Gainsters of Gainsight: Meet Sheridan Collard, Customer Account Manager

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and what your role is at Gainsight.  I’m the Customer Account Manager for Gainsight EMEA’s customer base, working from our London office with our small but growing and vibrant team. I stumbled into London from Melbourne, Australia, over three years ago but only really felt at home when

The misuse of tech-touch strategies in Customer Success – and how to fix it

Originally published on inSided.com on January 22, 2021. Today’s customers have high expectations, and in SaaS, selling never really ends. B2B buying cycles are long and complex and a whopping 77% of buyers feel like the process is very complicated and time-consuming. Plus – speaking of high expectations – B2B customers want a personalized experience throughout the journey and 65% will

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5 Ways to Be a Better Listener—in Life and in Business

There’s a reason why we’re groomed to be good listeners since Kindergarten. It’s a way to foster relationships in our personal lives and comes in handy with our customers.  At Gainsight, our mission is to “Be successful in business by being Human-first.” You’d be surprised how the basics of listening that we’ve grown up learning

How an Entrepreneurial Spirit Led Anand Chandrasekaran to CPO

Being in tune with your career observations, work environment, and the industry’s current ebb and flow is necessary for anyone looking to make headway in the employment journey. Often, one is merely waiting for the opportunity to show, hoping that some kind of fate lends a hand. Luck may play some role, but life is

Passion for Product and “The Boss” Led Lee Weiner, Chief Innovation Officer at Rapid7 to the Top

Over the past year, Gainsight’s CEO, Nick Mehta, has interviewed a plethora of Chief Product Officers in the series Path to Becoming A CPO. As Nick explained in a recent conversation with Lee Weiner, Chief Innovation Officer at Rapid7, there was no direct path to the top early in all their careers. By sharing each

CPO of Zuora, Chris Battles Shares How to Bridge into the Field of Product

It is rare for Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta to be surprised by a guest. But in a recent webinar, Chris Battles, Chief Product Officer at Zuora, presented him with a view and definition of Product rarely heard. Zuora is a Silicon Valley-based company with customers and offices all over the world. They are trying to

Change the Game in 5 Minutes: Marissa Barcza Shifts the Focus from Reactive to Proactive

Welcome to Gainsight’s  ‘Change the Game in Five Minutes’ series. In this interview, our CEO, Nick Mehta, speaks with the Senior Manager of Scaled Customer Success at Adobe, Marissa Barcza.  Marissa focuses on strategic ways Adobe can be more efficient and effective.  Her team manages nine B2B products across 4,500 accounts in the Americas. In

Change the Game in 5 Minutes: Dell Boomi Experiences a Rise in ARR and Churn Reduction Thanks to Customer Success

Welcome to Gainsight’s ‘Change the Game in Five Minutes’ series. In these conversations, we talk with customer success leaders who are role models and want to serve customers better. In this session, Nick Mehta, CEO,  speaks with Chris Port, the Chief Operating Officer of Dell Boomi, responsible for Support, Services, Customer Success, and Strategy functions.

Team Sport: Adobe’s Approach to In-Product Guides

Key Learnings and Successes with Gainsight’s PX & Adobe’s Audience Manager Have you ever heard the saying, “There is no ‘I’ in team?” Companies with well-built solutions are discovering when they partner with equally good and complementary products; the results are outstanding. That happened when Adobe’s top-performing Product Adoption Team combined efforts using their Audience

Enabling Multi-Product Growth in Gainsight PX

Many enterprise companies find themselves without either a tool or platform that gives a unified customer experience across multiple products. As a result, the customer can often experience a disjointed. The company is unable to optimize or scale the customer and ultimately impacts customer retention. Such was the case for a Gainsight customer.  This specific