Julia Steele Rodriguez

Julia Steele Rodriguez

Global Director Training & Education Philips
Julia Steele Rodriguez

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 Julia.

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