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Our Services

We deliver flexible growth solutions through strategic programs and executive leadership support tailored to your organization.

Foundational Sales Partnership

Expert guidance to accelerate founder-led sales with proven frameworks and tactical execution.

You need this if you are:

Struggling to scale beyond personal selling efforts
Experiencing inconsistent sales performance and unpredictable revenue
Lacking structured sales processes and playbooks
  • Accelerated deal velocity through proven sales frameworks
  • Consistent revenue growth with predictable sales cycles
  • Enhanced founder confidence in sales conversations

Implementation Sales Partnership

Hands-on support to build and lead scalable sales teams with systematic processes.

You need this if you are:

Ready to hire but unsure how to structure sales roles
Needing territory planning and market segmentation strategies
Lacking CRM optimization and pipeline visibility
  • Efficient sales team scaling with reduced hiring mistakes
  • Improved forecast accuracy and pipeline management
  • Higher rep productivity within first 90 days

Transformative Sales Partnership

Comprehensive fractional CRO support to build world-class sales organizations.

You need this if you are:

Preparing for Series funding or acquisition within 36 months
Having sales managers who can sell but struggle developing teams
Needing complete RevOps alignment and performance systems
  • Sustainable growth systems beyond partnership engagement
  • Enhanced company valuation through proven sales metrics
  • Leadership team equipped with scalable sales DNA
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The Framework

LIFT Leadership's proven methodology meets founders where they are and builds scalable systems that grow with your business.

Listen & Learn

  • Listen: Conduct comprehensive assessments of your current sales motion, team capabilities, and growth obstacles.
  • Learn: Analyze your GTM strategy, pipeline health, and revenue operations to identify the highest-impact opportunities.

Implement & Integrate

  • Implement: Deploy proven frameworks across your five critical focus areas: Revenue Operations, GTM Strategy, Technology, Hiring, and People Management.
  • Integrate: Embed scalable processes into your organizational DNA that function independently of founder involvement.

Focus & Framework

  • Focus: Establish clear KPIs, territory planning, and performance management systems that drive consistent results.
  • Framework: Build repeatable sales processes, compensation structures, and onboarding programs that accelerate new hire productivity.

Transform & Transfer

  • Transform: Evolve from founder-led sales to a predictable, scalable revenue engine with sustainable 3-5 year runway.
  • Transfer: Develop internal leadership capabilities and knowledge systems that ensure continued growth beyond our partnership.

Our Purpose

People

Most early-stage founders face an impossible paradox.

You need proven sales systems to scale, but nobody takes you seriously until you've already scaled. Accelerators want equity for network access. Consultants start the stopwatch but won't roll up their sleeves. The very people who could help you succeed wait until you prove you don't need them.

We've seen this cycle destroy too many promising companies.

After scaling sales organizations to $50M+ and watching countless founders struggle alone, we realized the problem isn't lack of talent or market opportunity. It's timing. The best support comes after you've already figured it out the hard way—or failed trying.

That's the cycle we're here to break.

LIFT Leadership Group exists for the 90% of startups still fighting to reach their first million in revenue. We partner with founders between $0-$10M who have the vision and drive but need the strategic framework and tactical execution to get there.

We don't just provide advice—we build tools, make calls, and get our hands dirty alongside you. Because we believe the difference between a struggling startup and a thriving business isn't talent or luck. It's having someone who authentically cares about your success willing to do the difficult work that no one else will.

Every successful company started as someone's impossible dream. We're here to make yours inevitable.

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Meet The Founders

David Franke

David Franke

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  • Scaled DoorDash's national US sales organization to $50M+ revenue, driving 42% ARR growth while consistently achieving 150-175% of targets
  • Built and led multi-level sales teams of 120+ professionals across three major industries, with direct responsibility for hiring 100+ reps and promoting 20+ sales leaders
  • Architected comprehensive sales systems including hiring playbooks, performance frameworks, and talent mapping methodologies that enabled predictable scaling
  • Specializes in transforming founder-led sales motions into systematic revenue engines for early-stage companies
Tim Tolle

Tim Tolle

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  • 20+ years scaling sales organizations from $500K to $250M+ revenue, with oversight of 30+ directors nationwide and seven direct promotions to leadership roles
  • Certified Executive Coach with proven expertise in customer success, process improvement, sales efficiency, and team development
  • Built hiring and development systems responsible for onboarding 250+ sales professionals and promoting 50+ sales managers
  • Focuses on leadership development frameworks that enable founders to transition from individual contributors to strategic revenue leaders
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