Jodi Elkins-Desforges

Jodi Elkins-Desforges

Senior Vice President, Global Head of Growth & Sales Acceleration
Jodi Elkins-Desforges

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Jodi Elkins-Desforges

 

Jodi works closely with EXL’s business unit growth leaders to accelerate top line growth for EXL.  She is responsible for providing strategic vision and leadership to scale go-to-market activities and enable front-end teams. 

Jodi works with the business growth leaders and is responsible for driving growth initiatives across the organization in areas such as communities of practice, large deal culture and cadence, best practice sharing, incentives and sales governance to build a best-in-class sales model. 

Prior to joining EXL, Jodi was Managing Director of global technology sales excellence at Accenture. She oversaw sales strategy and enablement, encompassing technology groups, cloud services, security, ecosystem partners and global geographic regions. 

For more than 22 years, Jodi has dedicated her career to collaborating with major clients at Accenture. Her expertise spans various areas, including sales strategy, planning, forecasting and operations. Key areas of focus included aligning business challenges with inventive solutions and orchestrating origination and strategy development sessions. Jodi has a wealth of experience in shaping, executing, and guiding impactful transformations. She has successfully led initiatives in employee experience, journey management, and new skilling.

Jodi has a bachelor's degree in Humanities, with minors in Business and Fine Arts from Washington State University.