Dennis Wakabayashi

CX In The Wild

Business EN ↓ 144 episodes

The podcast goes where the work is happening. Dennis talks to the people crafting the best customer experiences and tackling important industry challenges. On location, across sectors, across the world. What they figured out, what it cost them, celebrate their success, and learn what they would do differently. 

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Dennis Wakabayashi

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Business

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www.denniswakabayashi.com

Latest episode

Dec 4, 2025

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Episodes

GPT changes customer service in 2023 23.01.2023

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we dive into the ever-evolving world of customer experiences and explore the ways in which technology, specifically GPT, is revolutionizing the customer care industry.  My guest, Aakrit Prasad, Co-founder of AptEdge, shares his expert insights on how GPT can be leveraged to streamline internal communication, prevent customer escalations and increase agent efficien...

Why are chat windows so important in CX today? 15.12.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Jonathan Williams, the Founder & CEO of Chat Inc., as we uncover the power of social messaging as a new interface for businesses to engage with customers and customers to engage with brands. We also discuss the multidimensional aspects of conversational interfaces that enable more effective communication than pure text messaging. 

Is it time to cut negativity out and get back to trusting friends and family on what to buy? 10.12.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Eric Colbert, the Co-Founder of Vouch Vault, as we expose the flaws and false trends of ratings and reviews. We discuss how positivity and authenticity while leveraging social media can reshape and constructively impact the recommendations space.  

Can a symbiosis between creativity and strategy be achieved in business today to impact CX intentionally? 01.12.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Carl Riley, the founder of Riley Group Inc., as we uncover how powerful the often undervalued toolbox of the creative community is in business. We highlight how visual designers, especially, tackle the unspoken psychology of human beings and the potential impact of discovering the connections between great CX insights and experience design.  

How much do you attribute your success to the success of your customers? 29.11.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Andy Schulkind, the Vice President of Customer Experience at Domino North America, as we dig into the significance of relationships and trust in all industries.  We'll take you on a fascinating journey into the world of serialization of consumer product goods and life sciences and scaling identification in the physical world. 

Are you ready to engage your frontline employees and democratize process improvement? 21.11.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Bob Keleher, the Director of Strategic Sales at ProcedureFlow, as we dive into the significance and evolution of knowledge management in CX. We discuss how making processes and procedures more visual can enable people to get what they need quicker, thereby elevating CX significantly. When frontline workers and executives work from the same visual workflow, gaps are fil...

CX in the Wild: Season 1 Recap 01.11.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I elaborate on insights from the people I spoke with, what I found interesting about them, my inner thoughts, and behind-the-scenes input from season 1 of CX in the Wild.  

What are the key ingredients to be on the frontier of the unknown? 28.10.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Michael Lawder, the Chief Experience Officer at ASAPP, as we delve into the great significance of building CX cultures that normalize the unknown and empower teams to solve problems together anchored by a unified purpose. 

Have you taken the time to deeply understand how people work? 26.10.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Macario Namie, the Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at ASAPP, as we talk about how machine learning and other AI disciplines can help make people twice as productive in the work they do.

Is there a place for kindness in today's business world? 21.10.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Emily Gray, the Chief Customer Officer at Playvox, as we dive into the concept of intentional kindness. We unearth the notion of leading with kindness, knowing that kindness is not weakness. Shifting toward a balance in authenticity, being present, having a listening ear, and having the capacity to share is the key to transforming CX. 

Are you ready to move beyond responding to service requests to coaching and guiding customers in areas of their interest? 18.10.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and the CEO at eGain Corporation, Ashu Roy, as we discuss the evolution of digital customer service in the information economy. 

Can you imagine a world where we all speak with a single voice? 14.10.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I speak with the pioneering innovators behind Sanas. AI, Sharath Keshava Narayana and Marty Massih Sarim.  This pioneering duo recently developed a revolutionary real-time accent translation platform that bridges the gap between countries and cultures around the world in a way never before possible. Truly one of the more important business transformations of all time. 

Are you underestimating the future and overestimating the past? 22.09.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and the Head of Design (Client Experience) at H&R Block, Andrew Clark, as we discuss how to be tangibly present to better design impactful experiences. 

Are outcomes for people still the heartbeat of the CX you provide? 13.09.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and the VP of Customer Experience at Dominion Energy, Utibe Bassey, as we discuss how our perception of ourselves and others affects how we provide experiences. 

Will banks become the data handlers of the future? 30.08.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join me and EVP / Head of Group Marketing & CX at Emirates NBD, Vikram Krishna, as we look into the future of banking. The knowledge unearthed in this podcast is invaluable, especially to businesses wanting to take their whole product experience and innovation agenda to the next level. 

What tasks make it extra challenging for contact centers to communicate with customers? 25.08.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join the Co-Founder of Aportio, Susan Nemeth, and me as we discuss their company's fascinating mission of taking away the things machines can do so that humans can prioritize thinking, solving problems, and serving customers. 

Would you pioneer an enterprise in an untapped foreign marketplace? 16.08.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join the CEO & Founder of MVision, Maury Noun, and me as we discuss the fascinating BPO industry birthed in Lebanon, primarily employing uniquely skilled women in the middle east amidst significant inflation. 

Are employees still treated as non-humans and commodities in your industry? 09.08.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join Founder & CEO of Zizo technologies, Jimmy Chebat, and me as we explore how to revolutionize workforce management through gamification - keeping employees engaged and having fun to reduce attrition and unite humans with the technologies they use. 

Are you starting from the wrong end of CX management? 02.08.2022

Send us Fan Mail Join top CX & SQ Consultant Marc Karschies and me as we discuss the three essential components to carefully consider when designing experiences - PERSONA, EMOTIONAL STATE, and SITUATION. 

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