Danita Bye – Founder and CEO of Sales Growth Specialists

Danita Bye, Founder Sales Growth Specialists

Corporate selling:

Danita was a President’s Club performer for a Fortune 100 company at age 22, her first year out of college. For almost a decade, she earned recognition as a top sales performer in all the positions she held. This experience offered Danita a foundation of skills from one of the most respected and intensive cooperate training programs available. These roots, high skill requirements, accountability and need for process, are core to her persona.

Entrepreneurial experience:

At age 32, she took an equity position and became part of the turnaround management team for a small, struggling medical device company. That company grew from $300K to over $20M before it was sold. Successfully competing with larger, global companies with significantly larger budgets required a creative approach to management and selling. Leveraging technology, target marketing and intensive training, Danita was able to consistently achieve 30% growth per year. This experience, needing to operate within a tight budget and still getting consistent results, is foundational to Danita’s strategic management processes.

Sales Growth Specialists

Started in 1997 and is one of the Twin Cities’ most respected sales management consulting firms. Danita’s company has carved a track record in building and inspiring high-performance sales teams that achieve bottom-line results. Her unique Fortune 100-turned-entrepreneurial experience offers a unique real world perspective that helps CEOs and owners take their businesses to the next level by increasing sales, boosting profitability and creating predictable revenue streams. All this happens while reducing sales costs.

Recognized Sales Management Expert

Over the years Danita has been recognized both for her professional expertise and her contributions to the community. Click here to view Danita’s Awards and Recognitions on the Press page.

Press related info for Keynote events

As an accomplished keynote speaker and long-standing member of the National Speakers Association, Danita is a sought after speaker on various sales management topics. She has spoken for groups such as:

Carlson School of Business
St. Thomas School of Business
Association of Microsoft Certified Planners
Council for Independent Managers
Danatsu
Minnesota Technology
Minnesota High Tech Association
National Association of Women Business Owners
Professional Sales Associates
SMPS (Sales and Marketing for Professional Services)
Women in Technology

Professional and Personal Bio

Rural beginnings — Danita, the oldest of 4, grew up in Cowboy Country, a large, scenic cattle ranch in an isolated part of northwestern North Dakota. In junior high, cattle prices went up, so the family moved from a 800 square foot, 4 room house (with no running water!) to much more comfortable accommodations in the valley. During these formative years she learned the value of the dollar, relationships, discipline, education and faith. Today, those values form the foundation of who she is.

Learn more about danita’s childhood home, TTT Ranch.

Danita today – Danita’s been married for 25 years and she has three children. Her oldest daughter, Brittany, graduated in 2009 from the University of Minnesota with a degree in biomedical engineering. Her son, Westin, just returned from a year as a foreign exchange student in Paraguay and is currently enrolled at the University of Minnesota and will graduate in 2012. Her youngest child, Danae, is a sophomore in high school and is active in school and church activities. In addition, she is captain of her school rugby team.
Danita is in the process of completing a masters degree in Transformational Leadership. Her hobbies include board work for non-profits, speaking, reading, traveling and hiking.