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Persona Global Buyer Map
Yessenia Chero | Persona Global | October 2026
As of 17 Oct 2026
Your site describes a consultancy that publishes and distributes workshops, assessments and business simulations, and that works through a network of certified trainers and Organizational Development consultants.
This page covers both sides of that model: the corporate teams that buy programs like yours, and the consulting and training firms that could deliver them as partners. It sorts each group by type and size and names who usually signs off at each.
Where your buyers and partners sit
Counts are organizations, banded on purpose. The partner groups have clean public counts; the corporate buyer groups sit across every industry, so they say so instead.
| Group | Organizations in the US | Under 20 staff | 20 to 99 | 100 to 499 | 500 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional and management development training firms (partners) | about 7,700 | about 7,100 | about 400 | about 94 | about 81 |
| Human resources consulting firms (partners) | about 7,600 | about 6,900 | about 430 | about 140 | about 120 |
| General management consulting firms (partners) | about 94,000 | about 89,000 | about 3,000 | about 860 | about 510 |
| Mid-market and enterprise companies with their own HR and learning teams (buyers) | no clean public count | ||||
| Companies that run their own field or inside sales teams (buyers) | no clean public count |
US firm counts by industry code, banded deliberately.
Who usually signs off on a program
Titles vary by company size. In a mid-market company one HR leader often holds two of these roles.
| Buyer group | Who signs off | Who shapes the choice |
|---|---|---|
| HR and learning teams | Chief Human Resources Officer or VP of Talent | Director of Learning and Development and HR Business Partners |
| Leadership and new manager programs | Chief People Officer | Head of Leadership Development or Organizational Development Manager |
| Sales teams | VP of Sales or Chief Revenue Officer | Sales Enablement Manager and Regional Sales Managers |
| Customer service teams | VP of Customer Experience | Customer Service Training Manager |
Who usually signs off on a partnership
Partner firms are often small, so the person who signs is usually the person who delivers.
| Partner group | Who signs off | Who delivers the work |
|---|---|---|
| Training and development firms | Founder or Managing Director | Lead Facilitator or Training Director |
| Human resources consulting firms | Principal or Managing Partner | Senior HR Consultant |
| Management consulting firms | Managing Partner or Practice Lead | Organizational Development Consultant |
What each side is usually looking for
HR and learning leaders usually buy a program to close a named gap, such as managers newly promoted from individual roles or teams that need to work together across functions. They look for something ready to run, adapted to their people, and backed by an assessment that shows the change.
Sales leaders buy communication, negotiation and account programs when deals stall or new hires ramp slowly. The VP of Sales owns the budget, and the sales enablement manager usually runs the search.
Training and consulting firms add a licensed program when their clients ask for something they do not have in house. A certification lets them deliver it to their own clients, which matches the certified network your site describes.
The groups without a clean public count
Companies with their own HR and learning teams sit in every industry, from health care and finance to manufacturing and software. The public industry codes count companies by what they sell, not by whether they run a learning team, so there is no clean public count for this group.
Companies that run their own sales teams are spread the same way, so this page names who signs for a program by role instead of counting them.
Ten people to start with
The people who usually sign at the groups above, one a company. Work emails and phone numbers checked on Oct 17, 2026.
| Name | Role | Company | Where | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa McCallister | Director of Learning and Development | CONMED Corporation | Denver | lisamccallister@conmed.com | +1 303 748 2402 |
| Ashleigh Johnson | Director of Learning and Development | Pacific Advisors | Philadelphia, PA | ashleigh.johnson@pacificadvisors.com | +1 617 543 3933 |
| Sissy Meredith | Director of Learning and Development | InvoiceCloud, Inc. | Louisville, KY | +1 502 747 0818 | |
| Jenna Filipkowski | Head of Learning and Development | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Hoboken, NJ | +1 570 677 3390 | |
| Jim McGannon | Chief Human Resources Officer | Sarnova | Columbus, OH | jim.mcgannon@sarnova.com | +1 740 513 1529 |
| David Kuhl | Chief Human Resources Officer | Togetherwork | Naples, FL | dkuhl@togetherwork.com | +1 404 791 4459 |
| Kelly Hadous | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | Win The Room | Los Angeles | kellyhadous@wintheroom.com | +1 646 652 9749 |
| Robert L. Lee Mulberry | CEO/Managing Partner | Northern Star Consulting | Denver | lmulberry@northernstarconsult.com | +1 303 668 8855 |
| Joel Phillips | Founder | Strategic Advisor Boardâ„ | Los Angeles | joel@strategicadvisorboard.com | +1 951 205 3886 |
| John Spence | Managing Partner | John Spence, LLC | Gainesville, FL | john@johnspence.com | +1 352 339 0142 |
Where to start
Sales programs for sales leaders
Leadership and new manager programs for learning leaders
Built from public federal registries and the company's own website, counts banded deliberately.
If a walk-through is useful, pick a time at cal.com/ecg.
Prepared by Ben Beattie, ben@enquirerconsulting.com.