We inspire your entire sales team to drive positive change, profitability, and sales growth by:
- Shortening the ramp-up time to awareness and understanding of key initiatives to drive incremental goal achievement across the entire sales force.
- Keying in on high-value behaviours that correlate to sales initiatives.
- Leveraging gamification to educate your sales force on key knowledge and skills to best position your value proposition to end-users.
- Optimizing your sales incentive and recognition investment.

Engage and inspire your employees
We help you attract, inspire, and retain a high-performing salesforce by:
- Recognizing key behaviour and achievements.
- Connecting employees to your culture and purpose.
- Improving your employee experience.
- Rewarding them for living the culture on a daily basis.
- Making employees feel valued for their contributions.

Increase channel partner loyalty
We assist you in fostering strong, enduring relationships, and boosting sales and profitability with distributors, resellers, and solution providers by:
- Analyzing and segmenting the performance of channel partners.
- Identifying initiatives to drive growth and profitability, thereby maximizing your channel marketing return on investment (ROI).
- Securing mindshare among channel partners and keeping your business at the forefront.
- Promoting channel sales enablement and high-value activities.
- Elevating channel partners’ knowledge, skills, and ability to position your value proposition and sell your solutions effectively.
- Motivating, acknowledging, and rewarding channel sales growth across all segments and/or tiers of channel partners.

Build lasting customer loyalty
We dig deeper, driving the behaviours that matter, fine-tuning every stage of the customer lifecycle journey, and sparking emotional connections that last. Wherever your customers are, we make sure they stick with you by:
- Identifying and influencing the specific customer actions that drive long-term loyalty.
- Tailoring every interaction to match your customers’ preferences and needs.
- Guiding customers through every phase of their experience with precision.
- Fostering lasting bonds by aligning your brand with what matters most to your customers.
- Engaging your audience wherever they are, ensuring a cohesive brand experience across all touchpoints.
- Tracking and refining customer loyalty strategies to maximize the impact of every loyalty initiative.

We help you design and execute world-class events that will energize and inspire your audience by:
- Bringing fresh thinking, ideas, and solutions to elevate the overall experience.
- Delivering holistic, audience-centric thinking and solutions – beyond just creative, production, and logistics – to inspire audiences and maximize the impact of every event.
- Providing a one-stop-shop approach that simplifies the demands of planning, coordinating, and operating world-class events.
- Leveraging our extensive global footprint, resources, and local market expertise to execute global events that accommodate the unique needs of each market.

Our work speaks for itself
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Winning over brand-loyal distributors
Impact Overall company sales increased after introducing Contractor Rewards, but sales among participants were up 11%. Industry Manufacturing Problem space Customer loyalty Services Building supply Rewards marketplace Build loyalty, boost sales A manufacturer that builds products used in exterior construction was looking to grow its nationwide sales through distributors that are typically brand-exclusive. This audience […]Learn More
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Unlocking success in the economy beer market
Results Because of the successful adoption of the program by sales reps, the company saw a return on investment (ROI) of 4:1. Industry Consumer goods and services Manufacturing Problem space Sales team motivation Services Branded merchandise Rewards marketplace Raise the bar A large beer manufacturer was interested in gaining a share of the economy beer […]Learn More -
Banking client turnover: A targeted approach
Impact The multi-channel marketing approach exceeded the client’s expectations, resulting in new opportunities, increased revenue, and a 17:1 return on investment (ROI). Industry Financial services and insurance Problem space Channel engagement Services Multi-channel marketing Research and data analytics Recognition Stop attrition in its tracks A financial services firm was losing 200-300 of its business banking […]Learn More
Industry Partnerships
We surround ourselves with a strong network of academic thought leaders and technology partners.

IBM watsonx
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI and business services provider, helping clients capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, cloud solutions, and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service.

ProHabits
ProHabits uses short, bite-sized nudges to help your people practice key behaviours in a safe, non-disruptive way. ProHabits unlocks the potential of its users (and their organizations) by distilling complex concepts into short nudges that reinforce a “learn by doing” approach. You don’t learn to ride a bike by reading a guide or attending a seminar – you get on, and you start pedaling. ProHabits takes the same approach, prompting action through nudges.

Quantum Workplace
Quantum Workplace helps organizations make work better every day by creating a culture of employee success. Our employee success platform empowers organizations to understand employee experience, inspire employee impact, and create a magnetic culture that attracts and retains top talent. Solutions include employee surveys, 1-on-1s, goals, recognition, feedback, talent reviews, succession planning, and the nationally renowned Best Places to Work contest.

Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work.
Academic Partners
We’ve partnered with expert academics to ensure our customers’ sales incentive, loyalty, and employee engagement programs utilize psychology, research, and the scientifically proven principles of behavioural economics.

Brad Shuck, Ph.D.
Professor and Program Director, Human Resources and Organizational Development Program, University of Louisville; Co-Founder, OrgVitals; Owner, LEAD Research, LLC
Dr. Brad Shuck is an internationally recognized business thought leader, entrepreneur, and academic in the areas of employee engagement, leadership development, and organizational culture.
He is the author of Employee Engagement: A Research Overview (Routledge, 2020) and has published or presented more than 350 scholarly articles, book chapters, and invited presentations. Shuck holds five U.S. copyrights for his research-driven intellectual property on employee engagement and culture management. His work has been featured in US-based international media outlets, including Forbes, The Washington Post, and TIME, as well as international outlets such as Business World Online, India’s Economic Times, and the Hindu Times.
He has given Keynote addresses on four of the seven continents, including these countries: China, Spain, India, Panama, the United Kingdom and across the United States for some of the world’s largest and most admired companies. Shuck is a tenured Full Professor and Co-Founder of OrgVitals, a purpose-built culture management software company. He is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels and holds advanced degrees in Counseling, Student Affairs, Human Resource Development, and Adult Education.

Mike Ahearne, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing and C.T. Bauer Chair in Marketing, University of Houston
In addition to Mike’s roles at the University of Houston, he is also the Research Director of the Sales Excellence Institute. Mike’s research has primarily focused on improving the performance of salespeople and sales organizations.
He has published over 40 articles in leading journals and was recently recognized by the American Marketing Association as one of the 10 most productive research scholars in the field of marketing. His research has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Business Investors Daily, Fox News, INC Magazine and many other news outlets.

George John, Ph.D.
General Mills/Paul S. Gerot Chair, Professor of Marketing, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
Professor John received his bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1974 and his MBA from the University of Illinois in 1976. After earning his Ph.D in Marketing from Northwestern in 1981, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1987, he moved to the University of Minnesota. He is the General Mills/Paul S. Gerot Chair in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His interests centre around distribution channels and high-tech marketing. Specifically, he is interested in the strategic and efficiency aspects of governance choices in these settings.
His academic honours include an American Marketing Association award for his Ph.D dissertation in 1981, and his selection in 2003 as a “Highly Cited Researcher” in the Business/Economics category by Thomson Reuters Web of Science.
Our work speaks for itself
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Winning over brand-loyal distributors
Impact Overall company sales increased after introducing Contractor Rewards, but sales among participants were up 11%. Industry Manufacturing Problem space Customer loyalty Services Building supply Rewards marketplace Build loyalty, boost sales A manufacturer that builds products used in exterior construction was looking to grow its nationwide sales through distributors that are typically brand-exclusive. This audience […]Learn More -
Unlocking success in the economy beer market
Results Because of the successful adoption of the program by sales reps, the company saw a return on investment (ROI) of 4:1. Industry Consumer goods and services Manufacturing Problem space Sales team motivation Services Branded merchandise Rewards marketplace Raise the bar A large beer manufacturer was interested in gaining a share of the economy beer […]Learn More -
Banking client turnover: A targeted approach
Impact The multi-channel marketing approach exceeded the client’s expectations, resulting in new opportunities, increased revenue, and a 17:1 return on investment (ROI). Industry Financial services and insurance Problem space Channel engagement Services Multi-channel marketing Research and data analytics Recognition Stop attrition in its tracks A financial services firm was losing 200-300 of its business banking […]Learn More
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