Sales, Marketing, and Operations Transformation
Hi, I’m Hao, the founder of Nine Sky Consulting. I simplify sales, marketing, and operations with clear strategy and innovative tech like AI.
I've been a trusted partner to some of the world's biggest companies, fast-growth startups, and global nonprofits.
Services
OPTIMIZING SALES AND MARKETING
AI Integration
Do more with less with clear AI automation strategy and implementation.
Sales and Marketing Transformation
Understand what will accelerate revenue fastest, how to measure it, and a roadmap to get there.
Sales Enablement
Accelerate the success of your sales team with extraordinary, flexible training and just-in-time tools.
A Sampling of Our Work
Sales and Marketing Transformation
Global Sales Enablement
As a global director, spearheaded the global transformation of a tech giant's portfolio sales enablement strategy, aligning nearly 4,000 sales professionals with a solutions-focused approach across 43 rapidly changing products.
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AI Planning & Development
Wanda AI Chatbot
Wanda is a generative AI SaaS product. Wanda helps users tackle overwhelm, focus on tasks, and remember to self care.
AI Planning & Development
AI Public Health Assessment
Developed a framework and scoring model to assess the AI-driven medical device landscape for low-resource settings. The report and tool were used to identify high-impact partnerships efficiently, enhancing the nonprofit's strategic outreach capabilities.
AI Planning & Development
AI Readiness Assessment
Evaluated AI readiness for a major nonprofit. Built a diagnostic framework to guide the organization in setting their AI vision, evaluating their data quality and efficacy, strengthening AI capabilities, and setting a clear path for future innovation.
Sales and Marketing Transformation
Accelerating Account-based Marketing
Helped a 300-person consultancy adopt an account-based approach to business development with federal and state agencies. Included identifying high-value relationships, mentoring staff, collaboratively establishing communication channels and process, and creating an excel-based model to create marketing and sales targets.
Sales and Marketing Transformation
New Business Development Team
Assessed a public health organization's approach to government contracts, introducing structured lead qualification and RFP scoring models. Recommendations helped align the team’s focus with organizational goals, enhancing strategic pursuit of high-potential opportunities.
Sales and Marketing Transformation
Enterprise Technology Rollout (CRM / CLM)
Built a team of experts to modernize CRM and contract management for an organization that had outgrown their previous processes. Resolved fragmented lead tracking and territorial challenges among teams. The new system enabled cohesive, efficient client engagement and streamlined internal communications.
IT Transformation
IT Alignment Workshops
After multiple acquisitions, a Fortune 50 insurance company partnered with Nine Sky to align IT teams and create a unified roadmap. We conducted in-depth interviews and led workshops to identify “guiding light” metrics, applying change management to integrate systems and accelerate CRM and reporting projects—enhancing collaboration across newly combined teams.
Hao Nguyen
Founder
With almost 20 years of experience spanning strategy, operations, and technology, I’ve built a knack for bridging worlds that don’t always speak the same language. Whether it’s translating technical complexity into clear action or aligning teams around a shared vision, I thrive at finding the sweet spot where clarity meets impact.
My path has been anything but typical—research at McKinsey, leading growth in a tech startup, and running global programs at a major tech company have taught me to see both the forest and the trees. Thanks to my MFA in Creative Writing (UNCG) and a BA in English (Wellesley College), I’m as comfortable crafting a compelling narrative as I am diving into the technical weeds.
What I love most is cutting through the noise to find simple, effective solutions that stick. I’m all about diagnosing challenges, identifying high-impact, low-effort opportunities, and helping organizations get where they want to go—fast, efficiently, and with results that last.
Clients
We serve organizations passionate about their mission.
