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Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment

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Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives

Format: Best Practices & Playbooks

Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends

Theme: Customer Success & Support

Challenge: Retention

Challenge: Advocacy

Theme: Sales & Business Development

Theme: Product Management & Feedback

Theme: Revenue Operations / Enablement

Challenge: Career Growth

How planning choices made early in the year influence leadership credibility, team behavior, and cross-functional trust.

Planning as a Leadership Skill for Community and GTM Leaders

Learn how to mentor rising GTM leaders. See lessons from Stripe, LinkedIn, Netflix, Spotify, and ServiceNow, with actionable tactics for cross-functional growth.

Mentorship as a GTM Growth Lever

Learn how to transition from individual contributor to GTM leader. See real-world examples, pitfalls to avoid, and actionable tactics for success.

From IC to GTM Leader: A Practical Playbook for Cross-Functional Growth

Learn how companies that faced crises adapted their GTM strategies, and what leaders can take from their pivots.

Leading Through Crisis: GTM Lessons From Companies That Had to Pivot Fast

Learn how to create a personal advisory board to accelerate your GTM career growth and decision-making.


How to Build a Personal GTM Advisory Board

Learn how to design advocacy funnels that turn engaged community members into ambassadors, champions, and executive advisors.


Building Advocacy Funnels: From Community Members to Champions

Learn how to transition from a GTM specialist to a cross-functional leader while keeping your expertise relevant and credible.

Making the Leap: How GTM Specialists Grow Into Cross-Functional Leaders

Glossier built its billion-dollar brand by centering community-led advocacy rather than advertising. By amplifying customer voices, building feedback loops, and prioritizing authenticity, the company created trust and momentum that traditional marketing couldn’t replicate.

Glossier’s Community-Led Brand: Advocacy Before Advertising

We just shipped a fresh set of product updates focused on community customization, learning experiences, events, integrations, and analytics—including a more powerful pre-login homepage builder, customizable welcome emails, native course quizzes and certificates, streamlined event duplication and event-type switching, plus expanded Marketo and Common Room integrations. You’ll also find notable improvements like upgraded club metrics, search history reporting, and a unified global chat experience, with more enhancements on the way.

2025 October & November Feature Releases

Replay from Gradual's October 2025 Product Update

Event Replay: October 2025 Product Update

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Planning as a Leadership Skill for Community and GTM Leaders