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Tailored, Context-Rich Engagements That Build Internal Capability and Ignite Bold Action.

Original. Catalytic. Pragmatic.

Wayne Simmons brings to every engagement what most speakers in the customer experience and commercial excellence space cannot: the credibility of having done the job at the highest level, inside some of the most complex and iconic organizations in pharma, life sciences, hospitality, and financial services.

The perspective is practitioner-first — grounded in real decisions, real tradeoffs, and real results — and designed to produce the kind of organizational conviction that training programs alone rarely achieve. Every engagement is built from the ground up to reflect the specific context, strategic moment, and audience of the organization it serves.

Whether addressing a boardroom, a commercial leadership team, a cross-functional workshop, or a global conference, the goal is the same: to shift how leaders see the problem so they are equipped to do something different about it.

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The catalytic context and organizing thesis for senior leadership.

A focused, author-led strategic briefing designed for board, C-Suite, senior brand, commercial, and customer experience leaders. Consumer-Grade expectations now drive prescribing, yet your system creates intent without ensuring value realization—field intelligence surfaces barriers daily but remains unaddressed, leaving a hidden competitive vulnerability. This author-led briefing introduces Customer Excellence Activation (the methodology), Customer Excellence as the Fourth Pillar (the structural outcome), and the Realization Layer (the operating system that closes the gap).

Participants Leave With: Shared language across leadership. Clear pathway from problem to solution. Conviction on next steps.

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Selected Engagement Spotlights

High-Impact Engagements Across Diverse Contexts, Audiences, Events and Geographies.

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Speaking Engagement Spotlight #1:

NEXT Pharma Summit

Dubrovnik, Croatia

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Session Title: Funnel to Flywheel: The Customer-Centric Commercial Model

Description: Alongside the traditional dimensions of product and brand factors, HCPs are increasingly making prescribing decisions based on experiential factors. To meet this moment, CMOs and Modern Marketers must extend their focus from customer acquisition campaigns to also drive customer retention and expansion behaviors. In this session, attendees will be introduced to the case for urgency in making the essential evolution from the transactional “funnel” to the customer-centric “flywheel” commercial operating model.

Attendee feedback

"...Redefined what it means to be customer-centric in 2025"

"Wayne Simmons (Pfizer) just redefined what it means to be customer-centric in 2025.“CX can’t be a monolith. CX can’t succeed in a vacuum. We are all in service of customer acquisition....This was not just another CX talk!" -- Conference Organizer

Speaking Engagement Spotlight #2:

Medallia EXPERIENCE `25

Las Vegas, NV

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Session Title:

Driving Commercial

Excellence through CX

Customer Experience Management must evolve from reactive pain point management to driving measurable business impact. This session introduces a bold, commercial approach — integrating customer context into marketing, sales, and revenue operations. Learn how a customer excellence function breaks silos, fosters collaboration, and positions customer experience management as a vital force in the corporate revenue engine, commanding equal footing with marketing and sales.

"Session OSAT: 9.8 (WOW!)"

-- Customer Advocacy Director, Medallia

Attendee feedback

"Loved it. Favorite one so far. My favorite sessions at Medallia Experience are the ones that push the envelope for how to think about cx."

"I liked the concept of the flywheel and highlighting how customer perceptions and guided by their usage of other brands that are likely in unrelated industries."

"Really relevant content in my space. Good presentation and insights that smack of authenticity."

"I love the visuals with the doctor and interactions with multiple brands. I want to replicate that for my company"