Venetia Butler
Director and Head of Training at SALESGURU

Leadership is about Impact – your team is a reflection of you, what you allow, who you inspire and who wants to follow you

If you need an expert in sales leadership and management training, Venetia Butler, Director and Head of Training at SALESGURU, is your person.

She is sought after for her ability to energise, encourage and instill confidence in executive leaders and managers to lead their teams with conviction and build sales teams and companies that are resilient and consistently achieve at their highest levels.

She has 23 years of experience helping leaders untangle complex interpersonal and sales dynamics, whether the need is more effective leadership, increased sales, more productive influence, behavioural or higher emotional intelligence.

Venetia’s experience, skills, and knowledge of both human and sales organisations includes not only strategic contexts but equally pragmatic strategies and implementation.

As a avid book lover, continual student, and info enthusiast Venetia is currently busy completing her International Certification for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and well as Advanced NLP Practitioner Course in 2022, with the view to be a qualified in 2023.

Qualified – Executive Life and Business Coach
Higher National Diploma Hotel Management – Wits

Her one-on-one coaching with leaders and sales managers enables growth and provides insight, guidance, and direction to individuals and companies. Her heartfelt direct style and tremendous zeal resonate powerfully and leave the audience with structured, actionable learnings that drive results and create a culture of consistent performance.

Venetia’s experience with sales and leadership spans across a variety of business sectors including financial services, IT, insurance, pharmaceutical, motor, logistics, and more. She’s had a highly successful career in sales and recruitment, ran her own business, and was a successful sales coach prior to joining SALESGURU.

She has a Higher National Diploma in Hotel Management and is a qualified Executive Coach.

Greatest Passions
• People and reading in almost equal measure
• Travel, travel, travel with a bucket list to complete 50 countries and cultural experiences by the age of 50 (currently been to 37 countries)
• Binge-watching room makeovers and house flipping.

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