User:Amcquade

I'm Alistair McQuade, a sales trainer and sales transformation programme designer. I've held a number of senior sales positions, including Sales and Marketing Director and Global Head of Education. I've consulted for world class companies, including: Worldpay, Facebook, Vodafone, O2, Millward Brown, Mediacom, GE, LinkedIn, Sabre Travel Network, Sealed Air, and Intel. The majority of my writing work can be seen on my sales training blog.

I've donated financially to Wikipedia for a few years and see it as an enormously helpful resource. I started updating articles in Wikipedia in December 2015. My focus for this is on my areas expertise in sales, marketing, instructional design, training, behavioural economics Also my areas of interest including Scouts.

Pages Created

 * 1) To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others - I've read this book and emulated some of the research in the book for sales training courses and blog articles that I've written on how people perceive sales people and selling.

Pages Updated

 * 1) Shipston-on-Stour - I've lived in Shipston and so wanted to update the page with relevant information
 * 2) Sophos - I worked for Sophos as Global Head of Education between 2006 and 2010 and so wanted to contribute to their page with information about the business from when I was there
 * 3) NFU_Mutual - were a client of mine so I wanted to correct and augment the information on their go to market model which is my area of expertise
 * 4) C - I added that the speed of light in a vacuum, is commonly denoted $c$, and it also appears in the famous equation of mass–energy equivalence $E = mc^{2}$.