SPM Summit
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Tuesday, April 20
8:30-9:00 am Registration (Continental Breakfast)
9:00-10:00 am GENERAL SESSION
  State of Sales Performance Optimization
Jim Dickie, Managing Partner, CSO Insights
10:15-11:15 am BREAKOUTS
  Plan Modeling that Predicts, Confirms, and Validates
Erich Sachse, Managing Consultant-SPM Consulting Practice, Synygy
Focusing the Sales Organization: Analytics and Data Visualization
Pete Lamb, Managing Consultant, Synygy
11:30 am - 12:30 pm BREAKOUTS
  Workflow Automation
Mattias Jansson, Managing Consultant, Synygy
Increasing Visibility into the Sales Pipeline
Christopher Donald, Director-Analytical Products, Health Market Science
Tim Kringel,
Principal, Health Market Science
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm BREAKOUTS
  Winning Over the Sales Force: Communicating the Comp Plan
Rick Walsh, Program Director, McKesson
Nilesh Murthy, Managing Consultant, Synygy
Will it fly? The Nuts and Bolts of Piloting New Quotas
Erich Sachse, Managing Consultant-SPM Consulting Practice, Synygy
2:45-4:45 pm WORKSHOPS
  Tenets of Sales Effectiveness: Case Studies in Successful Practices
Clinton Gott, Principal, Better Sales Comp Consultants
More than Rational: The Neuroscience of Powerful Reward and Recognition
Tim O’Neill, Vice President Sales, Maritz
Michelle Pokorny, Solution Leader of Sales Incentives, Maritz
5:00 pm Reception



Wednesday, April 21
8:00-8:30 am Registration (Continental Breakfast)
8:30-10:30 am WORKSHOPS
  Balancing Standardization with Flexibility: Crafting a Sales Compensation Framework for Large Organizations
Donya Rose, Managing Principal,
The Cygnal Group
Mastering the Art of Report Design
Arturo Bentin, Managing Consultant, Synygy
Suzi Fredericks, Senior Consultant, Synygy
10:45-11:45 am BREAKOUTS
  Sales Goal Management: Objectives
Mattias Jansson, Managing Consultant, Synygy
Cleaning-up Your Data Act
Holger Nickisch, Managing Consultant, Synygy
12:00-1:30 pm Roundtables (lunch served)
1:30 pm Conference concludes