All Things Considered CX with Bob Azman (CX of M Radio )

Daniel Bakh is the CEO and co-founder of Fullview. He has a background in product-led growth, enterprise sales, and VC. He is also an angel investor with over 40 startups in his portfolio. He started Fullview in May 2021 after experiencing first-hand the frustrations and inefficiencies of giving and receiving customer support. Dorin Tarau is the CPO and co-founder of Fullview. He is an entrepreneur and previously founded the IT services and consulting company, Apidemia. Dorin has extensive experience providing technical customer support and struggled with how difficult it was to get full context on customer issues. He started Fullview in May 2021 to solve those challenges.

A Pioneer. A Legend. A Passionate Leader.
I am so pleased to welcome Jeanne Bliss to the 100th episode of the All Things Considered CX Podcast with Bob Azman. 

Jeanne, CEO and Founder of Customer Bliss, guides companies to the achievement of business growth through leadership bravery and elevated business practices. She is known globally for transforming business to earn customer-driven growth. A 5-time Chief Customer Officer and coach to over 20,000 leaders, her practices are field-tested and proven. Bliss' 5-Competencies for customer-driven growth have been adopted around the world, and her 4 best-selling books on customer experience and leadership are the guidebooks of the CX Profession. Jeanne Bliss has delivered over 1,500 transformative keynotes globally, has coached over 20,000 leaders on leading to elevate their company in the marketplace, with sustainable growth. Jeanne Bliss is the cofounder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association and is fondly known as the “godmother” of customer experience. What a great way to celebrate this milestone event!

A seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in leadership and talent development, Bob has worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies. Prior to starting his own business in 1999, he managed a 150-employee placement agency for a Fortune 1000 company. While at Thomson Reuters, as a Director of Coaching and Executive Development, he accumulated 900+ hours of coaching internal mid-level leaders. After eight years at Thomson, he took on the challenge to build a $2.5M Executive Coaching business for a professional services firm, where he designed and implemented best-practice leader
development solutions. Bob completed a master’s degree in Business Communications from the University of St. Thomas in 2011. Bob is certified in a variety of assessments including Zenger Folkman 360, Marshall Goldsmith Process, MBTI, Behavioral Styles, DiSC, and Korn Ferry Suite of tools.

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Mr. Goodman is Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). The universal adages, “It costs five times as much to win a new customer as to keep an existing one.” and “Twice as many people hear about a bad experience as a good one.” are both based on his research. He assisted in the analysis of the latest National Customer Rage Study, on American consumers’ complaining behavior, service expectations and word of mouth. Harper Collins published the second edition of his book, “Strategic Customer Service”, in March, 2019. He has also published, “Customer Experience 3.0”, with the American Management Association in July, 2014. Over the past 40 years, Mr. Goodman has managed more than 1,000 separate customer experience studies for 45 of the Fortune 100 as well as dozens of non-profit and government entities.

Anita Siassios is a highly respected and certified leader, with over 30 years’ experience working for Fortune’s top 20 Australian multinational organisations such as ANZ Banking Group, National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank.  She is the founder of the award-winning, non-profit CXPA (Customer Experience Professionals Association) Melbourne Network where she has spearheaded CX in Australia. Her peripheral vision, research and experience in Privacy and Cyber Crime led to her establishing the Australian Affiliate of Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) – a non-profit association dedicated to advancing, recruiting, and promoting women and female graduates in the field of Cyber Security. Anita is also an active member of the Australian Marketing Association, SOCAP (Australian Customer Service Associations), IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) and British Psychological Society.

Kazuki “Kaz” Ohta is the CEO at Treasure Data, a leading customer data platform.

Passionate experience transformation professional and change agent. Sherpa for new and developing customer and employee-obsessed leaders. Thought leader and innovator for ways of engaging associates and customers. Spirited entrepreneur. Skilled in business benefits development and systematically embedding experience into an organization. Believe that brands who win choose to focus on human and emotional elements. Develops the hearts and minds of others. Firm executor in the ‘pay it forward' model. Writer, speaker and artist.

Ken has over two decades of experience in the customer experience research with industry experience in retail, technology, hospitality, financial services, automotive and transportation with a recent focus on financially linked business insights, SaaS deployments, and CX consultation. With a background in Mathematical Operations Research, he’s eager to find ways that companies can be more profitable through truly actionable insights into data. Ken has also had the privilege of helping clients to improve their customer engagement in travel, sports and media to better understand how to make use of the vast quantities of data that is now available but often underutilized and misinterpreted. Delivering relevant insights, fact-based execution, and bottom-line results which has led to multiple publications and 2 US CXA Awards in 2022.

Uku Tomikas is the CEO of Messente Communications. He is an advocate for honest entrepreneurship and an expert in telecommunications with extensive knowledge of fraud, global markets and business messaging. Besides being the leader of Messente, he is also a father, a high-school teacher and a yoga instructor with a military background. He enjoys an active lifestyle filled with sports, literature and creative challenges.

Anyone working with customer journeys will deeply resonate with the struggle to align everyone around a shared understanding of the customer experience. As Co-Founder & CEO of TheyDo, the customer journey management solution for enterprises, Jochem van der Veer is pushing the boundaries of modern CX management, enabling true cross-team collaboration in today’s increasingly virtual world. Having worked in interaction and UX design for 10+ years, Jochem is well-versed in the power of truly walking in your customer’s shoes and passionate about helping companies transform towards a customer-centric way of working. His latest SaaS venture, TheyDo, is a platform that enables companies to visualize, standardize, and scale journey management so that their business goals align with customer needs.

Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the past eight years. Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 36 books, including three New York Times bestsellers, that have sold over 2.5 million copies and been listed bestseller in 12 countries. His books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers have been recognized by Amazon.com as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.

Mr. Goodman is Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). The universal adages, “It costs five times as much to win a new customer as to keep an existing one.” and “Twice as many people hear about a bad experience as a good one.” are both based on his research. John joins me on this podcast episode to discuss his latest research on the impact of what happens to word of mouth and an increase in willingness to pay a premium when an organization delights its customers. 

Harper Collins published the second edition of his book, “Strategic Customer Service”, in March, 2019. He has also published, “Customer Experience 3.0”, with the American Management Association in July, 2014.  Over the past 40 years, Mr. Goodman has managed more than 1,000 separate customer experience studies for 45 of the Fortune 100 as well as dozens of non-profit and government entities.

World traveler, basketball enthusiast, gamer, and founder of Wicked Cushions.

Stefan has been a leader in Fortune 500 companies and an advisor to multinational organizations for more than 20 years. His passion and expertise have helped improve the experiences of millions of citizens, half a billion customers and hundreds of thousands of employees around the globe. As a thought leader and advisor, Stefan helps government entities and global organizations in B2B and B2C become more customer centric and more employee centric. As the president of the Customer Institute, Stefan and his global board of directors set the gold standard in customer experience and provide the recognition for excellence in the world of customer centricity.

Since joining Givex in 2003, Brittain Brown has held various managerial roles in the National Accounts and Operations divisions and has been responsible for some of the company’s largest client successes. As President, Brown has driven Givex’s international expansion efforts and overseen the successful acquisition of new additions to the Givex family of companies. Givex is integrated with 1000+ technology partners, creating a fully end-to-end solution that delivers powerful customer insights. His leadership and passion for people have been instrumental in the company’s explosive growth. Brown graduated from Queen’s University with a B.A. in Economics.

This year the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA.org) announced a new and exciting award program for CX Emerging Leaders. The first 5 winners of this award – Gloria Gupta, Alec Dalton, Branden Schlosser, Laura Tramm and Danielle Wipperfurth join me for a lively session about their career journeys, lessons learned and future opportunities for growth in the CX profession. I’m joined by Derik Iverson of the CXPA who is the lead staff member for the award. Derik also shares an update on happenings at the CXPA.

Chris is a founding member and Chief Experience Officer of Blue Rock Search. With over 15 years’ hospitality experience as an executive chef plus 10+ years recruiting executive-level talent under his belt, Chris’ customer-centric approach to recruiting led him to create a cohesive seamless ecosystem that provides tremendous value that goes well beyond Executive Search for his Clients, Candidates and Employees. Not only does Chris oversee the retained CX executive search practice, but he is also passionately dedicated to providing the optimum Concierge Experience to the entire Blue Rock Search community which spans across multiple industry verticals.

He’s back! And does he have some great new research, insights and perspectives to share on this episode of the All Things Considered CX podcast. 
John Goodman joins me to talk about AI, Offshoring, Delighting customers, the latest info related to focused research on CPG customer delight and so much more!   John has joined me several times in the past and always has an informative, thought-provoking topic to discuss and this conversation is no different. John is Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). The universal adages, “It costs five times as much to win a new customer as to keep an existing one.” and “Twice as many people hear about a bad experience as a good one.” are both based on his research. CX metrics are always hot topics but John’s straightforward, no-nonsense approach to them is refreshing!

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Donna Weber is the world’s leading expert in customer onboarding. For more than two decades, she’s helped high-growth startups and established enterprises create customers for life. Donna is a recognized Customer Success thought leader, influencer, strategist, advisor, author, and speaker who gets to the heart of the matter. She is passionate about helping customers reach their goals, because when customers win, you win. High growth companies hire Donna to increase customer retention, decrease time to customer first value, increase customer lifetime value, reduce implementation time and costs, increase product usage and adoption, and scale Customer Success organizations. Her new book is Onboarding Matters: How Successful Companies Transform New Customers into Loyal Champion.

The Customer Experience Profession recently lost a colleague and friend, Chris Rios, Blue Rock Executive Search. Chris was an advocate and supporter of all things CX especially as it related to helping CX professionals advance their careers. A two-time guest on the podcast, Chris brought a new and refreshing perspecitve to career development. On this special edition of the podcast, Diane Magers joins me to reflect on Chris's life and the learnings he shared with all of us to become better professionals in both our work and personal lives. 

As CX professionals, we often talk about the experience has to be “end-to-end”.  But too often we forget steps along the way – including what happens when the customer’s package arrives and they “unbox it”. 

Is it personal or generic?  Does it make them smile or grimace? 

In this episode of the All Things Considered CX podcast, Tyler DeLarm joins us to talk about “unboxing marketing” strategies.  Tyler is a seasoned business leader with a reputation for building and guiding successful teams. Fueled by a passion for helping brands unlock their potential, he has spent his career redefining how companies engage with their employees and customer base. But Tyler is not just about the data and revenue. He brings a distinctive leadership style to UnDigital that fosters a supportive and inclusive environment.

Roy Atkinson is one of the most recognized thought leaders in IT, service management, and customer experience, and serves as CEO, Clifton Butterfield, LLC, a business advisory practice. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation and a 2021 member of HDI’s Strategic Advisory Board. He is a prolific writer, speaker, webinar presenter, and podcaster as well as an industry analyst. He holds a masters certificate in advanced management strategy from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. 

Rhonda L. Bowen is a global strategic communication guide with over 40 years of experience. An American living in Germany since 1983, she has worked with people from more than 70 countries. Since 1988 she has brought insights and support to thousands of BEST professionals (business, engineering, science, and technology). Through improved communication, her clients save resources and enhance their success. Her programs and services include online and offline facilitation, individual and team coaching, and programs for professional services providers and organizations. She supports others through her interactive sessions called Success Swarms, building on the idea of swarm intelligence in nature. These are based on the principle of wispiration in action, a combination of wisdom and inspiration shared in the group to provide options for finding practical ways to apply what has been learned.

Bryan Clayton isn't just another CEO; he's a visionary and a groundbreaker. As the mastermind behind GreenPal, an innovative online marketplace dubbed the "Uber for lawn care" by Entrepreneur magazine, he's revolutionizing the way homeowners connect with local lawn care pros. Boasting over 200,000 active users, GreenPal pulses with thousands of transactions daily, a testament to Bryan's knack for understanding market needs.

But here's the twist:
GreenPal isn’t Bryan’s first rodeo. Before this digital marvel, he birthed Peachtree Inc., transforming it into one of Tennessee's landscaping giants. Under his leadership, it soared to an impressive $10 million in annual revenue, ultimately catching the eye of Lusa Holdings which acquired it in 2013. Diving deeper into Bryan's passion, you'll find a fervor for entrepreneurialism, marketing, and the art of bootstrapping businesses from humble beginnings to soaring success. His journey from zero to profitability, and then to a grand exit, offers invaluable insights for budding entrepreneurs and seasoned business veterans alike.

Ian Baer, Founder and Chief Soothsayer, has been solving marketing’s greatest challenges for

over three decades. 
He has spent his career helping major brands achieve extraordinary success

and challenger brands box above their weight class in leadership roles with Publicis Groupe,

TBWA, Rapp, Deutsch and others, and was named to Campaign US’ Digital 40 Over 40. A prominent thought leader all aspects of marketing, Ian has spoken at numerous conferences and podcasts discussing trends in consumer behavior. In addition to

founding sooth in 2023, Ian is the brand storytelling practice lead for Kestrel Consultants and

sits on the Ithaca College Customer Experience Board.

Alex Mead, is an experienced contact centre leader with a proven track record in driving CX innovation, delivering top class customer experiences, operations efficiency & customer loyalty.  He believes customers should get EPIC Service Experiences that are EASY, PERSONALISED, INTUITIVE & CONTEXTUAL. As a hands-on leader, he inspires teams to deliver great experience across multiple channels and industries. His no-nonsense approach to improving customer service will challenge your thinking and motivate you to strive new and innovative ways to achieve a better experience for employees and customers.

Dan is the founder and CEO of The Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture. He is the best-selling author of four books: LEAD. CARE. WIN. How to Become a Leader Who Matters, OPEN TO THINK, THE PURPOSE EFFECT and FLAT ARMY. A renowned speaker, Dan has presented at four different TED events and also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Dan is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and has garnered more than 20 industry awards over his career.

Bryan Horn is a leading customer experience turnaround expert. His foundations come from 18 years of management experience and training from the Ritz Carlton Institute, the Zappos School of WOW, and the Disney Institute. He has written two best-selling customer service books, is a contributing author for MyCustomer.com and Customer Service Manager Magazine and was deemed a “CX Superhero” by the Clientship Customer Strategy Podcast. Bryan brings a "real-world perspective" to customer experience and employee development. Through practical application, innovative approaches, and inspirational storytelling, Bryan is changing the way organizations do business with their customers and their employees.

Rick Delisi (co-author "Digital Customer Service" and Lead Research Analyst, Glia) has been researching customer service and customer experience for the past two decades. He is also the co-author of the bestselling book The Effortless Experience, and has written several pieces published in the Harvard Business Review. Prior to working in customer service he was a journalist, winning four Associated Press awards for outstanding feature reporting.

This is the third in a series of podcasts with co-authors of the book Customer Experience 3. David Wales is the founder of SharedAim consultancy that helps organisations excel by putting human experience at the heart of CX strategy and practice. Prior to that David had a distinguished career in the fire service, and was its first-ever CX manager. He remains an advisor to the international humanitarian and emergency community, which in combination with his CX work, provides a unique and transferable perspective on the human experience."  Miles C. Thomas is a seasoned customer service and experience professional who believes in the importance of taking a human approach to the delivery of great service and experiences.  He has acted as the chair of judges in industry customer experience awards and has also been named as a global leader and influencer in the CX sphere by Customer Experience Magazine and My Customer Magazine among others.  Miles is the founder of Humanized CX and CX Wales. His experience in technology, service and experience combined with a degree in Psychology has provided a unique lens in humanizing the customer experience.

Worth another listen!! Listen to 3 authors from the latest best-selling 4th edition of the Customer Experience series. Gabriela Ciupitu, Faran Niaz and Peter Verheijde join the podcast to discuss their careers, the chapters they wrote, the importance of managing experiences and words of wisdom from across the globe. This roundtable provides the listener insight into the topics covered in this new edition from 3 respected authors with broad experience in working for and helping organizations achieve better customer experiences.

Coachability.
“The goal is to regain that early-career habit to learn more, to be more coachable and to expand your leadership effectiveness and career potential”, according to our guest on the All Things Considered CX Podcast with Bob Azman.

Kevin D. Wilde currently serves as an Executive Leadership Fellow at the @Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He teaches applied leadership in several graduate courses. His current research topics include leadership coachability, executive derailment, and contemporary talent development. In 2015, he concluded a thirty-four-year corporate career in leadership and talent development at General Electric and General Mills.

In this episode
We talk at length about a variety of ways to improve your coachability and leadership development as well as discuss his new book, Coachability, The Leadership Superpower. A must-listen for CX professionals seeking to advance their careers!

Joe Wheeler is an internationally recognized best-selling author, speaker, and consultant. He is the CEO of CX/Digital a subsidiary of The Service Profit Chain Institute (SPCI), a Boston-based consulting firm he co-founded with Professors Len Schlesinger, James Heskett, and W. Earl Sasser of the Harvard Business School.

In 2002, he and Shaun Smith co-authored the best-seller: Managing the Customer Experience. He followed it up in 2008 with The Ownership Quotient, co-authored with James Hesket and Earl Sasser, Jr. His latest book, The Digital-First Customer Experience was released in July of 2023 and describes the design strategies of leading brands including Nike, Amazon, CEMEX, Starbucks, and others. Prior to co-founding The Service Profit Chain Institute, he held executive roles at Bank of America, and The Forum Corporation and earned an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.

“Terrified, mortified, petrified, stupefied” by AI? 
Then you’ve come to the right place to eliminate these fears and trepidations!  

Joining me on this episode of the All Things Considered CX podcast with Bob Azman is Kevin J. Dean, Founder & CEO of ManoByte a technology services company specializing in business process automation, CRM, and intelligent automation. Kevin is leading AI-driven business transformation and dedicated his career to helping businesses thrive in the digital age. With over two decades of experience, Kevin’s expertise has enabled enterprises to leverage AI for significant growth. We cover a lot of interesting topics in this episode.  Kevin’s straightforward style eliminates the confusion and provides a clear focus on how best to achieve the most benefits from AI and technology overall.  He shares case studies to exemplify his perspective.

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The Five Promises of Personalization.  Harnessing the power of AI to personalize the customer experience.  Exploding the myth of proving the ROI of CX. 

This and so much more to talk about with our guest David Edelman on the All Things Considered CX Podcast with Bob Azman. David is the co-author of the new book Personalized.  Customer Strategy in the Age of AI.  He is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, an executive adviser and board member to brands and technology providers, and an adviser to BCG.  Previously, David was chief marketing officer at Aetna and has worked with dozens of companies on personalization, AI, and agile marketing at BCG and Digitas.  Forbes has repeatedly named him one of the Top 20 Most Influential Voices in Marketing, and Ad Age has named him a Top 20 Chief Marketing and Technology Officer.

Join us for a fascinating conversation on how to differentiate your brand in the age of AI.  Brand and CX are one in the same and David provides great examples to prove his point. 

Tom DeWitt, Ph.D. is the Director of CXM@MSU, an entity dedicated to the advancement of customer experience management (CXM), and a fixed-term faculty member in the Department of Marketing of the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. As the Director of CXM@MSU, Dr. DeWitt has created North America’s first academic program in customer experience management (Masters of Science in Customer Experience Management - MS-CXM) and hosts industry conferences twice each year for organizations to share best practices in CXM. Tom’s research interests lie in the areas of consumer behavior and services marketing. For more than a decade Dr. DeWitt has also provided customer experience management (CXM) solutions to organizations and audiences around the world through consulting, workshops and presentations. Prior to joining academia, Tom enjoyed a career in the hospitality industry, where he served in senior management roles in the USA and Asia.

Sirte Pihlaja (CCXP, Trained Facilitator of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®) is the CEO of Shirute Ltd, the first customer experience agency in Finland. She is an internationally recognised CX/EX expert, coach, keynote speaker, designer and strategist with over 25 years of experience in advising large corporations and brands in various industries and countries. Sirte is the leader of CXPA’s Finland network, member of the International Advisory Committee and one of CXPA’s founding members. She was one of the first Europeans to have been certified as CCXP. Sirte was recently recognised as a TOP 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leader and on the CX Hall of Fame. The CXPA has also awarded her with the Extra Mile Award. She has written three books on people experiences, two out of which are global #1 bestsellers. When Sirte is not playing with LEGO bricks with her clients, she is passionately championing CX in the Nordics, South-East Asia and beyond and is a familiar face in international CX Awards juries and on conference stages around the world.

Stacy Sherman joins me on my latest podcast episode. She’s the host of her own podcast DoingCXRight. Known for her Heart & ScienceTM framework that produces profitable clients and brand loyalty--fueled by an empowered and valued workforce. Stacy Sherman’s been walking the talk for 25 years as a strategist and practitioner at companies of all sizes and industries. Her Why: To Influence and cultivate deeper connections and authentic relationships so that people have more fulfilling experiences in business and life.

Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D., C.S.P., is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and organizational consultant who transfers his knowledge of exceptional business practices in ways that develop joyful and productive workplaces with a focus on customer experience. His insights encourage leaders and frontline workers to grow and invest passionately in all aspects of their lives. Joseph holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA). He is a member of the Authors Guild, an editorial board member for the Beryl Institute's Patient Experience Journal (PXJ) and is on the founders' council of CustomerExperienceOne. Other achievements include winning the Asian Brand Excellence Award and being named as one of the Top 10 thought leaders in Customer Service by Global Gurus. He received his master's and doctorate from the University of Southern California.

Neal is a teacher, coach, author, and speaker who is a determined believer in putting people first as the key to better business. His vision is a world where workplaces and customer spaces are focused on people helping people succeed. His background includes decades of experience in a variety of industries. He has written over 500 blog posts and two amazing books. His latest, recently released book, Giving a $#!+: How A Willingness to Be Inconvenienced Can Transform Your Business, Work, and Life, offers readers a plan for making businesses more human.

Glen Brown is a customer experience professional at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP).  His unique approach to delivering the best experience possible to passengers traveling through and to the Twin Cities is award-winning!  Glen shares his key ingredients to a great customer experience - something he does each time, every time.  Forget about the "how-to" CX books, journey maps, and surveys.  Listen to how someone on the front lines every day has discovered the secret of great experiences.  

Is 2024 the year of Great Uncertainty?
Are you concerned about your current role, your career, your personal brand, your LinkedIn profile? 

Then take a listen to our guest on the All Things Considered CX Podcast with Bob Azman. Carol Kaemmerer took what seemed like shockingly bad news and turned it into an amazing opportunity. After a surprise downsizing in the Fortune 500 company she served as a consultant, Carol found that her 20 years of marketing communications experience provided the perfect set-up for helping professionals build their online brand. LinkedIn, she recognized, is an integral part of that brand-building. But many brilliant leaders, are unable to articulate their brand effectively on LinkedIn, and that is a weak link in their online reputation.

Since 2011, Carol has focused her communications expertise on helping C-suite executives and senior leaders use LinkedIn powerfully, creating positioning and messaging that reflects their business passion with authenticity. She is a #1 Best-Selling author of the award-winning book, LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive, now in its Second Edition. Carol is a professional member of the National Speakers Association, a Certified Virtual Presenter, an Advisor to the C-Suite Network, and an Esteemed Faculty member of its Thought Council and Women’s Coaching and Consulting Council.

I’m wrapping up the year with our continuing exploration of the effective utilization of AI in improving your organization’s customer experience. 

My guest on this episode of the All Things Considered CX podcast is Andrew Carothers, CCXP.
Andrew Carothers is a Customer Experience executive known for developing innovative CX strategies that grow revenue, increase renewal rates, and expedite customer adoption. He recently suggested that the state of CX is characterized as being in our teenage years.  On our podcast, he talks about how we’ve advanced to early adulthood!   A founding member of Cisco System’s CX function, he helped build the function focusing on digital experience and partners. He’s a 12-time International Customer Experience award winner, and frequently writes and speaks on CX topics.

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Dennis is currently one of the leading voices around the world on the topics of Customer Experience, social media, and digital marketing. In 2021 he was a keynote speaker at the World Marketing Summit in Turkey, West African CX summit, LATAM CX conference, eWorld Marketing Summit, workshop leader at Customer Contact week in the USA, and the Host and MC of CXS- Canada’s largest annual Customer Experience event. In 2022, he was named as the CX influencer for Expo 2020 Dubai, a distinguished speaker at the University of Oklahoma, an Advisory Council Member for the University of Houston, and teaches Digital Marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kip M. Knippel, Esq., President & CEO, Kip Search. Kip has learned that clients like to have a quarterback or “go-to” person they can talk to about their strategic talent needs. He likes being in that quarterback role for the clients we serve. The large network of relationships Kip has developed within the national business and legal communities, along with his broad technical recruiting expertise, enable him to bring the right resources to help our clients solve their most difficult executive recruiting, talent acquisition and business challenges. He joins the podcast to share his thoughts on the best way to pursue your next career opportunity. Multiple years while in private law practice, Kip was named a Minnesota Super Lawyers Rising Star. Kip earned his B.A., cum laude, in English and Communication from St. John’s University and his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law.

Best of Summer Replay Series! Named one of the 6 top personal branding experts in 2022 by The American Reporter, Carol Kaemmerer is also a professional speaker and author of the award-winning book: LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive: Promote Your Brand with Authenticity, Tact and Power. Published in it’s 2nd Edition in 2021, Carol’s book has won multiple awards including BookAuthority’s Best LinkedIn Books of All Time award, two awards from International Book Awards, and has been selected by The C-Suite Network as one of the top 100+ Best Business Books. Carol specializes in strategies for using LinkedIn as a personal branding and business development tool. In addition to her one-on-one executive branding work with senior leaders, Carol is a popular speaker and member of the National Speakers Association.

Matt is an internationally renowned business author and speaker. He won the CMI's Management Book of the Year for his first book, The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences, considered by many to be the definitive book on the subject. His second book - The Grid: The Decision-making Tool for Every Business (Including Yours) was published by Random House to critical acclaim. His third book — Mastering Uncertainty — co-authored with the investor and entrepreneur Csaba Konkoly —was released in April 2023. As a speaker has addressed industry leaders at every kind of organization imaginable, from Microsoft to the FBI. He is the co-founder of Methodical, a customer experience and strategy consultancy; a Senior Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School (Formerly Cass), City University London; and a venture partner at Tiller Partners, a Los Angeles based VC fund. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

Heart of the Customer founder Jim Tincher is a noted speaker, internationally recognized customer experience expert, and author of How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? The definitive guide to customer journey mapping that helps companies drive customer-centric action to boost loyalty, satisfaction, and revenue.

Zach and Ray Shefska are disrupting how consumers buy automobiles. Their entrepreneurial venture YAA is changing the way consumers and dealers buy and sell cars, buy service plans and have their vehicles serviced.  Their hugely popular YouTube channel is informative and humorous at the same time. With hundreds of thousands of followers they do a great job of helping consumers get better deals on the second largest financial purchase of our lifetimes. But most importantly they live, eat and breath better experiences for the customers of YAA.  

Serena Riley is the VP of Experience Management at renewables energy tech start-up SkySpecs, Inc. and a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) who has been igniting transformation in individuals, teams, and organizations for 20-years. She is a customer experience expert who specializes in cultivating customer-centricity and employee-elevation and is keen on broadening the narrative of Customer Experience to an even more holistic strategy of Human Experience Management. Francesca Tempestini is an enthusiastic disseminator of the Disney Approach and a Customer Experience lover. training.  Francesca likes to combine her Disney experience with CX and EX principles, bringing Disney sparkles and insights to non-magical industries. Her goal is to show how the Disney Approach can be applied to any industry, promoting a people-centric approach to business which includes employees. Sandra Thompson is a consultant (eievolution.com) in customer experience, employee experience and she’s a remote work enthusiast. She’s a formal and informal educator in this space. She runs the Applied Customer Experience and Emotional Intelligence course, she's an emotional intelligence coach (the first Goleman Emotional Intelligence coach in the UK) and she lectures part time at Pearson Business School in London.

Dave Seaton, CCXP, is a customer experience consultant at Seaton CX, helping B2B SaaS companies launch their customer experience programs with the CX Booster Rocket. His proudest moments on a project involved flying 4,768 miles, driving hundreds more, and surviving a high-speed Uber ride down Bourbon Street to collect Voice of Customer feedback for a B2B SaaS company. Using that insight, he transformed the customer support experience and made the company $991k in ARR from reduced churn. In 2022, he started Dave Seaton Leadership to help CX leaders influence their coworkers to make CX a priority through online courses.

Karen Black has more than two decades of experience providing leadership development services to businesses in such key management areas as assessment, executive coaching, team building, and conflict resolution. Since 1991 Karen, through her company Insight Edge, has worked with multiple businesses and organizations to help them increase their overall organizational effectiveness, and substantially contribute to bottom line improvement. As both a coach and mentor to business leaders and executives, and management teams, Karen has consistently demonstrated that improved communication within companies is often the single most important feature of truly successful organizations.

Greg Melia, Bryan Sander and Amy Shioji from the CXPA board join the podcast to discuss what's new for 2023, their visions for how our profession and association can continue to evolve as well as the key strategies being pursued by the board this year. As CX professionals, they also share insights on the state of CX today and in the future as well as share their words of wisdom to CX professionals across the globe. It's a great way to learn about the premier association for customer experience professionals and how you can take advantage of the many resources available as a member! 

Annette Franz, CCXP, founder and CEO of CX Journey Inc., has spent the last 30 years in the customer experience profession. She started her career at J.D. Power and Associates in 1992 and spent much of the next 25 years before founding CX Journey Inc. in 2017. Annette is an internationally recognized customer experience thought leader, coach, keynote speaker, and author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the "Customer" in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business). Her second book, Built to Win: Designing a Customer-Centric Culture That Drives Value for Your Business dives into the ten foundational principles of a customer-centric culture. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) and an official member of the Forbes Coaches Council.

Carol Kaemmerer is an internationally recognized executive branding expert, speaker and author of the award-winning book LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive, Carol Kaemmerer creates powerful brand messaging for senior executives and their companies to increase their visibility, influence, and ability to steer their future. Carol shares her tips for CX professionals to expand their LinkedIn network and creating a personal brand to advance your career.  

A member of National Speakers Association and certified as a Virtual Presenter, Carol is also an Advisor to the C-Suite Network. The second edition of Carol’s book is available through online booksellers.

Worth another listen! Listen to 3 authors from the latest best-selling 4th edition of the Customer Experience series. Greg Uglioni, Carolene Meli and Kristin Haynes join the podcast to discuss their careers, the chapters they wrote, the importance of storytelling and words of wisdom from across the globe. This roundtable provides the listener insight into the topics covered in this new edition from 3 respected authors with broad experience in working for and helping organizations achieve better customer experiences. 

What a great episode to end 2024! 

Conscious Consumerism.  Eco-conscious consumers.  The Eighth Notch.  Integrating sustainability into the core touchpoints of the customer journey. 
With over 25 years of leadership experience in the retail industry, Mike Robinson is a valuable addition to the founding team of The Eighth Notch, t8notch.com, a technology platform focused on sustainable last-mile deliveries. His expertise in digital retail growth, product management and technology delivery, gained through roles at Macys.com, Gap Inc., IBM, and PwC Consulting, make him a sought-after strategic advisor to several early-stage start-ups.
Additionally, Robinson serves as an Independent Board member of Vista Outdoors, Inc www.t8notch.com

CXPA Volunteer leaders, Heather Gillbanks and Michelle Spaul discuss two new important initiatives underway at the CXPA - The Book of Knowledge and Facilitaitng CX Monograph Series. 

Can CX really double your revenues?
Is your C-suite looking for the value of investing in CX?
Great questions! And my guest on this episode of the All Things Considered CX podcast has the answers!

Greg Tucker, CCXP is CEO of Tucker & Company, a Customer Experience advisory firm working with global leaders to develop on-brand customer experiences that drive breakthrough business results. His clients include Oracle, Microsoft, DocuSign, Wells Fargo, GE, AT&T and PepsiCo. He has been a leader in the CX community, receiving the CXPA Innovation Award, named a Who’s Who of CX and a CX Expert as well as CIO Review’s Most Promising Customer Experience Management Service Provider in 2023.

Mr. Tucker has an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and led the CX role as part of the C-Suite at AAA and Copart. His research on generating CX revenue and demonstrating the value of investing in CX will inspire you!

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Steve Walker is the Chairman and CEO of Walker. the Indianapolis-based Experience Management (XM) Services company that helps many of the world’s best brands win in their marketplaces by offering great customer and employee experiences.  In 2019, Qualtrics named Walker as their Customer Experience Partner of the Year.  Throughout his 35+ year career, Steve has been an active speaker, contributor and leader among various trade and professional organizations. Along with his long-time colleague, Jeff Marr, Steve co-authored and published a book, Stakeholder Power, in 2001. His driving passion continues to be helping people and organizations create stronger, more sustainable businesses and make better decisions using information technology. In 2018, Steve and his team created the CX Leader Podcast which now has over 180 episodes and has become a leading resource to leaders who are driving a customer-centric culture and strategy.

Awarded No 3 Top Global Customer Service Guru with three decades of expertise, Claire, is an authority in the Customer Experience Industry.  Author of 3 books; with a No 1 Amazon Best Seller in 2020, she is an international media influencer, and her work has been published in Brazil, Philippines, India, US & Europe. She brings a more holistic and comprehensive approach to organizations and individuals with her BizShui™ Method; creating better flow in home-offices and workspaces by integrating a blend of the traditional Feng Shui principles with Modern & personal business needs, reducing physical and emotional stresses to increase productivity, loyalty, and profitability. When she isn't in a Zoom room, you will find her walking on the coasts of her beautiful island of Jersey!

Nancy Porte is the Vice President of Global Customer Experience for Verint. She focuses on bringing the voice of the customer into the organization and developing strategies to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention. She has experience in developing differentiated customer experience through cross-functional collaboration and employee engagement programs. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) and, as a customer experience thought leader, is a primary contributor to the Verint blog and a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Barbie Fink is happily retired and currently serves as Chair on the Board of Directors for the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). She is most inspired when she witnesses the human transformation that occurs when people begin to see that for themselves. Barbie worked at Adobe for over 26 years with teams and leaders across the company to champion customer experience innovation and advocacy on a cross-functional basis. Barbie believes in the power of storytelling and that when combined with data, the human stories that are shared about real customer experiences instill empathy in leaders and a desire for positive change. Barbie received a BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP), has a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma, a LUMA certificate as a practitioner of human-centered design, and is a Net Promoter Certified Associate.

Lynn Hunsaker is 1 of 5 CustomerThink Hall of Fame authors. She led customer experience & marketing at Applied Materials & Sonoco. She served as CXPA board member & SVAMA president. She taught at UC Berkeley Ext, Mission College, UCSC Ext, SJSU for 7 years. Lynn authored 6 benchmarking studies & 3 CXM handbooks. She is a CXPA Recognized Training Provider with CCXP students from 50+ countries. Lynn co-founded the Experience Value Exchange experience leadership e-learning subscription for marketing, CS & CX teams' daily use.

Lou Carbone is the founder, president, and chief experience officer (CEO) of Experience Engineering®, Inc., a Minneapolis based consulting firm dedicated to customer, employee stakeholder experience optimization. He is the Author of Clued In: How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again (Prentice Hall). Established in the late 1980s, Experience Engineering® has evolved the science of experience management to help some of the world’s largest organizations discover what really makes customers tick and offers solutions to help them increase customer advocacy, satisfaction, loyalty, and price elasticity.

Lee Cockerell retired as the Executive Vice President of Operations for the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, a position he held for ten years. His responsibilities encompassed a diverse mix of operations, which included 20 resort hotels with over 24,000 Guest rooms, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, 5 golf courses, a shopping village & nighttime entertainment complex, the ESPN Sports Complex and the ancillary operations support functions. Lee joined the Disney organization in July 1990 as Director of Food and Beverage and Quality Assurance for the Disneyland Paris hotels. Prior to joining the Walt Disney World Co., he spent seventeen years in various executive positions with the Marriott Corporation and eight years with Hilton Hotels. Lee is the best-selling author of four books on leadership, management and world class customer service: 1) Creating Magic…10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney is now available in 21 languages; 2) The Customer Rules...The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service is currently available in 15 languages; 3) Time Management Magic…How to Get More Done Every Day; and 4) Career Magic…How to Stay on Track to Achieve a Stellar Career. Lee and his wife Priscilla reside in Orlando, Florida.  Lee enjoys teaching leadership, management, and service excellence seminars, traveling, dining out and most of all spending time with his three grandchildren, Jullian, Margot, and Tristan.

Mr. Goodman is Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). The universal adages, “It costs five times as much to win a new customer as to keep an existing one.” and “Twice as many people hear about a bad experience as a good one.” are both based on his research. He assisted in the analysis of the 9th wave of the National Rage Study, completed in March 2020, on American consumers’ complaining behavior, service expectations and word of mouth. Harper Collins published the second edition of his book, “Strategic Customer Service”, in March, 2019. He has also published, “Customer Experience 3.0”, with the American Management Association in July, 2014. Over the past 40 years, Mr. Goodman has managed more than 1,000 separate customer experience studies for 45 of the Fortune 100 as well as dozens of non-profit and government entities.

A software veteran of 25 years, Jonathan has held leadership positions in major US software companies, such as Aspect Software, Verint and NICE Systems. Jonathan co-founded OCX Cognition Inc., an AI platform focused on improving retention outcomes for large B2B companies. After selling part of his shareholding and maintaining a board position, Jonathan then founded Anthrolytics in 2021. Anthrolytics combines behavioural and data science to predict the next likely behaviour of employees or customers. Anthrolytics proprietary Predictive Behavioural Analytics SaaS platform allows major B2C and contact centre companies to predict customer churn and likely upsell. For employees, the platform predicts likely resignations, unplanned absence, and the drivers of the predicted behaviour. In addition to these activities, Jonathan is on the advisory boards of two other SaaS start-ups and occasionally lectures on go to market strategies for University of Buckingham.

The founders of the Women in CX community join me on this my 50th podcast to talk about the journey they are on to recognize and promote women in CX, globally.  This powerful podcast will inspire, motivate and challenge your beliefs and perspectives as they share how they formed the community and how they are actively engaged in growing CX but also in addressing pertinent issues pertinent to women across the world. Claire Muscutt, founder of women in CX, Serena Riley, Olga Potaptseva and Mandisa Makubalo, leaders of Women in CX communities join me for this engaging podcast to celebrate all things women on the All Things Considered CX podcast.  

This is the second episode in a series of podcasts with co-authors of our book Customer Experience 3 to discuss customer and employee experience in a post-pandemic world. Sandra Thompson, Serena Riley, Francesca Tempestini, and Marc Karschies join me for a lively discussion that will surely cause you to stop and think about where we are headed as we emerge from this pandemic. The global perspective these 4 authors bring to the podcast is truly inspiring for CX professionals working hard to create better experiences.  You won’t want to miss the debate about virtual work environments among my guests that will challenge your thinking on this important subject!

Brad Smith has had the privilege of leading organizations in their customer centric transformation at Symantec, Yahoo!, and Sage as their CCO/CMO. Across his 20+ years of leadership Brad has led global support and service functions for Oracle, Openwave, and Verisign as well as small start-ups. Currently, Brad is the President & Chairman of the Board for the Consortium for Service Innovation and through the work of the Consortium, has helped 100’s of customer service organization innovate better business models to deliver deep value to their customers while better engaging their employees to grow their businesses. He is also one of their recognized Innovators. Brad is home based in Irvine CA and is Founder/President of Vector Business Navigation, Inc. – A customer experience / customer success Transformation Consulting Provider servicing global customers since 2015.

Listen to 3 authors from the latest best-selling 4th edition of the Customer Experience series. Gabriela Ciupitu, Faran Niaz and Peter Verheijde join the podcast to discuss their careers, the chapters they wrote, the importance of managing experiences and words of wisdom from across the globe. This roundtable provides the listener insight into the topics covered in this new edition from 3 respected authors with broad experience in working for and helping organizations achieve better customer experiences.

Alison Circle, Chief Customer Experience Officer (CXO) for Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), has more than 25 years marketing experience. As CXO she leads the library’s experience strategy through all channels of the organization and has developed CML’s award-winning Customer First Philosophy which drives CML’s customer-facing approach. She also leads programming, experience and design for the library’s new building program (14 libraries), including the Main Library. In 2017 she was chosen for a Global Impact Award from the Customer Experience Professional Association; she is a CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional) and, in 2018, was elected to the international board of the CXPA.

Joel Bines is managing director and co-head of the Global Retail Practice at the business consulting firm AlixPartners. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading operational strategists with a 30-year track record of improving performance at retailers, brands, and consumer companies. After graduating from Bates College in Lewiston, ME with a degree in Philosophy, he talked his way into a series of jobs with distressed consumer companies facing deep challenges. His early success turning around companies led him to Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA with Distinction in 1999.

Building better customer relationships, one customer at a time. Joining me on the All Things Considered CX podcast for this episode is Don Peppers. Don is one of the world’s most prolific experts when it comes to how businesses should deal with their customers and, with over 325,000 LinkedIn followers, he is recognized as one of the world’s most authoritative experts on the topic of “customer experience.” With business partner and co-author Dr. Martha Rogers, Peppers has authored or co-authored eleven business books, including their international best-seller The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time (Doubleday, 1993) and Customer Experience: What, How and Why Now (BookBaby, 2016).

Building better customer relationships, one customer at a time.
Joining me on the All Things Considered CX podcast for this episode is Don Peppers. Don is one of the world’s most prolific experts when it comes to how businesses should deal with their customers and, with over 325,000 LinkedIn followers, he is recognized as one of the world’s most authoritative experts on the topic of “customer experience.” With business partner and co-author Dr. Martha Rogers, Peppers has authored or co-authored eleven business books, including their international best-seller The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time (Doubleday, 1993) and Customer Experience: What, How and Why Now (BookBaby, 2016).

Sarah Bridges, Ph.D. and M.B.A., is the founder and leader of Bridges Consulting, with 25 years of experience as a psychologist, executive coach, speaker, writer, and leadership advisor. Dr. Bridges is known for offering challenging, yet practical, solutions to help people break through their own assumptions, discover their potential, and build cohesive teams. Dr. Bridges received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wesleyan University, her Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, and an M.B.A. from Benedictine University.

Nathan Foy is founder and CEO of Fortis, nine-time Inc. Magazine honoree as one of America’s fastest-growing companies. Fortis provides over 25,000 private, secure trips in 114 countries per year to clientele worth more than half a trillion dollars. These clients routinely rank Fortis on Gallup surveys as best in the industry. With offices in Greenville, South Carolina, and Hong Kong, Fortis offers ground transportation to more private jet owners than any other service in the world. Nathan’s first book, What Rich Clients Want (But Won’t Tell You), translates the Fortis experience into a replicable, scalable business model any service provider can recreate. Nathan lives in Greenville with wife Pam and their four children.  Learn more about Nathan, Fortis, and What Rich Clients Want at www.NathanFoy.com.

Mark Slatin is the CEO and Founder of Empowered CX, an independent consulting practicededicated to helping leaders accelerate their path to scalable growth by empowering them to delight their customers, consistently. He celebrated his 8th year as a Certified Customer Experience Professional and serves on the Customer Experience Professionals Association Board of Directors where he chairs the Higher Education subcommittee. Mark brings a value to his clients that’s quite rare, he spent 9 years as a practitioner, leading the CX efforts from launch to maturity.

Nate Brown is a perpetual student of the world’s greatest experiences and the people who create them. Having spent the first decade of this career managing a complex technical support environment for Occupational Health and eLearning software, Nate transitioned to Customer Experience in 2015. After authoring The CX Primer, Brown was dubbed the “CX Influencer of the Year” by CloudCherry in 2019, and a top global CX thought leader by ICMI, Exceeders, Netomi, Martech and many more. As a passion project, Nate created CX Accelerator, a first-class virtual community for Customer Experience professionals. Nate currently serves as the Senior Director of Customer Experience for Arise Virtual Solutions and can be found at a variety of conferences speaking and training on the CX topics he loves.

Mr. Goodman is Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). The universal adages, “It costs five times
as much to win a new customer as to keep an existing one.” and “Twice as many people hear about a bad experience as a good one.” are both based on his research. Harper Collins published the second edition of his book, “Strategic Customer Service”, in March, 2019. He has also published, “Customer Experience 3.0”, with the American Management Association in July, 2014.

Eric Engwall is President of E.G.Insight, Inc.  Eric’s entire career in business has focused on two passions – helping people and the organizations they inhabit to build stronger relationships and to be more effective at what they do. He has been a national account manager, led an inside sales group, a senior consultant for a leading talent management firm, and the practice area leader for a sales effectiveness consultancy. For the past fifteen years has been owner and president of E.G. Insight, Inc. – a firm focused on equipping clients to gather strategic feedback from their most valued customers.  Regardless of the client he’s working with he claims “take my work seriously, but not myself” as his professional motto.

CXPA newly appointed Regional Council Leaders, Ashima Bhagat, Catherine Gauthier, Georges Essama and Rebekah Kabugo-Mugisha discuss how the CXPA is creating a more global community of professionals through this new initiative. 

Listen to 3 authors from the latest best-selling 4th edition of the Customer Experience series. Greg Uglioni, Carolene Meli and Kristin Haynes join the podcast to discuss their careers, the chapters they wrote, the importance of storytelling and words of wisdom from across the globe. This roundtable provides the listener insight into the topics covered in this new edition from 3 respected authors with broad experience in working for and helping organizations achieve better customer experiences. 

We have not one but 4 CX professionals joining me today to "Explode CX Myths".  Joanna Carr, Jessica Noble, Gustavo Imhof and Gregorio Uglioni, my co-authors of the book Customer Experience 3 join me for a lively discussion that generated a lot of discussion among my guests and will surely do the same for our listeners.  A truly global perspective - UK, Norway and the US - helps shape our view of CX myths that may not always turn out to be as they appear.  My guests don't hesitate to challenge the status quo!  

Rob LoCascio is the founder of LivePerson, Inc. and has been its chief executive officer since its inception in 1995. As the inventor of online chat for brands, Rob disrupted the way people communicate with companies around the world, removing the need for 1-800 numbers, long wait times, and endlessly scanning websites for information. In 2016, Rob again led the company to the forefront of conversational commerce by making it easy for consumers to connect with brands on messaging via platforms including SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat, Facebook Messenger, and even brand apps and websites.  Rob's mission is to inspire and help others who are on that same path. LivePerson, currently serves over 18,000 clients, with 1,200 employees worldwide. Beyond his decades of work at LivePerson, Rob's interests extend past his business and reflect his close ties to New York City and his journey as an entrepreneur and humanitarian.

Do you know what your “Say – Do” ratio is?

Fascinating conversation about service management with practitioner, Kevin Bollom. Kevin is vice president of Quality and Customer Experience for Trane Technologies’ Commercial HVAC Americas business – which goes to market as Trane®. Kevin is responsible for transforming customer experience to achieve a new level of customer satisfaction. His team is responsible for Trane’s customer satisfaction program, quality improvement efforts across all business processes and the technical support teams.  A more than 20-year veteran of the company, Kevin most recently led Trane’s Services business, delivering growth and new technology across North America.  
Before joining Trane, Kevin worked for Medtronic, Inc. within the medical device field and with Kimberly-Clark within the consumer products field.

Tabitha Dunn currently serves as Head of Global Customer Experience for Hitachi. In this role she is driving a best-in-class class, customer-centric transformation that will improve the customer and employee experience while creating efficiencies, increasing revenue and business scalability. Previously, she served as Chief Customer Officer of Ericsson and has previously built five global, B2B customer experience programs focused on delivering value and positive impact for customers, employees, and the business. With 20+ years of experience as a leader in the CX field, Tabitha also serves on the Board of Directors for the Customer Experience Professionals Association as Vice-Chair in 2022 and is the incoming Board Chair for 2023. She is also a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP).

John Miller is the author of the million-selling QBQ! The Question Behind the Question book.  He’s also the founder of QBQ, Inc., an organizational development firm dedicated to helping people and organizations make personal accountability a core value. Through his writings, speaking, and a nationwide network of certified distributors, John has brought his message to countless organizations.  John invested a decade selling leadership and sales management training before becoming an author. His content was developed facilitating over 10,000 hours of training inside corporations from all industries. A 1980 graduate of Cornell University, John now lives in Denver, CO with his wife, Karen. They have six daughters, one son, and 12 grandchildren. 

Eryc Eyl is a speaker, coach, and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in making work more human in a variety of industries and organizations. He believes in a world in which work is more than just a four-letter word, but part of path to greater satisfaction, fulfillment, self-actualization, and flourishing. Eryc is also a storyteller, playwright, and DJ. His first book, Stop Engaging Employees: Start Making Work More Human, was published in January 2024. 

Greg Melia, CEO of the Customer Experience Professionals Association joins Bob Azman for a discussion on the work being done to define CX. We also discuss the great work underway in revising the CXPA vision and mission as it works towards being a more global and inclusive association. 

Jeff Rosenblum is a cofounder of Questus, a digital advertising agency that has worked with many of the world’s most influential brands, including American Express, Apple, Capital One, Disney, The NFL, Samsung, Starbucks, Universal, Wyndham and Verizon. Jeff created a groundbreaking documentary about the advertising revolution called The Naked Brand and the book Friction which explained how passion brands are built. Jeff has lectured at some of the top universities in the world, including Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and the London Business School. He has won some of advertising’s most prestigious awards and presented at many of the industry’s largest conferences.

As a certified customer experience professional (CCXP), Andrea Krohnberg thrives on transforming insights into actions, teams into ambassadors, and customers into advocates. Currently, she’s building a customer experience (CX) practice within a global staffing organization. And in previous roles she established and grew a CX discipline at a leading nonprofit, was a CX consultant to Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries and a senior manager at a global hospitality company.

Best of summer replay!! 
If you missed it the first time, now’s your chance to hear the top leadership thinker in the world! 
Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the past eight years. Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 36 books, including three New York Times bestsellers, that have sold over 2.5 million copies and been listed bestseller in 12 countries. His books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers have been recognized by Amazon.com as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.

Named one of the 6 top personal branding experts in 2022 by The American Reporter, Carol Kaemmerer is also a professional speaker and author of the award-winning book: LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive: Promote Your Brand with Authenticity, Tact and Power. Published in it’s 2nd Edition in 2021, Carol’s book has won multiple awards including BookAuthority’s Best LinkedIn Books of All Time award, two awards from International Book Awards, and has been selected by The C-Suite Network as one of the top 100+ Best Business Books. Carol specializes in strategies for using LinkedIn as a personal branding and business development tool. In addition to her one-on-one executive branding work with senior leaders, Carol is a popular speaker and member of the National Speakers Association.

Gavin Scott is a Customer Experience expert. He has been delivering inspirational and entertaining seminars and workshops since 2009. He has over 20 years’ experience working in fast-paced market leading organisations, with key responsibilities ranging from managing tactical contact centre environments, to delivering forward thinking development interventions to all levels. Gavin has recently published his first book, “Finding Gold Dust” on how to create exceptional customer experiences. The book was launched in December 2020 and achieved “Number One Best Seller” status in three categories on Amazon, one of which was Customer Services. Gavin is a member of the CIPD and holds a Certificate in Training Practice as well as a degree in Business Management. He is also a member of the Professional Speakers Association and is a full member of this association. 

Diane Magers and Michael Hinshaw, authors of the new book, Experience Rules, join me on this episode of the podcast. 

Michael is the founder and president of customer experience consultancy McorpCX and recognized on over a dozen "Top Global CX Influencers" lists. He's also co-author of the best-selling books Smart Customers, Stupid Companies: Why Only Intelligent Companies Will Thrive, and How to Be One of Them, and Experience Rules! The Experience Operating System (XOS) and 8 Keys to Enable It, with Diane Magers. 

Diane is a seasoned executive and change catalyst in Experience Management. Founder and CEO of Experience Catalysts. Chair Emeritus and former CEO of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. With a master’s in clinical psychology and an MBA, coupled with certifications in various aspects of experience management, Diane’s goal is to drive meaningful change and foster lasting relationships in our community, for brands and their customers, employees, and partners for aligned purpose and outcomes.

Valentin Radu is the CEO & Founder of Omniconvert. He leverages his industry expertise at Omniconvert — his SaaS company that provides growth solutions to mid-size eCommerce websites looking to become customer-centric. Omniconvert helps eCommerce companies find hidden gems in their data, improve Customer Lifetime Value and Customer Retention & deliver personalized customer experiences across all channels. Before anything else — Valentin Radu is a persevering experimenter. He has gone through various jobs, companies, and entrepreneurial ventures before identifying customers' real needs and defining the perfect go-to-market strategy. Nowadays, he is a Customer Value Optimization evangelist and international speaker, defining a new category and helping retailers grow.

Roy Atkinson is one of the most recognized thought leaders in IT, service management, and customer experience, and serves as CEO, Clifton Butterfield, LLC, a business advisory practice. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation and a 2021 member of HDI’s Strategic Advisory Board. He was described by CIO Insight as a "model for the future digital leader." He is one of HDI’s “Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management for 2021.” Nextiva named him one of the "Top 50 Customer Service Experts of the Decade 2010-2020" and SurveySensum included him in its list of “Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020.” He was HDI's 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. He holds a masters certificate in advanced management strategy from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business.

Current CXPA board members: Stacey Nevel, Sebastien Munar and Jayalakshmi Sudarshan join me to discuss the current areas of focus for this year's board and the state of CX, globally.