CS RevSpeak - The Customer Success Leadership Podcast

This episode is for CS leaders who want a real playbook for protecting accounts through sponsor and champion transitions and who want to coach their teams to treat these moments as the sales cycles they actually are.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

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Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

The most common problem I hear from CS leaders is that their CSMs build strong relationships at the user and champion level, but weak or nonexistent relationships with the people who actually decide whether to renew, expand, or cut. And by the time the renewal comes up, the CSM is trying to build trust and prove value at the same time, in a compressed window, under commercial pressure. 

In this episode, we break down how to build a real relationship with the decision-maker deliberately, from the moment the account lands through every quarter after that.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

Most CS teams operate as the cleanup crew for decisions they were never consulted on. Sales closes bad-fit deals, product makes changes that create customer friction, and CS is left to manage the consequences without the authority to prevent any of it. 

This episode is a full breakdown of why CS needs veto power, where it actually matters, and how to build the credibility and positioning to earn it without becoming the function that always says no.

You'll learn:

• What veto power actually means for a CS function and what it doesn't
• The four specific areas where CS should have veto power and how to make the case for each
• The four credibility moves that earn the authority CS needs
• How to use veto power well so it grows over time instead of eroding

This episode is for CS leaders who are tired of being asked to fix problems they were never consulted about and who want a practical approach to building the kind of authority that prevents those problems in the first place.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

Most CSMs are stuck in coordination mode (e.g. running activities, managing tasks, and keeping things organized) when what their customers actually need is someone who can shape decisions, hold a perspective, and help them navigate ambiguity. 

This episode breaks down the most important capability shift happening in Customer Success right now: the move from coordinator to advisor. 

You'll learn what the difference actually looks like, why most CSMs default to coordination, what mindset and skills separate advisors from coordinators, how to spot where your team currently sits, and how to coach the shift through the conversations you're already having.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

Dee Kachra has built a career across procurement, consulting, speech therapy, and customer success — always centered on people, problems, and outcomes, with a close eye on how CS connects to revenue. When she joined the AI for CS Leaders Executive Bootcamp, she was on an intentional sabbatical, upskilling at the intersection of AI and customer success.

In this spotlight, Dee shares how the program moved her from thinking about AI as an email-drafting shortcut to redesigning the entire CS operating model and why the strategy, not the tools, is where leaders need to focus.

Ready to join the next cohort of the AI for CS Leaders Program? The next one opens again in August. Get on the VIP waitlist here for an exclusive discount and first access.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

Beth Huckerby has spent 15+ years in customer success across IT, telecoms, and health and wellbeing. Like a lot of CS leaders, she came to AI asking one very honest question: how do you even get started? 

In this spotlight from the first AI for CS Leaders Executive Bootcamp cohort, Beth shares why the program clicked for the way she works, the framework that gave her a clear starting point, and why she's convinced AI doesn't replace CS work. It makes room for the deeper thinking that's always been the job.

This episode is for big-picture CS leaders who feel the pressure to "do something with AI" but want a concise, end-to-end way to think about maturity: where to start, what to build, and what to hold until the timing is right.

Ready to join the next cohort of the AI for CS Leaders Program? The next one opens again in August. Get on the VIP waitlist here for an exclusive discount and first access.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

Suzanne Hitcho has spent her career at the intersection of customer success, go-to-market, and value realization from Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and Disney to six years in B2B SaaS. So when she joined the AI for CS Leaders Executive Bootcamp, she wasn't starting from zero. She'd already stood up an AI center of excellence and a shared prompt library at her last company. 

In this spotlight, she shares what still shifted for her, and why she believes AI in CS only pays off when it's treated as a cross-functional operating model, not a set of siloed experiments.

This episode is for forward-thinking CS and go-to-market leaders who know AI is now part of their mandate, and who want a structured, strategic way to apply it without the stress of figuring it out alone.

Ready to join the next cohort of the AI for CS Leaders Program? The next one opens again in August. Get on the VIP waitlist here for an exclusive discount and first access.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

Compensation plan design is one of the most consequential decisions a CS leader makes, and one of the least discussed. In this episode, we break down how to design CS compensation plans that reflect your team's responsibilities, drive the right behaviors, and scale as your org grows.

You'll learn:

• The three principles that should underpin every CS comp plan
• How comp structure and variable percentages change across the three Revenue-Driven CS Models 
• Specific base versus variable splits for each model and how those ranges shift as commercial responsibility increases
• How to weight metrics inside the variable pool for each model
• How to differentiate comp across CSM tiers
• The five most common CS comp mistakes and what each one signals to the team

This episode is for CS leaders who want the practical numbers and structural thinking to design a comp plan they can defend, communicate, and evolve as their team grows. 

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.

Consumption-based pricing is reshaping how CS teams need to operate and most CS leaders are navigating it without a clear playbook. When customers pay for what they use, churn stops being an event and becomes a direction. Metrics that worked in a subscription world stop telling the full story. And the skills that made your CSMs excellent in a subscription model may not be the ones this model demands.

This episode is a full breakdown of what consumption-based pricing actually means for how you lead CS.

You'll learn:

• Why the urgency and CS motion look different across pure consumption, hybrid, and committed pricing models
• How your CSMs' day-to-day motion needs to shift and what the right CSM profile looks like in this model
• Which metrics stop working and how to build a health score and alert system that actually reflects account risk
• Why churn is a gradient in this model and what early intervention and recovery actually look like
• How to coach your CSMs to get comfortable with the commercial dimension of their role
• How to make the internal investment case for CS when revenue is variable

This episode is for CS leaders whose companies have moved to consumption-based pricing, or who have joined an org already running this model, and who want a clear picture of what their team's motion and metrics need to look like to win in it.

Ways I Can Help You Level Up Customer Success:

1. Newsletter: Practical, revenue-driven CS strategies in your inbox. No fluff. Subscribe here.
2. Leadership Development: For CS Leaders looking for mentorship. Book a free coaching call.
3. Team Enablement:  Two training programs for your CSMs. More details here.
   1. The Strategic CSM builds your team's strategic thinking and business acumen.
   2. The Commercial CSM builds their commercial confidence to drive renewals and expansion.

Let's Connect on Linkedin:  Get weekly insights, templates and real talk on CS leadership. Follow Angeline on LinkedIn.