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Chad
Horenfeldt
Head of Customer Success
Avoca
Chad Horenfeldt is the Head of Customer Success at Avoca and the author of The Strategic Customer Success Manager. His main focus is on building and scaling high-performing CS organizations. He has held Customer Success leadership roles at Siena, Meta (Kustomer), Bluecore, and Oracle (Eloqua), where he drove retention, expansion, and operational excellence. Chad is known for modernizing CS through AI, data, and structured frameworks, while coaching teams to operate as strategic partners to their customers.
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21 January 2026 09:45 - 10:15
From feature talk to strategy: An AI-powered framework for customer conversations
Customers don’t buy features. They buy outcomes. Yet many customer conversations still revolve around product capabilities instead of strategic value. The shift from feature talk to business impact is what separates reactive Customer Success from truly strategic partnerships. In this interactive session, participants will work together to build an AI-powered conversation framework that helps Customer Success teams move beyond product updates and toward outcome-driven discussions with customers. Through guided exercises and collaborative prompts, you’ll explore how to: • Turn product features into clear business value narratives • Use AI to surface insights and talking points before customer conversations • Structure conversations around customer goals, metrics, and long-term strategy Working at your tables, you’ll design a practical framework for strategic customer conversations, mapping how AI insights, customer signals, and value messaging can come together in every interaction. You’ll leave with a repeatable conversation playbook that helps your team shift from explaining what the product does to demonstrating how it drives measurable business impact.