Your Sales Kick-Off Sets the Tone for the Entire Year

When markets change, your sales strategy has to change with them. Meridith Elliott Powell equips sales organizations with the mindset, strategies, and execution plan to outperform the competition—long after the kickoff ends.

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This Year's SKO
Matters More Than Ever.

Everything about this marketplace has shifted. 

Buyers are
more informed,

more cautious, and harder to reach.

CompETItion 
Is Fierce

and more unpredictable than ever.

SALES CYCLES ARE
MORE complex

and the decision process is longer.

Your Sales Kickoff is more than an annual meeting. It's where your team aligns around a new strategy, builds momentum, and gains the confidence to execute. When done well, the impact extends far beyond the event.

The momentum you create in one event can fuel revenue all year long.

Sales Futurist, Meridith Elliott Powell, brings something to the SKO stage that most speakers can’t...

a well-researched, proven framework for turning market disruption into competitive advantage.

Your sales team will not only benefit from the work she’s done to crack the code on how to win more business in today’s marketplace, but she leaves your team with a customized plan of action that makes consistent execution a guarantee.

This isn't inspiration that fades by the time your conference ends. This is a shift in how your team views and leverages uncertainty. 

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your win/loss ratio is telling you something.

ARE YOU LISTENING?

Last year, more than 78 percent of sellers missed quota. Not because they worked less. Because the game changed and most teams kept playing by the old rules.

Your win/loss ratio is not a scoreboard. It is a diagnostic. Every deal you lose is data. Every deal you win is a repeatable pattern, if you know how to find it.

I built this guide from the same research I bring to the SKO stage. Five strategies your team can put into practice before your next pipeline review, each one built around the real reason deals stall: not your competitor, but the buyer's uncertainty about whether change is worth the risk.

What's Inside:

  • How to diagnose the real risk a buyer is weighing before you pitch
  • Why the toughest competitor in most lost deals is the status quo
  • The multi-threading rule that predicts wins before proposal stage
  • How to qualify prospects using your own top ten clients as the model
  • A simple framework for debriefing wins with the same rigor as losses

Five strategies. One PDF. No fluff.

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SKO Experience

Sales Redefined: Dominate, Differentiate, Deliver

Format Options: 45 to 60 Minute Keynote | Half-Day Workshop | Full-Day Session

The rules of selling have changed. For your elite sales team to remain elite, you need new skills and a new sales playbook.

It’s a new world - and you need a sales strategy that empowers you to own your market, dominate your industry, increase new opportunities and ensure you leave your competition in the dust.

Why?

Because sales have gone through a major disruption. If you’re still using traditional techniques, then you’re making sales so much harder than it has to be. To succeed, you need to understand the market and redefine the experience.

You need to transform how you attract clients – build your reputation – engage with the marketplace – create a healthy pipeline and get results. Join us for this high-energy, highly interactive, and high-powered keynote were business growth strategist and keynote speaker

Meridith Elliott Powell shares the innovative techniques you need to dominate, differentiate and deliver!

This program has it all – power-packed content, highly engaging and a personalized roadmap that makes getting your return on investment guaranteed.

Key Takeaways:

  • Future of Sales – deep understanding of what is different about sales today
  • Consistent Innovation - powerful methodology to evolve, adapt, stay ahead
  • Competitive Advantage – clear strategy to win on price, value, relevance
  • Service As Sales – secrets to selling through guiding, advocacy and support
  • Customized Strategy – your personal plan of action to easily and effectively implement and

THRIVE: Turn Uncertainty To Your Competitive Advantage

Format Options: 45 to 60 Minute Keynote | Half-Day Workshop | Full-Day Session

Uncertainty changes everything – customers, competition, the marketplace. It’s challenging out there: A challenge to stand out. A challenge to get to the decision makers. A challenge to keep up with customer demands. And a challenge just to compete.

Sales success today requires a different mindset, strategy, and approach to business growth. You need the skills to push through obstacles, see opportunity in challenge, and create exceptional customer experience integrating marketing, sales, and service.

In this powerful keynote, Business Growth Strategist and Hall of Fame Speaker, Meridith Elliott Powell, will share her proven, well-researched methodology for turning uncertainty to competitive advantage.

In this hands-on session, you’ll dive deep into what it takes today to open new markets, find new opportunities, expand existing relationships, and leave your competition in the dust. This presentation will shift mindsets, energize performance and drive results.

Key Takeaways:

  • Deep understanding of how your marketplace is changing – and how those shifts are impacting decision making, pricing, marketing, sales and service.
  • Innovative techniques for opening new markets and finding new opportunities.
  • Proven strategies to make it easier for clients to choose you over the competition.
  • Techniques to shift how you think, feel, act about uncertainty and change.
  • Personal plan of action for redefining success, exceeding goals and leaving the competition in the dust

Add Ons

 Beyond The Keynote

The keynote is designed to expand your team’s thinking, shift their paradigm, and inspire your team to action. Beyond The Keynote is the fuel that keeps momentum going long after the SKO ends.

Sales Pulse Survey

A powerful diagnostic of your team’s ability to consistently hit quota in the face of uncertainty. The results inform her keynote customization and give you a strong snapshot of where your team stands on key sales competencies. The survey allows for customized keynote, training and coaching.

Sales Leader Briefing (Pre-Event)

A 60-minute virtual session with VP of Sales and team managers before the event. Giving them a keynote preview and a customized toolkit on how to coach, support and ensure implementation of the skills covered in the SKO.

Half-Day Workshop

A hands-on, interactive deep dive into either keynote framework. Includes breakout exercises, group work, role-play scenarios, and individualized strategy sessions. This includes “HOT SEATS” where Meridith takes questions and challenges LIVE, and role plays or answers on the spot!

Sales Manager Breakout Session

A separate, parallel session for sales managers and leaders on how to coach and reinforce the framework with their individual teams. Turns managers into multipliers. This includes “HOT SEATS” where Meridith takes questions and challenges LIVE, and role plays or answers on the spot!

30/60-Day Follow-Up Virtual Session

The research is clear: SKO momentum fades fastest in the 30–60-day window after the event. This optional follow-up session brings Meridith back virtually to reinforce the framework, troubleshoot real-world application, and re-energize the team when it matters most. This session includes lives Q&A. This includes “HOT SEATS” where Meridith takes questions and challenges LIVE, and role plays or answers on the spot!

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