These are … ah … interesting times for CROs, especially those who were on the path to IPO before the recent economic downturn. But according to Nasdaq’s Karen Snow, the current economic climate presents opportunities to balance out the challenges. As SVP, Head of US Listings & Revenue/Board Member for Nasdaq Private Markets & Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence, Snow knows a thing or two about what it takes to IPO.

The key to successful sales is the ability to have meaningful business conversations, and that requires creativity and deep listening skills, according to Amy Volas, Founder & CEO of Avenue Talent Partners.

At 6sense, we love to love BDRs! So we were thrilled to welcome the godfather of BDRs/SDRs himself, Lars Nilsson — VP Global Sales Development at Snowflake, and founder and CEO of SalesSource, a premier consulting firm helping companies optimize their sales motion.

What would a sales season of TalkingSense be without a conversation with David Rudnitsky, who literally wrote the playbook on enterprise selling?

Rudnitsky, who helped grow Salesforce from $51 million to $5 billion is the legend behind The Sales Playbook, which was published in Salesforce Founder & CEO Marc Benioff's best-seller, Behind the Cloud.

Pablo Dominguez, Operating Partner at Insight Partners, recently joined 6sense CMO Latané Conant to share the wisdom he’s gained leading the Center of Excellence for Sales and Customer Success.

For proof that you can be both a good human and a good sales leader, look no further than Sam Jacobs, founder of Pavilion and host of the popular Sales Hacker podcast. In our latest episode of Talking sense, Sam sits down with 6sense CMO Latané Conant to discuss his down-to-earth approach to sales leadership.

On the latest episode of Talking Sense, we’re joined by the authority in all things sales tech, Mary Shea. Mary is the Chief Evangelist at Outreach and a former Forrester analyst, and shares some deep insights on today’s sales tech landscape with host and 6sense CMO, Latané Conant.

In this episode of TalkingSense, 6sense CMO Latané Conant chats with Tim O’Neil, CRO of Alation, about scaling a sales team, sales enablement, and more.

Why is it that within the same company, certain sellers consistently blow their quotas out of the water while others don’t even come close to hitting theirs? It comes down to some key ways that top sellers operate, according to LinkedIn research: they’re better at targeting, they have better organizational data, and they’re better at time management.

We’re kicking off the sales-focused season of TalkingSense with a true legend. Matthew Dixon is the bestselling co-author of The Challenger Sale — which revolutionized how we think about customer indecision and how it gets in the way of closing deals.