Navigating the Customer Experience

Send us Fan Mail Is human support about to become a luxury only premium customers can afford? Yanique Grant sits down with Ben Rosenberg, VP of Customer Experience Delivery at ChurnZero, a SaaS leader with two decades of customer experience behind him at companies like Zenefits and Sendoso. Ben gives an honest answer on whether automation is creating a two tier CX model, explains why AI still struggles with complex B2B context, and shares the data that convinced his team course based customer...

Send us Fan Mail AI won't replace your people. It will replace the ones acting like robots. Returning guest Jeff Toister, best-selling author of Human Service: The Skills AI Can't Replace, joins Yanique Grant to unpack where humans still win in a world racing to automate. Drawing on new research spanning more than 370,000 phone calls and 400-plus face-to-face interactions, Jeff makes the data-backed case for connection, understanding, and advocacy, the three human skills AI simply can't provi...

Send us Fan Mail Where should AI stop and a human step in? Rebecca Stone has spent 20 plus years finding the line. Rebecca Stone, Chief Customer and Marketing Officer at Plume, joins Yanique Grant to unpack why clean, centralized data is the real foundation of customer experience, and where AI should augment the journey versus where a human relationship has to show up. From the name problem that makes one customer look like four, to using AI to carry context across every support tier, to buil...

Send us Fan Mail What if the fastest way to lead change was to stop trying to feel confident? Executive coach Terez Rijkenberg says clarity beats confidence every time, and she has the frameworks to prove it. Terez Rijkenberg, executive coach to C-suite leaders and director at Tuitive AI, joins Yanique Grant to share the two frameworks behind her work: the RAFT formula (results, actions, feelings, thoughts) and Radical Adaptability. She unpacks how change really happens, how she coaches leade...

Send us Fan Mail Can AI answer your customers without pushing them away? David Karandish has automated support for 20,000 companies, and he says deflection should make the experience better, not worse. David Karandish, founder and CEO of Capacity, joins Yanique Grant to unpack how to bring AI into customer support the right way. After selling Answers Corp for $960 million, David built Capacity into an omni-channel support automation platform serving roughly 20,000 customers. In this episode h...