Punk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Paul Adams who is the SVP of Product at Intercom, which helps brands build their customer relationships through conversational, messenger-based experiences across the customer journey. Paul joins me today to talk about putting proactive support back on the agenda, what proactive support means for support teams, what’s stopping support teams getting started and the future of service and experience amongst a few other things. This interview follows on from my recent interview – The difference and relationship between emotion, empathy and emotional intelligence in customer experience – Interview with Sandra Thompson – and is number 362 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees.

Today’s interview is with Sandra Thompson, a published consultant, lecturer, course leader and trainer in the field of customer experience, emotional intelligence and, more recently, remote work. Sandra joins me today to discuss emotion, empathy and emotional intelligence in customer experience, the need for and value of empathy, the difference and relationship between emotion, empathy and emotional intelligence, why empathy and emotional intelligence is needed now more than ever, the role of technology and culture in all of that and if there is any downsides to all of this. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Language is the most basic form of personalisation and it plays a huge role in a customer’s experience – Interview with Allison McDougall of Amplexor – and is number 361 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at Pegasystems for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month. Join Pega for a series of free online events focused on shaping the future of business and designing today’s tech to solve for tomorrow’s challenges. Whether your focus is one-to-one customer engagement, customer service, or intelligent automation, there’s a virtual event tailored just for you. You’ll watch live demos and hear inspiring stories from world-leading organizations in a time-zone that suits you. Register for a free Pega Discover event today.

Today’s interview is with Allison McDougall who is the SVP of Global Revenue at Amplexor, a leading digital solution provider offering global compliance, digital experience and content solutions. Allison joins me today to talk about language, culture and what it takes to deliver a great customer experience when operating across borders or across multiple languages and cultures. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Our leadership impact is really about how we show up and who we are – Interview with Anese Cavanaugh – and is number 360 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at Pegasystems for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month. Join Pega for a series of free online events focused on shaping the future of business and designing today’s tech to solve for tomorrow’s challenges. Whether your focus is one-to-one customer engagement, customer service, or intelligent automation, there’s a virtual event tailored just for you. You’ll watch live demos and hear inspiring stories from world-leading organizations in a time-zone that suits you. Register for a free Pega Discover event today.

Today’s interview is with Anese Cavanaugh, creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®), an advisor and thinking partner to leaders and organizations around the world, a keynote speaker, and author of the books Contagious Culture and Contagious You. She joins me today to talk about showing up, leadership, the IEP Method, what we can learn from it and how it can help us deliver better service and experience outcomes. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Why we are building the Women In CX community – Interview with Clare Muscutt – and is number 359 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at Pegasystems for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month. Join Pega for a series of free online events focused on shaping the future of business and designing today’s tech to solve for tomorrow’s challenges. Whether your focus is one-to-one customer engagement, customer service, or intelligent automation, there’s a virtual event tailored just for you. You’ll watch live demos and hear inspiring stories from world-leading organizations in a time-zone that suits you. Register for a free Pega Discover event today.

Today’s interview is with Clare Muscutt who is recognised as one of the most prominent and valued millennial voices in CX, an international consultant, keynote speaker and soon to be the author of the book ‘How to be Awesome at CX’’. She is also the leader of the Women in the CX community and host of the podcast ‘Inspiring Women in CX.’ She joins me today to talk about her Women in CX community, how it came about, why it is need and how to get involved. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Customer success (CS) = Customer experience (CX) + Customer outcomes (CO) – Interview with Nick Mehta of Gainsight – and is number 358 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at Pegasystems for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month. Join Pega for a series of free online events focused on shaping the future of business and designing today's tech to solve for tomorrow's challenges. Whether your focus is one-to-one customer engagement, customer service, or intelligent automation, there’s a virtual event tailored just for you. You'll watch live demos and hear inspiring stories from world-leading organizations in a time-zone that suits you. Register for a free Pega Discover event today.

Today’s interview is with Nick Mehta CEO of Gainsight, a customer success technology provider that helps businesses retain customers and drive company growth. Nick joins me today to talk about his new book, The Customer Success Economy: Why Every Aspect of Your Business Model Needs A Paradigm Shift, what customer success is, why it is going to become increasingly important to organizations given the current climate and pressures that many firms are going to start to face, what are the benefits and what customer experience and success leaders need to be doing to survive and thrive. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Experimentation is what makes Microsoft, Google, Netflix and Booking.com so successful – Interview with Harvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke – and is number 357 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees.

Today’s interview is with Stefan Thomke, who is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Stefan joins me today to talk about his new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments, what does experimentation mean, what does it look like, what are the benefits, why does it matter for customer service and experience leaders and practitioners. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Emerging leadership lessons from the pandemic and what we need from leaders now – Interview with Rachel Neaman – and is number 356 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees.

Today’s interview is with Rachel Neaman, a technology leader, Non-Executive Director, leadership mentor and coach with extensive experience in the technology, health, governmental, digital and not for profit fields. Rachel joins me today to talk about some of the organisational changes taking place that she has noticed over the last few months, some of the challenges facing us, how leadership has changed and why many female political leaders, in particular, have been so successful during this period. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Difficult conversations and building more inclusive and diverse organizations – Interview with Jenn Graham of Civic Dinners – and is number 355 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at Amplexor for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month. Amplexor is preparing to launch a really exciting virtual series called: Ignite Revenue Through Content which will feature leading speakers and thinkers in short, punchy and thought-provoking bi-monthly episodes exploring and highlighting insights and best practices of how to leverage Content as a strategic differentiator. It’ll run from August through mid-December and kicking it off on August 20th will be yours truly talking about “Unleash(ing) your Inner Punk: a Rebellious Take on Customer Engagement”. I think the session that we have organised will be awesome, it’s a real honour and I’m really looking forward to it. So, go to Amplexor.com to find out more and register.

Today’s interview is with Jenn Graham, Founder and CEO of Civic Dinners, who design and facilitate conversations on key topics that can help organizations build a more inclusive culture with employees, stakeholders, customers and the greater community. Jenn joins me today to talk about Civic Dinners, difficult conversations, what stops organizations having them, what are the benefits when they do tackle difficult subjects like discrimination and inequality, what they are doing to help and what we can learn from them. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Lessons learned from the move to remote working – Interview with Dean Robison of ServiceNow – and is number 354 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at Amplexor for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month. Amplexor is preparing to launch a really exciting virtual series called: Ignite Revenue Through Content which will feature leading speakers and thinkers in short, punchy and thought-provoking bi-monthly episodes exploring and highlighting insights and best practices of how to leverage Content as a strategic differentiator. It’ll run from August through mid-December and kicking it off on August 20th will be yours truly talking about “Unleash(ing) your Inner Punk: a Rebellious Take on Customer Engagement”. I think the session that we have organised will be awesome, it’s a real honour and I’m really looking forward to it. So, go to Amplexor.com to find out more and register.

Today’s interview is with Dean Robison who is the SVP of Global Technical Support at ServiceNow. Dean joins me today to talk about his experience of moving 1,000 employees spread out over 9 locations around the globe to remote working, his experience through the pandemic so far, what’s gone well, what’s not gone so well, what they have learned and what they are focusing on going forward. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Four key factors that are framing the challenges for organisations going forward – Interview with Jo Causon of The Institute of Customer Service – and is number 353 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at Amplexor for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month. Amplexor is preparing to launch a really exciting virtual series called: Ignite Revenue Through Content which will feature leading speakers and thinkers in short, punchy and thought-provoking bi-monthly episodes exploring and highlighting insights and best practices of how to leverage Content as a strategic differentiator. It’ll run from August through mid-December and kicking it off on August 20th will be yours truly talking about “Unleash(ing) your Inner Punk: a Rebellious Take on Customer Engagement”. I think the session that we have organised will be awesome, it’s a real honour and I’m really looking forward to it. So, go to Amplexor.com to find out more and register.