Julie Vella ~ Director / Principal Consultant

Julie Vella is the Director of SUCCESS TRAiN specializing in behaviour sales skills. With 18 years experience with Coca-Cola Amatil across sales, sales management, human resources and sales training, Julie has enormous credibility as a sales trainer.

For 5 years she was the Victorian and Tasmanian State Training Manager and was responsible for 150 sales people. Coca-Cola Amatil is now one of Julie's clients where she is responsible for core sales skills training of a sales force in excess of 1200 people.

Julie has vast experience across customer service, business to business sales, supermarket and petroleum, vending sales and service, in bound and out bound telesales, licensed and food service businesses. More recently she has been working with a large franchised food business to improve their customer service and suggestive selling skills. Julie has also worked with wholesalers and small business to prepare them for Trade Shows and exhibitions.

Julie is the ideal choice for any businesses that have clients or customers. She is comfortable with any audience from maintenance workers, hair dressers and beauty therapists to negotiating national contracts with National Human Resources or National Sales Managers and Managing Directors.

During her time as a sales representative for Coca-Cola Amatil, Julie had the highest increase of individual sales across Victoria. She was promoted to Sales Manager, responsible for the largest regional site in Victoria managing shippers, drivers, telesales as well as a sales team. With experience across sales and human resources, she can incorporate the practical elements of selling together with the behaviour skills to be a well-rounded resource to any client.

David Mead ~ Associate

SUCCESS TRAiN is very honoured to introduce David Mead as an associate. David complements the business with his like-minded philosophies, his differing professional strengths, skill sets and industry backgrounds. David has over 20 years experience in varied blue chip companies, franchise operations, FMCG, pharmaceutical and government channels.

David’s experience has seen him accountable for increased compliance and profitability through differing propositions necessitating dynamic leadership and management technique with capacity to “see the big picture”.

With such a diverse career, David’s achievements are numerous. In particular, his achievements pertaining to the largest convenience operations business in Australian include:

Implemented first operation curriculum attaining compliance levels of 98% on former 35% average.
Constructed end-to-end Category Management plan negotiated contractual arrangements which increased profit by double digits.
Introduced marketing loyalty program which increased incidence and traffic flow by 3%
Constructed Green field fresh food propriety business operation leading industry standard.

Together David and Julie will add value to any business by working in synergy to meet the individual business objectives.

Contact David today on franchise@successtrain.com.au and have SUCCESS TRAiN identify how to train your team to grow your business

Maria Maddalena-Raso ~ Associate

Maria Maddalena-Raso joins the associates list of SUCCESS TRAiN bringing with her 16 years of extensive experience in human resource services across a wide range of industries in both the private and public sectors. Throughout this time, Maria has developed sound knowledge of the trends and issues organisations face to increase productivity through people and ultimately create workforce optimisation.

Throughout her career, Maria has worked in various capacities including recruitment, sales, management, training and managing learning and development. As a result of this she has extensive expertise in best practice hiring & selection methodologies, managing and improving performance, front line management and project management.

More recently Maria has created learning programs in all areas of the learning & development framework as well as created distance learning /blended learning methods and content management systems. She has worked with teams and companies in Australia, Asia and North America.

Currently, Julie and Maria are working together with companies to achieve business goals by providing onsite training advice, creating development plans, writing training programs based on company needs and facilitating workshops.

Contact Maria today on recruit@successtrain.com.au and have SUCCESS TRAiN identify the right people to grow your business.

Karen Becker ~ Customer Service Manager

Karen brings a wealth of customer service experience to SUCCESS TRAiN across various industries including manufacturing, educational consulting, business to business sales, telesales and office administration.

With 15 years of customer service experience and extensive sales training in Dimensions of Professional Selling, Call Centre Techniques and Effective Coaching, Karen is fully versed to answer any of your questions.

Email karen@successtrain.com.au and ask her about how SUCCESS TRAiN can start training your team to grow your business.