CModel Consulting · Case Study 02

Listening to a Non-Technical Stakeholder and Building Exactly What They Described

HubSpot · Calendly · Riverside · Slack

HubSpot Calendly Riverside Slack Stakeholder Alignment Change Adoption
65.91%
Open rate
30.68%
Click-through rate
8 workflows
Coordinated across 4 platforms

The Situation

A technically complete system. Zero adoption.

A technically complete lead process was in place, but adoption was stalled. The BDR was not updating lifecycle stages consistently, which meant the system was not producing the pipeline visibility the marketing stakeholder needed.

The issue was not technical — it was behavioral and organizational.

The Approach

Engineer the social dynamic, not just the system.

An admin pushing behavioral change directly onto a BDR was unlikely to land. The org chart doesn't work that way, and neither do people.

Instead, I invested first in the marketing stakeholder — building her confidence, sharpening her understanding of the system, and ensuring she clearly saw the value of what had been built.

Once she understood and owned the process, she became the advocate. The behavioral change landed because it came from the right voice at the right time.

The Insight

Technical solutions require human adoption.

01

Engineering the social dynamic is just as important as engineering the system.

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Change lands when the right messenger delivers it — not just the right message.

03

Non-technical stakeholders describe what they need accurately. The job is to listen well enough to build it exactly.


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