Bring Your Brilliance. What Impact Will You Have on Your Sales Comp Peers?
Intense global competition is driving demand for top-tier sales talent and state-of-the-art compensation strategies. Today’s sales compensation professionals need sophisticated solutions that generate real results. This is where you come in.
WorldatWork’s Sales Comp ‘25 conference in Chicago, August 11-13, is your chance to help enlighten forward-looking sales compensation professionals discover solutions that deliver real impact to their organizations. Share your knowledge and expand your professional network, while enjoying complimentary registration to the premier sales compensation conference.
Submit a proposal to deliver a session that heightens insights for those in sales compensation, sales operations and sales analytics on motivating their sales forces, fortifying plan alignment with organizational goals and producing measurable returns. Bring your knowledge to share stories of success, conquering challenges, lessons learned, and wisdom won. They want to hear from you!
Go to the Applicant Resource Center for information and tools to help you craft a stand-out submission, or if you're ready, click the Complete a Submission button below.
Submissions are due by February 24 at 5:00pm PT. If you have any questions, please reach out to speakers@worldatwork.org.
Our Commitment
We are committed to providing resources that allow us to engage and embrace speakers that represent diversity in all forms, including gender, nationality, experience, and thought at WorldatWork events. In 2025, our goal is for all applicants and speakers to feel like a valued member of our Total Rewards community. During the call process we will provide office hours, on-demand resources, and planning tools to help speakers of all experience levels craft excellent submissions. For accepted speakers, we commit to providing resources tailored to your level of speaking experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Be available to present in-person at Sales Comp ‘25 in Chicago during all the scheduled programming times.
- Monday August 11, 11:00am – 4:00pm CT
- Tuesday August 12, 9:00am – 3:00pm CT
- Wednesday, August 13, 9:00am - 11:30am CT
- Create fresh, original, unique, and current content aimed to solve today’s problems. Please, no replays of webinars or other presentations.
- Tailor content and delivery to address participant needs.
- Attend speaker training and preparation meetings, be open to feedback, and meet all deadlines. For training, we will ask that at a minimum you will participate in the following:
- One group orientation session in April 2025.
- One 30-minute session review in July 2025.
- Completed session materials no later than August 1, 2025.
- Refrain from selling or lead generation in content sessions. WorldatWork offers several paid, sponsor-led sessions to feature your organization and showcase your solutions, as well as booth and networking opportunities. If interested, please get in touch with visibility@worldatwork.org for more information about the opportunities or process.
The Applicant Resource Center has information about the types of questions you will answer as you complete your submission including topics, available session formats, and the types of speakers we who generally participate. It also contains resources including a Planning Worksheet and information on Office Hours, where WorldatWork staff will be available on a first-come-first serve basis to provide feedback or answer questions.
We highly recommend completing your submission in the Planning Worksheet and then copy and pasting that information into the online form.
We estimate it will take approximately 20 minutes to upload the requested information into the submission form. The amount of time it will take to craft answers to certain questions will depend on how developed your submission idea is before beginning the process.
You can complete as many submissions as you like while the call is open; however, due to the limited number of speaking spots available, we encourage you to carefully craft each submission with a clear vision, strong application message, voice(s) of authority and experience, and connection to the practitioner audience. The more specific and detailed your submission, the better.
You can make edits to your submission anytime while the Call is still open.
- Submit a complete proposal including names and emails of all committed speakers who will be a part of the session.
- Before submitting a proposal to speak, make sure all speakers are available and holding the conference dates of August 11-13 until notified of your proposal status.
- Communicate the accept/decline status of the session proposal to all presenters.
- Please note the submitter is considered the primary point of contact for each submission. All notifications associated with submissions will be sent only to the submitter.
Yes. However, we ask that you receive confirmation from the speaker(s) that they are interested in speaking at Sales Comp ‘25 prior to submitting. Note that you will be required to provide all session and speaker details for the proposal.
Intent to bring additional speaker/s will not be considered in the assessment of a submission, only those whose details are provided will be considered as a voice and perspective to the submission.
Our selection process is highly competitive. An advisory committee reviews submissions and makes selections to craft a program that balances topics, session formats, and speaker profiles.
The information you will provide in the submission form is critical to the selection process. The committee relies on this information to understand precisely what will be delivered to participants, and WorldatWork's marketing team uses it to ensure optimal attendance at your session. Additionally, the speaker information asked for in the submission form is essential to understanding the speaking style, professional expertise, and diversity of perspective of applicants.
Additional information on selection criteria is available on the Applicant Resource Center page.
We are so grateful to our speakers for both their time spent in preparation and their willingness to share their expertise. As a Sales Comp '25 speaker you will receive:
- A complete complimentary event registration so you can engage and network with attendees throughout the event.
- Visibility and recognition for you and your organization as a thought leader.
- A chance to give back to the profession and help peers devise solutions to current and emerging business challenges.
- Access to exclusive, complimentary speaker coaching and resources to help bring your session to life.
- If you are a Practitioner, Academic, or Nonprofit Organization Representative and a member of WorldatWork, WorldatWork will cover the costs of room and tax for a two-night stay at a host hotel. If you are a Practitioner, Academic, or Nonprofit Organization Representative and are not a member of WorldatWork, WorldatWork will cover the cost of room and tax for a one-night stay at a host hotel. Speakers who are Service Providers or Consultants not engaged with a single company's workforce are not eligible for complimentary hotel accommodations. Speakers will be responsible for all other expenses.
- WorldatWork recertification credits.
Session placement will be included in your speaker contract. Room placements will be sent closer to the event.