CX Insider - Customer experience leaders sharing insights and ideas for customer service success

Crystal D'Cunha, award-winning customer experience leadership coach, Chief Experience Officer at The Inside View, Inc., mother, role model. In this episode, Crystal walks Valentina through her 7-step leadership training program, which recently won the gold award at the 2021 International Stevie Awards. She also gives inspirational advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. Connect with Crystal - https://ww...

This is not an easy question. Greg and Valentina interviewed Bruno Pešec, a business consultant, and compared the most significant obstructions traditional banks face on the journey of digitalization. Bruno talks in detail about the common causes for digital dropouts, the emphasis on psychological safety, and why traditional banks have lower customer satisfaction than their digital rivals. Check o...

Greg and Alessia attended this year's Branch Transformation and interviewed industry experts to bring you insights from the event. Branch Transformation is the world's leading conference dedicated to branch design, customer experience and strategy-driven transformation. A high-quality speaker programme forms the core of this two-day event, packed with thought-provoking case studies from leading ba...

Paula Thomas, a customer loyalty expert and the podcast host of Let's Talk Loyalty, talks about the dos and don'ts when building loyalty programs. We discuss the latest Bond Loyalty Report, which introduced a new metric to predict customer spending. Greg and Paula share their favourite loyalty programs implemented by famous coffee makers.    Find out more about Paula: https://letstalkloyalty.com/

46% of job seekers say that company culture is very important when applying for a job. Stuart Anderson, a Clientelling & Service Consultant at Selfridges, advises on how to help your employees adapt to your culture, implement a cultural change and what to do if your team is resistant to change. Is it okay to reject a candidate who is not a cultural fit? What does it mean anyway? Valentina addresse...

Allison Hartsoe, Founder & CEO of Ambition Data, shares her experiences as a female leader in the technology industry. She talks about the difficulties and challenges she has faced as a CEO and as a woman in business. Valentina addresses burning topics like gender biases in the workplace and the pressure on women to chase their careers and focus on their families. The host of the Customer Equity A...

Michael Solomon, a Professor of Marketing at St Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, adapts traditional marketing techniques to the needs of postmodern consumers, the new chameleons. Michael advises CX leaders on how to connect with consumers who do everything they can to escape stereotypically targeted campaigns. Valentina's questions a shift to future technological advancements - humanoid robots...

Sergio Feo, Director of Customer Experience, started working for Pibank, a challenger bank based in Spain, in 2017. In this episode, he shares their story of becoming one of the top banks with the highest customer satisfaction. Feo emphasizes the importance of creating a strong value proposition that guides major corporate decisions and acts as the building block in gaining trust with customers. V...

Why are vision and mission statements often so overlooked? Most companies have them, but employees often don't even know what they are. Jose Herrera, Co-Founder and CEO of Hire Horatio, talks about the importance of these branding components when delivering satisfactory customer experience. We also cover the most discussed topics, such as balancing technology and the human touch or the best practi...

In episode 53, Valentina speaks to Dan Gingiss, an international keynote speaker, author of an upcoming book, The Experience Maker and a podcaster of The Experience This! Show. Dan believes that generations appreciate authentic brand voice and reward businesses that build relationships with their customers. He elaborates on the future of CX and advises aspiring marketing professionals who aim to b...

Ben Segal, Senior Director of CX at Pair Eyewear, shares the CX story of Freshly, a NY-based meal delivery company. Building a CX program from zero in a hyper-growth company is a tough challenge. Ben describes what he did to achieve a successful outcome and what he is doing differently at Pair Eyewear.  Connect with Ben on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminwsegal777/ 

Steve Anderson, an expert in strategic risk and business growth, professional speaker and author of the Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow your Business like Amazon. The principles were originally extracted from Bezos’s annual letters to shareholders, further analysed and split into 14 different principles which create repeatable growth cycles. Some of the principles are explained in detail in t...

CX Insider celebrates its 50th episode! Valentina, Greg, Adam, Simon and Antonio sit together and reflect on the most entertaining episodes they have recorded. From the very first episode, the podcast has been through a massive transformation. They take the listeners behind the scenes and talk about how the concept of podcasting started and gradually evolved.  01:30 - Where did the idea come from?...

Is it too late? Will video still be the most popular channel in the post-pandemic world? Stuart Fearn, Head of Customer Contact at Newcastle Building Society, believes it will. Before the pandemic, he had never thought that video could be a way to connect with customers. Stuart explains how this solution became an integral part of their customer success strategy.  Stuart's LinkedIn Profile - https...

Paul Rutter, Cruise & Entertainment Director, tells adventurous stories about his lifelong experience in the cruise industry. Having been working in CX for almost 40 years, Paul teaches business leaders how to deliver More Than Perfect service and explains why perfect experience is only the starting point. Valentina guides her listeners through Paul's stories with an engaging commentary and euphon...

Salman Sharif, a senior CX advisor from Forrester, talks to Valentina about employee experience and its relationship with customer experience. He explains why EX plays an integral part in delivering great CX and predicts post-pandemic challenges which are likely to affect your business.  Check out Salman's LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/salman-hammad-sharif-fcxp-cx-ii-1069b0a/ 01:4...

This week's episode is entirely focused on the Banking industry. Brian Kale, Director of Customer Success at Bank NOVO, defines customer success and discusses how banks should innovate their services. Valentina asks Brian about the evolution of customer success, and Adam leads a conversation on the security of personal data. Brian also addresses the fact that soon, customers can expect to talk to...

Antonio Maiorano talks to Valentina and Adam about the best practices to measure and evaluate customer experience using mystery shopping. He explains how mystery shopping and crowdsourcing can help you achieve different objectives. Antonio also mentions one of the biggest challenges CX leaders face: evaluating objective feedback.  Antonio's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-maiorano/ B...

John King, a property specialist, shares his views on the shift towards customer-centricity in the property market over the past decades. Is customer experience the same in every industry? John's ideas show an entirely different perspective on CX as you know it. He also talks about emotions and conflict resolution in fragile situations.  Connect with John King on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/...

Katie Stabler, a customer service recovery specialist, explains why companies should normalise failure and plan to fail in order to succeed. Greg speaks to Katie about the adoption of CX in the not-for-profit sector, and Valentina talks about her unfortunate attempt to return clothes via home pick-up service. Start planning for failure using Katie's 6-step framework which you will find in the epis...

Jan Uriga says the three most important aspects leaders need to focus on are the corporate culture, technology innovation and the customer. Without these, no business strategy can deliver CX excellence. Valentina and Greg ask Jan to elaborate on the interplay of these key areas and what to do when companies fall into the trap of the technology paradox.  Visit Jan's LinkedIn profile - https://www.l...

Gustavo Imhof, a CX consultant, talks to Valentina and Greg about the most common CX misconceptions he has come across during his career. Gustavo comes with thought-provoking statements, seemingly paradoxical at first glance. For example, advising CX strategists not to be customer-centric. To find out more about what Gustavo does, visit his profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/headofcustomerexperi...

Countries around the world have started using COVID-19 passports for international travel. Some of them use it domestically. What does it mean for businesses? Will pubs require vaccine passports from their customers? Valentina, Simon and Lawrence discuss the pros and cons of this certificate.

Fabrice Martin joined the second episode dedicated to artificial intelligence in customer feedback analysis. Valentina and Simon speculate why the traditional methodologies of collecting customer feedback sometimes fail to bring actionable insights. They also address the big question: Will AI make humans redundant? Connect with Fabrice Martin on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinfabrice...

Valentina, Greg and Chhavi Singh discuss various methodologies of collecting and analysing customer feedback data. We also speak about the current technological advancements creating actionable insights to improve your customer experience strategy. For more information, connect with Chhavi Singh on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chhavi-singh/ or visit his company website - https://www.viwo...