Program · for sales leadership

Sell Up.

Your reps win the demo and freeze in front of the person who controls the budget, answering a CFO's risk question with a feature. We teach them what the buyer actually cares about so they stop wasting executives' time. An SKO keynote and field enablement.

Scoped to your situation · Founding Client terms apply
The problem

Your reps are great with the engineer and stall at the executive.

Your sellers win the demo and the bake-off, then freeze the moment they are in front of someone who controls budget, and answer a CFO's risk question with a feature. Worse, all the instinct for that executive conversation lives in three of your veterans and nowhere else, so new hires take nine months to ramp.

They will not get all of it. They will get some, and that is the difference between a conversation and a deleted email.

What's included

What you get.

  • An SKO keynote. Howard puts your whole floor in the buyer's head, with the read of the executive they keep losing.
  • Field enablement. What the buyer cares about, how to earn the VP meeting, and how to run it.
  • The executive-conversation playbook. Stop answering executive questions with feature answers, and start with the buyer's risk.
  • The fast-no discipline. Teach reps to earn a real yes or a fast no, and clean the zombies out of the forecast.
How it works

Teach the floor, not the few.

Keynote
The whole team

An SKO session that gives every rep the buyer's perspective, not just your three veterans.

Enable
The playbook

How to earn and run the executive meeting, and what to lead with instead of features.

Reinforce
The fast no

Caring about the buyer makes a conversation and shortens the cycle; the second-best answer is a fast no.

What it's worth

A compounding lift, not a one-deal rescue.

Fixing how forty reps talk to the executive beats parachuting in to save one deal, because the one deal does not repeat and the floor does.

The average rep, dangerous

You cannot clone your three best; this makes the rest credible with the executive.

Cleaner forecast

Reps earn a real yes or a fast no, so commit means commit.

Faster ramp

New hires get the buyer instinct that used to take nine months.

Measured, not surveyed

Judged on cycle time and win rate, not a training feedback form.

Why Phronia

Taught by the buyer they are trying to reach.

Howard has been the CIO, CTO, and CISO your reps walk in to see, so he knows exactly what that executive cares about. The win he is proudest of is a front-line rep stopping him at a conference to say, 'your talk helped me kill it this year.'

Proven: one call shortened a U.S. state's sales cycle by nine months and put the vendor in the CTO's office that week, because it was the right move and the buyer trusted the source.

Get started

Scoped to your team.

Sell Up runs as an SKO keynote, field enablement, or both, scoped to the size of your sales org.

Founding Client: start your first engagement by July 31 and take 40% off, as one of a small charter group, in exchange for becoming a reference.