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Doug
Hutton
SVP, Sales
Corporate Visions
Doug Hutton is Executive Vice President, Customer Experience at Corporate Visions, where he leads post-sale teams to deliver the company’s science-backed messaging, content, and skills solutions. His Customer Success and Consulting Delivery teams support 250+ B2B organizations annually in driving more successful commercial conversations. Formerly SVP of Products, Doug partnered with behavioral scientists to build the research foundation for Corporate Visions’ award-winning solutions. He is co-author of The Expansion Sale and has published numerous research reports and thought leadership pieces. Before Corporate Visions, Doug led product development at CEB (now Gartner), advising B2B sales and marketing leaders on post-recession growth strategies. He’s supported companies like ADP, Sherwin-Williams, and National Instruments in deploying high-impact sales tools and training. As a practitioner, Doug held marketing and enablement roles at Second City Works and oversaw global operations at Mind Gym, managing delivery of 14,000+ client events per year. Doug holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University and an M.A. from The George Washington University. He lives near Charlotte, NC with his wife, two children, and two Yorkshire Terriers.
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18 September 2025 16:00 - 16:30
Human-driven, buyer-centered: What AI can’t do in the moments that win deals
Every CRO is under pressure to drive revenue growth with greater consistency, while wrestling with longer sales cycles, shrinking budgets, and increased stakeholder scrutiny. Many leaders are racing to meet this challenge with efficiency tools – AI and automation, process controls, and pipeline visibility. But efficiency isn’t effectiveness. Sellers may have more tools and better dashboards, yet still lack the ability to shift buyer behavior when it matters most. The path to achieving higher win rates remains frustratingly opaque. Until now. New research from Corporate Visions has uncovered the precise sales competencies that show a statistically significant correlation with increased win rates. These aren’t vague traits or outdated best practices. They’re real-world human selling skills, collected in buyer feedback from more than 120,000 deals. They are the human moments that matter in real customer conversations. In this keynote, Doug Hutton, SVP Sales at Corporate Visions will share: - The evidence-backed competencies that directly impact your revenue outcomes - Why traditional assessment & development models fail to translate into performance gains - How forward-thinking CROs can create revenue confidence at scale by targeting coaching and enablement to what truly moves the needle