Speaker Bio
Danielle McKinley is a Senior Director, Analyst within Gartner for Sales Leaders, where she partners with Chief Sales Officers and their teams to solve their most complex commercial challenges. She helps revenue leaders navigate growth in an increasingly difficult selling environment by leveraging data, market research, and proven strategies to shape decisions and drive commercial outcomes. In her role, Danielle advises clients on account management and growth, sales talent management, sales effectiveness, and go to market design, serving as connective tissue across sales, service, and product functions to align organizational efforts and accelerate impact.
Clients rely on Danielle’s deep sales expertise, cross-functional perspective, and ability to translate research into practical commercial strategies. She supports leaders in understanding buyer behavior, enabling modern selling skills, refining onboarding and coaching programs, and advancing revenue enablement practices grounded in data and customer insight.
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Sessions
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM PDT
Ask the Expert: Unlocking Growth: Building High-Performing Account Teams
Danielle McKinley,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CSOs expect 65% of growth to come from existing customers, yet the AM role isn’t set up to seize this. This session explores “Teaming for Growth”: how to build account teams, align responsibilities to drive expansion, and leverage technology as a teammate to execute growth motions effectively.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM PDT
3 Actions to Scale AI Partnership Skills in B2B Sales
Danielle McKinley,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The key to AI partnership is helping individuals increase their cognitive capacity. This session will provide sales enablement leaders with a roadmap to scaling AI partnership skills within the sales organization, with a focus on how to frame, teach and scale developing AI partnership skills.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Uncovering the Real Seller Productivity Blockers and How to Solve Them
Danielle McKinley,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Fifty-seven percent of CSOs invest in manager coaching, tools, and training to boost productivity, yet average sales cycle time has increased by 48%. To address reduced seller productivity, CSOs should conduct a root cause assessment. Using the “Skill, Will, Hill” Framework helps determine if the challenge is due to skills, motivation, or work friction so that solutions are targeted.
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