Episode 71

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22nd Jun 2022

Former Teacher, Photographer, and Connector That's Herself in Sales - Emily Dukes, AE @ Docebo, Host of the Learning Elevated PodcastAE

Summary:

Emily Davidson Dukes is an Account Executive at Docebo - a Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enterprise Learning Management System. Before discovering her passion for sales, she worked as a high school English teacher for Madison County Board of Education. In this episode we explore the links between teaching and selling and how Emily utilized her teaching skills to become a better seller. What did she do to sell importance of reading to her students?

Emily stays true to herself in her sales role and we discuss how to let more of the best of you come to the surface in service of your clients.

Emily also works as a freelance photographer and hosts the Learning Elevated Podcast by Docebo. As a person she is always genuine, Passionate about education, learning, & development, Optimistic about the future and Focused on the deltas.

Key Moments:

02.18 - Selling by being human, treating people with respect. Being herself.

11:08 - Connection between teaching and selling

19:13 - Asking the right questions and building trust

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About the Podcast

Sell By Being Human
On the Sell By Being Human podcast, award-winning sales professional Alex Smith provides the proven way to harness your innate human skills like empathy, curiosity, and kindness to learn how to sell and navigate the sales journey.
This is where human connection and sales meet. You may be someone whose success depends on influence, negotiation, and your ability to create change, but you may reject aggressive sales tactics. Maybe you feel stuck in corporate "autopilot," knowing your best asset is your genuine personality, but you struggle to use it to get what you want. Then this channel is for you.

It will teach you how to close the gap between wanting to be ethical and feeling pressured to sell aggressively. You’ll also learn actionable strategies for translating emotional intelligence into high-trust results. Join Alex and top guests, including NY Times bestsellers, keynote speakers, and global founders, as they prove that being truly human is the ultimate sales advantage.

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Alex Smith

Alex Smith is a seasoned sales professional and podcast host who champions a human-first approach to selling. With nearly two decades of experience, he explores how empathy, curiosity, and genuine connection drive influence in everyday life. Through his podcast, he highlights stories from people across all professions, showing that anyone can persuade and create impact simply by being human.