About Kerri

Kerri Salls, MBA  - Business strategist and international speaker, Kerri Salls is CEO of Breakthrough Enterprise, founded in 1999.

She is a mentor, business strategist and international speaker who works with high achieving business owners and entrepreneurs around the globe to establish a strong foundation; to catapult their business to the next level to achieve breakthrough results and optimize a sale or exit strategy.

She specializes in helping people like you with families like yours to systematize and leverage what you do best to achieve the lifestyle of your dreams, live your legacy now and leave your dynasty.

Kerri’s unique holistic approach helps entrepreneurs establish a strong foundation, catapult their business to the next level and achieve breakthrough results. Partnering with the CEO as their most trusted advisor long-term, she helps hyper-growth companies prepare for and achieve their optimum exit strategy whether it’s to scale or sell the business.

Owners gravitate to New England’s best kept secret to solidify their mindset, skill set and sound business knowledge through Kerri’s unparalleled 4 step program (Plan –>Systematize –> Leverage–>Achieve) to ensure their optimum exit. 

Kerri has built technical, sales and service businesses for over 20 years. Since establishing Breakthrough Enterprise LLC in 1999, Kerri works exclusively with emerging and established business owners who are ready to transform their expertise into massive results.

Proven to be THE Goal Achievement Expert  and widely considered one of the top women experts on goal achievement, Kerri has over 30 years experience in the field of goal achievement.

The author of the popular ebook, 7 Ways to Easily Achieve Any Goal Fast, (get your copy here) Kerri is a prolific writer. Follow her on the Goal Achievement Blog here.
She regularly presents events such as:
Goal Achievement is a Strategy, a live event revealing her streamlined four-step system to lay a strong business foundation for what you love to do where every goal you set gets done, so you can achieve the lifestyle of your dreams and live your legacy now.
Your Breakthrough Year, an annual program for business owners to lay out their 18 month implementation plan
Goal Achievement Guaranteed, an event that provides the tools, systems, and templates to build a strong business foundation to guarantee financial success in the business and beyond.
Kerri was a Peace Corps teacher in West Africa when she realized she was a master of achieving massive goals. Developing this mastery into a goal achievement system allowed her to:
  • Be the Lead author on a $15M government program under President Carter – at age 23
  • Complete an MBA with dual concentrations in international marketing and operations management, 6 months early in a part-time program.
  • Deliver $10M sales in 60 day window toward employer’s $72M annual revenues
  • Launch her first business in 1988 while pregnant and make 6 figures in 8 months with no marketing budget.
  • Redesign the process flow to streamline a client’s $50M manufacturing and distribution plant to eliminate all lost and late projects 100%.
  • Double a client’s prices 3 times in 6 months to re-position their value. They continue to have a backlog of clients.
Today she is asked to speak before organizations, associations, and Business Expos across North America and Europe.
Kerri regularly trains audiences of entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals and leaders stuck at the starting line of setting goals who are ready to do what it takes to join the 5% of all business owners who achieve their goals. That’s because she motivates audiences to take action towards those goals, with concrete steps continuing long after her presentations.
Kerri’s extensive resume includes:
  • MBA  Boston University – International Marketing and Operations Management
  • BA Bates College – French Literature
  • Peace Corps Volunteer – Benin, West Africa
  • Corporate Leadership positions: Mitre Corporation, Data General, Honeywell, Atex Publishing Systems
  • Sole Proprietorships: DocTech, Multimedia Access, Breakthrough Enterprise
  • Startups and Partnerships: Mosaic International, C5 English Services