Episode 31, Part 3 - Roxanna Marazzi: Scaling Teams with the Same Discipline You Give Your Clients
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How does Roxanna define revenue enablement and its role in breaking down silos?
Hello and welcome to the Growth Workshop Podcast. In this podcast, we'll be sharing insights and hearing from other industry leaders to get their thoughts and perspectives on what growth looks like in modern business. Welcome to part three of three. And in in terms of the kind of sticking with this topic of integration and collaboration across teams, you mentioned silos a couple of times, Roxy, and you're thinking about the different parts of the organization. We've got Bob in IT, we've got you know, we've got uh we've got L and D H R. How does It feels to me that r the enablement should be a lot of the glue that knits all of these things together and has a has that sort of holistic view across, you know, across what the sales team need, right?
And it's the sort of the various different things that they would need to pull out in different circumstances. What do you see as some of those sort of challenges, but also some of where you've seen it work really well in terms of that collaboration of lots of different teams all feeling like they're pulling in the same direction?
When I headed up Asia sales for Rackspace in Hong Kong. We were a twelve person team, so everyone wore many different hats. I was running a sales team where we didn't have Enablement in in Hong Kong as we were working within the US and then we started to bring in people from a marketing perspective and stuff like that. When we joined forces and started to realize what lands in the US is not gonna land in Hong Kong, the way we advertised, the way we marketed, the way we sold to our clients, there were so many cultural differences that needed to be respected in order to make our mark. And this was in the dawn of cloud, so there was a lot at stake for us. But we collabor collaborated on everything. Like and that might be down to the size.
We were at twelve people, we grew to about sixty. When I left But It was that collaboration where we would truly understands understand what good looks like to everyone, what works from a local perspective, what are um what are the marketing's KPIs of success, what are my KPIs of success, what is customer experience's KPIs of success. I was oblivious because all I thought about was myself. When we started to understand what success was in each of those teams and actually collaborated, and there was a few, there was a few verbal scuffs now and again. But what it did is we had one universal or centralized framework of truth. So when we went out there, it was successful because we were all singing from the same hymn sheet.
And we respected each other's views and what you needed to achieve in order to get this done or that done or this event or that webinar but going to that trying to make us make a build that part of our industry. So that is where I feel it worked. the best, and we grew really quickly in a short space of time because we stayed true to the strategy. So even though there were parts of us as oh, let's do a little bit of thing here for this month and that month, we stayed really regimented to what our vision was. And because of that we were really successful.
What challenges did the Hong Kong Rackspace team face when scaling from 12 to 60 people?
When you say we, who is that we? Who is involved in that? Really driving that? In terms of the difference, HR that was Mark. That was HR, that
was marketing, that was sales, that were the SCs, that was RMD, that was everyone, that was finance, it was everyone. And because it was working, the US gave us the thumbs up because it was working, right? And the impact that it made commercially to the business. Stood out. But I also do understand the po the pain points of scaling, right? And when you scale, you're trying to per you're trying to preserve that culture. And then because of that pace, things do naturally slide, right? You do cut corners with hiring because you need to hire 10 people in two days. So you just take anyone who sounds right, feels right. But that's where you're tested to stick to the plan and stick to the strategy.
I think that's a really interesting point and this is why I see I'm gonna use the word pivot without trying to trigger you right now.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How does Roxanna define revenue enablement and its role in breaking down silos?
0:00–3:37
2
What challenges did the Hong Kong Rackspace team face when scaling from 12 to 60 people?
3:37–6:17
3
Which hiring and onboarding practices keep culture intact during rapid growth?
6:17–9:02
4
Why is shifting from sales‑only enablement to revenue enablement crucial for alignment?
9:02–10:46
5
How can leaders use internal “client qualification” to improve cross‑functional collaboration?
10:46–14:05
6
What metrics and capability‑gap analyses should enablement leaders prioritize to prove impact?
14:05–16:10
7
How does executive visibility and a “door‑always‑open” mindset drive team cohesion?
16:10–18:26
8
In what ways can AI support revenue‑enablement without becoming the sole solution?
18:26–20:16
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