April Bloch

April Bloch

Head of U.S. Promoted Brands Viatris
April Bloch

April Bloch is Head of U.S. Promoted Brands at Viatris. With experience across sales, marketing, executive leadership, and business strategy, she has operated from nearly every commercial vantage point throughout her career. Her focus is aligning commercial strategy with customer and field realities to strengthen execution, accelerate growth, and develop high-performing teams.

Monday, September 21

4:05 PM Boardroom B: What Sales Reps Actually Need — Back to Fundamentals When Everything Else Is Noise

Pharmaceutical and medical device sales organizations have spent a decade adding complexity to their enablement programs. Many are now discovering that the most impactful training interventions are also the most foundational: customer-centric selling, purposeful negotiation, and the disciplined communication skills that build durable partnerships. 

  • Redesigning sales training around the specific behavioral outcomes commercial leaders are tracking rather than the content frameworks L&D inherited from a prior strategic cycle 
  • Building empathy and customer-context fluency as genuine competencies for field teams navigating an environment where providers are overwhelmed, time-pressed, and highly skeptical of undifferentiated outreach 
  • Creating reinforcement architectures that extend initial training into sustained behavioral change through field coaching, peer learning, and manager accountability structures 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining April.

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