[Un]Churned – The No. 1 Podcast for Customer Retention

Meet the Woman Who Coined the CSQL ft. Rachel Orston (Instructure)


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Rachel Orston, Chief Customer Officer at Instructure joins the hosts ⁠⁠Jon Johnson⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Josh Schachter⁠⁠ to discuss her strategic approach to aligning customer success with sales and revenue goals, the challenges of transitioning to a variable compensation model, and how Instructure fosters a culture of connection and collaboration.

Timestamps

0:00 - Preview & Intros

5:15 - Discussing about CoThrive

8:07 - Diverse customer segments at Instructure

13:15 - Performance metrics that drive success

16:45 - Connecting with customers

22:36 - Emphasis on performance-based variable compensation

27:23 - CS and Sales

30:15 - Tools and processes for improved collaboration


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Youtube: https://youtu.be/JprAz-o-dWk

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👉 Connect with the guest

Rachel Orston: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelorston/

Rachel's blogs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelorston/recent-activity/articles/


👉 Connect with hosts

Jon Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonwilliamjohnson/

Kristi Faltorusso: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristiserrano/

Josh Schachter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jschachter/



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Keywords:

How to keep your customers happy, customer success manager, customer support, customer success management, Customer Success Manager role, Rachel Orson, Canvas, Instructure, on-demand training, integration with Student Information Systems (SIS), customer advisory boards, QBRs, customer relationships, user engagement, Customer Success Managers (CSMs), sales alignment, Salesforce, Gainsight.


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Unchurned is presented by UpdateAI


About UpdateAI

At UpdateAI our mission is to empower CS teams to build great customer relationships. We work with early & growth-stage B2B SaaS companies to help them scale CS outcomes. Everything we do is devoted to removing the overwhelm of back-to-back customer meetings so that CSMs can focus on the bigger picture: building relationships.

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