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Nicole Saunders: “My Manager Told Me to Be More Cross-Functional. I Didn’t Stop Until I’d Built the Whole Playbook”
52 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Cross-functional collaboration is the skill 60% of CMA professionals say matters most (according to our recent research). But nobody teaches you how to do it.

Nicole Saunders, Senior Director of Customer Experience Strategy at Higher Logic built a framework for it, not from a book, but from being told by her manager that she needed to be more cross-functional and having no idea what that meant.

This is the session for the marketers who know collaboration should be bigger than Slack messages and one-off asks, and want a real model for making it work.