Group Members

Denver Trusted Advisors

Our Vistage Peer Advisory Group is made up of business leaders across a variety of industries. We provide a helpful forum for exploring business opportunities and working out challenges. Our group members will rally around you, ask tough questions, and provide resources and experience to help you grow as a leader and improve your business.

Explore our Denver Vistage Peer Advisory Group members below and contact our chair to learn more about joining.

Susan Baldwin

Vistage Peer Advisory Group Member: Susan BaldwinSusan is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™️ professional with Legacy Wealth Partners, LLC. 2018 marked her 25th year as a Financial Professional. She holds a certificate in Retirement Planning from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Susan thrives on helping clients pursue their unique financial goals and personal ambitions. Through each life stage and change in economic times, she provides personal attention, a depth of resources and guidance to support families, executives and business owners. Susan’s comprehensive financial practice utilizes a team approach to champion her client’s objectives.

Karl Becker

About Improving Sales Performance

Improving Sales Performance works with companies to build and uplevel their sales organizations – the result is stronger, high performing sales team, quick revenue wins, and increased sales.

This is achieved through a two-step process:

  1. Sales Foundations
  2. Fractional Sales Leadership

Our approach is based on quick wins and intentional, holistic improvements. We are always looking to create value, build strong foundations, and increase the performance of the sales organization. This comes from a focus on strategy, proven tactics, process, systems, leadership, and teaming.
To support our approach we leverage our experience, time in the field, the Revenue Equation Methodology, frameworks from the book Set Up To Win, strategies, process, and people best practices in Sales & Marketing Alignment, and the sales methodology (4 mindsets and 5 best practices) in Iceberg Selling.

About Karl Becker

I am passionate about guiding companies through positive change – specifically around their sales/marketing organizations. I believe in the power of intentionality and team. My focus is working with SMB owners and leadership teams that are open to change and want to create more stable and predictable revenue by focusing on fundamentals first versus looking for a quick win with a new strategy or tactic. My entire approach to building high performing (and happy/highly functioning) sales organizations is to help leaders understand their current state and then co-create a new reality with them and their team. I have seen a ton of success and positive culture shifts by unlocking the sales team and working together toward a shared vision.

I am the founder of Improving Sales Performance, we are a team of professionals dedicated to supporting salespeople in being the best they can be. We help build high performing, highly functional sales organizations where the culture is powerful, the teams are strong, and revenue growth comes from a holistic, foundational approach led by intentionality.

Vistage Peer Advisory Group Member: Karl BeckerImproving Sales Performance develops high-performing sales & marketing organizations based on intentionality, systems, process, and ongoing learning and development – producing organizations, teams, and individuals that generate more sales and perform at a higher level.

Sales Performance Consultant, Coach, Author, and Speaker – Dedicated To Increasing Sales & Improving Sales Organizations. Karl is a seasoned entrepreneur and sales consultant that jumps in with both feet and gets his hands dirty making things happen. He is driven to create ideas that make business people’s lives better.

His focus is on both individual sales and sales organization performance – helping individuals and companies have breakthrough sales growth.

Karl Becker has a BA in Economics from The Colorado College and an MBA from Leeds School of Business.

Over the last 25 years, Karl has founded and run numerous companies, worked with hundreds of leadership teams, participated in company transformations, raised angel funding, received a US Patent, and been a 40 Under 40 Award Winner.

Hillary Blair

Hilary Blair, co-founder and CEO of ARTiculate: Real and Clear is an energized speaker, trainer, facilitator who capitalizes on her professional voice over and stage training techniques – where she used to put the drama in, she now takes the drama out of team and leadership communication.

She leads programs both nationally and internationally for corporate teams and leadership. Hilary’s work elevates presence, authentic connection, and supports Fruitful Frictionⓡ for traction, innovation, team growth and collaboration.

Training: Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), Conversational Intelligence (CiQ), Culture Talk, MFA in acting from the Nat’l Theatre Conservatory, and a BA from Yale University.

ARTiculate: Real&Clear is a boutique communication firm founded in 2011, combining artistic insight with business expertise to elevate communication, strengthen team dynamics, and expand leadership influence. We tailor our approach to create lasting impact and drive success for your organization.

Steve Busch

Steve Busch, Human Resources Strategies, connects leaders, elevating futures thru Executive Recruitment.

Steve is a Subject Matter Expert in Talent Management, Leadership Development, Employee & Labor Relations, Safety and Risk Management, Human Resources Leadership, and Workforce Development. 

Jim Casart

Vistage Peer Advisory Group Member: Jim CasartTeam 80 harnesses the best in software and people to provide reliable, accurate, and time saving outsourced accounting for emerging businesses, allowing owners the Freedom to Focus on their dreams.

After over 30 years as a practicing CPA and business advisor, Jim noticed one of the biggest barriers to the success of a business was bad or non-existent financial information on which to base key decisions. In response to this, he founded Team 80 LLC and is on a mission to “End Small Business Failure”. Vistage has been critical to helping in this mission. JIm has been a member since 2002.

“Do what you do best…outsource the rest.”

Tiffany Dahlberg

Vistage Peer Advisory Group Member: Tiffany DahlbergWe train leaders using customized, applied and accelerated learning to improve their project success!

Tiffany Dahlberg, Founder of Ready2ACT and PMP®, has over 25 years of experience in helping over 800 organizations and 8,000 people save time and money through smart project management, effective communication, and professional development. She specializes in customizing training and facilitation services to help companies improve their project success through their own people and getting their desired results.

Christina Haxton

Christina Haxton is a Business Coach at VIP Business Coaching and the founder and CEO of The Center for Sustainable Strategies.

Christina is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and thought leader on the topic of disruptive yet practical approaches to strategic execution, leadership development, and organizational change. She has over 20 years of experience as a credentialed executive and business coach, strategic advisor (and former marriage and family therapist) supporting closely held-small to mid-market enterprises, family-owned businesses and business partnerships.

Christina specializes in developing essential leadership skills for visionary founder/CEOs of fast-growth companies whose executives and leadership teams are responsible for sustainable results.
Linkedin.com/in/christinahaxton

Kristen Russell

Vistage Peer Advisory Group Member: Kristen RussellKristen founded Fall River in 2005 as the culmination of her insurance industry career as an actuary, underwriting executive, and consultant. She has supervised over 15,000 employer renewal calculations during her career, uniquely qualifying her to help employers obtain the best rates and renewals, and to bend the trend of our clients’ healthcare costs over time. She serves as Fall River’s CEO, thought leader, and brand champion, and is ultimately accountable to ensuring every client has a great experience.

Thomas Young

Vistage Peer Advisory Group Member: Tom YoungThomas Young is CEO and founder of Intuitive Websites (IW) a leading digital marketing agency. They are group of strategic digital marketing specialists, high-end designers and top-notch developers ready to market your website and drive results at an excellent ROI. IW lives and breathes strategic digital marketing and serve hundreds of clients across the US and Canada.

Thomas has 25 year’s experience in marketing and sales, including digital marketing and AI. He is the author of “Digital Marketing in the Age of AI” and has worked with corporate clients around the country and is passionate about understanding customers and how they use AI and digital content. His clients include HealthONE, Office Depot, NEC, The American Funds, Colorado College, Land Title, Bosca Leather and Intrawest to name a few. Tom’s client list is a testament to his ability to work with and get results for organizations. He has a BA in Communications from the University of Northern Colorado and an MBA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He enjoys tennis, sports and is an avid musician.

Interested in Joining Our Vistage Peer Advisory Group?

We would love to hear from you! If you are interested in joining our Denver Vistage Peer Advisory group please contact our chair here or contact any of the group members directly.