What is Conscious Sales Anyway?

My good friend likes to joke that, while the way I presently earn my living is as a sales leader at global corporation,  I'm really in the human potential movement.  I've always been been a connector, a bridge builder, a diplomat.  It started with my role as middle child and has evolved from there in my community, friendships, and professional choices and contributions.  In recent years my personal exploration of the nature of consciousness, the purpose of life, and my personal journey to access more bliss, openness, connection, as well as maximize my potential - all pursued outside of my professional life - has become my primary interest and investment in time and energy in mind, body, and spirit.  But I still make a living as a sales leader.  

So while at some point in the future I aspire to perhaps work and make contributions in a smaller organization, perhaps effectuating change at scale from the outside in - with individuals and organizations -  today I'm choosing the security of a large corporation and am grateful for the opportunity to lead people, in the process supporting their personal and professional development while achieving business objectives and serving clients.  

If sales is about building trust and focusing on meeting the needs of others, then sales is literally in my DNA.  My grandfather was a well-known lumber salesman in Michigan.  My father sold books door-to-door and my parents did social and spiritual mentoring in Flint, Michigan, where I grew up.  My grandparents on my mothers side were missionaries in China.  So the idea of becoming passionate about a meaningful cause, learning about it, and then spreading the word far and wide - has been with me since as long as I can remember.  

So as I learn to own my strengths and my gifts and further explore the paths to make the greatest contribution in this life, it seems to me that the convergence of salesmanship and personal consciousness development is where I sit.  The question is: what is Conscious Sales? 

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