Charlene DeCesare is a sales advisor with 30+ years of building successful sales organizations around the world. Currently, she is a Senior Consultant and Lead Facilitator for the research-based sales training company, The RAIN Group.

 

For the past nine years, she has been CEO of Charlene Ignites, LLC and had also founded Firewalk Sales. Charlene specializes in helping sales reps, account managers, and business owners gain sales confidence and competence on a global scale.

Before developing her personal brand into a full-time business venture, Charlene co-founded the multi-million-dollar company, EdAssist, now owned by Bright Horizons. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at Gartner, Inc. leading an international sales team, and helping the most respected technology companies in the world extend their brand message. Charlene was also a membership growth leader at the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), and the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Boardroom Events.

Charlene has a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College and an M.B.A. in Sales & Marketing from Rivier University. She is a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association and a Nationally Certified Brain-Based Success Coach. 

In addition to being featured in dozens of national articles and blogs, Charlene was recently peer-reviewed and published in the Professional Journal of Brand Strategy. She is also the author of The Email Cemetery: Where Bad Sales Emails Go to Die & How to Resuscitate Yours which launched as a #1 Best Seller in eight categories, including “Sales & Selling.”

Charlene lives on a lake in Salem, NH with her husband of 22 years Rob, their children -- Steven (15), Makayla (20), stepson Austin (30), and their cats Jett (4) and Rose (9).