Session: From Data to Destiny: The C-Suite’s Role in Turning Intelligence into Growth
As business leaders, we push our teams to ship faster and innovate constantly. But there’s a hard truth many leadership teams avoid: our customers can’t keep up.
Most companies invest heavily in product innovation and Customer Success, yet still struggle to drive adoption, retention, and expansion. The issue isn’t effort - it’s visibility.
One of the biggest blind spots is not knowing whether customers are truly keeping pace as products evolve.
When they fall behind, time-to-value slows, perceived ROI drops, and growth stalls - long before churn ever appears in a dashboard.
In this session, we’ll explore why customer learning is a missing layer of business intelligence, and why leading companies see it as critical to delivering customer value and long-term growth.
This isn’t a conversation about tools or training. It’s what customer learning reveals about value, risk, and growth.
Bio
As Chief Product Officer at Thought Industries, Sarah Phoenix leads the company’s product vision and strategy. As a seasoned product executive with 20+ years of experience, Sarah previously held executive leadership roles at BILL, Twitter, and GoDaddy, where she specialized in scaling B2B global platforms and building high-engagement user experiences. At Thought Industries, she is dedicated to evolving the platform into an intelligence-driven engine that connects learning behavior to measurable business growth. Sarah’s expertise in data-centric design and AI ensures that Thought Industries remains at the forefront of innovation, helping organizations turn education into a primary driver of customer value.