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👉Love customer experience and love travel? You’ve found the right podcast, a show about creating great customer experience, with a dash of travel talk. 🎤Each episode, we’ll talk with our guests about customer experience, travel, and just like the best journeys, explore new directions we never anticipated. Listen here or watch on YouTube youtube.com/@cxpassport 🗺️CX Passport is a podcast that purposely seeks out global Customer Experience voices to hear what's working well in CX, what are their challenges and to hear their Customer Experience stories. In addition, there's always a dash (or more!) of travel talk in each episode.🧳Hosted by Rick Denton, CX Passport will bring Customer Experience and industry leaders to get their best customer experience insights, stories and hear their tales from the road...whether it’s the one less traveled or the one on everyone’s summer trip list.
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I'm Rick Denton and I believe the best meals are served outside and require a passport
Music: Funk In The Trunk by Shane Ivers
CX Passport is a podcast for customer experience professionals that focuses on the stories, strategies, and solutions needed to create and deliver meaningful customer experiences. It features guests from the world of CX, including executives, consultants, and authors, who discuss their own experiences, tips, and insights. The podcast is designed to help CX professionals learn from each other, stay on top of the latest trends, and develop their own strategies for success.
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What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Gloria Gupta leads CX transformation at the American Medical Association. Not a small lift. Not a short-term initiative. A 200-year-old institution. 450 million in revenue. Physicians as customers. Patients as the ultimate impact. In this episode, Gloria shares what it really takes to unify service, build enterprise CX, and make customer experience a measurable attribute of brand and culture. 5 Key Insights • The AMA’s primary customer is the ph...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Technology is loud. Agentic AI. Automation. Platforms. Dashboards. Meanwhile, the person who greets the customer at the door still determines whether that experience succeeds. April Sabral spent more than 30 years leading over 350 physical retail stores. In this episode, she explains why the answers to better customer experience aren’t sitting in a conference room … they’re already in the field. And y'all will not want to miss the Starbucks name...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... CX to sin. Peak-end to forgiveness. Episode 250 won’t be what you’re used to. This milestone episode examines how experiences actually end, and why organizations avoid designing that moment. In a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Macleod, CX Passport connects customer experience to religion, environmental responsibility, shame, and the circular economy. The conversation challenges the idea that endings are merely operational details rather than em...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Metrics are useful. Until they become the destination instead of the signal. In this episode, Frances Chapireau joins CX Passport to talk about what happens after measurement. The conversation focuses on turning market research into insight and insight into decisions that actually influence the business. This is a practical discussion about dashboards, interpretation, and the discipline required to move beyond reporting. It is about understanding...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... B2B customer experience is often treated like B2C with bigger contracts and longer sales cycles. That shortcut causes real problems. In this episode, Rick talks with Kári Thor Runarsson about why B2B CX needs its own thinking, its own metrics, and far more attention to relationships that quietly drift long before renewal. Kári has spent his career in B2B, including startups and non-tech industries, questioning borrowed frameworks and shallow measur...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Customer experience doesn’t need to be complicated to work. In this CX Open To Work episode, Luis Carrillo shares why simpler CX creates immediate impact…for customers, teams, and the business. From removing friction to building trust, this conversation focuses on CX that actually works. 5 CX Insights from the Episode • Simpler CX delivers results customers, employees, and leaders can feel • Listening to customers beats guessing every time &n...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... What if customer experience isn’t fast, frictionless, or flashy…but deliberate, long-term, and built over years? Sarah Kinard talks about why CX in architecture, engineering, and construction is inherently slow CX…and why that perspective may be exactly what other industries need. 5 Insights from the Episode CX in AEC unfolds over years…not moments, journeys, or transactions.Clients aren’t just buying outcomes anymore…they’re buying clarity, foresi...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Welcome to part 2 of the annual CX Passport First Class Lounge Holiday Special. As the year wraps up and I look ahead with excitement to 2026, I’m sharing even more of my favorite First Class Lounge moments from earlier this year. This round features Doug Rabold, Irina Mateeva, Michel Stevens, and Tori Signorelli. Travel surprises, food loves, childhood “no thanks” dishes, and the must-have items they keep in their travel kits… it’s a fun way to ea...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Welcome to part 1 of the annual CX Passport holiday tradition… the 1st Class Lounge Holiday Special. I take a little break during the holidays, and while I do, I love sharing some of the most fun First Class Lounge moments from earlier in the year. This episode brings back lively lounge moments from Michelle Pascoe, Sean Cherry, Rachel Sheriff, and Vinay Parmar. Travel dreams, favorite foods, quirky dislikes, and simple joys… it’s a festive, easy l...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... When you think “endowment foundation,” customer experience probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Yet Dr. Liz Okuma, Director of Client Experience at the American Endowment Foundation, is reshaping how donor advised funds deliver trust, responsiveness, and ease… even when nearly all interactions happen without ever seeing a client face to face. This conversation reveals how listening, collaboration, and design thinking translate into re...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Jon Deragon brings a global lens to AI product design as the Head of Design at FPT, the sponsor for today’s episode. Thank you FPT for collaborating with CX Passport. Jon guides a 140+ person design org building everything from mobile apps to automotive interfaces while navigating the rapid shift into AI and multimodal experiences. This conversation gets into what modern design teams truly need to succeed and how respect transforms the design and d...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Charging more… and growing because of it? Dom Hodgson shows exactly how that works. Recorded in person as a CX Passport Live episode at The Alliance Mastermind hosted by Vance Morris, Dom brings a fresh pet-industry lens to universal business truths. He gets practical… pricing, differentiation, customer magic, and how to run a business that doesn’t steal your weekends. Dog adventures, Disney-fied touches, and straight-talk guidance make this conver...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... What happens when you build a workplace so strong, your talent never quits? CX Passport Live sits down with Metropolis Resort GM Sara Abbott to unpack how a clear hiring philosophy and intentional talent development fuel consistent quality and operational success. Recorded live at The Alliance Mastermind Event… packed with lessons every service leader can use. 5 insights from Sara • Why hiring kind people creates a foundation for quality and...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Curiosity from the lab. Creativity from marketing. Transformation across a global pharma giant. Trina Di Giusto brings a scientist’s discipline and a storyteller’s instinct to CX. She explains how decentralized teams can still create harmony, why AI is tempting but rarely the fix, and what it takes for change to stick in a complex organization. 5 Insights From This Episode • Scientific thinking becomes a CX advantage… methodical meets imaginative ...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Pharma and CX… not exactly two words you hear together often. But what happens when customer experience thinking meets healthcare? Silvi Haldipur has lived it. From personal experience to transforming patient, provider, and payer experiences at GSK and Merck, she’s proving that empathy and data can coexist to truly save lives. 5 Insights from This Episode • CX in pharma isn’t impossible… it’s essential. Silvi shares how she turned a deeply persona...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... How do you deliver empathy at scale when the stakes are life-changing? In this *Greatest Hits* episode of CX Passport, recorded live in Austin as a CX Passport Live, Candy Kothmann shares what it means to lead a customer experience operation inside a government agency...the Texas Workforce Commission. Originally aired as Episode 207, this conversation opened eyes to the human side of CX in crisis situations. Candy’s team supports Texans dur...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Why do so many companies chase new customers when the math clearly proves that retention wins every time? Daniel Granja Baltazar joins from Rotterdam to unpack the “retention revelation”... how conversion rate optimization (CRO) is really about experience, not just clicks. Daniel’s global lens from the Netherlands to Brazil gives a fresh take on blending sales, marketing, and CX into one connected journey. ✈️ 5 First-Class Insights Conversion is th...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... How can construction and customer experience possibly connect? Alyssa Staats shows us exactly how. From hard hats to HVAC, Alyssa reveals how CX shows up in the most unexpected corners of the AEC world (architecture, engineering, and construction). It’s not just about blueprints and budgets... it’s about people, relationships, and trust. 5 Insights from Alyssa Staats • CX isn’t just external... winning the internal customer first builds trust that ...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Customer experience isn’t about buzzwords or awards...it’s about creating real value. In this episode, Jannecke Drangert-Hveding joins from Norway to challenge the CX world on what truly matters. From digital transformation to Nordic trust, from humble leadership to the balance of human and tech...she brings the hard questions and the honest answers. What you’ll hear in this episode: Why CX isn’t an “industry” but a way to solve real customer pro...
What's on your mind? Let CX Passport know... Trust may be Brazil’s CX superpower... but that’s just the start. Cami Ferreira brings more than culture insights. She brings a finance-first perspective that helps CX leaders finally speak the language of the boardroom. She shares how failures are fuel for better CX, why Brazil’s “Complain Here” platform changes accountability, and what it takes to transform a contact center into a profit center. Oh, and we still find time to talk coxinha, brigad...
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