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Words That Win Business

Written by Nelson Griswold | Dec 10, 2025 5:44:51 PM

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Executives in the C-Suite speak a language all their own — a dialect built on ROI, OpEx, EBITDA, free cash flow, risk exposure, and financial predictability. If you don’t speak it, you sound like every other vendor. But when you do speak it, you immediately elevate yourself to something far more valuable: a strategic partner.

Benefits jargon doesn’t move CEOs.
Financial clarity does.

The advisers who win in the boardroom are the ones who translate healthcare decisions into business outcomes:
• How will this reduce volatility?
• How will it protect cash flow?
• How will it improve EBITDA?
• How will it generate measurable ROI?

When you speak in their metrics, not your mechanics, everything changes. You earn credibility faster. You command attention more easily. And you position yourself as the adviser who understands the real stakes.

At ASCEND 2026, we’ll decode the entire C-Suite lexicon for you — what each metric means, how it ties to benefits decisions, and how to communicate the value of your solutions in terms executives respect and respond to.

Because the right words don’t just inform.
They win business.

Learn the language of leadership — only at ASCEND.
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