Next Level, Inc., recognizes and capitalizes on the power of reinforcement. Understanding and implementing a complex set of human attitudes, behaviors and selling techniques is not a "quick fix" solution that can occur in a seminar. These are sustained changes that produce lasting results through the use of participatory and recurring training and strategic business development programs.

Through continued support and follow-up sessions, Next Level, Inc. helps sales executives, professional service providers and top management fulfill personal and organizational goals, from initial hiring decisions to performance evaluations, to building and executing strategic sales plans to motivating people to achieve them, to understanding information technologies to tailoring these powerful tools to support clients' specific opportunities.

Improving the skills and work of an organization's managers is one of our top priorities. We believe that the role of the sales manager is often the toughest in the organization. Sales managers must blend skills in coaching, mentoring, supervising, and training and it certainly helps to master psychiatry as well. Sales managers are tested at every turn and it's our passion to ready them for battle every day.

Next Level, Inc. can customize a proven, supportive, reinforcement-based approach to help you at basic and advanced levels. 

Leadership

Jim Ayraud

Jim Ayraud is CEO and Founder of Next Level, Inc. Next Level is a successful sales management consulting firm located in Franklin, Massachusetts and is an authorized licensee of Sandler Training. 

Jim has more than two-plus decades of sales, sales management, brand marketing, and sales training experience. He is a highly touted public speaker and is recognized in the Boston area as one of the top sales management consultants. He has a proven track record of success with current and past clients. When asked about his clients Jim always says that they have three things in common: commitment, accountability, and rigorous focus on their goals. 

Prior to founding Next Level, Jim spent his sales and marketing career with some of the best companies in America, including Procter and Gamble and Kimberly-Clark Corporation. This high caliber experience provided Jim with the foundational selling and management skills that have become the backbone of his company today. 

During the past 12 years, Jim and his team have trained multiple companies in over 60 different industries. The variety of sales and sales management issues that Next Level has faced with its clients puts them in a special and unique category of being real-world advisors. 

Jim and his wife have two daughters and are active in the community and their church. Jim and Cindy love to travel and when time permits he loves to play golf. 
 

Chris Bond

Chris Bond is Partner at Next Level, Inc., a Franklin, Massachusetts-based sales management consulting firm and an affiliate of Sandler Training. He is a dynamic speaker and sales trainer and is requested frequently to speak on a variety of sales and management topics. 

Developing clients who lack the systems and processes necessary to grow sales is Chris’ passion and focus at Next Level. He is instrumental in taking the firm’s committed clients to their next level of sales and sales management professionalism. Clients can count on being held accountable to revenue growth goals and they know that Chris has little patience for convenient excuse making.

Chris has over 18 years of successful sales, management and training & development experience. Prior to joining Next Level, he had an eight-year career with Loews/Sony Corporation. He rose to Regional Manager and was ranked #1 among his peers for incremental sales and profit improvement in his region. Chris achieved this rank largely through training and development of management personnel. 

In 2005, Chris co-founded and led the worldwide release and roll-out of the Internet-based software program SalesAccountability™. This coaching tool revolutionized how Sandler franchisees communicate with their clients, and to date is the most successful new product introduction in the history of Sandler Training.

Chris earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing from Stonehill College. He lives with his wife and their three children in Franklin, Massachusetts, where he loves coaching youth sports and is a dedicated basketball player.
 

Dave Turano

Dave Turano is Managing Director of Corporate Development at Next level, Inc. a Franklin, MA-based sales management consulting firm and authorized licensee of Sandler Training. 

Dave has 14 years of successful sales & sales management experience and has worked for some of the best IT companies in America, including Data Arts & Sciences, Cotelligent and COMSYS.  Dave was consistently among the top 5% of sales performers in the company and was invited to Chairman’s Club four times during his tenure at COMSYS.  In 2004 he became the Director of Recruiting for the Northeast and later that year was named the Director of Sales for New England.  In 2005 Dave was promoted to Managing Director of the New England market.  He also took a lead role in the development of a formalized sales process for COMSYS and was the first Managing Director to attend and participate in a new hire sales training session at corporate headquarters.  He was recognized by peers and senior management alike as an up and coming leader with a passion for sales, coaching and people development. He also has had a passion for the Sandler Selling System since he adopted it in 1998.    

Dave earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication from Stonehill College.  He is happily married with three children and enjoys spending time with his family.  Dave also coaches youth baseball and is fiercely committed to an active lifestyle that includes daily exercise and regular participation in team sports.

Our Team

We are a Boston-based sales management consulting firm located in Franklin, Massachusetts and one of the top Sandler Training  franchises in the U.S. since 1996. Our training is designed to create lasting performance improvement rather than the motivational "quick fix" typical of many seminar-based training programs. To help you accomplish your goals, our team provides reinforcement training, a system that combines quality materials along with access to ongoing training workshops and individual coaching sessions. We provide continuing face-to-face support and reinforcement of the world's most successful selling system. Our team understands that business success is directly related to the effectiveness of upper- and mid-level managers within an organization. Our management solutions help mangers at all levels become more effective communicators, better mentors and coaches, and competent managers of change.

Entrepreneur Magazine has ranked Sandler as the No.1 training company seven times since 1994, including 2005-2007.