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You're Not Hiring Me: You're Acquiring Strategic Capability.

Most companies treat Customer Success leadership as a staffing decision. Find a candidate. Interview. Negotiate salary. Fill the role.

Wrong approach.

Your churn rate costs you millions per year in wasted sales capacity. Your expansion motion is disorganized or a part of the total sales quota. Your CS team operates as support, not growth. You are burning cash on a customer org that does not deliver commercial results.

The right CS leader restructures your entire post-sale revenue engine. Turns 91% gross retention into 94%. Builds expansion playbooks that drive 30%+ top-line growth. Delivers a measurable lift in NRR that compounds into exit valuation.

That is not a hire. That is a strategic acquisition with a 12-month payback.

Here's how we work together:

Chief Customer Officer

For: A small number of CEOs each year who view Customer Success as a revenue engine, want a direct reporting line for the function, and are building something worth running for 3 to 5 years.

What I bring:

  • $350M to $1B revenue responsibility across PE-backed and NYSE-listed SaaS companies.

  • 93% to 96% Gross Revenue Retention. 115%+ Net Revenue Retention.

  • Global teams of 300+

  • The 7-Pillar Advanced Customer Success Model and Maturity Model I built and have implemented across four companies: Semrush, Covetrus, Flexential, and INAP.

  • Dual citizen of Canada and the US, fluent French and English.

What I will not do:

Customer Success operations, activities that look good on a dashboard and move nothing in the P&L.

I take one engagement of this kind at a time. Referrals only.

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Productized Diagnostic and Revenue Recovery Advisory

Run through Success Calibrators. Three phases:

  • Phase 1. Churn Tax Diagnostic. 4 weeks. Quantify the three-layer Churn Tax on your numbers. Customer Success maturity scored across 7 dimensions. Revenue leakage tied to your financials. Total Addressable Recovery sizing. Recovery projections.

  • Phase 2. Recovery Blueprint. 4 weeks. Prioritized recovery levers ranked by revenue impact. 12-month implementation scorecard. Org design and coverage model. Compensation and incentive architecture. Playbook frameworks. KPI structure. Tech stack recommendations.

  • Phase 3. Oversight and Calibration. Monthly and quarterly cadence held against the scorecard. Success fee at the 12 or 18-month outcome review, tied to measured Net Revenue Retention improvement.

See the full Revenue Recovery program at Success Calibrators →

Speaking & Workshops

For: PE operating partner offsites, board meetings, executive offsites, Customer Success summits, finance and revenue conferences.

I speak on the financial case for Customer Success, not the playbook layer. My sessions are built for CFOs, CEOs, and revenue operators making a capital allocation decision, not for Customer Success practitioners who already know the function.

Topics:

  • The Churn Tax. How your sales budget hides a revenue leak.

  • The 3-Year Return on Customer Success Investment. Why payback math beats best-practice talk.

  • From Cost Center to Growth Engine. The Chief Customer Officer playbook for the next exit cycle.

  • AI Agents in Customer Success. Implementation framework, not theory.

  • NRR and the Exit Multiple. Why 105% changes the comp set.

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Ready to discuss your needs?

Email me directly at contact [a] veroniquemontreuil dot com or use my contact form.

I respond to all serious inquiries within 24 hours.