Keynotes
Michael Scheelhardt, author of The Sales Innovators, speaks at conferences, summits and company events on selling, innovation and AI.
Keynotes from A$5,000 excluding GST.
The talks
Putting purpose back into innovation
For: Sales teams that sell innovation, and the project and innovation leaders who work with them.
You leave with a way to define and apply innovation that starts with the customer's problem, not the product, and a sharper eye for the sales opportunities it opens up.
You will learn
- What innovation is, and how it differs from invention
- The necessity to innovate
- Innovation as an experience
- Open innovation
- Platform strategy
- Human-centred innovation
- Innovating humans with breathwork and meditation
Next step: See the training programmes
Why 17% of sellers bring in 81% of revenue
For: CEOs, CROs and sales leaders.
You leave knowing what the 17% of sellers who generate 81% of revenue do differently: they sell the growth, not the product, finding a growth opportunity in the client's business that the client has not yet seen, and that their offering enables. Leaders also leave knowing how to build a client's growth case, turn it into a Challenger Statement that is true of that client and of no one else, and organise the function that makes both routine.
Source: Ebsta and Pavilion, 2024 B2B Sales Benchmarks Report, 4.2 million opportunities across 530 companies.
Next step: See the team version of the Quotient
Where AI agents earn trust
For: Sales and service leaders deploying AI agents, and the teams who work beside them.
You leave knowing how to use the Consent Gradient: the more permission you already have to contact someone, the more capable and defensible an AI agent is. Agents take on the preparation and follow-up, so your people spend more of their time in the conversations where trust is won.
Next step: See Voice Agents and Avatars
The sales ladder is missing a rung
For: CROs and sales leaders.
You leave knowing why the seat above Key Account Director does not exist in most organisations, and what happens when you create it.
Next step: See where your team sits on the ladder
Formats: in person keynote, virtual keynote, or a keynote with a follow-on workshop for your team. Keynotes run about 50 minutes.
Past events

PMI Sydney Event, 2026

AI Event, Copenhagen, 2025

Oracle AI Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2017
