John Walls | Field Service Europe

Field Service Europe 2025

27 - 29 October 2025

Hotel Okura Amsterdam, The Netherlands

John Walls

John Walls

President NeuroBuilt, LLC
John Walls

I believe field service companies look very much alike to the consumer. But every field service organization can be a compelling differentiator during contract negotiations with price sensitive customers.

By developing the social cognition skills of frontline service reps, field service organizations can accelerate leadership development and build a culture that delivers consistently outstanding service outcomes. Subsequently, field service teams transform into a powerful tool for sales teams enhancing their ability to secure contracts and build loyal partnerships, so that customers prioritize service quality over price.

I study the philosophy, habits, and the science behind service and weave them into a methodology that helps field service organizations differentiate themselves in price sensitive markets, so that field service is transformed into a leverageable differentiator for sales teams, shifting the customer's focus from price to service quality.

Day 1 – Monday, 27 Oct. - How Service is Proving Its Enterprise Value With Business Expansion and Profit Growth Amid Economic Uncertainty

16:20 Stream C: Mastermind Topical Discussion: How to Best Transition and Manage Service as a Profit Center*

Session Objective:

To help field service leaders understand the strategic, operational, and cultural shifts required to transition service from a cost center to a profit center—and to manage it effectively for long-term growth and value creation.

Key Discussion Areas

  • What does it mean to treat service as a profit center in your organization?
  • What are the biggest challenges you face in this endeavor (internal resistance vs. customer resistance, etc.) ?
  • What changes are needed in marketing, pricing, packaging, and positioning of service offerings?
  • What services and/or experiences are customers willing to pay more for? What services or experiences are customers willing to pay more for? 
  • How do you balance profitability with customer satisfaction and loyalty?

ROOM LEADER 

John Walls, Insight Architect, NeuroBuilt 

TABLE 1 FACILITATOR

Anna Bonerandi, Director Technical Service, Donaldson

TABLE 2 FACILITATOR

Jean-Claude Jobard, VP Marmon Link EMEA, Marmon 

TABLE 3 FACILITATOR

Izzet Moreno, VP Industrial Aftermarket and Services. Donaldson

TABLE 4 FACILITATOR

Rajat Kakar, CEO, QWE Solutions EMEA

*For service practitioners only please

Day 2 – Tuesday, 28 Oct. - Cutting Edge Technologies Yielding Service Optimization, Efficiencies and Enhanced CX

15:00 Stream A: Partner Presentation - The Science Behind Service: Infusing Neuroscience into Service & Leadership Development

Understanding brain science enables everyone to be more effective and do better work. As service providers, we must understand what motivates our customers … and colleagues. As leaders, we must know what makes people tick in order to accelerate their development and achieve consistently outstanding service outcomes. We can also motivate our customers … who will more easily recognize our efforts to provide outstanding service.

How can we most effectively motivate colleagues and customers? Thanks to recent advances in brain imagining technology, social neuroscience now enables us to definitively answer this question. Changing behavior starts with awareness. This presentation is based in the social neuroscience that allows us to better understand the brain and use this science to more effectively motivate and understand others.

Key Takeaways:

  • Introduction to the neuroscience of the brain as it relates to service professionals.
  • Become aware of the 5 domains of social threats and rewards that motivate us all – Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness…the SCARF model of motivation
  • Understand how we can use our awareness of the SCARF model to motivate others and increase their capacity to make better decisions, solve problems, have effective conversations and collaborate with others
  • Know why the brain functions best when threats are avoided
  • Learn why the brain processes the SCARF elements with the same intensity as physical threats and rewards
  • Recognize the limitations of our pre frontal cortex and how to maximize its use
  • Use your awareness of the SCARF social triggers to more effectively motivate colleagues and customers

14:20 Stream C: Mastermind Topical Discussion - Lifecycle Asset Management for More Sustainable Outcomes -- from Cradle to Grave*

Session Objective

Explore strategies, tools, and innovations for delivering customized, end-to-end field service solutions that align with the entire lifecycle of assets and customer needs.

Key Discussion Areas

  • What are the biggest challenges you face managing service across the lifecycle of assets (from product installation, maintenance to end-of-life)?
  • What are your organizations doing to mitigate those challenges? What impacts are your mitigations having on your service organizational structure and workflows?
  • How do you structure and optimize service processes to ensure seamless support across all lifecycle stages, including installation, preventive maintenance, and end-of-life management? 

ROOM LEADER 

John Walls, Insight Architect, NeuroBuilt 

TABLE 1 FACILITATOR

Amadeu Santos, Service Director, Valmet 

TABLE 2 FACILITATOR

Kristian Regnersgaard, Director Medical Services Region North, Olympus 

TABLE 3 FACILITATOR

Burcu Sen, Global Portfolio Marketing Leader, Philips

TABLE 4 FACILITATOR

Erik Lapre, VP Global Services, VMI Group 

*For service practitioners only please

Day 3 – Wednesday, 29 Oct. - Understanding Your Customers' Customers to Enhance Partnerships and Unearth New Opportunities

12:45 Stream A: Roundtables Hosted By Service Practitioners *

One 1-hour session

*For service practitioners only please

TABLE 1 – How to Structure a Managed Services Department for 100% Remote Success

Moderated by Bo Damgaard Vestner, Director Support Services, Yavica

TABLE 2 - Gen AI + IoT: How to Create the Most Intelligent and Relevant Connected Solutions

Moderated by Jorge Modesto, Project Management Business Development, Glory Global 

TABLE 3 - Overcoming Process Inertia: Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Service

Moderated by Anna Jern-Houttu, VP, Service Solutions, Kalmar 

TABLE 4Continuing the Conversation - The Science Behind Service: Infusing Neuroscience into Service & Leadership Development

Moderated by John Walls, Insight Architect, NeuroBuilt

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining John.

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