About Sara

Sara Levinson has been named a Linkedin Top 100 Sales Star, a top female sales practitioner by Sales Hacker, and is a frequent presenter, moderator, and podcast guest in both the high-tech and ed-tech sales communities. 

In the beginning of her career, she was hired as a sales development representative at IBM. She was placed in IBM’s experienced sellers track for Global Sales School at 24 years old with no experience in sales. She graduated first in the class two weeks later. Within two years, Sara became a strategic account executive closing multi-million dollar, highly competitive deals across multiple technology companies with the world’s largest & most influential brands, including Gap, Disney, Symantec, Ashley Furniture, Petco, Tiffany’s, and many more. Sara held strategic account roles at LivePerson, named by Fast Company as a top ten AI company in the world (2020) and Clicktale (acquired by ContentSquare in 2019).

On the OMG Sales Assessment taken by over 2 million sales professionals globally, she scored in the top 6%. Her ability to collaborate across internal teams and complex enterprises to drive the best solution forward has made her a top performer throughout her career in sales.

Sara is currently the Vice President of Business Development for Prometric where she is focused on a set of key accounts as a mega-deal hunter, and recently landed an agreement worth over $24 million in total contract value.

Sara is a course author and instructor for Pavilion, a private community for high-growth professionals, formerly known as Revenue Collective. Among her recent courses are “The Qualities of Great Sellers,” “Understanding Marketing Means Understanding Sales” and “Bridging the Gap from SDR to AE”

Sara holds an M.A. in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. in English from Gettysburg College, where she was recently named to the Alumni Board of Directors. Her writing has appeared in Thrive Global, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Gettysburg Times, and the American Scholar.