Episode 23
August 25, 2022
How to Set Your Professional Services Teams Up for Success w/ Carrie Young
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Carrie Young, Vice President of Strategic Solutions at Cority, joins Banoo on the show to discuss how to most effectively utilize your employee base by implementing cross training and expanding the skill sets of your team. Carrie has extensive experience scaling PS organizations and managing demand against capacity and resource optimization. Additional topics discussed include:
- Understanding and mapping your employee base to identify gaps and synergies
- Documenting a clear career path for each employee
- People management is not for everyone
- The importance of allowing mistakes and providing the tools, time and training needed for employees to grow
- Incentivizing cross training and alignment with HR
- How to get constructive coaching
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Banoo Behboodi
Vice President, Success Engineering
Banoo Behboodi is a 20+ year software and services leader with extensive experience executing change initiatives with oversight of Customer Success, Professional Services and Delivery and Consulting functions. Banoo’s earlier experiences with AT&T Mobility, Coca-Cola Company and Ernst & Young leading key transformational and compliance projects, provided the foundation needed to be an effective leader and a change agent with a customer first mindset. Banoo is passionate about driving continuous improvement through sharing best practices and empowering resources through technology and analytics to optimize performance and job satisfaction while driving business outcomes.
Brent Trimble
Vice President, Value Engineering
Brent brings more than 15+ year’s of leadership experience in Management Consulting, Strategic Delivery, Marketing services and product development firms to his technology role at Kantata. As the VP of Value Engineering and the Managing Director of Marketing Service & Agency Vertical, he specializes in identifying process improvement potential, business optimization and key health metrics for alignment and orientation.
With deep business understanding through an operator lens - Brent works with Kantata partner firms to refine intrinsic and extrinsic value drivers - giving firm principals the focus required for adoption, mobilization, value realization and ultimately - success.
Prior to joining Kantata, Brent was a client of the platform and held positions at Interpublic Group, Accenture, WPP, and independent marketing consulting firms.