Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion is one of the largest tech acquisitions in 20 years. The acquisition of the world’s largest social network for business by the world’s largest software company is bound to have far reaching effects for many decades.
 
But what does it mean to your business right now?

The short answer is that companies need to become a “social business” now in order to remain competitive in the future. Waiting until LinkedIn is fully integrated in Windows XX is like sticking with typewriters when personal computers hit the market.

Join LinkedIn and Social Selling expert Kurt Shaver as he explains how this milestone deal will impact your business. A former Silicon Valley software sales executive, Kurt has spent the past five years (10,000 hours) training companies like Hewlett Packard, Ericsson, and CenturyLink on advanced LinkedIn and Social Selling techniques.
 
This Executive Education session is designed for Sales and Marketing leaders.

Attendees will learn:

• What’s in it for Microsoft?
• What changes can you expect in LinkedIn?
• What steps should your company take today to avoid getting left behind?

Kurt Shaver is a co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Vengreso. Kurt is an expert at getting sales teams to adopt new sales tools and techniques. Through a successful career in technology sales, Kurt learned what it takes to reach B2B decision makers. As a VP of Sales for a global software company, Kurt was the executive sponsor of a Salesforce.com rollout. That’s how he learned what it takes to get salespeople to adopt new tools and techniques. That knowledge led to him launch his own Salesforce consulting business in 2008. When LinkedIn went public in 2011, Kurt recognized that LinkedIn would be the next great sales technology and that it would require expert training. He pivoted his business and now has over 10,000 hours of experience training corporate sales teams like CenturyLink, Ericsson, and TelePacific Communications.

Kurt is the creator of the Social Selling Boot Camp and is a member of the National Speakers Association. He frequently speaks at corporate sales meetings and conferences like Dreamforce, Sales 2.0, and LinkedIn’s Sales Connect.