
Karl King
Director, Sales & Customer Experience at The Northern Sydney Institute, part of TAFE NSW
TEDx Organizer
St Leonards, AustraliaAbout Karl
I am a…
Business leader, Connector, Idea generator, Marketer, Performer, Project manager, Promoter, Public servant, Sales specialist, Social entrepreneur
Bio
Karl is an experienced sales professional who has throughout the past 10 years developed a high calibre and varied knowledge within the vocational educational sector. Experiences includes sales and marketing, from design to implementation with direct sales experience within the training and recruitment industry, B2B and B2C markets.
Karl's demonstrated his career ability as a corporate recruitment professional through executive search and select within a private organisation before moving to help establish an in-house aquisition team at MIssion Australia. This involved developing practices across consultation, employer value propositoning and talent scouting from alumni to boolean searching.
Within the management sphere Karl has fine tuned his management experiences in his current role and focussing on leadership - direct management experience mentoring and coaching within a NLP framework seeking to further enhance knowledge in this area. This incorporates financial acumen acustomed to accounting and financial management.
Areas of expertise
B2B & B2C Marketing, Business Development, CRM ("Customer Relationship Management"), Customer Engagement, Customer Retention, Government, Leadership & Mentoring, Marketing & Sales, Stragegic planning, Talent Acquisition
The TED story
I've been a long time TED fan and enjoy watching TED talks in my spare time. I had the opportunity to be part of the TEDxNorthernSydneyInstitute committee in 2013 and now look forward to leading the way for the next event!
Things you might not know
Drumming to the beats...