In this episode of Sales Talk for CEOs, Alice Heiman sits down with Adi Klevit, founder and visionary behind Business Success Consulting Group, to expose a powerful truth many CEOs and Founders don’t face, your sales success often lives in someone’s head instead of in a scalable, repeatable system.

Adi walks through her proven approach of documenting, optimizing, and implementing processes so companies can finally scale sales reliably, empower their teams, and free the founder to work on the business, not in it. By the end of this episode, CEOs will have a clear roadmap to turn messy, inconsistent sales behaviors into a documented playbook that produces consistent results.

Rapid‑Fire Picks

Books:

10X by Grant Cardone

The Power Questions by Jerold Panas & Andrew Sobel

The Go-Giver (and The Go-Giver Influencer) by Bob Burg and John David Mann

Podcasts:

Built to Sell Radio

Inspired Insider with Dr. Jeremy Weisz

Advise to the CEO: Focus on what they can control and let go of what they can’t, like the economy, market fluctuations, or global events. Instead, she recommends channeling energy into how you lead, operate, and continuously improve. Be a lifelong learner. That’s the mindset that keeps you agile, innovative, and successful no matter what the market throws your way.

Connect With

• Adi Klevit: LinkedIn | Website
• Alice Heiman: LinkedIn | Website

In this episode of Sales Talk for CEOs, Alice Heiman talks with Gavi Wolf, CEO and Founder of IndieWalls, about how he scaled a creative business, turning an art marketplace into a commercial art consultancy serving major brands. Gavi discusses founder‑led sales, when and how he realized it was time to build a sales leadership function, and the hard lesson about motivating and compensating a high‑performing sales team.

Rapid‑fire picks

Book: Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara.

Podcast: Freakonomics with Stephen Dubner.

CEO Advice: If you want top sales talent, they need to see a clear path to earning real money. Show them others are winning, give them a comp plan they can believe in and the right people will come and perform.

Connect With

• Gavi Wolf: LinkedIn | Website
• Alice Heiman: LinkedIn | Website

Stop wasting money on lead generation that doesn’t work. In this solo episode of Sales Talk for CEOs, Alice Heiman delivers a powerful, no-nonsense rant every B2B CEO needs to hear. She challenges the outdated playbook of cold calling and SDR-driven outreach, revealing why it's costing you more than it’s delivering and what to do about it.

Alice shares real examples and modern strategies to generate high-quality leads that fill your pipeline without burning out your sales team. From leveraging marketing properly, to holding the right kind of events, to mining your customer base for referrals, this is the wake-up call CEOs need to redesign their go-to-market motions.

Connect with Alice Heiman:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliceheiman
Website: https://aliceheiman.com