About

Craig Leppan

I help B2B businesses sharpen their go-to-market strategy, fix their sales engine, and use AI to accelerate revenue. With 30+ years in engineering and 20+ years in sales and marketing, I bridge the gap between product, strategy, and commercial execution.

Craig Leppan

Craig Leppan

Tech Strategist · Engineer · Growth Leader
Strategic Advisor for B2B teams. Founder of B2B Success and Imbila.ai. Based in Johannesburg, working with organisations across South Africa, EMEA, and globally.
30+
Years in Engineering
20+
Years in Sales & Marketing
25+
Organisations Advised
4
Core Practice Areas
The Short Version

An engineer who learned to sell

My career started in engineering — mechanical and electrical, building things that had to work in the real world. That foundation shaped everything that came after: a bias for systems thinking, an obsession with process, and zero tolerance for theory that doesn't translate into action.

Over two decades ago, I crossed into the commercial side — sales, business development, and go-to-market strategy for B2B technology companies. What I found was a world full of talented people held back by broken processes, underutilised CRM systems, and strategies built on assumptions instead of evidence.

So I started fixing it.

Today, through B2B Success and Imbila.ai, I work with mid-market, founder-led, and scaling B2B businesses to modernise their commercial engines. That means go-to-market strategy, sales process design, CRM architecture, pipeline management, AI-powered workflows, and the coaching that makes it all stick.

I'm not the consultant who sends a 90-page deck and disappears. I'm the one who sits with your team every week, configures the CRM, writes the playbook, and coaches your managers until the engine runs without me. If you're looking for a strategic partner who understands both the technology and the commercial reality, that's what I do.

Why Clients Choose Me

What makes this different

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Hybrid Commercial + Technical Expertise

A rare combination of deep engineering background and two decades of sales and marketing leadership. I speak both languages fluently.

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Fast, Practical Execution

I deliver working systems, not long reports. Playbooks your team uses. CRMs that drive revenue. Dashboards that tell stories. Results you can measure.

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Hands-On Involvement

I don't advise from the sidelines. I embed in your team, attend your pipeline reviews, configure your tools, and coach your managers week by week.

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Deep AI Fluency

Not just awareness of AI — practical deployment across sales, marketing, and business development. I build the workflows, prompt libraries, and adoption plans.

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Scalable Frameworks

Every framework I build is tailored for SME and mid-market dynamics — not enterprise playbooks forced into a smaller context.

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No Lock-In

Month-to-month engagements. You stay because it's working, not because of a contract. Knowledge transfer is built into every engagement from day one.

What People Say

From those who've worked with me

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In a space full of aspiring experts, Craig is genuinely one of the few people I would recommend, confident in the knowledge that he, his expertise and his track record offer true bottom line value add to one's organisation. If you are prepared to put processes and systems in place and ask yourself the right questions, a measurable turnaround is achievable.
LinkedIn Recommendation
B2B Sales Leader
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Craig exhibits strong interpersonal skills and a unique capacity for empathy. These qualities most notably translate in his ability to motivate a team to care about its project and be invested in the project's success. Craig is the go-to person for conflict resolution and problem solving.
LinkedIn Recommendation
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What I Do

Four practice areas, one mission

Ready to work with someone who gets in the trenches?

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