Fractional sales leadership · Wisconsin B2B

The sales leader your company needs — without the full-time hire.

For Wisconsin manufacturers and B2B service companies between $10M and $50M, ready to build a sales organization that runs without depending on a single rainmaker.

Start with the diagnostic
Eight minutes · scores your team across six components · free
Principal

Brian Sprinkman

Sales leader · three-time CEO/President
  • Built sales teams at three companies
  • 20+ years in B2B leadership
  • Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Works onsite and remote
If this sounds familiar

You don't have a sales problem.
You have a system problem.

The underlying system

The Focused Revenue Method — six components, installed in order.

Each one depends on the ones before it. That order isn't a preference; a scorecard without defined pipeline stages has nothing to measure, and a weekly meeting without either is a check-in everyone quietly stops attending.

01

Vision

Where we're going

The three-year picture, the one-year goal, the ideal client profile, and what makes you different. Set annually, reset each quarter.

02

People

Right people, right seats

Written key outcomes for every seat, then a DISC read for objective data on work style, then the Seat Review: Will, Skill, Fit. A fit diagnosis, not a performance grade, run at the install and at every hire rather than on a calendar.

Depends on Vision — the goal and the client profile decide what each seat has to deliver.
03

Pipeline

How revenue happens

Stages with real entry and exit criteria, a qualification standard drawn from your client profile, closed-lost reason codes, and a CRM configured to match.

Depends on Vision — without a client profile, "qualified" means whatever the last person said.
04

Scorecard

What winning looks like

Five to seven metrics per role, weighted to leading indicators, each with a green line and a red line. Entered by hand every week, because entering the number is the discipline.

Depends on People and Pipeline — charters decide which metrics belong to a role, stages make them measurable.
05

Rhythm

The weekly cadence

A sixty-minute weekly sales meeting on a standing agenda, weekly coaching one-to-ones, monthly number reviews, and a quarterly reset.

Depends on all four before it — most of the hour is spent on things that must already exist.
06

Accountability

Commitments get closed

Rocks called on-track or off, to-dos closed, and a permanent issues list worked from the top. The discipline that closes them is Clarify, Discuss, Decide — and nothing leaves the room without an owner and a date.

Depends on Rhythm — the meeting is the container the discipline lives inside.
Start here

Score your team in eight minutes.

Thirty statements across all six components, rated one to five. You get your scores, your three biggest gaps, and a written summary. No cost, no obligation, and the results are yours whether or not we ever speak.

Take the diagnostic
Then a 90-minute session, if you want one.
How we work together

Three ways to engage — one underlying system.

Every engagement runs on the same six components. What changes is how deeply embedded I am, and for how long.

Most common

The 90-day install

Productized · fixed scope

The full Focused Revenue Method, built and rehearsed until your team runs it without me. Four weeks to build the foundation, eight to make it a habit.

  • Vision session with your leadership team
  • Key outcomes written for every seat, and an honest read on who is in it
  • Pipeline stages, qualification, CRM configured
  • A live scorecard, five to seven metrics per role
  • The weekly meeting running, and handed over
  • Diagnostic rescored at Day 90 against Day 1
Best fitYou have a sales leader in place, but the system underneath them is broken.
Embedded

Fractional sales leadership

Ongoing · senior · in the seat

I sit in the VP of Sales seat — running the cadence, coaching your managers, owning the forecast — until you're ready to hire the full-time version.

  • Onsite presence plus weekly remote work
  • Run the cadence and the pipeline reviews
  • Coach managers and salespeople directly
  • Own forecast accuracy and team performance
  • Report to the CEO weekly
Best fitYou need a sales leader but aren't ready for a full-time hire.
Coaching

Sales leadership development

1:1 or cohort · customizable

For first-time sales managers and newly promoted directors — people who were great at selling and now have to lead.

  • Coaching on a regular cadence
  • Cohort programs for emerging leaders
  • Real deals, not case studies
  • The Method as the curriculum
  • Shadow days and in-meeting coaching
Best fitYou have a sales leader who needs to grow into the role.
What the install costs

You pay the most when I do the most.

The install is the heavy lift. After that your team owns the system, needs less of me, and pays less. The price steps down on purpose.

First 90 days
$24,000

The install. Half on signing, half at Day 45.

Year one
$2,500 / mo

Begins at Day 90. The year the habit sets, and when I stay closest.

Year two
$2,000 / mo

Your team owns it by now. Quarterly reviews continue.

Year three onward
$1,000 / mo

Software only, if you want it. Flat rate for teams up to 10 users. The advising stops; the system keeps running.

The install and the monthly fee never overlap — the monthly starts the day the install ends. Cancel any time with 60 days' notice, no penalty, and your data comes with you. If the system is still running in year three, it should be because it works, not because a contract says so.

What happens next

From diagnostic to engagement.

Step 01

Diagnostic

Eight minutes, thirty statements. You get your scores and your three biggest gaps, free, whether or not we go further.

Step 02

Ninety minutes

A working conversation with you and your leadership team. I ask about the answers you gave. Mostly I listen.

Step 03

Proposal

A written scope that opens with what I heard, in your words. Defined outcomes, timeline, and price. No surprises.

Step 04

Install

Ninety days. Build for four weeks, rehearse for eight, then the diagnostic again — Day 1 against Day 90.

About

Brian Sprinkman

"I built the Focused Revenue Method by looking back at what actually worked across three CEO and President roles — and what didn't."
CEO / President roles leading sales
20+
Years in B2B sales leadership
90
Days to install the system

I've spent more than two decades in B2B sales leadership, including three CEO and President roles where I owned the sales organization, built the team, and ran the cadence. I've hired salespeople and fired salespeople, made the wrong hires and the right ones, and sat through enough forecast meetings that ended in a shrug to know what causes them.

Now I work with Wisconsin B2B companies between $10M and $50M — manufacturers and service companies, usually family-owned or owner-operated, usually with a sales team that's good at selling and short on structure.

I'm not a trainer. Generic sales training energizes a team for two weeks and changes nothing, because the week after the training looks exactly like the week before it. I install systems and stay long enough to see whether they hold.

The Focused Revenue Method is what came out of that: six components, installed in order, with software that runs the weekly cadence once the install is done. I work out of Milwaukee and serve clients across Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.

Common questions

Before you reach out.

Are you a recruiter or a fractional sales VP?

A fractional sales leader, not a recruiter. When I'm embedded I sit in the seat and own the outcome. If the right answer is a full-time hire, I'll help you define the role and hand it over cleanly — that's a good ending, not a lost client.

How is this different from sales training or consulting?

Training teaches skills and leaves. Consulting writes a report and leaves. Neither changes how your team operates on a Tuesday. The Method installs a system your team runs every week after I'm gone — and the software is there so the cadence has somewhere to live.

What size company is this right for?

Wisconsin B2B companies between $10M and $50M in revenue, 50 to 200 employees, with a sales team of three to fifteen. Manufacturers and service companies, usually family-owned or owner-operated. Below that the structure is heavier than the team needs; well above it, you should hire a full-time VP.

Why ninety days? Could it be faster?

The build can be compressed. The repetitions can't. A weekly meeting becomes a habit somewhere around the eighth or tenth time it happens without being cancelled, and there's no way to run eight weekly meetings in less than eight weeks. A shorter engagement would sell you the artifacts without the habit, which is the failure this method exists to prevent.

Can I just buy the software?

Usually not on its own. The software is the scoreboard — it assumes a vision, charters, defined stages, and a weekly meeting already exist. Handed to a team without those, it's an empty dashboard nobody opens by week six. If you've done that work already and just need somewhere to run it, say so and we'll talk about a short setup.

What does it cost?

The install is $24,000 across the first 90 days, then $2,500 a month in year one and $2,000 in year two, stepping down to software only at $1,000 a month if you want it. Fractional and development engagements are scoped separately. The diagnostic and the first conversation are free.

Do you work onsite or remote?

Both. For Wisconsin clients I'm onsite regularly — typically weekly during the build phase, then less often as your team takes the system over.

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes. Discovery conversations and working sessions are confidential by default, and I'll sign your paper before we get into specifics.

Start the conversation

If your sales team feels stuck, start with the scores.

Take the diagnostic first — it takes eight minutes and it makes the first conversation far more useful. Or just email me and we'll talk.

Take the diagnostic Email Brian
brian@sprinkmanadvising.com · 414-759-7802