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De'Edra
Williams
Chief Customer Officer
De’Edra is a revenue-focused, customer-centric, and results-driven Customer Success leader with over 15 years of experience driving revenue growth, maximizing customer lifetime value, and leading high-performing global teams across startup, SMB, enterprise, and B2B/B2C environments. She has managed portfolios exceeding $450M ARR, achieving up to 115% net dollar retention and accelerating customer lifetime value by 30%. De’Edra specializes in designing and scaling customer success strategies that deliver measurable business outcomes, including reducing renewal churn by 20%, increasing ROI, shortening time-to-value, and driving double-digit adoption growth.
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25 February 2026 11:15 - 11:45
Customer success is a lie: Why we should keep believing in it
A provocative, myth-busting session on why many Customer Success organizations think they're practicing CS, yet still fail to deliver meaningful, repeatable, revenue-driving outcomes. This session challenges the industry's most sacred metrics, exposes why leaders keep getting blindsided by churn, and reveals how to rebuild CS on a foundation of truth, value, and predictable revenue impact. We will go into these core concepts and why they fail us: - NPS is not an accurate churn predictor - TTV (Time to Value) does not predict success - GRR Is a lie (Because It includes TCV) - NRR is a lagging indicator - CLV is built on assumptions, not reality