WOW-24-7

Chris Rojas, Head of U.S. Customer Service at Raisin, shares insights on transforming customer support teams from cost centers into value creators. He discusses building customer-centric operations, aligning stakeholders on service goals, and leveraging qualitative and data-driven approaches. He also highlights AI’s role in empowering agents, not replacing them, and stresses robust agent support to foster trust and reduce turnover.

Patrick Martin, Coveo's EVP of Customer Experience, delves into crafting a seamless customer journey. He stresses consistency across touchpoints, directly impacting a company’s bottom line. Martin draws from a PwC study, highlighting the costs of subpar experiences and the need to adapt to evolving customer demands. AI's integration in service, alongside human agents, is explored, focusing on guided resolutions and future channel efficiencies. The discussion extends to sustaining this excellence even with outsourced support, ensuring a frictionless customer experience end-to-end.

Patrick Martin, Coveo's EVP of Customer Experience, delves into crafting a seamless customer journey. He stresses consistency across touchpoints, directly impacting a company’s bottom line. Martin draws from a PwC study, highlighting the costs of subpar experiences and the need to adapt to evolving customer demands. AI's integration in service, alongside human agents, is explored, focusing on guided resolutions and future channel efficiencies. The discussion extends to sustaining this excellence even with outsourced support, ensuring a frictionless customer experience end-to-end.

Patrick Martin, Coveo's EVP of Customer Experience, delves into crafting a seamless customer journey. He stresses consistency across touchpoints, directly impacting a company’s bottom line. Martin draws from a PwC study, highlighting the costs of subpar experiences and the need to adapt to evolving customer demands. AI's integration in service, alongside human agents, is explored, focusing on guided resolutions and future channel efficiencies. The discussion extends to sustaining this excellence even with outsourced support, ensuring a frictionless customer experience end-to-end.

Candace Wallace, the Chief Customer Officer at Relias, discusses the importance of advocating for downward customer satisfaction (CSAT) trends and other key metrics in key customer interactions. Candace emphasizes scaling with self-service and technology, personalized experiences, and understanding customer behavior. She stresses the impact of focusing on complex cases and enhancing the digital experience on satisfaction and business outcomes. Additionally, Candace highlights the role of agent satisfaction and company culture in delivering exceptional experiences and reducing turnover.

Candace Wallace, the Chief Customer Officer at Relias, discusses the importance of advocating for downward customer satisfaction (CSAT) trends and other key metrics in key customer interactions. Candace emphasizes scaling with self-service and technology, personalized experiences, and understanding customer behavior. She stresses the impact of focusing on complex cases and enhancing the digital experience on satisfaction and business outcomes. Additionally, Candace highlights the role of agent satisfaction and company culture in delivering exceptional experiences and reducing turnover.

Candace Wallace, the Chief Customer Officer at Relias, discusses the importance of advocating for downward customer satisfaction (CSAT) trends and other key metrics in key customer interactions. Candace emphasizes scaling with self-service and technology, personalized experiences, and understanding customer behavior. She stresses the impact of focusing on complex cases and enhancing the digital experience on satisfaction and business outcomes. Additionally, Candace highlights the role of agent satisfaction and company culture in delivering exceptional experiences and reducing turnover.

Pat Ferdig, Chief Customer Officer at 441 Locals, highlights the need to address systematic resistance to sub-par performance. He points to the crucial role in driving growth and advocates reframing contact centers as pivotal to company expansion, not just cost centers. He stresses a human-centric approach, including listening to agents and integrating them into cross-functional teams. Pat asserts that organizations can enhance performance and success by showcasing the contact center's value in improving customer experience and revenue growth.

Steve Kaay, Contact Center Consultant at Kaay Enterprises LLC and an industry veteran with 30+ years, challenges the belief that outsourcing diminishes quality. He advocates for outsourcing's potential to enhance customer interactions by selecting the right BPO partner and investing in agent training. He also stresses the importance of culture and trust in outsourcing relationships. This discussion redefines outsourcing perceptions, offering crucial insights for businesses contemplating customer interface outsourcing.

Steve Kaay, Contact Center Consultant at Kaay Enterprises LLC and an industry veteran with 30+ years, challenges the belief that outsourcing diminishes quality. He advocates for outsourcing's potential to enhance customer interactions by selecting the right BPO partner and investing in agent training. He also stresses the importance of culture and trust in outsourcing relationships. This discussion redefines outsourcing perceptions, offering crucial insights for businesses contemplating customer interface outsourcing.

Steve Kaay, Contact Center Consultant at Kaay Enterprises LLC and an industry veteran with 30+ years, challenges the belief that outsourcing diminishes quality. He advocates for outsourcing's potential to enhance customer interactions by selecting the right BPO partner and investing in agent training. He also stresses the importance of culture and trust in outsourcing relationships. This discussion redefines outsourcing perceptions, offering crucial insights for businesses contemplating customer interface outsourcing.

Andreas Janssen, CEO at Blauband GmbH, discusses human intelligence in customer support on the Contact Center Prospectus podcast. He stresses AI's role in enhancing processes but emphasizes human agents' irreplaceable abilities in personalized customer experiences. He also highlights customer support's strategic value for growth and satisfaction, urging businesses to prioritize it beyond a cost-centered mindset.

Patrick Martin, Coveo's EVP of Customer Experience, delves into crafting a seamless customer journey. He stresses consistency across touchpoints, directly impacting a company’s bottom line. Martin draws from a PwC study, highlighting the costs of subpar experiences and the need to adapt to evolving customer demands. AI's integration in service, alongside human agents, is explored, focusing on guided resolutions and future channel efficiencies. The discussion extends to sustaining this excellence even with outsourced support, ensuring a frictionless customer experience end-to-end.

Patrick Martin, Coveo's EVP of Customer Experience, delves into crafting a seamless customer journey. He stresses consistency across touchpoints, directly impacting a company’s bottom line. Martin draws from a PwC study, highlighting the costs of subpar experiences and the need to adapt to evolving customer demands. AI's integration in service, alongside human agents, is explored, focusing on guided resolutions and future channel efficiencies. The discussion extends to sustaining this excellence even with outsourced support, ensuring a frictionless customer experience end-to-end.

Neil Dlin, Founder of Chorus Tree and the VP, Customer Service Experience at Aviso Wealth, critiques the outdated practices of 2024 contact centers, advocating for a shift from a manufacturing-based model to a human-centered approach. He stresses the need to understand employees and customers as individuals, challenges outdated KPIs, and underscores the importance of trust in agent interactions. He also advocates for a redefinition of metrics to place a stronger emphasis on delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Shareth Ben, Chief Customer Officer at Apptega, shares insights on executing customer success strategies in large organizations. He emphasizes the role of change management, internal collaboration, and data-driven decision-making in driving competitive advantage. He also highlights the importance of aligning internal processes to enhance customer outcomes and productivity.

Anne-Sophie Engert, Head of Customer Care and Conversion at Sonova, stresses why boards should invest in contact centers by showcasing their potential to drive profits through superior customer experience. She explains that metrics such as CSAT, NPS, and repeat purchase rates measure success and demonstrate the financial return on investing in customer care. She also advises aligning agent traits with customer profiles to boost empathy and service quality.

Thomas Lehner, Director of Global Support and Operations at Spryker, shares his journey from entrepreneur to global leader in customer experience. He emphasizes the role of an entrepreneurial mindset in fostering innovation, sustainable value, and effective feedback loops for continuous improvement. He also discusses the importance of aligning product development with evolving customer needs.

Vivian Malandrin, Senior Manager of Customer Experience at Amazon Brazil, explains how customer obsession fuels Amazon's continued success. She emphasizes the company’s strong culture and leadership principles that prioritize customer needs. She also describes how real-time feedback and anecdotes drive innovation and improvements.

Neelam Sandhu, Former Chief Elite Customer Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, & SVP Sustainability, shares insights on transforming sales strategies to focus on customer success. She discusses aligning sales with customer-centric approaches, the impact of technology on relationships, and key strategies for long-term engagement. Prioritizing customer success fosters sustainable growth.

Sri Velamoor, Vice President of Global Support and Product Enablement at Workiva, discusses the importance of customer experience as a revenue growth driver. He emphasizes the necessity of addressing customers' emotional needs by aligning his concepts with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. He also illustrates how exceptional customer experience can provide companies with a competitive edge, fostering growth by delighting customers and addressing their higher-level needs.

Madelene Motin, Head of Customer Service at STRONGER, shares her extensive experience in customer service. She explains how customer service can evolve from a cost center to a growth driver. She shares examples of leveraging customer feedback, proactive strategies, and cross-department collaboration. She also highlights transforming customer service into a strategic asset by focusing on satisfaction, revenue growth, and employee empowerment.

Harini Gokul, Chief Customer Officer at Entrust, discusses how contact centers drive growth and impact the business's bottom-line revenue. She emphasizes customer engagement and proactive problem-solving and challenges the view of contact centers as cost centers. She also discusses changing mindsets, the importance of agent turnover, AI's impact on agent roles and thought leadership in contact centers.

Tracey Virtue, Chief Customer Officer at NeoGov, highlights transforming contact centers into a competitive edge, primarily as vital customer feedback sources for other departments. With a wide range of her own experiences within other departments, Tracey underscores contact centers' holistic impact, aiding organizational growth. She stresses frontline staff investment, empowering excellent service, and nurturing a positive culture.

Lauren Volpe, Chief Customer Experience Officer at Zip Co, emphasizes reframing contact centers from cost centers to value-added assets, highlighting AI's impact on enhancing the experiences of agents and customers. She shares insights from testing AI applications, stresses clear communication about AI benefits with agents, and underscores data analysis for performance improvement. Trust, empowerment, and focusing on the middle customer segment are also discussed to reduce agent turnover and drive revenue growth.

Gemma DePalma is the COO of Foria, a company focused on bringing more pleasure to more people through products that address female intimate well-being. With a background in R&D, product development, supply chain, and logistics, Gemma brings a holistic perspective to customer happiness. She joined Foria five years ago as the Director of Supply Chain and now oversees the entire product lifecycle, including customer happiness.

Florian Schröder, Head of Customer Success at Stepstone, Europe’s largest online recruiting company. Florian shares his insights on the importance of customer success in this episode. With years of experience in the field, Florian discusses how he has helped elevate customer experience to a key performance indicator at Stepstone. Explore Florian's approaches to transforming the image of contact centers from cost centers to value centers that directly impact bottom-line revenue.

Florian Schröder, Head of Customer Success at Stepstone, Europe’s largest online recruiting company. Florian shares his insights on the importance of customer success in this episode. With years of experience in the field, Florian discusses how he has helped elevate customer experience to a key performance indicator at Stepstone. Explore Florian's approaches to transforming the image of contact centers from cost centers to value centers that directly impact bottom-line revenue.