The OpenTent Accelerator

Holistic coaching for Salesforce teams.

Implement a meaningful Salesforce® project in six months - and then keep building.

Accelerator program

Equip your team to tell the
story of Salesforce® success.

In the Accelerator, we start with stories. Storytelling is key to connecting Salesforce® to your organization’s overall success; inspiring users and stakeholders to envision how Salesforce will help your organization achieve its long-term goals.

Join us and build the right skills and tools to tell that story. Acquire the building blocks necessary for your team to flourish: resourcing, agile collaboration, technical development, user adoption, and more.

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Our approach

Our coaches and your cohort are by your side.

Salesforce development is hard work, but you’re not in it alone. Meet regularly with a role-specific coach to help move your project forward. Harness the skills and tools taught in our workshops. Network with industry experts. Build relationships and access support from like-minded professionals.

Who is the program for?

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Managers

Go from Organizational Leader to Strategist.
Learn how to communicate about Salesforce, manage your roadmap, obtain buy in from your leadership team and key stakeholders, make data-informed decisions around resourcing, budget for the long term, and measure constituent engagement.

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Salesforce® Admins

Go from Salesforce Admin to Engineer.
Learn how to amplify your role and your voice as Salesforce’s main steward, communicate with your users and constituents through an ongoing and agile process, and how to tackle your never-ending backlog.

The process

Your team owns this. Assess, build, and iterate a meaningful project in 6 months.

Phase 1: Assess

Select a project that addresses your mission and organizational priorities.

Conduct a discovery of your users and stakeholders. Learn about their needs and their experience. Scope the work to select an impactful and attainable project.

Strategists align with leadership to determine priorities

Engineers connect with and distill feedback from users and constituents

Phase 2: Build

Sprint through an agile process with coaches who have sat in your seat.

Build a roadmap. Implement a task management system. Run sprint planning meetings and stand-ups. Communicate your project story to the rest of your organization. Craft clear problem statements and generate responsive solutions.

Strategists own your project roadmap and mitigate risks to success

Engineers focus on the technical build, develop documentation, and testing plans

Step 3: Iterate

Demo your project, make meaningful iterations, and implement long-lasting processes.

Share your project with your cohort and gain perspective from your Accelerator community. Develop successful training and user adoption plans. Create long-lasting organizational change to continue your agile development work.

Strategists drive cultural change for processes to take hold

Engineers own project roll-out and implement continual feedback loops

Program testimonials

Thank you very much! It looks awesome... I'm excited for the data analysis that you've made possible, such as preschool families who attend events and don't donate... Thank you!

Julie Iny, Director of Data Strategy

JCC East Bay

Program testimonials

I know we've been sharing celebrations and gratitude throughout this call, but I think that it's clear how capable and thoughtful the hands are on this project. I really appreciate all of you on thinking through this, from a super human-centric lens. I am so jazzed to think about how we're going to socialize this to the team. So thank you for the work that you're doing here and for everything that came out of your hackathon, and all the work that was leading up to that. Really, really appreciate you thinking through this SO thoughtfully. It's very, very exciting and we are so grateful to have you as partners.

Katie Redmond, Director of CRM (Salesforce)

Facing History and Ourselves

Program testimonials

I could not be any more sure that we chose the perfect partner for this work. You all have approached this with so much thoughtfulness, care, patience (with me mostly), kindness, and—thankfully—a very healthy dose of good humor and I've appreciated every minute of it. Today, I feel like the vision really clicked for everyone and I have already received glowing feedback both about what you've built and about you all. I know there is a lot of work yet to come, but I just wanted to send a note of gratitude. I (quite literally) could not do this without you, and I wouldn't want to.

Tracey Kirui, Program Lead

Hopelab

Learn with and from your cohort

Relationships are the foundation of our success. Build connections and network with industry experts and a cohort of your peers.

Get personalized,
one-to-one coaching

Unlock the power of your potential with a coach who has been in your shoes.

Participate in
expert-led workshops

The OpenTent team has spent years building our Salesforce® "Field Guide" and distilled the right tools and skills you need to succeed.

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Holistic coaching for Salesforce teams.

Equip your team to tell the
story of Salesforce® success.