Sales kickoff planning that exceeds your goals.
GoGather plans and manages sales kickoffs, national sales meetings, and company kickoff events from the first venue call to the final budget report. You tell us what you want to accomplish. We handle everything else.
1,000+ events managed | 1M+ attendees | 9.8 CSAT | Planning events since 2008
Kickoff meetings customized to your business.
No two sales organizations need the same event. Yours gets built around your goals, your budget, and the people in the room.- Consultative program design
- Tailored agendas with cohesive themes
- Personalized activities and team building opportunities
- Rewards and recognition events
Interactive sessions people stay awake for.
The fastest way to lose a room is to talk at it for eight hours. We help you find the theme, then build content that gets people participating.
- Speaker sourcing, support and management
- Agenda management
- Breakout session management
- Interactive session ideation
- Coffee chats, executive roundtables, and other ways to get people talking
Branding & messaging support.
Your message should sound the same on the signage, from the stage, and in the email that goes out three weeks beforehand.
- Theming development
- Pre-event communications
- Branding and signage management
- Session and event management that carries the theme through
- Post-event follow up
Team-building that isn't a trust fall.
Hands-on activities with a bit of competition and a lot of teamwork. We plan and run every detail.
- Activity ideation
- Partner and materials sourcing
- Logistics management
- Give back and volunteer event management
Executive support.
Got a team of busy execs? They're covered. Last-minute flights, the right hotel, dietary preferences, the rehearsal they keep pushing.
We work behind the scenes so your leadership looks like rockstars.
Awards ceremony coordination.
Celebrate your top performers properly. We handle award sourcing, agenda planning, and running the evening itself.
Nobody owns the agenda.
Without a single decision-maker, every department asks you for twenty minutes. The agenda swells, the budget follows, and the event drifts away from whatever it was supposed to accomplish in the first place.
The content didn't need a room.
Product training your team could take from their desk on a Tuesday eats the one window where 300 people are together in person. Save the room for what only works in a room: live practice, competition, recognition, and the conversations nobody has over video.
The most important session lands too late.
Put it on day three, and it meets a room that's already spent. Sequencing is a design decision, not a scheduling one.
There's no plan for the week after.
Without reinforcement, most of what your team learns at a kickoff is gone within days. Sales enablement research puts it near 90% inside the first week.
Keeping the momentum after everyone flies home.
The kickoff ends. The year doesn't.
Most of what a team picks up at a kickoff fades fast unless something reinforces it, so we build the follow-through into the plan before the event instead of improvising it afterward.
What we handle:
- Session recordings and content your team can point people back to
- Post-event communications that keep the theme alive past January
- Attendee surveys, plus a straight readout of what landed and what didn't
- Final budget reporting against actuals, with no surprises
What your team handles, and what we plan around: the coaching cadence, the certifications, the manager one-on-ones. You know your sales motion better than any event agency will. Our job is making sure the event feeds it instead of ending cold.
One simple way to think about the ninety days after: by day 30, your team should be fluent in the two or three plays that got taught. By day 60, your managers should be coaching to what they're hearing on calls. By day 90, you should be able to tell whether the kickoff changed anything. We design the event backward from that.
A boutique team with enterprise-grade execution.
GoGather is a boutique agency that has managed 1,000+ events and 1M+ attendees. You get senior people and a 9.8 CSAT, at the scale of an event that fills the Gaylord Texan or the city’s convention center.
You see the budget in real time.
Most agencies go quiet on money until the invoice. Your budget and timeline live in the customer portal from day one, updated as things move, and we report on actuals after the event. No surprises is a policy here, not a promise.
Founded by hospitality veterans.
GoGather was founded in 2008 by people who came out of Starwood, La Quinta, and Wyndham, with 20+ years in corporate events since. We know how the other side of the contract thinks, which comes in handy when it's time to negotiate yours.
Creating effective kickoffs for top clients.
Case studies from our clients.
Go behind the scenes to see how GoGather’s project management team brings our clients’ sales kickoff visions to life.
300 sales reps. 5 days. Puerto Rico. A global building solutions company had run its annual kickoff for more than five decades. We moved it somewhere new without losing what made people care about it, and gave leadership real-time budget visibility the whole way through.
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The nation's leading distributor of truck and trailer parts has no internal events team. We've run their annual kickoff and supplier expo for over 10 years, most recently at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas, including a glow-in-the-dark welcome dinner nobody expected.
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A commercial roofing manufacturer needed a venue upgrade and a cleaner attendee experience. They got 10+ off-site experiences, 4 themed dinners, and 100% hotel room pickup.
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