ISEs3 Ep3: Paul Butterfield - President, Revenue Enablement Society (2023)

ISE Season 3 is focused on the past, present and future of Enablement History. And timed perfectly as we just celebrated the seventh anniversary of the official signing of the Sales Enablement Society into reality by the ~100 SES Fore-founders in Palm Beach, November of 2016.For Episode 3, Paul Butterfield, President of the Executive Board of the (as of recently) Revenue Enablement Society joins us on the Orchestrate Sales Property and shares his take on Enablement History:⏪ BEFORE the Sales Enablement Society: ❇️ Building out the enablement function for multiple companies including Vonage, Instructure, and General Electric's CoE. ❇️ Googling "Sales Enablement" and being introduced to the research of Scott Santucci⏯️ Paul's introduction to the SES via Jill Rowley and ultimately getting involved locally. ❇️ A review of the three founding positions and how they, in part, solidified Paul's findings from having built Enablement programs organically ❇️ A peek "behind the scenes" at the catalysts, current events, and decision making process that informed the executive board's transition from the SES to the RES⏩️ Paul's take on the present and future of Enablement and his personal mission to empower enablement through the lens of Customer Journey ❇️ Enablement has yet to fully embrace and apply "business within a business" ❇️ The impact and opportunity of A.I. ❇️ A challenge for all to embrace becoming Enablement Challengers vs. Waiters ❇️ Drop the "ROI calculator" and rather focus on reasonable correlation to resultsMentioned in this episode:Join Orchestrate Sales' ISE Podcast Insider Nation!https://www.OrchestrateSales.com/podcastISE Listeners Get 30% Off of GTM AI Academy!GTM AI Academy. The only AI curriculum curated by Enablement for Enablement ...and the entire cross-functional GTM team. Don't get tangled up in all of the random vendor driven offerings in your feed. Learn AI from a globally trusted source - Coach K - Jonathan Kvarfordt Their bundle "Enablement AI Mastery" includes BOTH the core "Generative AI Foundations" course AND "Enablement AI Mastery" specifically. Each course has a value of $599 individually, but Coach K is offering them as a bundle with reduced pricing. AND as a listener of the Inside Sales Enablement podcast, if you "ACT NOW" you can use code "ISE30" to get an ADDITIONAL 30% off of the entire thing. You will also receive FREE access to the GTM AI Tools Demo Library. Coach K has done the demos so you don't have to and offers his straight shooting opinion through an Enablement lens. Go to www.gtmaiacademy.com and enter code ISE30 TODAY and elevate your AI Enablement game!Brought To You By GTM AI Academy - 30% Off for ISE!Visit us on the Orchestrate Sales Property https://www.OrchestrateSales.com/