About Us
we are a revenue growth consultancy.
Who we are.
Cultured Perspective is a Black-owned, revenue growth consultancy. We assist start-up founders and rising revenue leaders with implementing the proper sales processes to plan, execute and scale your unique go-to-market strategy to position you as the premier business in your field.
With an effective go-to-market strategy your business and inherent equity strategy instilled into the fabric of your business, your company will be able to identify and secure recurring revenue to meet your business goals and earn your business sustainable growth for years to come.
We’ve worked with some of the fastest growing technology companies to scale exponentially and we hope you can be our next success story.

Founder
Marcus Knight
Marcus Knight is a Go-To-Market Strategist with over 15 years of experience in the SaaS industry. He’s built revenue teams from the ground up that have generated exponential revenue success. As an expert in finding gaps in structure and processes, and then implementing effective strategy aligned to a company’s desired outcomes, Marcus is adept at uncovering new revenue streams. He continuously researches markets, listens to customers, and tests his team’s hypotheses against the current state of the relative market to produce transformative results for his clients.
Deeply passionate about equity within the workplace, Marcus thrives on working with clients that are forward thinking, especially in utilizing underestimated talent to produce results. When it comes to designing a Go-To-Market strategy and uncovering underutilized talent, he is a true, hands-on partner in the process; a present thought leader who’s there every step of the way to ensure that people can easily understand and execute on the strategy put forth.
Marcus’ mission is to help founders lead with empathy and equity from the start, while generating a scalable revenue process. Cultured Perspective is the intersection of revenue and equity growth – proving that the underestimated talent is out there if you search with intention.
Growth Development Leader
NIkki Ivey
Nikki is an award winning B2B Revenue Growth Leader and Sales Culture Subject Matter Expert. This one woman demand-gen engine was recently recognized as a 2020 LinkedIn Top Sales Voice, and Sales Success Summit Top 100 LinkedIn Sales Star. Nikki is coaching and training sales development reps through SDRDefenders, a company she co-founded.
She’s hosted and appeared on hundreds of industry webinars, podcasts and blogs around improving rev growth strategy at SaaS companies .Over the last decade, Nikki has built multiple growth development programs from the ground up, generating millions in pipeline for Startups.
Clients can expect a high energy, engaging and attentive approach that centers on metrics, mindset and a little bit of magic. Her upbeat and accessible communication style has driven her career from one who chased leads to one who attracts leaders.
At the heart of what sets Nikki apart from the pack is her commitment to creativity and innovation in revenue growth strategy. Her success is fueled by refusing to uphold an outdated status quo. A respected luminary among leaders in the space, Nikki disarms and delights clients and prospects alike with her heightened ability to create quick connections and cut through the noise.
With new sales consultancies cropping up daily, Nikki is particularly attracted to Cultured Perspective because of its emphasis on inclusion and growth. Many businesses who provide similar services do so without the lived, demographic experience to meet the needs of the increasingly diverse and evolving landscape of modern revenue teams. In Cultured Perspective, Nikki sees the opportunity for her expertise to impact the lives and bottom lines of hard working business leaders who share her passion for growing relationships into revenue.


Nathan crafts
Nathan is a 2-time startup founder with more than 10 years’ experience in sales & go-to-market. Within the startup ecosystem he has helped SaaS companies, in industries ranging from E-Commerce to Software Testing, scale sales teams. Nathan’s specializes in helping teams move up-market and heavily applies behavioral science in his coaching.
Having founded two of his own companies, Nathan also enjoys working with companies to create frameworks for efficient communication and teamwork across departments.
Cultured Perspective provides Nathan the opportunity to do three of his favorite things: meet other passionate entrepreneurs, help people realize their goals, and coach.

Ellis Stone
Ellis Stone is a Growth Development Manager who works in the Healthcare startup industry. Over the past several years, he’s been able to build the growth development team from the ground up. His expertise is laying down the foundation and processes to deliver a highly successful growth engine. Ellis believes in an easy to understand approach to prospecting, ensuring that his clients, at every level can easily and effectively implement it.
With over 10 years of sales and prospecting experience in multiple industries (healthcare, retail, SaaS and pharmaceutical), Ellis has the insight to adjust to the client’s needs. Going above and beyond, he is a true partner in the process. Being there every step of the way to ensure that they can easily understand and execute on the strategy put forth.
His mission is to help founders avoid pitfalls that can he’s encountered when building growth development teams. With his expertise and Cultured Perspective’s equity mission, clients are setting their revenue organizations up for success out the gate.

Azani Pinkney
Azani David Pinkney is an experienced educator, entrepreneur, and consultant with over 10 years of demonstrated history working in the higher education, diversity, and education-technology industries. Skilled in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) best practices, instructional design, and social-impact business development, Azani has the ability to teach and train businesses and organizations to build diverse teams, equitable systems, and inclusive products, cultures, and services. Originally from Washington, DC, Azani is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Africana Studies. In addition to his work at Cultured Perspective, Azani serves as a Project Manager for Education Partnerships at Amplify Education, where he ensures seamless execution of over $90 million in partnerships for Amplify’s California region

Madison Mobley
Madison L. Mobley (she/her/they/them) is black, female, millennial, and a Columbia University Alum who, once upon a time, majored in Sociology and aspired to be a freelance journalist.
Spoiler alert: Freelance journalism didn’t pay the New York City bills, resulting in a reluctant power pivot.
Fast forward 10+ years, and she’s a seasoned, industry agnostic business strategist for both established and startup organizations.
Madison’s approach is wildly unconventional, and her appetite for disrupting status quo for the better is insatiable. She attracts clients who are visionaries in their respective industries, seeking competitive advantage and distinction.
Whether a company’s focus is cost or differentiation centric, she is expert in building cross-functional social selling programs, boosting share of voice to accelerate revenue generation.
In parallel, Madison equips her clients with the tools to train, develop, and maximize the growth potential of their existing talent WHILE attracting, recruiting and retaining underrepresented talent.
Madison’s passions can be summarized to say she readies her clients for the future of work by keeping the human in front. A future that must be representative of the world in which we live. A future that’s growing bolder. A future that demands leaders either walk the talk or get called out and left behind.
Readiness begins with culture, and it’s Cultured Perspective that’s uniquely positioned for partnership with purpose.

Larry Long Jr.
Larry Long Jr is a Sales Director working at the cutting edge of innovation in the digital transformation within elite Athletics. He is also the host of the ‘Midweek Midday Motivational Minute’, focused on sales motivation, inspiration, training & coaching.
An experienced sales leader with a demonstrated history of success in SaaS sales over 20+ years (ecommerce, finance, healthcare, product), Larry brings a unique perspective to the table and understands many of the challenges faced by sales professionals and organizations in today’s ever-changing environment. Extremely passionate about coaching, Larry strives on helping professionals take their game to the ‘next level’.
Partnering with Cultured Perspective allows Larry to impact and drive for positive outcomes within organizations of all stages (start-up to publicly traded). Practicing what he preaches, Larry continuously seeks opportunities to learn & grow.

Aara Meas
Aara Meas is a goal oriented productivityist with over 10 years of experience in implementing processes, executing timelines, and coordinating teams and events. She is constantly researching and developing new ways to provide effective workflow and promote cohesive organizational methods within small companies. Aara is committed to serving the people, an avid creative, and an advocate for self awareness in order to achieve personal exponential growth. She is deeply passionate about building community, creating structure, and enabling teams and individuals to better succeed in their departments and careers.

DeJuan Brown
DeJuan Brown is a Revenue Growth Tactician, with 20 years of experience in the Software industry.
He’s achieved record-breaking success as an individual contributor, and held leadership roles ranging from Sales Manager, to VP of Sales.
As a lifelong Chess player, DeJuan has the ability to help his clients ‘see around corners’ while implementing a ‘three moves ahead’ strategy of revenue growth.
DeJuan is a passionate practitioner of the Servant-leadership paradigm, and believes that no strategy that isn’t centered on people is sustainable.
Driven by deep belief in the value of diversity, pursuit of equity and transformation of lives, DeJuan developed the ‘wide to narrow’ ideation framework to help bridge the gap between life experience and sales acumen.
He’s excited to partner with Cultured Perspective because great ideas deserve the opportunity to thrive. In an age when ‘one size fits all’ has been proven an antiquated idea, Cultured Perspective serves their clients on how, when and where they need the help to bring their ideas to the masses.

Dominique Samuels
Dominique Samuels is an organized brand marketing strategist, community developer, and marketing agency founder. Over the last 7 years she has worked with purpose-driven entrepreneurs, social enterprises, tech companies, and nonprofits to develop their target audience into a transformative brand community. In doing so these brands became the new trusted and sought after resource in their industries, while making widespread impact and revenue amongst a loyal audience.
She believes that you too, are already a trusted business resource in your industry because of your life and business experiences, you just need to share your message effectively.
Trained in integrated marketing strategy, brand management, social media, community development, and research strategy, Dominique holds a degree in Africana Studies with concentration in Community Development from Davidson College. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Communication from Johns Hopkins University.

Scott Dore
Scott Dore is a Growth Development Representative working in the SaaS Industry. Over the past several years, he has been able to build the first enterprise outbound function in previous organizations. Scott’s ability to communicate, collaborate cross departmentally and deliver on KPI’s, makes him a great addition to Cultured Perspective.
Scott started out in the hospitality industry, where received world class training in Customer Service, Verbal Communication and Customer Satisfaction. He has a vision for finding the best ways to meet a need.
Growth Development is a key function in a business and Scott is seeking to help organizations overcome the mental obstacle that is keeping them from performing at a high level and providing the resources to get them there. Scott believes that Cultured Perspective is the organization that can help the tech industry fundamentally change how they look for sales talent

Blake Hudson
Blake Hudson is a world class communicator with a particular gift for making complex ideas simple. He has over 10 years of experience working in higher education, government and SaaS.
Blake’s career background may be varied, but all his prior pursuits carry one uniting theme: a desire to help others find fulfillment in who they are and what they do.
Skilled in content creation, demand generation and sales messaging, Blake has the ability to help clients tell a more compelling story and equip their sales organizations with strategy that attracts and converts customers.
Blake has generated over $1,000,000 in pipeline revenue. Currently he has helped Victory Lap secure $25,000,000 in growth financing as they train the next generation of sales professionals. Blake’s mission as a content creator and admissions executive is to oversee the addition of 1,000 new sales professionals by 2022.
Blake has joined Cultured Perspective for the hope of increasing the profile of black revenue leaders and paving the way for future generations of business professionals from diverse backgrounds.

Nathan crafts
Nathan is a 2-time startup founder with more than 10 years’ experience in sales & go-to-market. Within the startup ecosystem he has helped SaaS companies, in industries ranging from E-Commerce to Software Testing, scale sales teams. Nathan’s specializes in helping teams move up-market and heavily applies behavioral science in his coaching.
Having founded two of his own companies, Nathan also enjoys working with companies to create frameworks for efficient communication and teamwork across departments.
Cultured Perspective provides Nathan the opportunity to do three of his favorite things: meet other passionate entrepreneurs, help people realize their goals, and coach.

Ellis Stone
Ellis Stone is a Growth Development Manager who works in the Healthcare startup industry. Over the past several years, he’s been able to build the growth development team from the ground up. His expertise is laying down the foundation and processes to deliver a highly successful growth engine. Ellis believes in an easy to understand approach to prospecting, ensuring that his clients, at every level can easily and effectively implement it.
With over 10 years of sales and prospecting experience in multiple industries (healthcare, retail, SaaS and pharmaceutical), Ellis has the insight to adjust to the client’s needs. Going above and beyond, he is a true partner in the process. Being there every step of the way to ensure that they can easily understand and execute on the strategy put forth.
His mission is to help founders avoid pitfalls that can he’s encountered when building growth development teams. With his expertise and Cultured Perspective’s equity mission, clients are setting their revenue organizations up for success out the gate.

Azani Pinkney
Azani David Pinkney is an experienced educator, entrepreneur, and consultant with over 10 years of demonstrated history working in the higher education, diversity, and education-technology industries. Skilled in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) best practices, instructional design, and social-impact business development, Azani has the ability to teach and train businesses and organizations to build diverse teams, equitable systems, and inclusive products, cultures, and services. Originally from Washington, DC, Azani is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Africana Studies. In addition to his work at Cultured Perspective, Azani serves as a Project Manager for Education Partnerships at Amplify Education, where he ensures seamless execution of over $90 million in partnerships for Amplify’s California region

Madison Mobley
Madison L. Mobley (she/her/they/them) is black, female, millennial, and a Columbia University Alum who, once upon a time, majored in Sociology and aspired to be a freelance journalist.
Spoiler alert: Freelance journalism didn’t pay the New York City bills, resulting in a reluctant power pivot.
Fast forward 10+ years, and she’s a seasoned, industry agnostic business strategist for both established and startup organizations.
Madison’s approach is wildly unconventional, and her appetite for disrupting status quo for the better is insatiable. She attracts clients who are visionaries in their respective industries, seeking competitive advantage and distinction.
Whether a company’s focus is cost or differentiation centric, she is expert in building cross-functional social selling programs, boosting share of voice to accelerate revenue generation.
In parallel, Madison equips her clients with the tools to train, develop, and maximize the growth potential of their existing talent WHILE attracting, recruiting and retaining underrepresented talent.
Madison’s passions can be summarized to say she readies her clients for the future of work by keeping the human in front. A future that must be representative of the world in which we live. A future that’s growing bolder. A future that demands leaders either walk the talk or get called out and left behind.
Readiness begins with culture, and it’s Cultured Perspective that’s uniquely positioned for partnership with purpose.

Larry Long Jr.
Larry Long Jr is a Sales Director working at the cutting edge of innovation in the digital transformation within elite Athletics. He is also the host of the ‘Midweek Midday Motivational Minute’, focused on sales motivation, inspiration, training & coaching.
An experienced sales leader with a demonstrated history of success in SaaS sales over 20+ years (ecommerce, finance, healthcare, product), Larry brings a unique perspective to the table and understands many of the challenges faced by sales professionals and organizations in today’s ever-changing environment. Extremely passionate about coaching, Larry strives on helping professionals take their game to the ‘next level’.
Partnering with Cultured Perspective allows Larry to impact and drive for positive outcomes within organizations of all stages (start-up to publicly traded). Practicing what he preaches, Larry continuously seeks opportunities to learn & grow.

Aara Meas
Aara Meas is a goal oriented productivityist with over 10 years of experience in implementing processes, executing timelines, and coordinating teams and events. She is constantly researching and developing new ways to provide effective workflow and promote cohesive organizational methods within small companies. Aara is committed to serving the people, an avid creative, and an advocate for self awareness in order to achieve personal exponential growth. She is deeply passionate about building community, creating structure, and enabling teams and individuals to better succeed in their departments and careers.

DeJuan Brown
DeJuan Brown is a Revenue Growth Tactician, with 20 years of experience in the Software industry.
He’s achieved record-breaking success as an individual contributor, and held leadership roles ranging from Sales Manager, to VP of Sales.
As a lifelong Chess player, DeJuan has the ability to help his clients ‘see around corners’ while implementing a ‘three moves ahead’ strategy of revenue growth.
DeJuan is a passionate practitioner of the Servant-leadership paradigm, and believes that no strategy that isn’t centered on people is sustainable.
Driven by deep belief in the value of diversity, pursuit of equity and transformation of lives, DeJuan developed the ‘wide to narrow’ ideation framework to help bridge the gap between life experience and sales acumen.
He’s excited to partner with Cultured Perspective because great ideas deserve the opportunity to thrive. In an age when ‘one size fits all’ has been proven an antiquated idea, Cultured Perspective serves their clients on how, when and where they need the help to bring their ideas to the masses.

Dominique Samuels
Dominique Samuels is an organized brand marketing strategist, community developer, and marketing agency founder. Over the last 7 years she has worked with purpose-driven entrepreneurs, social enterprises, tech companies, and nonprofits to develop their target audience into a transformative brand community. In doing so these brands became the new trusted and sought after resource in their industries, while making widespread impact and revenue amongst a loyal audience.
She believes that you too, are already a trusted business resource in your industry because of your life and business experiences, you just need to share your message effectively.
Trained in integrated marketing strategy, brand management, social media, community development, and research strategy, Dominique holds a degree in Africana Studies with concentration in Community Development from Davidson College. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Communication from Johns Hopkins University.

Scott Dore
Scott Dore is a Growth Development Representative working in the SaaS Industry. Over the past several years, he has been able to build the first enterprise outbound function in previous organizations. Scott’s ability to communicate, collaborate cross departmentally and deliver on KPI’s, makes him a great addition to Cultured Perspective.
Scott started out in the hospitality industry, where received world class training in Customer Service, Verbal Communication and Customer Satisfaction. He has a vision for finding the best ways to meet a need.
Growth Development is a key function in a business and Scott is seeking to help organizations overcome the mental obstacle that is keeping them from performing at a high level and providing the resources to get them there. Scott believes that Cultured Perspective is the organization that can help the tech industry fundamentally change how they look for sales talent

Blake Hudson
Blake Hudson is a world class communicator with a particular gift for making complex ideas simple. He has over 10 years of experience working in higher education, government and SaaS.
Blake’s career background may be varied, but all his prior pursuits carry one uniting theme: a desire to help others find fulfillment in who they are and what they do.
Skilled in content creation, demand generation and sales messaging, Blake has the ability to help clients tell a more compelling story and equip their sales organizations with strategy that attracts and converts customers.
Blake has generated over $1,000,000 in pipeline revenue. Currently he has helped Victory Lap secure $25,000,000 in growth financing as they train the next generation of sales professionals. Blake’s mission as a content creator and admissions executive is to oversee the addition of 1,000 new sales professionals by 2022.
Blake has joined Cultured Perspective for the hope of increasing the profile of black revenue leaders and paving the way for future generations of business professionals from diverse backgrounds.
Why we exist

mission
To develop start-up founders and revenue leaders who can position their companies to obtain transformative revenue opportunities while creating an equitable culture for their organizations.
Vision
To improve representation in entrepreneurship by fostering a community of underestimated, talented revenue leaders, helping to close the generational wealth gap.
Values
Equity - Equity creates opportunities for underutilized communities
Collaboration - We can go further if we build together. Having multiple perspectives allows for a more holistic view.
Intentionality - We build with purpose and partner with organizations …
Knowledge-Sharing - Research, learning, resources, the sales landscape is forever changing and evolving, we pride ourselves on continuous learning through research.