The sales manager job has never been harder. Buyer expectations are increasing sales complexity. Markets are evolving at a high rate, often driven by advances in technology and AI. Cost pressure in some sectors have led to downsizing and restructuring, placing added burden on remaining managers to adapt to their new realities.

All of these changes are placing significant pressure on GTM motions, with changes coming faster than most operating cadences can adapt — reshaping what managers must do in coaching, deal reviews, forecasting, and performance conversations. Despite having access to more tools and data than ever before, managers feel overwhelmed resulting in downstream impact on team performance. Some sellers beat quota—but those gains are washed out by the underperformance of the rest. The organizations pulling ahead aren't hiring their way there; they're building it, with structural accountability mechanisms that let leaders evolve at the pace of their buyers.

Join Ted McKenna and Dave Anderson with senior sales leaders from LinkedIn and Veeam for a candid conversation on how they're transforming their manager cadences — what's moved the needle, what hasn't, and what other sales organizations can borrow from real programs built around our Sales Leader Academy framework.

Sample discussion topics:

• Why the sales manager role is under new pressure — and what buyer evolution is doing to the job

• The gap between the tools/frameworks most orgs have built and the leader behaviors that make them stick

• Moving from reactive to proactive coaching: what a modern coaching cadence actually looks like in the field

• Deal reviews that change outcomes (vs. status-update theater)

• Forecasting rigor without forecasting theater — building objectivity into the rhythm

• The accountability mechanisms that separate high-performing manager teams