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About Homayoun

The core of Homayoun Hatami’s expertise is in sales development and innovative applications for commercial practices. He is a director in McKinsey’s Paris office and co-leads our work in sales and channel management globally.

He worked in McKinsey’s Boston office before moving to Paris. He has headed several commercial-transformation projects, mainly for large telecom, high-tech, and consumer electronics clients. He assisted them primarily in defining strategies for multichannels, retail partnerships, organization, and sales-force operational efficiency.

Homayoun Hatami has played a key role in McKinsey’s research in the area of growth through excellence in sales and channels. He is one of the authors of Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders, which deals with the experiences and innovations of 120 sales executives at multinationals.

From 2001 to 2006, he was a member of board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Videos

Rebirth of the salesman

Being a courageous sales leader

Sales management at heart of business growth

All of Homayoun Hatami’s videos on Sales Growth TV2

Publications

Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World's Sales Leaders, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2012

Selling into micromarkets,” Harvard Business Review, August 2012

Use big data to find new micromarkets,” Human Capital Exchange, August 2012

Finding the mountaintops in your markets,” CustomerThink.com, July 2012

Use data to unlock growth ahead of your rivals,” ChiefExecutive.net, June 2012

Sales motivation: It’s not just about pay,” Monster, April 2012

Using your salesforce to jump-start growth,” McKinsey Quarterly, April 2011

Education
MIT Sloan School of Management MBA
École Centrale de Paris MS in computer science

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