Mary Poul is the publisher of Sales Mastery magazine to help sales professionals build total confidence in selling. Her pragmatic approach to excellence comes from combining lessons from her corporate career, small business advising, and selling door-to-door at the age of 8.

Mary is a corporate refugee, most recently from 3M, where she ran businesses in food safety, electronics cooling, light management and food packaging. She also rolled out the global execution of high profile corporate initiatives such as customer value creation for faster sales growth, pricing strategies to achieve $400 MM in annual profit growth, new product development processes to accelerate launch and improve forecast attainment, and marketing excellence programs to bring technology-based marketers to world class skill levels.

In her community work, Mary has been a long time mentor, instructor, and passionate cheerleader for entrepreneurs and kids through WomenVenture, the Twin Cities Metropolitan Economic Development program, and Junior Achievement. She is taking this work to the next level by launching an initiative called Teach Kids to Sell.

Combining what she learned while working at GE, McDonnell Douglas, American Express, and 3M with the small business wisdom she has gained has made her a highly pragmatic and mission-oriented leader.