Resources & Speaking

Welcome to the Strategic Sales Advisors Resources & Speaking Hub, where you’ll find practical tools, real-world insights, and ways to bring these ideas to your own team or audience. Take our Revenue Strength Indicator to see where your business stands, watch our latest videos on building sustainable sales, or explore how Shelley can speak at your next event, workshop, or podcast. Whatever your next step, our goal is the same: to help you move from commercial chaos to predictable, sustainable growth.

Formats

  • Keynotes and conference sessions

  • Interactive workshops

  • Facilitated strategic planning and goal-setting sessions for boards and committees

  • In-house sales team training

  • Multi-week group coaching programs for sales leaders and business owners

  • Association and chapter programs, including lunch-and-learns and brunch-and-learns

  • CEO and peer advisory group presentations

  • Panels and summits

  • Podcasts and interviews

Recent stages include NAWBO (including the NAWBO San Antonio Summit), The Edge Summit, IMA, SANA, the SBA, SACPA, Vistage, and the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Speaking & Workshops

Shelley Mann is the founder of Strategic Sales Advisors and a sales strategist who helps business owners move from commercial chaos to predictable, repeatable revenue.

She built her career in hospitality sales leadership, and she brings that hospitality-first approach to every stage. Her sessions mix practical frameworks with hands-on exercises, so audiences leave with tools they can use the next morning.

Shelley has spoken to business owners, CEO peer groups, CPA societies, women’s business organizations, and leadership teams across San Antonio and beyond.

Signature Topics

The Hospitality Mindset: What Sales Can Learn
The best hotels don’t just sell rooms. They earn loyalty, anticipate needs, and turn guests into repeat customers and referral sources. Drawing on her career in hospitality sales leadership, Shelley shows how a hospitality-first approach to selling builds trust faster, shortens sales cycles, and creates the kind of client experience that drives long-term growth.

You Can’t Scale Sales If You’re Still the System
Most founder-led businesses don’t have a sales problem. They have a structure problem. Shelley shows owners how to move from rainmaker to revenue builder with clear steps, clear ownership, and a sales playbook that lets revenue grow without them working more hours.

Cracking the Code: Ideal Clients & Value Propositions
Customers don’t care about what you sell, only what’s in it for them. In this interactive session, attendees define their ideal client, sharpen what makes their offer valuable, and leave with a value proposition they can use immediately in sales conversations and marketing.

Data-Driven Decisions: KPIs That Help You Sell More and Grow with Ease
KPIs don’t create pressure, they create peace. Leaders learn to separate leading from lagging indicators and to track the numbers that matter across money, sales, marketing, and retention. The session closes with a 90-day roadmap for turning daily activity into revenue momentum.

Also available: Numbers Tell, Stories Sell: The Power of Storytelling · The Strategy of Success: Growing Through Market Headwinds · Sales Mastery: Building Your Sales Playbook · Accelerating Growth: Business Development for CPAs and Professional Services · Embracing Non-Traditional Sales: Hybrid Strategies for Growth

Listen Up

This episode flips the script on traditional sales by showing how a hospitality-first mindset drives sustainable, long-term growth.

Shelley shares practical strategies and proven sales techniques on the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur Podcast. Learn effective team-building methods and actionable steps to turn unpredictable challenges into consistent growth.

Ideal for SMBs ready to scale with confidence, this conversation delivers expert insights to help you move from aspiration to achievement.

  • "Your sessions really helped our members gain confidence in their sales conversations, and many have shared how much easier it is for them to hold those tough talks now. I would describe you as an incredibly engaging, practical, and direct speaker who truly meets business owners where they are. You make all the attendees feel more confident in leveling up their sales during a 2 hour workshop than they could gain from a book or podcast. You are a gold mine for our community."

    Christine Brinkman

    Babes Support Babes

  • "I’ve attended several of Shelley Mann’s workshops, and every time she delivers a clear message with easy-to-follow activities that make her points stick. I always walk away with valuable business tools and methods I can put to work right away in my own business."

    Yvette Hartridge

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Watch & Learn: Our YouTube Channel

Building Sustainable Sales is your destination for practical, real-world sales advice.

  • What to Expect:

    • Video tutorials on building better sales strategies and processes.

    • Tips for managing and motivating sales teams.

    • Insights on using CRM tools, creating sales playbooks, and more.

  • Don’t Miss Out: New content drops regularly to help you level up your sales game.

Revenue Strength Indicator

Is your business set up to achieve sustained revenue growth or are hidden gaps holding you back?

The Revenue Strength Indicator assessment is a powerful diagnostic tool designed specifically for CEOs and business owners to gauge the health of their revenue performance. This quick, insightful assessment will highlight key strengths and uncover critical areas of opportunity across your sales strategy, team dynamics, and customer retention efforts.

Take the assessment today and gain clarity on where your business stands. Your personalized results will offer actionable insights to optimize your revenue engine - and if you need more clarity, we can schedule a call to discuss tailored strategies that can drive measurable growth for your organization.