Federico Presicci

Global Sales Enablement Manager

Crafting Sales Enablement Systems 📈 Turning Inconsistent Sales Execution into Scalable Success | Mindfulness & Emotional Intelligence in Sales | MEDDPICC Certified | ICF Business Coach | Meditation Teacher 🧘🏽‍♂️

Do you understand what “enablement” truly means and the value it can bring?

Ciao, I’m Federico 👋

Enablement isn’t just a function, strategy, or process.

It’s a mindset and a discipline that transforms how organisations empower customer-facing teams, support buyers, and align for growth.

Yet, too often, it’s misunderstood – boxed into narrow tasks like:

“Training delivery.”
“Content creation.”
“Sales tools management.”

But here’s the truth👇

Enablement exists to empower customer-facing teams to achieve meaningful business outcomes. 

It equips them with the training, resources, processes, support, and tools they need to produce high-quality outputs on which their job goals depend.

Enablement bridges the gap between potential and performance, providing a certain set of “means” for someone to achieve something.

Over the years, I’ve seen organisations invest heavily in enablement initiatives that fail to stick.

I know because I’ve made those mistakes too.

Early in my career, I focused on fixing performance at the individual level, only to realise that the system itself was holding people back.

I learnt the hard way that no amount of training or resources can succeed without addressing the foundational barriers within the organisation.

That’s where I come in.

I help founders, CEOs, and revenue leaders diagnose systemic blockers to performance and empower enablement professionals to amplify their impact.

Whether you’re just starting to explore enablement or scaling an existing function, I’m here to help.

Enablement, done right, can be your organisation’s competitive edge.

If you’re ready to unlock that edge, join me on this journey: follow my content, take one of my assessments, or reach out directly. 
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Chief Editor & Enablement Strategist 

I am the leading creator and strategist for this blog which serves as a compass in the complex world of sales and enablement. 

Here, you will discover expert insights into tools, systems, frameworks, methodologies, and strategies to augment your capacity to nurture and upskill your sales teams.

Sales discovery is hands down one of the most important capabilities in the sales cycle.

It shapes how well reps understand buyers, how accurately they position value, and how confidently they move deals forward.

And yet, what makes discovery effective is rarely broken down into something reps can consistently execute in real conversations.

Reps are told to “ask good questions.”
To “dig deeper.”
To “uncover pain.”

But the structure behind great discovery often lives only in the heads of top performers.

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That’s why – in partnership with Hyperbound – I created a Discovery Meeting Guide + Template that gives reps a clear structure for running strong first discovery calls.

It covers:

• A simple, repeatable discovery call flow
• Talk tracks for framing and setting the upfront contract
• A structured questioning model (open → probing → closed)
• How to weave value into the conversation naturally
• A closing framework to surface alignment, blockers, and next steps

In short: less improvisation, more intentional discovery.

This one-pager sits alongside my full guide on how to build world-class discovery training. 

The full guide goes deeper into:

🔹 Designing discovery training around observable behaviours
🔹 Breaking discovery into coachable components
🔹 Reinforcing skills beyond the classroom
🔹 Measuring impact, not just attendance

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💭 How confident are you that your team runs discovery in a structured, repeatable way? 

If you’d like the discovery one-pager + template + full discovery training guide, drop “sales discovery” below and I’ll share everything.

✌️

#sales #salesenablement #salestraining

Building Enablement Systems for Scalable Revenue Growth 📈 | Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Behavioural Design | Founder, Enablement Edge Network 🌐

A month ago, I went through some of the hardest days of my life.

At the end of a normal working day, I was hit by sudden vertigo.

Within hours, it spiralled into something severe.

For three days, I couldn’t get out of bed. Barely able to eat and use the bathroom because any movement triggered violent vomiting.

The week after wasn’t much better. 

Luckily, one of my best friends was with me and helped me through it.

Try to imagine this: you stare at the room, and everything spins – fast, relentlessly, for hours. 

That’s when I understood what it really means to be powerless and incapacitated.

As someone who likes control, this was the ultimate emotional test.

Those days "broke" me.
Physically.
Psychologically.
In a way nothing else ever had.

And I’ll be honest – in the first days, fear crept in intensely. 

The kind of fear where you start wondering:

What if this doesn’t pass?
What if things don’t go back to normal?
What if this is it?

Being stuck in bed with nothing to do gives you time.
Too much time, maybe.

And that’s why I’m writing this.

Because when health is suddenly at stake, clarity arrives fast.

I wasn’t thinking about achievements, accolades, LI followers, or career. 

None of that mattered.

What mattered were different questions:

Was I moving in a direction that truly fulfilled me?
Was I experiencing the process – or just moving from one thing to the next?
Was I nurturing the relationships that actually matter?
Was I present enough with my parents and friends?
Was I acting with integrity and authenticity? 

I realised – again, but much deeper – that life is just a sequence of moments.

And rushing through them has no inherent purpose.

What are we rushing for, exactly?
Time is moving anyway.
Relentlessly.
Towards the only certainty we all share. 

This doesn’t mean giving up ambition; it means finding a better pace and rhythm – one that allows us to feel more grounded, nurtured, and aligned. 

Also, when you realise how quickly things can change, you also realise there isn’t always going to be a “later”.

Some changes can’t be postponed indefinitely.
Some conversations can’t wait.
Some truths become heavier the longer we avoid them.

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One other thing.

After the worst had passed, the first food I ate was a rice cake, a carrot, and some celery.

For the first time, I truly tasted the rice in the cake. 
I noticed how fresh the carrot was.
How the celery hydrated every corner of my mouth.

I was just... there.

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I’ve now almost fully recovered.

In the end, it seems this was caused by a virus that inflamed one of the nerves responsible for balance. 

This experience was brutal, but also illuminating.

While I was in bed, unable to do anything, all I wanted was to feel normal again.

I yearned to walk, eat, and sit upright without the room spinning.

The smallest things suddenly felt like everything.

Sometimes it takes losing the ordinary to understand its weight.

Don’t forget to cherish it, friends. 

💭

#life

Sales coaching is one of the most talked-about levers in sales performance.

And one of the least consistently executed.

Most leaders say coaching matters.
Most reps say they want more of it.

Yet in many teams, coaching ends up being:

❌ irregular
❌ reactive
❌ focused on numbers, not skills
❌ squeezed between meetings

So, the issue doesn't seem to lie in intent but in consistency and structure. 

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The data on this is fascinating.

I went deep into 22+ recent research reports and studies focused specifically on sales coaching to extract the most decision-relevant statistics (2026 edition).

I am referring to numbers that show:

🔹 what effective coaching actually looks like
🔹 where most organisations fall short
🔹 how coaching quality links to performance
🔹 what high-performing teams do differently

...and help you answer questions like:

• How big is the real impact of coaching?
• How often should coaching actually happen?
• What do top managers focus on during coaching?
• Where do most coaching systems break down?

If you work in enablement, lead a sales team, or manage managers, this gives you:

✅ Evidence to justify investing in coaching systems
✅ Benchmarks to compare your current approach
✅ Insight into what to change first
✅ Data to move the conversation beyond “we should coach more”

Coaching should not be viewed as a standalone "tool." 

Instead, it should be an integral part of a solid performance system.

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💬 What’s the biggest coaching gap you see in your organisation today?

If you’d like the sales coaching statistics one-pager + full report, drop “coaching statistics” below and I’ll share it with you.

✌️

#sales #salesenablement #salescoaching

Outbound becomes ineffective when teams try to scale effort before they build a system.

More messages, more calls, more sequences… 

...but no clear decisions about who deserves effort, when it’s actually the right moment to reach out, or how outreach should run across accounts and buying groups. 

That’s when activity grows, but pipeline doesn’t.

In today's B2B market reality, strategy and system thinking must come before execution.

So in partnership with lemlist – a leading multichannel prospecting platform – I put together the ultimate step-by-step guide on how to build a repeatable outbound system.

And I distilled the whole thing into a practical one-pager you can apply with your sales organisation and teams. 

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Here’s what the guide + one-pager cover:

1️⃣ ICP definition and account prioritisation – How to identify the accounts that actually deserve outbound effort.

2️⃣ Account tiering and effort allocation – Structuring your universe so attention matches potential value.

3️⃣ Signal-led prioritisation – Using intent, triggers, and access signals to decide when timing is right.

4️⃣ Outbound coverage and operating rhythm – Start rates, active account caps, and buying-group coverage that teams can sustain.

5️⃣ Manual vs cadence-led outreach – Knowing when to open manually and when to rely on structured sequences.

6️⃣ Personalisation governance at scale – How to distribute high, low, and zero personalisation across stakeholders deliberately.

Outbound still works.

But it only becomes predictable when you treat it as a system of decisions rather than just a sequence of activities.

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💭 Which part of outbound tends to create the most friction in your team today?

If you want the one-pager + full guide, drop “outbound system” below, and I’ll share it with you. 

#sales #outboundsales #salesenablement

In enablement interviews, knowing what to do helps.

Knowing what not to do helps even more.

Many capable candidates fail interviews because of small, repeatable mistakes they are unaware of that quietly weaken the way they come across.

Over the past few months, I spoke with and surveyed 25 enablement leaders and practitioners who have collectively sat on hundreds of interview panels (I’ll tag them in the comments).

Different companies.
Different roles.
Different seniority levels.

The patterns were remarkably consistent.

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That’s what led me to document the 13 most common sales enablement interview mistakes as a way to make interviews clearer from both sides of the table.

What surprised me most?

These mistakes are rarely about enablement knowledge.

They’re about judgement under pressure.

They show up when candidates:

• default to abstract language instead of concrete experience,
• talk fluently but don’t ask meaningful questions
• describe activity without explaining impact
• rely on rehearsed frameworks instead of listening
• misread the role, the environment, or the dynamics in the room

In other words, the issue is almost never: “I don’t understand enablement.”

It’s usually: “I’m not sending the signal I think I’m sending.”

So I turned the insights into:

• A one-pager you can use as a pre-interview guardrail
• A full guide that breaks each mistake down into what it looks like, why it happens, and how strong candidates avoid it. 

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💭 Which interview mistakes do you only notice after the conversation is over?

If you’d like the one-pager + full guide, drop below “interview mistakes” and I’ll share them with you.

✌️

#sales #salesenablement #salesenablementinterviews

The Glue Between

Founder & Content Chief

GDS Group

Responsible for the Group's creative strategy, alongside creative leadership of the company's new SaaS product. Ownership of all copywriting, brand origin & multimedia storytelling, content strategy and live presenting requirements (including mentoring new creative teams).

From strategic design thinking to tactical sales & marketing content, the role encompasses all creative facets of brand and product storytelling. As a Presenter, I work to identify and pilot new use cases for storytelling and engagement opportunities within the platform. As a Copywriter, I own all internal & external brand messaging (both written and rich media). As a Creative Director, I lead the vision of the product's potential across forms of communication, including sales and operations consultancy.

Creative Director

I led the Group's Virtual Showcase product from concept to it's first 12-month cycle – securing £4.1m delivered revenue from 86 live shows in its first year – with studio-production digital broadcasts for a range of Fortune 2000 B2B client profiles and CXO engagements.

Responsible for all operational & production functions – including Design, Video, Presenters, Producers & Technical operators – to execute the activation of content, storytelling levers and digital functionality,  delivering TV-studio broadcast productions that land messages, drive pipeline and engage audiences in a truly unique broadcast format.

Operations Director

Bigg

Bigg is a full-service digital marketing agency, specialising in white-label, scalable SEO packages for the UK's two leading directories and its SME customer base – delivering c. 1200 SEO campaigns per month.

As Bigg's MD, my role was to build on the foundations set as its Operations Director and steady net profit as we moved through the pandemic. Having improved its gross profit by c.30% over a preceding 9 month period by removing third party costs and bringing core services in-house, I was able to successfully secure the required strategic relationships, react to client and market demands for 'pandemic-ready' product pricing and stabilise campaign churn as we headed through 2020/2021. Ultimately, this delivered the board's primary aim and protected both P&L and staff alike.

Managing Director

I led the build of the Group's debut, centralised Client Services function – directing an international team of 14 CSMs – into a new service delivery model for the GDS Group.

Accountable for a mid-to-high touch B2B IT & Marketing tech client portfolio in excess of 150 logo campaigns globally – delivering across the organisation's three core revenue streams (Summits, Roundtables & Live events) – my primary responsibilities nested in:

• Nurturing and growing Tier 1 client relationships 
• Directing the service delivery of net new and growth logos
• Implementing a new CS Journey – moving from reactive client servicing to proactive customer success
• Customer engagement strategy
• Reporting directly into CEO & Chairman

Group Client Services Director

Meet the Boss

As a product owner and the company's CSD, I consulted on pre-sale fulfilment and led the post-sale delivery for a global portfolio of IT & Marketing Technology clients, accountable for a team of 7 CSMs managing a client servicing and communication strategy across concurrent contracts.

From resource forecasting and capacity planning at both internal stakeholder and product levels – to senior stakeholder reporting (internal & external) – the role required exceptional process evolution and divisional leadership & training to ensure superior standards for a CXO audience.

Client Services Director

I led the transformation of the post-sale client servicing strategy for a portfolio of c.50 high-touch accounts, with reach across the brand's digital and physical products. This included building MOPs, training and mentoring a team of CSMs and implementing a new standard of client services across the business – from first-to-last touch of contractual delivery. 

This included commercial risk and issue mitigation; client-facing and branded content creation; product and product delivery evolution; and pre-sales relationship engineering.

Head of Client Services & Operations

Responsible for presenting both live and pre-recorded interviews, group discussions and closed-door events for senior executives across the IT and Marketing tech space – including live studio production and live in-person events. 

During my tenure, I hosted in excess of 250 virtual roundtables, 30 in-person events and 10 live studio shows, with full storytelling ownership – from concept to conversation.

Presenter & Senior Editor

Moving from print to digital content, I led the online editorial strategy and web management for MeettheBoss.TV across organic SEO and marketing-supported campaigns. From short and long form editorial to rich media (infographics and video), I worked closely with the brand's presenters on content strategy and scriptwriting for interviews to link back into the editorial strategy.

Digital Content Manager

Responsible for content strategy, creative and execution for a print portfolio of B2B industry thought leadership magazines for IT and marketing technology providers including Dell, IBM, HP, Cisco, Novartis – with a specific focus on Pharmaceuticals, Energy & Business Transformation.

Working in lock step with the Editor-in-Chief and Sales Director, I had full editorial ownership of cover and copywriting, pagination, feature articles and interview schedules.

Example partnership editorial with Frost & Sullivan's Growth, Innovation & Leadership (GIL) eBulletin: http://bit.ly/2EZhoSO

Editor

Western Morning News

Intern

SilverWood Publishing

B2B Copywriter & Storytelling Strategist | Thought leadership and insights content for creative enterprise marketers

Hi, I'm Nick.

I write long form content for B2B content marketers & agencies who:

1. Need marketing-ready campaign content delivered on time and on budget
2. Want to build authority and trust with their audience
3. Don't have the resource or expertise in-house to do so

With 14+ years' experience delivering for high growth and large enterprise B2B clients, I've built a system that allows me to...

- Snap into your content operations and marketing teams with ease
- Find the right information from you, fast
- Spend more time speaking with your audiences 
- Turn complex topics into crystal clear content that connects
- Deliver high-performing long form content for enterprise marketing campaigns

In doing so, I've...

- Delivered Annual Reports for one of the 'Big Four' to a global audience of 4m+
- Produced long-form content for 162 of the world's Fortune 500
- Written over 220 eBooks, reports & guides to help deepen brand and product insights

If you're a B2B content marketer or agency AD who needs their quality content in expert hands, drop me a DM or book an appointment in the link at the top of my profile and let's talk.

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