Customer Experience Keynote

Lovemark? Infusing your brand with Mystery, Sensuality and Intimacy

Here’s an exercise: try going one day without seeing an advertising message. OK, how about an hour? Marketing messages are ubiquitous, appearing in unexpected places like the bottoms of golf holes. Every business talks to customers, but what makes that chatter banal or brilliant? Introduced by the global advertising network Saatchi & Saatchi in the…

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Southwest Airlines’ Transformative Customer Experience Differentiation: Insights from Bill Tierney VP of Customer & Digital Experience (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about transforming your customer experience. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact

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Southwest Airlines’ Transformative Customer Experience Differentiation: Insights from Bill Tierney VP of Customer & Digital Experience

In today’s rapidly evolving, technology-driven, and human-centered business landscape, the role of customer experience (CX) has never been more critical. Thanks to sponsorship from a leading provider of customer-engagement and technology-aided business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, iQor, I caught up with Bill Tierney, the Vice President of Customer Experience and Digital Experience at Southwest Airlines—a…

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Strengthening Teams Through Recognition (Inforgraphic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about strengthening your team through recognition. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact

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Navigating Challenges: Lessons from Starbucks’ Recent Performance Miss (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about navigating challenges in a customer-centric way. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact

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Navigating Challenges: Lessons from Starbucks’ Recent Performance Miss

Starbucks Author and Consultant As someone who worked with Starbucks leadership when Howard Schultz was at the helm and since I’ve authored two books about the company (The Starbucks Experience and Leading the Starbucks Way), I look to the brand for lessons in prosperous and challenging times. This appears to be a season of challenge…

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The Art of pARTnership: Maximizing Win/Wins (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about ways to establish and sustain “win/win” partnerships. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact  

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The Art of pARTnership: Maximizing Win/Wins

I ran across this quote while researching a book that will be released in 2025 (more on that soon). The quote credited to Mother Teresa is: “I can do things you cannot; you can do things I cannot, and together, we can do great things.” Since the leaders I am writing about are exceptionally skilled…

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It’s Not a Sprint – It’s a Marathon: Balancing/Strengthening/Resting for Peak Performance (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about maximizing purposeful rest to drive sustained high performance. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact

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It Isn’t “Small” Talk: How to Build Rapport with Customers and Team Members

In business and life, “small talk” is an essential skill that produces “big results.” Mastering small talk is crucial for turning everyday interactions into deeper engagement and relationship-building opportunities. As a socially awkward teenager (quite frankly, who wasn’t), mentors taught me that small talk is less about “talking” and more about demonstrating “a genuine interest…

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