Helga Saraiva-Stewart is founder of Lead-Results and SalesShaker – the first and only sales executive in Portugal certified Founding Fellow and Ethical Seller by the Institute of Sales Professionals. Known for her enormous energy, passion and dedication to empowering sales professionals, entrepreneurs and students.
She is the Executive Director and Head of Clients & Markets at Supo, where she contributed to securing its first investment from a UK Award-Winning Pre-Seed Fund.
She has been delivering prospecting & sales programmes at Nova SBE Executive Education in Portugal since March 2019, where her ‘Prospecting with Impact’ programme has ranked 5th best overall by students (out of 1,300+ programmes). Helga is also co-creator of the Nova SBE Sales Lab which has sold over €500.000 of custom corporate programmes.
Sales mentor at startup ecosystems: Canopy Community (UK-PT), Casa do Impacto (PT), Haddad Entrepreneurship (PT), and BlueBio Value Acceleration (PT).
British-Portuguese, born in Luanda Angola, Helga now lives in Portugal with her family. She spent 25 years in London, with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies (Corporate Finance) and a successful career as Sales & Business Development Director, working for multinationals mainly in FinTech, Ethics & Compliance sectors, travelling the world and embracing different cultures, is still one of her favourite things to do.
Member of the Board of Directors at The Institute of Sales Professionals in the UK since Jan 2024.
Executive Director at Capacitare, a boutique firm dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and projects with social impact since Sep 2022.