Our Founding Partners
Sarah D’Angelo
Growing up, Sarah’s mother used to say that she could “sell ice to Eskimos” so it was no surprise that upon graduating from college she was drawn to sales roles. That changed on September 11, 2001, when she felt compelled to serve our country and the state of New York as a member of the Air National Guard. In the Guard she learned management skills that, when combined with her passion for sales, allowed her to lead the sales division for a local start-up company specializing in homeland security equipment. In one year, she grew the division from the launch phase to the fifth highest in gross sales in security equipment. Sarah was recognized in the Albany Business Review’s Book of Lists, and from there, was recruited by a Fortune 500 security company to lead their residential sales department. Within 9 months, she had grown a team of commission-only sales reps from one to a team of eleven, attaining both the highest sales ever in the region and recognition as the leader of one of the top ten sales teams in the country. During a regional restructuring, which would require a move, she shifted her focus to residential real estate sales.
Sarah has always been passionate about helping others achieve their dreams. Real Estate became a vehicle to pursue her passion. Sarah consistently performed in the top 20% of agents in the market center. In 2010, she had the privilege of serving as the Team Leader for the White Plains, NY Keller Williams market center. In 2011, Sarah returned to the Capital District to care for her ailing mother after a difficult surgery. She re-launched her career locally with Keller Williams and immediately hired a coach to ensure accountability and effective implementation of the systems needed for optimal business growth.
It wasn’t long before Sarah’s coach, Kate Patulski, recognized her leadership skills, passion for learning, and strategic thinking process to achieving sales success. Sarah began an intensive coach training program in 2014 and worked with MAPS Coaching until mid-year 2018 coaching individual agents and teams. Her expertise in the systems and models of the Millionaire Real Estate Agent, her sales and leadership experience, along with her understanding of what it takes to create behavioral change, has been her winning formula as a coach. Sarah is also a Certified John Maxwell Coach. She has a personal mission of educating and empowering others, and a firm belief in the capacity of human beings.
Sarah joins our mission at Your Performance People to be an expression of prosperity and possibility allowing others to experience their own brilliance and live life fully.
Jenn Jagodzinski
Jenn Jagodzinski comes to Your Performance People with an extensive background in talent development, sales strategy, organizational growth, and coaching/training experience.
Prior to having children, Jenn worked for a youth sports organization growing the client base from 600 kids to over 2,000 kids in less than a two-year span, making it the largest sports organization in Greenville, SC. While in this Director of Operations role she single-handedly organized all youth programming, schedule coordination, coach schedules, child/parent communication, and organizational growth. She left her role in order to focus her energy on raising her youngest child.
After being home with her for two years, Jenn decided to rejoin the work force. She joined Keller Williams Realty as a Director of Sales working with a high-producing team, moving over to the Director of Operations, and eventually becoming the General Manager. As a licensed agent, Jenn not only worked at negotiating all team contracts, she was also responsible for recruiting, hiring, training, and coaching the team’s talent. It was during this time that her passion for talent development took off. In 2016, while still running a large real estate team, she was identified as talent and was recruited to a real estate coaching organization. She specialized in organizational growth and increasing agent performance through mindset, skillset, and developing systems and processes.
For the past 4 years Jenn has influenced hundreds of real estate and business professionals through her coaching expertise. She still actively sells real estate while adding to her credentialing as a coach. Her passion in coaching is sales strategy, team development, hiring, and creating effective and efficient operations teams. She firmly believes that all human beings have untapped potential and when you align with your vision and people that support your growth, amazing things can and will happen.
Jenn lives in Greenville, South Carolina with her husband, Jason and their 3 children, Hunter, Nate, and Kenzie.
Robyn Lopez
Robyn graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Medical Humanities from Baylor University, an interdisciplinary degree where she was able to study the field of health through the lens of several different academic subjects. Additionally, she had the opportunity to invest in business electives that set the basis for her interest in the world of business management and the critical importance of building strong teams and processes to leverage success.
During and after her college career, she worked in management roles in the retail field for several years where she saw the day to day importance of developing effective teams, tracking success measures, and identifying growth opportunities. She has years of experience in providing administrative support to teams, primarily in the small business field, and continues to focus on constantly evaluating and evolving administrative functions to better meet the needs of the business.
Robyn lives in Austin, TX with her husband, Hiram, and their daughter, Araceli.
From the Coaching Corner
Are You At Risk? - In order to retain talent, you must understand value drift and its impact on your organization. Here are 3 ways to prevent Value Drift.
Stop Making This Expensive Mistake! - The amount of time spent seconding guessing or hesitating is one of the most costly behaviors in any business, especially if you are in sales. In our experience, salespeople that hesitate to generate and follow-up with leads lose about 15 opportunities each month, which could amount to well over $15,000 monthly! That’s $180,000 a year! What’s more costly, however, is allowing hesitation to become a habitual way of operating in your business.
5 Crucial Mistakes Made When Business Planning (And What You Can Do About Them) - We continually see entrepreneurs build out an elaborate plan, and by March they can’t remember where they put it. Everyone agrees that business planning is an essential part of building a business, and yet very few people do it effectively. After years of experience working with business people at all levels, we’ve realized there are 5 critical mistakes that will stop you from having an effective business plan.
Adopting A Growth Mindset - In our world of never-ending change, adopting a growth-mindset is imperative to one’s relevance in business. Professionals that work from a fixed mindset will be continually frustrated lacking the grit to push through challenges due to change and, eventually, find themselves with a skillset that is obsolete in a competitive environment. The world we live in requires those who intend to have a competitive advantage adopt a growth mindset.