People and pipeline

Getting sellers ready to win, and keeping new work coming in.

Anchored against the Pace framework. People pillar.

When you would commission this

Enablement is treated as training. Onboarding is slow, certifications do not change behaviour, content sits unused, and managers were not enabled to enable. Pipeline coverage is not where it needs to be, or when it is, it is the wrong mix. There is no clear line from enablement spend to revenue outcome. The function needs to be designed, built, and embedded, or the function exists and is not working.

A structured assessment from scope to decision.

A clear story and the plays to win with it. The pipeline engine. Faster onboarding. Training across product, industry, and selling skills. Better managers. The right materials. Coaching and reviews that keep it live.

Sales events, run end to end: Theme and content. Logistics and delivery. Planning and budget. Your kick-offs, summits, and customer events, planned and run so they land.

Plays and pipeline creation

The three-tier sales play system (Anchor Value Story, Core Value Propositions, Tactical Plays) with bill of materials and activation. And the pipeline creation engine: cadenced prospecting, the marketing-product-sales-inside-sales interlock, campaign and demand orchestration. Pipeline coverage as the managed outcome.

Academy

Foundations (Ready to sell), skills by role and seniority, and a leadership academy with a proprietary hiring framework that builds the manager layer.

Content

Hero / L1 / L2 / L3 content tiering with governance, taxonomy, decay management, and performance analytics tied back to deal outcomes. Built with a seller mindset, not a marketing one.

Engagement

Enablement platform. Manager rhythms, deal coaching, embedding cadence. Flagship events (SKOs, leader summits, customer events) as marquee moments. A single voice across all of it.

What you get

A team that tells one clear story, a pipeline engine that keeps new work coming in, people trained across product, industry, and selling skills, and events that bring the team together.

What a pace engagement is

A Pillar Engagement is a discrete, scoped transformation engagement against one of the three COMPOSE frameworks. The frameworks are not generic capability areas. They are the proprietary, codified ways we deliver. Each one anchors a different layer of the commercial system, and each one is a real, commissionable service in its own right. Three Pillar Engagements are offered. You can commission one, or sequence two over time. They share a common shape:

Scoped from the diagnostic.

What we work on is calibrated to what the assessment surfaced, not a templated rollout.

Four to six months typical duration.

Focused enough to land, long enough to embed.

Delivered alongside your internal team.

We lead the work. Your team owns the outcome.

Led personally by our team.

No hand-off to junior consultants.

Three PACE propositions

Commissioned individually or in combination, depending on what the diagnostic surfaces.

01

Plays and Pipeline
Creation

Designing and building the play system and the pipeline engine that fuels it. The three-tier sales play system. Anchor Value Story. Core Value Propositions. Tactical Plays. Bill of materials, activation cadence, and performance analytics. The Pipeline Creation engine. Cadenced prospecting. Marketing, product, sales, and inside-sales interlock. Campaign and demand orchestration. Pipeline coverage as the managed outcome. The output is a connected discipline that turns strategy into seller behaviour and demand into qualified pipeline.

02

Academy Design, Build, and Launch

Designing, building, and launching the learning architecture for the commercial organisation. Foundations (Ready to Sell). Skills curricula by role and seniority. Leadership Academy with a proprietary hiring framework that builds the manager layer. Certification and competency model. Onboarding-to-productivity discipline. Coach-the-coach cadence. The output is a manager layer enabled to coach deals and a seller layer that compounds capability over time.

03

Events, Engagement and Content Services

The seller-facing platform that activates and sustains the function. Flagship events as marquee moments. Sales kick-off (SKO), leader summits, customer events, regional engagements. Enablement platform selection and operating model. Manager rhythms, deal coaching, and embedding cadence. Full content service. Hero, L1, L2, and L3 content tiering. Governance, taxonomy, decay management, and performance analytics tied back to deal outcomes. Built with a seller mindset, not a marketing one. The output is a single voice and a sustained operating rhythm across the commercial organisation.

Enablement is asked to change how people sell, but rarely controls what actually decides behaviour: what gets inspected in the forecast call, what the comp plan pays for, what a manager reinforces in a one to one. Content and training alone cannot outvote those. PACE builds capability where it lands, in live pipeline, and treats learning, change, culture and engagement as part of the strategy rather than the communications wrapped around it.

Umar Gill

Managing Partner

The COMPOSE Sales Model®

How to read it

The Diagnostic

Entry point. Assesses the whole system. Scores the commercial organisation across all six pillars and surfaces what to address first.

The Six Pillars

What COMPOSE is. The six interconnected components of a high performing sales organisation. Each coloured segment represents one pillar.

The Frameworks

How we deliver. PERFORM, PACE, and RISE. Each anchored against a different layer of the commercial system, shown in the outer ring.

People and pipeline

Getting sellers ready to win, and keeping new work coming in.

Anchored against the Pace framework. People pillar.

When you would commission this

Enablement is treated as training. Onboarding is slow, certifications do not change behaviour, content sits unused, and managers were not enabled to enable. Pipeline coverage is not where it needs to be, or when it is, it is the wrong mix. There is no clear line from enablement spend to revenue outcome. The function needs to be designed, built, and embedded, or the function exists and is not working.

What we do

A clear story and the plays to win with it. The pipeline engine. Faster onboarding. Training across product, industry, and selling skills. Better managers. The right materials. Coaching and reviews that keep it live.

Sales events, run end to end: Theme and content. Logistics and delivery. Planning and budget. Your kick-offs, summits, and customer events, planned and run so they land.

Plays and pipeline creation

The three-tier sales play system (Anchor Value Story, Core Value Propositions, Tactical Plays) with bill of materials and activation. And the pipeline creation engine: cadenced prospecting, the marketing-product-sales-inside-sales interlock, campaign and demand orchestration. Pipeline coverage as the managed outcome.

Academy

Foundations (Ready to sell), skills by role and seniority, and a leadership academy with a proprietary hiring framework that builds the manager layer.

Content

Hero / L1 / L2 / L3 content tiering with governance, taxonomy, decay management, and performance analytics tied back to deal outcomes. Built with a seller mindset, not a marketing one.

Engagement

Enablement platform. Manager rhythms, deal coaching, embedding cadence. Flagship events (SKOs, leader summits, customer events) as marquee moments. A single voice across all of it.

What you get

A team that tells one clear story, a pipeline engine that keeps new work coming in, people trained across product, industry, and selling skills, and events that bring the team together.

Three PACE propositions

Commissioned individually or in combination, depending on what the diagnostic surfaces.

01

Plays and Pipeline
Creation

Designing and building the play system and the pipeline engine that fuels it. The three-tier sales play system. Anchor Value Story. Core Value Propositions. Tactical Plays. Bill of materials, activation cadence, and performance analytics. The Pipeline Creation engine. Cadenced prospecting. Marketing, product, sales, and inside-sales interlock. Campaign and demand orchestration. Pipeline coverage as the managed outcome. The output is a connected discipline that turns strategy into seller behaviour and demand into qualified pipeline.

02

Academy Design, Build, and Launch

Designing, building, and launching the learning architecture for the commercial organisation. Foundations (Ready to Sell). Skills curricula by role and seniority. Leadership Academy with a proprietary hiring framework that builds the manager layer. Certification and competency model. Onboarding-to-productivity discipline. Coach-the-coach cadence. The output is a manager layer enabled to coach deals and a seller layer that compounds capability over time.

03

Events, Engagement and Content Services

The seller-facing platform that activates and sustains the function. Flagship events as marquee moments. Sales kick-off (SKO), leader summits, customer events, regional engagements. Enablement platform selection and operating model. Manager rhythms, deal coaching, and embedding cadence. Full content service. Hero, L1, L2, and L3 content tiering. Governance, taxonomy, decay management, and performance analytics tied back to deal outcomes. Built with a seller mindset, not a marketing one. The output is a single voice and a sustained operating rhythm across the commercial organisation.

Where pillar engagements sit in the ladder

Pillar engagements usually follow the Diagnostic and can lead into wider programme work or interim leadership where the work needs to be landed inside the business.

The COMPOSE diagnostic

The evidenced starting point that scopes the pillar engagement.

Transformation programmes

When the issue spans multiple pillars or frameworks.

Interim leadership

When senior accountable capacity is needed to land the work.

Focus the work where it matters.

Start with the diagnostic, then commission the framework engagement that the evidence calls for.