Your number rides on 20% of your reps.
PROBLEM 1
The 80/20 problem
20% of your reps drive 80% of your revenue. Maybe you're closer to 70/30. Either way, your number depends on a handful of people, not a team. That's the biggest risk in your pipeline, and it's the problem I solve.
PROBLEM 2
Coaching ranks #21
Below are the Top 25 skills you're expected to master. Coaching moves your number more than any of them, and it's the one that gets the least time, expertise, and follow-through. I take coaching off your plate for your whole team.
The Top 25 CRO / VP of Sales Priorities
CRITICAL
- Quota Attainment
- GTM Strategy
- Pipeline Generation
- Forecasting
- Territory Planning
CORE
- Comp Plan Design
- Headcount Planning
- Recruiting and Hiring
- Onboarding and Ramp
- Enablement and Training
IMPORTANT
- Sales Process
- CRM and Tech Stack
- Deal Reviews
- Pricing Strategy
- Deal Desk Oversight
SUPPORTING
- Marketing Alignment
- CS Alignment
- Product Alignment
- Board Reporting
- Org Structure
PERIPHERAL
- Coaching#21
- Competitive Battlecards
- Partnership Strategy
- Team Culture
- Performance Analysis
When coaching happens, it's usually inside a deal review. You save the deal, but without behavioral coaching, the rep makes the same mistakes on the next one.
By the Numbers
THE GAP
Your top 10% bring in almost half your revenue.
47.4%1
of closed-won revenue comes from the top 10% of sellers
56%2
of SaaS reps missed quota in Q2 2026
WHY IT STAYS
Training fades, and coaching never makes the calendar.
87%3
of training forgotten within 30 days
Under 18%4
of a manager's week goes to coaching. The benchmark is 50%.
WHAT IT COSTS YOU
Every rep you lose comes out of your number, and eventually your seat.
$150K+5
to replace one AE
32%6
annual AE attrition
5.3 months6
to ramp a new AE
18 months7
average Series A CRO tenure
Sources: ¹ Salesloft 2026 Revenue Benchmark, survey of 500 U.S. sales leaders, May–June 2026. ² RepVue Cloud Sales Index, Q2 2026. ³ Gartner. ⁴ Objective Management Group. ⁵ DePaul Center for Sales Leadership, inflation-adjusted. ⁶ The Bridge Group, SaaS AE Metrics. ⁷ Pave via SaaStr.
The talent is already in the building.
- You hired these people for their track records. The problem isn't who's in the seats.
- Your top 20% already hit the number with the same product, against the same competitors. Your team already knows how to win.
- That knowledge lives in two or three heads. I get it out of their heads and coach your whole team on it.
The curriculum is already on your team.
Got 30 minutes? I'll show you where your gap is and how your top performers' habits close it.
