It’s been about a week since the 9th Annual POI Fall Summit, and we continue to hear from several of you who attended the deepest and most advanced Summit we’ve had so far. Attendees left inspired and engaged – and we know many of you are, too – to continue the hard but meaningful work to reshape and advance commercial capabilities to drive profitable growth.

With attendees joining us from Tier 1 and tier 2 CPG and Retailers across the US, we were proud to facilitate networking with a diverse group of senior leaders from a wide range of Sales, Marketing, Finance (RGM), Merchandising, and Solutions backgrounds. We welcomed Bob Ravener, EVP and Chief People Officer, Dollar General (ret.) to lead us through an energizing keynote that helped us connect more deeply with one another across culture, leadership, plus resilience when overcoming adversity to achieve personal and professional growth.

We were moved to our feet by Denny Belcastro and the Kimberly-Clark team’s detailed discussion about committing ourselves to transforming pricing, promotion, and RGM from where we are to an enterprise-wide, analytics driven growth Center of Excellence. And this was just a few hours after the pre-conference workshop, RGM Share Group, and POI advisory board meeting, where we celebrated the next generation platform of the Certified Collaborative Marketer education and certification for CPG and Retailer Executives across the industry and the globe!

We’re hearing from attendees that they’ve taken home a lot to think about and share with their teams at their companies, plus that they’ve made lasting connections with other leaders across Consumer Goods and Retail.

For more in their own words, see what attendees had to say about their Summit experience.

“Cannot thank u enough for invite to POI conference this week. As usual POI Conferences speakers and content over delivered!!! There was one common insight theme for me… As we all approach

Revenue Growth Management to solve, we are realizing how siloed we are within our own companies to approach growth and how everyone is seeking nirvana. There are no templates to tell us how to do it.

This goes for the largest to small CPG’s.

A common point of view to fix what we do is that all need to try and standardize  process say 70% to help with efficient resource management and use the 30% to tailor to by account. There were lots of very sharp 3rd. party Forecast, Planning, Promotion, and Analytics companies to help us with managing

this growing myriad of syndicated , retailer and personal data.Your conference does a terrific job of allowing CPG’s and Retail Leaders to come together and view these mutual opportunities.”

“Just a note to say thank you for a fantastic POI Summit last week. I learned an awful lot, talked to some great people, and had heaps of fun. Thank you for welcoming me to the POI community. Looking forward to seeing you both in April at the POI Spring Summit in Chicago, IL, in Berlin, DE in May, 2020!”

On this Veterans Day, POI and our Members thank all of you who served, all who continue to serve, and all who are preparing to enter the armed services.

Reach Joanie Hampton at POI to sign up for the next POI Summits in April, May, and June, 2020  Reach her today! jhampto@p-o-i.org