Your Sales Team Doesn’t Need a Motivational Speaker

They need practical, outcome-driven training that helps them build and convert pipeline with executives.

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51% of B2B deals are lost to buyer status quo.

But, most sellers don’t have the skills to reframe what status quo is costing their buyers.

Through workshops, keynotes, and my self-paced video course, I teach teams to build and convert pipeline that would otherwise stall at “Let’s revisit this in 6 months.”

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Every experience is a working session, where reps apply what they’re learning to real new logo, renewal, and expansion opportunities. No generic theory or academia.

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What Can We Expect?

I teach your team to stop:

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✗ Over-relying on inbound to hit their targets

Sending messages that make prospects feel like a name on a list

✗ Pitching products in discovery before identifying a problem worth solving

✗ Showing up to discovery calls with the same boring list of uninformed questions

✗ Relying on slides to have “a conversation”

✗ Asking the champion to do the heavy lifting of building consensus for change

✗ Assuming everyone who takes their call is a “champion”

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There are 3 ways you can work With Me

Workshops

Hands-on sessions built around your team’s actual accounts. Reps leave with the work already done.

Keynotes

A memorable talk that keeps everyone engaged – from your new hires to your 30-year veterans.

Video Course

Self-paced and highly actionable training for individuals or small teams.

#1

The DemandJen Pipeline Generation Workshop Series

Every workshop is tailored to your company. Reps bring real accounts — not empty notebooks — and apply what they’re learning on the spot.

Workshop Details ↓

Prospecting to The C-Suite

Sellers learn to write a status-quo-busting outbound message tailored to an executive at a real target account. 

Who This Is For: AEs, AMs, SDRs, CSMs

Format: In-person or virtual delivery

Pre-Work: Pick a target account where you’ve struggled to engage an executive. Sellers draft a cold email as they normally would and submit it before the workshop.

Tangible Outcome: Status-quo-busting messages built for real accounts, plus an outbound messaging process they can apply when the workshop is over.

Optional Add-On: Reinforcement Kit, with custom-built Claude skills to embed the teachings into the sellers’ workflow, as well as manager coaching tips, and SPIF ideas.

What To Expect:

  1. A breakdown of buyer psychology so reps see why a “better solution” rarely defeats “good is good enough”.
  2. Custom AI prompts for account research, built for your business to effectively and efficiently build a POV on the customer’s business.
  3. The Cost of Inaction framework so the “why now” comes from the buyer’s world, not your quarter-end urgency.
  4. The Problem Prompter framework so reps can write outbound messages that frame a relevant business problem instead of pitch-slapping your prospects.
  5. How to write for an executive audience so reps stop sending 17th century novels to busy executives with fine-tuned Mental Spam Filters.

Status-Quo-Busting Discovery

Sellers learn to run a two-way, slide-free discovery conversation that earns trust and credibility with executives. 

Who This Is For: AEs, AMs, SDRs, CSMs

Format: In-person delivery

Pre-Work: Pick an account where you are trying to schedule a discovery call with an executive-level contact.

Tangible Outcome: A completed call plan and full conversation choreography for a real opportunity, plus a discovery prep process they can run on every deal after the workshop.

Optional Add-On: Reinforcement Kit, with custom-built Gong Smart Trackers, a discovery call scorecard for managers, discovery prep Claude skills, coaching tips, and SPIF ideas.

What To Expect:

  1. A breakdown of why traditional discovery backfires so reps stop interrogating executives with high-effort questions that make the buyer do all the work.
  2. Custom AI prompts for pre-call research, built for your business so reps walk in with a POV on the CEO’s objectives, the problem threatening those objectives, the buyer’s status quo, and the negative consequences of inaction.
  3. Tactics for speaking with executive-level contacts so reps don’t have the same conversations with a CXO that they’d have with a day-to-day contact. 
  4. A repeatable, 5-step choreography that demonstrates rigorous prep in the first 5 minutes, anchors on the prospect’s strategic objectives, introduces a credible problem hypothesis, exposes hidden consequences through a peer story, and closes with a high-value next step. 
  5. How to close the call so reps identify friction early, instead of forecasting on happy ears.

Buying Group Consensus for Change

Sellers learn to build problem consensus across a cross-functional buying group, for a real stalled opportunity.

Who This Is For: AEs, AMs, CSMs

Format: In-person or virtual delivery

Pre-Work: Pick an in-flight deal that is stuck with one stakeholder. Sellers submit a short summary of the deal and where it went quiet.

Tangible Outcome: A one-page problem statement, a champion prep plan for a real stalled deal and a repeatable, 7-step process for building consensus for change in their accounts.

What To Expect:

    1. A breakdown of why deals stall so reps see that “let’s revisit in six months” is usually a consensus problem, not a product problem.
    2. How to vet your champion so reps can separate interest from advocacy. 
    3. How to build a one-page problem statement and validate it with the champion so the first group meeting is designed to reach problem consensus, before seeking solution consensus. 
    4. How to get facetime with the buying group so we play an active role, instead of a passive one. 
    5. How to surface skeptics, status quo defenders, and competing priorities before you’re in the group meeting so friction doesn’t catch you off guard.
    6. Facilitation techniques for the group meeting itself so reps surface real disagreement and can help the group reach consensus on the problem to be solved. 
    7. A 5 Question, “Do I have a deal?” checklist so reps and managers can surface deal gaps and structure deal reviews productively. 
    8. A Stuck Deal Re-Engagement play so reps can re-engage their stuck deal before leaving the room.

Additional custom workshops are available on a variety of topics, upon request.

If I’m not the best person for your needs, I’ll recommend another subject matter expert.

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“She doesn't just teach frameworks. She reviews your team's actual work live, workshops and pushes you to think differently about how you're showing up for prospects. The energy she brings, the accountability she creates, and the practical applicability of her content is unlike anything I've seen from an external trainer.”
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Rob Lotzer
Senior Director, Clio
“Jen pushed our thinking and gave us tools that actually stick. Senior sellers said it changed how they write emails, run discovery, and create urgency — especially around the cost of inaction. That’s rare. If you’re looking for sales training that drives real behavior change, she’s exceptional.”
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John Kelly
CRO, WordPress VIP

Let’s plan a DemandJen workshop, tailored to your business.

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Keynotes

Planning a kickoff or conference?

Let’s talk about your theme, your team, and what you need them doing differently this year. Because no seller has ever closed more deals by listening to a speaker tell the story of how they climbed Mount Everest.

Past Keynote Topics ↓

How to Defeat the Buyer’s Mental Spam Filter

With 83% of the buying group’s time spent without sellers, writing has become a critical skill for today’s seller. Learn how to write for executives, so you stop getting ghosted and start getting engagement.

How We Open Is How We Win: Thinking Like a Buyer

Want to earn the respect of executives? Stop thinking and acting like a seller. Learn how executives make decisions and what they value in the Sales experience.

How to Defeat Buyer Status Quo With Your Pitch

51% of B2B opportunities are lost to status quo. Learn how to create an executive-level pitch that pre-empts status quo and illuminates a cost of inaction.

How to Make Your Discovery Calls a Competitive Differentiator

Instead of drowning the buyer with mundane discovery questions, learn how to prep and deliver a POV, without slides, in a two-way dialogue.

How to Identify and Activate an Effective Deal Champion

Not all ‘champions’ are created equal. Learn how to identify and arm a champion to move your deal forward with bigger buying groups.

How to Sell to Bigger Buying Groups

Ever tried to decide on a restaurant for dinner with 10+ friends? Making a decision by committee breeds dysfunction. Learn how to work to build group consensus for change.

“What stood out most, both to me and to our team, was how tailored the session felt. Every moment was clearly designed around where we are in our journey. It didn’t feel generic. It felt intentional, relevant, and grounded in reality.”
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Mike Wolber
Chief Sales Officer, ApartmentList
“A frontline sales manager said it best: ‘In all my years of SKOs, this session was the best I've ever attended.’ Can't recommend Jen enough.”
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Topher Mitchell
Sales Excellence, LVT

Want to chat ideas for a keynote that won’t put your audience to sleep?

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#3

Selling to The C-Suite Video Course

Looking to upskill on your own time? Learn everything I teach in my workshops in a 5-hour video course. 

What You’ll Learn:

  • Prospecting to the C-Suite
  • Status-Quo-Busting Discovery
  • Building Champions & Consensus for Change

Investment: $299 USD

“The exec selling course has been one of the biggest unlocks of my career. This gave me a repeatable way to win executive deals faster.”
“Worth EVERY penny! I spent my entire weekend listening, rewinding, taking notes, learning, and laughing….Jen is funny!”
Hi there, I’m Jen.

Enterprise Seller Turned Sales Trainer

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Before DemandJen, I carried an individual quota at Corporate Executive Board and The Challenger Sale for 18 years, closing 6 and 7-figure deals with Fortune 500 brands.

Now, I run a sales-training firm trusted by GE, G2, IBM, Bloomberg Industry Group, Instructure, Autodesk, and more. 

But for years, I pointed the finger at everyone and everything else when I lost deals to “no decision.”

“I need better pitch decks.”

“Our price is too expensive vs. our competitors.” 

“Our solution doesn’t have X and that’s why I lost.”

Then I had a 1:1 with my VP of Sales who stopped me and said:

“Either use this time to complain, or figure out what you can do to address the problem. Because at the end of the year, it’s your number.”

So, I stopped making excuses and started revisiting every assumption and belief I held about how to sell to a CXO.

Now, I help other sellers avoid making the same mistakes I did. Because sales is a skill that anyone can learn — and I love seeing sellers win.

Frequently Asked Questions

Workshops and keynotes start at $20,000 + T&E. Pricing depends on your specific delivery. Some clients run multiple workshops in one day.

For Prospecting the C-Suite and Building Consensus for Change? Yes. For Status-Quo-Busting Discovery? No. Sending sellers to practice their discovery conversation in a breakout room is “meh” for everyone. That one is best delivered in-person.

2 hours. Anything longer than 2 hours on a Zoom is cruel and unusual punishment.

Reps should have a basic understanding of your company/offer. Don’t make it weird and send someone to this workshop before they’ve received their laptop. But, the thing I’m most proud of is that sellers of ALL tenures learn in these workshops. Old dogs can — and love to — learn new tricks. Especially with jobs-to-be-done like prospecting. 

No. My workshops are better suited for companies that are selling into mid-market, commercial, and enterprise accounts, where sellers can use a 1:1 motion for target accounts. If you’re asking reps to send 2000 emails per day, I’m not your gal.

I’d love to say every single person will adopt every single thing they learn and apply it to every single deal. They won’t. But, my clients consistently talk about the longevity of my training.

I’m not asking reps to memorize process steps. I’m not boring them to sleep with mundane, 101-level training. I’m helping them think differently. I’m helping them build new belief systems about their jobs-to-be-done. Change the way reps think = change their actions. And, I speak like a seller. We have fun. And, the reinforcement kits make it easy to embed the learnings into their workflows.

January through March and July are my busiest months because of SKOs. But, other clients have brought me in for in-office QBRs or regional team offsites.

No. My course is my only 1:1 offering. But, I’m happy to recommend other coaches.

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