MVP 2026
Strategy
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Strategy
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I'm a Mentor
I am interested in becoming a mentor for 2026. I have earned the Strategy MVP title 3x (2023, 2024, 2025), and I know how daunting and, at times, intimidating it can be to figure out how to make meaningful contributions and connect with people outside your company in the community. I greatly benefitted from having others mentor me and encourage me to apply the first time, and welcome the opportunity to pay that forward to someone else. I have also been mentoring employees within my company to become Sitecore MVPs so am familiar with the process and time commitment it takes to be an effective mentor.
Timeline
Organized & moderated panel for prospective MVPs
I helped to recruit speakers for and moderated a panel with Tamas, Rob H, and Rick about what it takes to become an MVP. Each speaker represented a different MVP category to give well-balanced perspectives. This was part of our Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour SUG series.
Speaking: Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour Post-Symposium Recap Panel
In addition to helping organize and recruit attendees, I was a panelist for our post-Symposium recap at the Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour. This was focused toward marketing / strategist audiences. We discussed the roadmap for XM Cloud, Sitecore Stream, HIPAA compliance, the MVP Summit and key takeaways for customers.
Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore XM CloudCo-presented at Sitecore Symposium with Northrop Grumman customer
I co-presented with Jan Blanton from Northrop Grumman, presenting their digital transformation story from WordPress VIP to Sitecore XM, Search, Personalize, Send, and CDP. This included submitting our proposal, prepping our presentation and presenting during our Sitecore Symposium breakout session.
Sitecore XM Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Search Sitecore SendCo-organized Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour
Along with Megan Jensen, Ken Lorence, Carlos Rodriguez and Lance Hayden, we continued to organize, run and promote the Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour series (formerly known as the Sitecore Strategy Lunch NA). This included recruiting speakers for quarterly meetings (December 14, 2023; June 20, 2024; August 22, 2024; October 3, 2024; November 21, 2024), driving attendance, participating / facilitating discussions.
Presented at SMAC Webinar: Navigating Sitecore Search: Best Practices & Pitfalls for Marketers
My presentation was an overview of some Do's and Don'ts for marketers and business users looking to take advantage of Sitecore Search based on lessons learned from some of our customers.
Sitecore SearchPresented at Baltimore / DC Sitecore User Group: Personalization Roadmap
I presented at the Baltimore / DC Sitecore User Group meeting about best practices for building customers' roadmap for personalization, including identifying metrics / KPIs, choosing the right platform (XP vs. Personalize) and maintaining discipline around review and optimizing experiences and experiments.
Restarted and co-organized the Sitecore Strategy Lunch series for North America
Worked with Megan Jensen, Carlos Rodriguez, Lance Hayden and Ken Lorence to restart the North America Sitecore Strategy lunches / webinars. This included recruiting guests, aligning subject matters, and promoting on social channels and in Slack. Our committee organized back in July, and we have led successful webinars on 9/28, 10/26, 11/16 and will have another on 12/14.
Blog Post: Top 3 Things to have in a Digital Roadmap & 3 you shouldn't
Authored blog post about what clients should consider in their digital roadmap as they formulate their MarTech strategy. Discussed importance of building agility into your roadmap to allow for pivots around things like the launch of new composable products.
Guest on Agile Brand Podcast: Creating Great CX for Highly Regulated Industries
I was a guest on the Agile Brand Podcast for the topic of creating great customer experiences for highly regulated industries. During the discussion, I spoke about how we use Sitecore to enable these personalized experiences while navigating complex regulatory environments.
Blog Post: DX Boston Recap, tailored for Highly Regulated Industries
Authored blog post that recaps key takeaways from the DX Boston event, including around the migration to composable, AI, and personalization. However, I was struck during the event that all of the presentations were really tailored to B2C / commercial / retail audiences. We at AgencyQ focus our work heavily with customers in highly regulated industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, public sector, etc, so my blog post tailors the common DX takeaways for those audiences,...
Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Search Sitecore XM CloudSpeaking: BAL / DC Sitecore User Group presentation on migrating to XM Cloud
Presented at the Baltimore / DC Sitecore User Group meeting about the strategic considerations / roadmap to XM Cloud. Including topics such as whether you upgrade before migrating, full rebuild to go to headless, etc.
Sitecore XM CloudHosted & Presented Sitecore Symposium Recap Lunch & Learn
Hosted and presented at AgencyQ's Lunch & Learn, which was a recap of Sitecore Symposium 2022 in Chicago. Recruited additional AgencyQ speakers as well so that we were collectively sharing strategy updates, partner updates and technical updates. A big focus of this presentation was on the continued pivot toward SaaS and Sitecore's new composable products: XMC, Send, Content Hub ONE, Search and how they will be relevant for our clients.
Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Content Hub ONE