Speakers

Hang is a senior executive leading global sales and technical enablement to accelerate the performance of Juniper Networks' salesforce, services, and partner communities. Hang develops and delivers a strategic Read full bio

Hang is a senior executive leading global sales and technical enablement to accelerate the performance of Juniper Networks' salesforce, services, and partner communities. Hang develops and delivers a strategic framework for consistently onboarding new sellers, continuous talent nurture, and implementation of best practices in sales programs and tools. As an experienced leader in high-tech companies, her expertise spans sales enablement, business development, marketing and engineering in large companies like AMD and Cisco as well as smaller companies such as Gigamon and 8x8. Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and a passionate advocate for women in the workplace. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and three patents in semiconductor manufacturing. Hang lives in Los Altos, California where she enjoys exploring new adventures and experiences with her two teenage children. Close

Tris is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of the company. He has over 30 years of consulting and management experience with executive teams. Other than family, skiing, mountain biking, and Read full bio

Tris is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of the company. He has over 30 years of consulting and management experience with executive teams. Other than family, skiing, mountain biking, and surfing, Tris is passionate about helping leaders to take their teams and companies to the next level through meaningful, impactful, and practical solutions for their unique situation. Close

Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Selling Power, a media company that produces the award-winning Selling Power magazine and Selling Power TV, a daily video interview series on sales success. He Read full bio

Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Selling Power, a media company that produces the award-winning Selling Power magazine and Selling Power TV, a daily video interview series on sales success. He developed and hosts the Sales 3.0 Conference, which helps sales leaders integrate sales technologies into their sales organizations to create improved sales effectiveness and greater customer value. Over the course of three decades, he has interviewed some of the most successful leaders and experts in sales, business, sports, entertainment, and politics, including Mary Kay Ash, Marc Benioff, Michael Dell, George Foreman, Larry Ellison, Richard Branson, Jay Leno, Meg Whitman, and many more. Gerhard has studied the lives of hundreds of peak performers and worked with world-leading coaches and psychologists to create the unique, new Peak Performance Mindset training program. He is the author of 17 books on the subject of sales, management, and motivation and received the Sales & Marketing Executives International, Inc. 2010 Ambassador of Free Enterprise Award. Follow him on Twitter at @gerhard20. Close

Ken is a former Google and Oracle executive who has taken two Silicon Valley software startups to IPO. While working at Google, Ken developed a sales prospect validation method that generated hundreds of millions in Read full bio

Ken is a former Google and Oracle executive who has taken two Silicon Valley software startups to IPO. While working at Google, Ken developed a sales prospect validation method that generated hundreds of millions in revenue from new customers and became the genesis of his new company, Modigie. Close

Roderick Jefferson is a Senior Executive with 20+ years of sales enablement leadership experience. He is also an acknowledged practitioner and keynote speaker in the sales enablement space that understands how to Read full bio

Roderick Jefferson is a Senior Executive with 20+ years of sales enablement leadership experience. He is also an acknowledged practitioner and keynote speaker in the sales enablement space that understands how to create bridges between internal organizations to empower sales to exceed expectations. Roderick is the author of the Amazon bestselling book, Sales Enablement 3.0: The Blueprint to Sales Enablement Excellence. He is currently an Executive-in-Residence with VentureScale and one of the founding members of the Sales Enablement Society. Roderick is also a member of several Advisory Boards, including Capella University, Autobound.ai, Sales for the Culture, and Selleration Inc. He held a variety of executive leadership, sales, sales enablement, operations and customer experience roles at Magnit, Netskope, Roderick Jefferson & Associates, Marketo, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Salesforce.com, 3PAR, Business Objects, NetApp, PayPal, Siebel Systems, & AT&T. When not working on sales enablement projects and programs, he can be found perfecting the art of barbecuing or playing on his bocce court in his backyard with his family. Close

Nick Kane is a founder and Managing Partner of Janek Performance Group, a leading sales performance organization providing sales training and sales consulting solutions. Nick has more than 25 years of experience in the Read full bio

Nick Kane is a founder and Managing Partner of Janek Performance Group, a leading sales performance organization providing sales training and sales consulting solutions. Nick has more than 25 years of experience in the sales, sales leadership and and sales enablement space and has been a thought leader and authority, supporting hundreds of clients in optimizing their sales performance. Nick co-authored the book "Critical Selling: How Top Performers Accelerate the Sales Process and Close More Deals," and has penned dozens of articles around sales performance, management, and leadership. A highly-requested keynote speaker, Nick has lead numerous presentations and panel discussions around the topic of sales transformation. Close

Tyler is a truly engaging, dynamic and entertaining thought leader in the areas of B2B marketing, content marketing, video marketing and video selling. As Chief Video Strategist at Vidyard, he's spent nearly 10 years Read full bio

Tyler is a truly engaging, dynamic and entertaining thought leader in the areas of B2B marketing, content marketing, video marketing and video selling. As Chief Video Strategist at Vidyard, he's spent nearly 10 years immersed in the world of B2B video, helping to define and share the latest best practices and industry trends for creating remarkable customer experiences with video across all aspects of marketing and sales. Author of The Visual Sale, Tyler is a frequent speaker on a diverse range of topics including video marketing, video production, video selling, personalization, account-based marketing, modern demand generation practices and how to blend art and science to create stand-out experiences at scale. Close

Vocodia co-founder and CEO Brian Podolak is an experienced and visionary contact center innovator. His background in electronic and mechanical engineering brought him into the world of IT-based marketing, where he Read full bio

Vocodia co-founder and CEO Brian Podolak is an experienced and visionary contact center innovator. His background in electronic and mechanical engineering brought him into the world of IT-based marketing, where he naturally began solving the problems faced by enterprise-level call centers and sales departments. His ability to manifest solutions through still-emerging technologies introduced new efficiencies into the companies he managed, earning him a reputation for rapidly driving startups to profitability. After achieving $70 million in annual revenue for an online medical services company in less than 3 years, Brian managed a 400-agent call center in Costa Rica, and built the IT architecture for the sales and marketing program Autolaunchpad before founding Vocodia in 2018. Brian's ability to approach direct sales from an IT perspective helped build Vocodia's signature offering, DISA (for Digital Intelligent Sales Agent) into one of the industry's most promising conversational AI solutions. Close

Jeff Seeley is Chief Executive Officer of Carew International, a leading sales training and leadership development provider. Prior to becoming CEO in 2001, Jeff had been affiliated with the Carew organization for over Read full bio

Jeff Seeley is Chief Executive Officer of Carew International, a leading sales training and leadership development provider. Prior to becoming CEO in 2001, Jeff had been affiliated with the Carew organization for over 20 years as a customer, board member and executive team member. Seeley came to Carew International from Hillenbrand Industries (NYSE – HI), a Fortune 1000 Company, where he served as Senior Executive Vice President in charge of sales, marketing and corporate development for a $1.4 billion segment. Throughout his 13-year tenure at Hillenbrand, Jeff also held executive leadership positions in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, international business and operations. Today Seeley enjoys a leadership role in the training industry and business community. He is a frequent keynote speaker at industry events, national corporate sales meetings and professional conferences, as well as a widely published author of articles and white papers. Under his leadership, the Carew organization has been consistently named among the best sales training companies by Selling Power Magazine. Seeley is a graduate of Central Michigan University, where Carew International helped establish the nationally recognized CMU Professional Sales Institute. Close

Julie Thomas, President & CEO of ValueSelling Associates, is a noted speaker, consultant and author of ValueSelling: Driving Sales Up One Conversation at a Time. She credits her mastery of the ValueSelling Read full bio

Julie Thomas, President & CEO of ValueSelling Associates, is a noted speaker, consultant and author of ValueSelling: Driving Sales Up One Conversation at a Time. She credits her mastery of the ValueSelling Framework® for her meteoric rise through the ranks of sales leadership and takes pride in the fact that ValueSelling Associates is consistently honored as an award-winning Sales Training Service Provider. Close