Meet Braintrust at the 2026 Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference
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Meet Us at the 2026 Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference

Braintrust is heading to Caesars Palace. Between sessions, come find us at the Events Cafe for a coffee and a real conversation about the one variable every AI investment, enablement program, and productivity initiative ultimately runs through: how your sellers and leaders build trust and communicate under pressure.

Dates
May 19–20
Venue
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Find Us At
Booth #113
Three Ways to Connect

Catch us on stage. Grab a book. Talk over coffee.

Three ways to connect, all on the show floor.

  • 01
    Theater Sessions Two 20-minute keynotes on the Exhibit Showcase stage
  • 02
    Grab a Best-Selling Book NeuroSelling 2.0 or NeuroCoaching, waiting at Booth #113
  • 03
    Coffee & Conversation 30 minutes at the Events Cafe. On us.
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Why Meet With Braintrust

You've invested in the process, the tech, and the enablement. The gap is how your team communicates when it matters.

For over two decades, we've studied one thing: what actually happens in a buyer's brain during a sales conversation, and in an employee's brain during a coaching one. The result is a neuroscience-based system trusted by high-growth companies and Fortune 500 sales teams in tech, life sciences, manufacturing, financial services, and more.

01

Trust is the outcome, not the talking point

Every AI-driven enablement initiative, every productivity play, every retention program routes through the same neurological reality. We'll show you how to engineer it on purpose.

02

Behavior change that survives Monday

Workshops don't change behavior. Reinforcement does. Our three-phase system decodes your buyer, rewires your team, and reinforces the habits until they hold under real pressure.

03

Measured in revenue, not smile sheets

$200M lift for a plateaued field team. 27% to 60% closing ratio in a single quarter. $43.6M to $88.7M in bookings. Every engagement is backed by a performance guarantee.

Exhibit Showcase Theater

Catch a live session on the show floor.

We're running two theater sessions in the Gartner Exhibit Showcase, designed for CSOs and heads of enablement who want the neuroscience, the application, and the evidence in 20 minutes or less.

Real buyer psychology, real rep behavior, real client outcomes. No slide theater.

After the session, walk over to Booth #113 to grab a copy of the book and keep the conversation going.

Tuesday • May 19
10:30 AM
20 minutes • PDT

The #1 Reason Sellers Don't Perform Under Pressure — In Spite of $85B Spent on Training

Organizations are investing more than ever in sales tools and training, yet performance still breaks down under pressure. Why? Because in high-stakes moments, sellers don't rise to knowledge; they fall to habits. This keynote uses neuroscience to show how pressure impacts behavior and how to build repeatable habits that actually hold up when it matters most.

Braintrust | Gartner CSO 2026 ConferenceJeff Bloomfield
Jeff Bloomfield
Founder & Chairman, Braintrust
Wednesday • May 20
12:45 PM
20 minutes • PDT

What AI Can't Coach: The Neuroscience of the Skills Your Leaders Can't Afford to Lose

AI is transforming how teams train and scale, but it's also creating the illusion that performance can be automated. While AI accelerates knowledge, it can't coach the human skills that drive trust, influence, and decisions. This keynote explores the neuroscience of connection and shows leaders how to leverage AI without losing the behaviors that make performance truly effective.

Braintrust | Gartner CSO 2026 Conference
Dan Docherty, PhD
Chief Coaching Officer, Braintrust
Take The Work Home — Booth #113

Grab a best-selling book at Booth #113.

The keynote is the preview. The book is the playbook. Stop by Booth #113 after a session and grab a copy of either best-seller, on us, while supplies last.

NeuroSelling 2.0 by Jeff Bloomfield
Best Seller • Revised Edition

NeuroSelling 2.0

By Jeff Bloomfield, Founder & Chairman, Braintrust

A step-by-step communication methodology honed across biotech, financial services, manufacturing, and engineering. The revised edition adds AI and digital-selling strategies alongside four new case studies showing the framework in action.

Neuroscience of decisions AI & digital selling 4 new case studies
NeuroCoaching by Dan Docherty and Jeff Bloomfield
New Release

NeuroCoaching

By Dan Docherty, PhD & Jeff Bloomfield

A journey-based guide to mastering the moments that matter, built on neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and decades of coaching practice. Turns the weekly 1:1 back into the highest-leverage hour of the week for frontline managers.

Coaching neuroscience Emotional intelligence From theory to activation

Signed copies available at Booth #113 when the author is nearby. Catch Jeff on May 19 or Dan on May 20.

Your Braintrust Home Base

Find us at Booth #113.

Between sessions, meals, and meetings, Booth #113 is the easiest way to find us.

Stop by to grab a book, pick up a copy of our latest research, or just say hello to the team. If the moment's right, we'll walk over to the Events Cafe together for the real conversation.

  • Both copies of NeuroSelling 2.0 and NeuroCoaching
  • A team who actually did the work, not just the slides
  • Coffee if you're ready, or a handshake if you're not
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Booth
#113
Next To
Events Café
Steps From
Theater 1
The Real Conversation

Coffee & Conversation at the Events Cafe.

This is the meeting. No booth noise, no hovering reps, no deck to click through.

Between sessions, the most valuable 30 minutes of your Gartner week probably aren't on the agenda. They're the ones where you get to sit across from someone who's seeing the same patterns you are and compare notes on what's actually working.

The coffee is on us. Reserve a slot or find us walking the cafe during breaks. Either way, come with a question.

  • No pitch, no pressure, no follow-up sequence
  • Bring a question, leave with a second opinion
  • Reserved for CSOs, heads of enablement, and rev ops leaders
  • First coffee's on Braintrust. Second one too.

Grab a seat at the Events Cafe.

We'll hold the table and keep the cups coming. Text us when you're heading over and we'll make sure someone's there to meet you.

Find Us Booth #113 or Events Cafe
Where Events Cafe, Caesars Palace
When May 19–20, morning & afternoon breaks
Who Senior commercial leaders
Length 30 minutes (or as long as it's useful)
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What's On The Table

The conversations we're showing up for.

These are the themes we're hearing most from CSOs heading into the second half of 2026. If any of them live rent-free in your head, put a coffee on the calendar.

01

AI enablement without AI theater

How to deploy AI coaching, roleplay, and call analysis in a way that actually changes rep behavior, instead of just generating more dashboards nobody reads.

02

The middle-of-the-bell-curve problem

Why your top performers can't be cloned and your bottom performers aren't coachable, and what to actually do with the 60% of reps driving (or stalling) your number.

03

Pipeline reviews vs. coaching conversations

Most frontline managers have replaced development with deal interrogation. We'll show you the shift that turns the weekly 1:1 back into the highest-leverage hour of the week.

04

Building trust into the buying committee

The average B2B deal now has 11+ stakeholders. The neuroscience of consensus is different from the neuroscience of one-on-one trust. Here's how to train for both.

Put 30 minutes and a coffee on the calendar.

Tell us which day works. We'll save you a seat at the Events Cafe and reach out to lock the time.

If you'd rather just walk up, find us at Booth #113 during a break or stop by the Events Cafe. Either way, the cappuccino's on us.

  • Reserved for CSOs, heads of enablement, and rev ops leaders
  • 30 minutes (or as long as it's useful)
  • No pitch, no pressure

Reserve Your Coffee

Drop your details and preferred day. We'll reply within one business day to confirm your slot.