Spencer Penhart

Redmond, Washington, United States

"Inspiring Excellence, Through a Passion for People" is at the heart of Spencer Penhart's mission, both inside and outside of work.

Spencer is an expert in developing extraordinary leaders and salespeople. Having designed and delivered hundreds of leadership and sales workshops at Fortune 100 companies, Spencer has witnessed how high=performing orgnizations succeed, and why others fail. Spencer fundamentally believes that more effective people make more successful organizations, and has seen first-hand at some of the most prestigious companies in the world how investing in talent development can lead to astonishing results.

Penhart Performance Group helps clients grow their business by enhancing the effectiveness of their leaders and sales force. Spencer enjoys forging deep and lasting relationships with his clients, becoming a strategic partner for their business and inspiring them to perform to their maximum capability.

  • Through leadership training workshops, keynotes, and consulting, Spencer helps senior staff and managers improve their leadership effectiveness, and develop the awareness, knowledge and skills they need to elicit maximum performance from their direct reports and greater organization.
  • Through sales effectiveness innovation, Spencer also helps sales organizations develop targeted, cutting-edge sales messages designed to overcome the rapidly-changing purchasing environment in the "New Economic Reality", as well as refine their executive selling skills.

Spencer brings the latest information from his fields, and delivers it in a positive, engaging and energetic style. He challenges his clients and audiences to make an honest introspective assessment of their performance, adopt an ownership mentality around that current state, and commit to concrete goals and actions to maximize performance moving forward. After working with Spencer, participants report feeling more energized and confident, with a concrete action plan full of new ideas.

Spencer donates 10% of every Penhart Performance Group engagement fee to the charity of the client's choosing. He lives in the Seattle Area with his wife and two children, and considers himself the most fortunate man in the world.

  • Work
    • Leadership Development and Sales Effectiveness
  • Education
    • BA, Psychology and Communications, Lake Forest College