About
Ben WARD
ABOUT BEN
Experienced Sales Leadership Expert and Strategic Advisor
Ben Ward is a sales and leadership master with over 20 years experience in executive leadership training and development. A sought-after keynote speaker, leadership mentor, and strategic advisor, the #1 bestselling author of “Sellership”, and “Pluck the FUD”. Founder of Forward Leadership––a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs, business professionals, and sales leaders recruit, retain and scale high performing sales teams.
Ben has been married to the love of his life Sheri Rollins Ward for 19 years, and they have three beautiful children they raise in San Clemente, California.
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Built a company worth $56M by 30.
Then lost everything because of this:
Hubris.
Sometimes when you find success early, it can go to your head — it certainly did for me.
The good news is I’ve learned from my mistakes.
A little bit about me:
- Door-to-door sales in 2002
- Earned $25k first summer, then $50k, and $100k
- Transitioned from salesperson to sales manager and kept scaling my earnings (hit $1M+ while in college)
- Became the top regional manager and highest earner in an Inc 500 company
- Co-founded Elevate Inc and scaled it to 2,000 people
- Took it public in 2010
- Lost everything by 2013
- Rebuilt and focus 100% of my time on leadership development
- Published two books
- And I dominate at ping-pong.
- I help salespeople become sales leaders.
Because I know how to do both—AND I know they are NOT the same skill.
Specifically, this is what I offer:
• Keynote Speaking / Events →
• Digital Masterclass →
• Executive Leadership Consulting →
• 1:1 and group Coaching →
• Mastermind Groups and Retreats →
• Write Books →
• Free Resources →
And I’ve helped regional sales managers, Senior VP’s, CXO’s, direct sales organization, D2D companies, entrepreneurs growing sales leadership & teams, healthcare execs, insurance agencies, SAAS companies, Vivint, Nuskin, Doterra, Hawx, Verizon, etc.
AKA if you lead a team that sells stuff to people in person, online or over the phone–and you want to level up your leadership…
I can probably help.
My Story
My Sales-Fueled Leadership Journey
I started my leadership journey building door-to-door sales teams while I was in college. I developed the highest producing sales region at Firstline Security, a $100 million dollar Inc.500 company. I became the #1 producer in the company of over 2,000 people nationwide, generating over $37 million dollars in revenue with my teams. I went from earning $7 an hour stringing tennis rackets, to having earned my first 7 figures in sales & leadership commission by the time I was 26 years old.
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Virtual and in-person leadership training and development. Sales Leadership, Culture, Productivity & Recruiting.
