CRO School — Pavilion

You own the number. Now defend it.

Eight weeks on the systems that make revenue predictable, so you can walk into the board with forecasts that hold.

Starts Thursday, July 9Thursdays · 1:00–2:30 PM ET
8 weeks, live90-minute working sessions

Raise your hand

We'll set up time to talk through where your revenue system is breaking and how CRO School maps to it.

Open to Pavilion executive members.

What you walk out with.

Systems and artifacts you can put to work the same week, built on your own numbers and team, not a binder of frameworks.

A board-ready forecast model

Built to hold up under CFO and board scrutiny, with scenario and pipeline inspection inside it.

A management operating system

A hiring and operating cadence that ends the daily firefighting and gives you back the week.

One set of revenue definitions

Shared KPIs and cadences across sales, marketing, and CS, so the number means the same thing to everyone.

A theory of enterprise value

The unit economics and market dynamics behind valuation, so you know where the next dollar goes.

A scaling playbook

Repeatable motions, hiring patterns, and dashboards, so you scale when you're actually ready, not too early.

A boardroom data narrative

How to diagnose the why behind the numbers and tell it with the clarity a board trusts.

Forecasts that don't hold
Three teams, three playbooks
Scaling on the wrong bet

You carry the number alone. Here, you don't.

What members say.

From operators who've sat in the same seat.

What eight weeks changes.

You walk in carrying a number. You walk out running a system.

Leadership

A team that runs without you in the room

Hire and structure managers who hold the line, so your week stops going to firefighting and starts going to strategy.

Alignment

One revenue engine, not three

Get sales, marketing, and CS onto shared definitions, one operating cadence, and a single number everyone can see.

Credibility

The fluency the board expects

Forecasting, unit economics, and capital allocation, so you can defend the number and keep the board's trust.

CRO School is one eight-week cohort, open to Pavilion executive members. Raise your hand and we'll walk you through it.

The full curriculum.

Eight working sessions, each led by an operator who has done the job. Sessions are subject to change.

Thursdays · 1:00–2:30 PM ET · July 9 – August 27

SessionDateTopicInstructor
S1Thu Jul 9The role of the CRORussell Mikowski · CEO, SurePeople
S2Thu Jul 16Building a world-class management teamKiva Kolstein · President & CRO, AlphaSense
S3Thu Jul 23Developing a theory of enterprise valueSam Jacobs · Founder & CEO, Pavilion
S4Thu Jul 30Forecasting and financial modelingKarl Ortmann · VP of Sales
S5Thu Aug 6Scaling the inside sales machineRick Smolen · CRO, ShipHero
S6Thu Aug 13Foundations of marketing leadershipAndrea Kayal · CRO, Help Scout
S7Thu Aug 20Foundations of customer successSam Selvin · Global SVP, Customer Success, AlphaSense
S8Thu Aug 27Storytelling with dataCassie Young · General Partner, Primary Venture Partners

Taught by operators who've carried the number.

Led by deans Sam Jacobs and Kiva Kolstein, with every session taught by an operator who's carried a number through scale, downturns, and board pressure.

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Sam Jacobs

Course dean

Founder & CEO of Pavilion. Teaches the theory of enterprise value behind the number.

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Kiva Kolstein

Course dean

President & CRO of AlphaSense. Teaches how to build a world-class management team.

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Andrea Kayal

CRO, Help Scout

Leads the foundations of marketing leadership.

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Cassie Young

General Partner, Primary Venture Partners

On reading revenue the way an investor does.

8 weeks, live
90-min sessions
8 operators teaching
Executive members only

Before you raise your hand.

Will this actually fix my forecasting?
Yes, it's the core focus. The most common reason CROs lose the seat is a forecast they couldn't defend, so you'll build board-ready models, scenario plans, and the qualitative and quantitative pipeline inspection that keeps a forecast accurate.
How much time does it take?
Eight weeks, one 90-minute live session a week, Thursdays at 1:00 PM ET. Most of the real work happens between sessions, on your own forecast, team, and numbers. Every session produces something you can use that week.
Why join Pavilion to take this?
CRO School is members-only and sits inside the wider operator network: peer groups, benchmarking data, templates, and revenue leaders working through the same problems you are. You keep that network long after the eight weeks end.

Run a revenue engine you can defend.

Raise your hand and we'll find time to talk through where your revenue system is breaking and how CRO School maps to it.

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CRO School8 weeks · live · starts July 9
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