helping IBM create a Smarter Planet. Whether it be music, sales, martial arts, technology, parenting… he is a lifelong student of how people and organizations perform.

Here’s some of what we covered in the interview:

What Greg did when he was “losing altitude” in enterprise sales
How Greg turned quitting during the recession into the best thing he ever did
Greg shares about his ideas on ‘selling authentic”
How Greg chose between getting a job or starting a business of his own
How drawing a picture changed Greg’s life
Why he pinches himself every morning when he wakes up to make sure it’s not a dream
How Greg has been able to choose where and when he wants to travel
Greg shares his mindset of “how you’re ultimately working for yourself” has helped
Greg realized that being authentic doesn’t always mean you ‘have to’ own a business
How alignment with the people you work with is key to personal and professional growth
The three options everyone has in every situation: accept it, change it or get out
What it takes to trust your instincts
Why getting help from others is so important
Why authenticity leads to attracting the kind of people you want to work with
Why this picture was important:

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More About Greg Gardner:

Greg’s website: SellingAuthentic.com
Greg’s holiday music on iTunes: I Heard the Bells
Greg’s jazz album, Life’s Work
Greg’s solo video of “The Happy Song”
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