change lead ownership from sfdc nurture queue to sfdc user

[Anonymous]

Question: how do I automate the change of lead ownership from the nurture queue to the appropriate lead owner?

As it stands now, our process is:

• Sales determines lead isn't sales ready, assigns to nurture queue in sfdc and updates lead status field to "nurture queue"
• Leads enter nurture program until they reach MQL status again (based on their activity)
• Once the lead hits MQL again, want to sync to sfdc based on auto assignment rules, however noticing that the lead owner was not being updated - based on my understanding, this is because Marketo does not see queues, only users.

How can I re-assign the lead owner when the current owner is the sfdc nurture queue? (all leads in nurture queue also have a status for "nurture queue") 

Thanks in advance,
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Ivan

[Anonymous]

Marketo can assign leads to queues, and you should be able to re-assign a lead to another queue or user from a queue.  

Your challenge is that lead assignment rules will not re-run again unless you change a data value that is used to trigger lead assignment rules.
https://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000Kyr1CAC

You can use a change owner step or I believe you can use a trigger in SFDC to re-activate your assignment rules. 

[Lynn_Ray_Pardo]

the problem I see is that Marketo doesn't have a choice filter that recognizes lead queue ownership - so you can't reassign a lead with a choice step, e.g., if lead is owned by sales owner first name "is empty", i.e., owned by a lead queue - you can't change its ownership to a person