Keynote Speaker
The Kirkpatrick Agency
General Session #4: The JOLT Effect
Ted has held executive leadership positions in product, strategy, research, advisory, and enablement for Tethr, Russell Reynolds Associates, and CEB (now, a part of Gartner). An accomplished sales and customer experience researcher whose work has appeared in the pages of Harvard Business Review, Ted’s most recent work focused on mining unstructured conversational data using advanced data science and leading AI/ML tools to build models, scores, and behavioral frameworks. Previous roles called for deploying syndicated research methods to mine more structured sources such as surveys, diagnostics, demographics, and jobs data. He is also a co-author, with Matt Dixon, of The JOLT Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision, and is a sought-after speaker and advisor to sales and customer experience teams around the world.
Ted holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Iowa and resides with his family in the Chicago, Illinois area.
