August Jackson

August Jackson is the Founder and Chief Growth Strategist of Compete to Grow. With over 25 years of Competitive Intelligence and Strategy experience in B2B technology and professional services firms, August brings unique capabilities to drive your success and growth:

  • Brought winning competitive insight and price-to-win advice to hundreds of successful 5 - 9 figure pursuits at British Telecom, Verizon, EY, and Deltek

  • Improved overall win rates by between 10 and 50% in collaboration with Sales, Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, and Demand Generation

  • Enhanced competitive and strategic awareness of C-suites and Boards

  • Predicted significant shifts in product markets and competitor fortunes that resulted in new opportunities and risks averted

  • Advised dozens of companies and organizations on standing up their own Compete program and the change management to activate the full potential of such programs

  • Drove the transformation of Compete programs to deliver greater value to all parts of the business by applying innovative technologies such as CRM and AI

  • Saved one employer $2 billion on a single acquisition

  • Delivered recurring projects with ever higher quality, broader scope, greater predictability, lower cost, and greater efficiency