Hey CX Nation,

In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #258 we were live at Cyara XChange 2025 based in The W Hotel in downtown Austin, TX.

XChange is an industry event focused solely on customer experience assurance, where industry leaders come together with peers and industry experts, as well as Cyara leaders and product teams, to network, collaborate, and gain new strategies to help achieve their CX/CS objectives and elevate key contact center performance metrics for the future.

Our guest interviews for this IRL (in-real life) event episode included: Peter Nilsson & Aravinda Damarla (Microsoft), Erica McMannes (Instant Teams), Deon Nicholas (Forethought AI), Rishi Rana (Cyara), Abhijit Banerjee (Canada Life) & Mitch Risner (Cyara).

Each of the guests in this episode had unique points of view on the state of CX/CS/Customer Support & what the future of business will look like in today's world thanks to AI.

In this episode, Adrian chats with the XChange 2025 guests about how they are equipping their customers & teammates with the power of AI + building flexible new solutions to scale their business into the future.

**Episode #258 Highlight Reel:**

1. Cyara XChange live interviews from customer focused business leaders
2. Information exchange of ideas for CX & EX opportunities
3. Conversational AI game changing solutions
4. Improving your customer experience & building for the future
5. Examples of world-leading AI companies/solutions to keep your eyes on

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Click here to learn about XChange 2025 Event

Huge thanks to everyone for joining us on this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring their work and efforts in pushing the customer & employee (agent) experience space into the future.

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Hey CX Nation,

In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #257, we welcomed Tony Lama, SVP & GM of Product at Avaya based in Morristown, New Jersey.

Avaya gives their customers the freedom to take their business in the directions that benefit them most. They provide the paths for both customers and their employees where every moment big and small can drive in the moment, memorable experiences.

In his role as SVP & GM of Product at Avaya, Tony has spent 25 years training, testing, deploying, supporting, evangelizing, selling, and successfully launching new customer engagement solutions to markets across the globe.

Tony has served in the trenches and is passionate about the humans he leads and has been focused on supporting them on their personal and professional journeys.

In this episode, Tony and Adrian chat through the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback. Plus share some of the ideas that his team at Avaya think through on a daily basis to build world class customer experiences.

**Episode #257 Highlight Reel:**

1. Blending experience vets with new product teammates to drive innovation
2. Building a "Voice of Builder" program into your business
3. Bringing a "start-up" mentality into a big enterprise business
4. Empowering your front line staff to create amazing customer experiences
5. Boiling your product portfolio down to the golden core tools

Click here to learn more about Tony Lama

Click here to learn more about Avaya

Huge thanks to Tony for coming on The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring his work and efforts in pushing the customer experience & customer success space into the future.

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Hey CX Nation,

In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #256 we were live at Instant Team's Community Builders Week & CX Virtual Summit based in Southern Pines, NC at their company headquarters.

Our guest interviews for this IRL (in-real life) episode included Liza Rodewald (Founder & CEO), Erica McMannes (Founder & CXO), Greg Avallone (SVP of Sales & Partnerships), Amy Price, MBA (SVP of CX), Jennifer Martin & Erica North, both military spouses themselves (Strategic Partnerships Managers), & the one, the only Nate Brown (Co-Founder at CX Accelerator & Head of CX Advisory at Metric Sherpa).

Each of the guests in this episode had unique points of view on the state of CX/CS/Customer Support & what the future of Boutique BPO's look like in today's world. And how they are building an all-in-one hiring platform leveraging the near 12 million US military spouses stationed across the globe.

Instant Teams is a mission-driven company committed to supporting and employing the “force behind the force” – US military spouses.

In this episode, Adrian chats with the Instant Teams crew about how they are making real social impact, finding remarkable talent, providing their customers instant access to new teammates & building flexible solutions along the way.

**Episode #256 Highlight Reel:**

1. Unleashing the power of 12M+ Military Spouses
2. Building bridges to companies who want access to this group
3. Why Military Spouses Make For Incredible CX & Customer Care talent
4. Engaging 75K military spouses ready & primed to join our workforce
5. Around the sun locations at US bases provides global support option

Click here to learn about Instant Teams

Click here to learn about Community Builders Week & CX Summit 2025

Huge thanks to everyone for joining us on this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring their work and efforts in pushing the customer & employee (agent) experience & BPO space into the future.

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Are you looking to learn more about the world of Customer Sales & Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Success, Employee Experience & Revenue Operations?

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Hey CX Nation,

In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #255, we welcomed Tim Houlne, CEO at Humache based in Frisco, TX.

Humache combines the strengths of both humans and machines to deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Since first opening their doors in 1988, Humach has been at the forefront of customer experience (CX) innovation, delivering world-class call center solutions that have transformed CX for hundreds of clients worldwide.

In this episode, Tim and Adrian chat through the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback. Plus share some of the ideas that his team at Humache think through on a daily basis to build world class customer experiences.

**Episode #255 Highlight Reel:**

1. How Humache has been leveraging AI in contact centers for the past decade
2. Leveraging custom language models to build effective AI-powered solutions
3. Y-Combinator launched 90 digital voice companies in the last 18 months
4. Baking employee feedback into the culture of your business to drive innovation
5. Building and enriching relationships with your customers as you grow

Click here to learn more about Tim Houlne

Click here to learn more about Humache

Huge thanks to Tim for coming on The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring his work and efforts in pushing the customer experience, customer contact & customer support space into the future.

If you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, stop by your favorite podcast player hit the follow button and leave us a review today.

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Hey CX Nation,

In this week's CXWeekly Update we walk through some ideas, goals & CTAs to begin leveraging boutique BPOs as your business grows.

Its very common for most Founders or executives to want to hire more full-time staff or add to the team during peak seasons when customer communications, tickets & orders are on the rise.

Use this CXWeekly update as a starting point for building out your company's goals around how can begin leveraging BPOs to improve your customer & employee experience.

Don't worry we have a ton of amazing guest interviews coming down the pipeline over the next couple of weeks as we start to get crank things up on the content front here at CXC in 2025.

Part of our goal for this year is to create more customer focused business leader content, including more short episodes like these ones that are digestible, actionable & most importantly entertaining & valuable for all of you.

If you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, stop by your favorite podcast player and leave us a review today.

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For you non-readers, go check out the CXChronicles Youtube channel to see our customer & employee focused video content & short-reel CTAs to improve your CX/CS/RevOps performance today (politely go smash that subscribe button).

Contact us anytime to learn more about CXC at INFO@cxchronicles.com and ask us about how we can help your business & team make customer happiness a habit now!

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Hey CX Nation,

In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #253, we welcomed Rishi Rana, CEO at Cyara based in Redwood City, CA.

Cyara revolutionizes the way businesses transform and optimize their customer experiences. Cyara’s AI-based CX Transformation Platform empowers enterprises to deliver flawless interactions across voice, video, digital, and chatbot experiences.

With Cyara, businesses improve customer journeys through continuous innovation while reducing cost and minimizing risk. With a 96% customer retention rate and world-class Net Promoter Score (NPS), today’s leading global brands trust Cyara every day to deliver customer smiles at scale.

In his role as CEO of Cyara, Rishi is dedicated to driving customer-centric innovation, expanding their global reach, and positioning Cyara as a leader of GenAI-powered CX assurance.

Rishi has over 25 years of experience in scaling businesses and striving for excellence at every turn. Rishi leverages his love of technology and passion for serving customers and assisting companies along their journey to grow and deliver flawless interactions.

In this episode, Rishi and Adrian chat through the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback. Plus share some of the ideas that his team at Cyara think through on a daily basis to build world class customer experiences.

**Episode #253 Highlight Reel:**

1. Building one of the world's leading AI-Powered CX transformation platforms
2. Why mission & values become strategic anchors for growth & scale
3. 100% focus on accountability while building high performing teams
4. AI is forcing new expectations on resolution times & cost per resolution
5. How the power of focus drives organizational transformation & success

Click here to learn more about Rishi Rana

Click here to learn more about Cyara

Huge thanks to Rishi for coming on The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring his work and efforts in pushing the customer experience & customer success space into the future.

If you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, stop by your favorite podcast player hit the follow button and leave us a review today.

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Hey CX Nation,

In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #252 we welcomed Keri McGhee the CMO at Attentive, the AI marketing platform for leading brands based in New York.

Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for leading brands, designed to optimize message performance through 1:1 SMS and email interactions. Attentive empowers businesses to achieve hyper-personalized communication with their customers on a large scale.

Trusted by over 8,000 leading brands, Attentive is the go-to solution for delivering powerful commerce experiences for consumers with the brands they love.

Keri leads strategic global marketing to further build the Attentive brand, overseeing product marketing, revenue marketing, events, partner marketing, communications and content, and brand creative.

Keri's past experiences include leading marketing at various start-ups and as a senior director at Zillow, where she led the B2B marketing team of 60+ people, responsible for strengthening partner loyalty and experience for 60,000+ real estate partners.

She got her start in tech at Expedia leading both consumer and corporate travel marketing teams.

In this episode, Keri and Adrian chat through the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback. Plus share some of the ideas that her team at Attentive think through on a daily basis to build world class customer & employee experiences.

**Episode #252 Highlight Reel:**

1. Prioritizing the customer experience above everything to drive growth.
2. Why customer marketing & customer success should own your VOC.
3. How building trust from your users & customers drives sales & awareness
4. Driving product adoption & utilization by showing customers how to use it.
5. Leveraging a customer journey task force to socialize opportunities & CTAs

Click here to learn more about Keri McGhee

Click here to learn more about Attentive

Huge thanks to Keri for coming on The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring her work and efforts in pushing the customer experience & customer success space into the future.

If you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, stop by your favorite podcast player hit the follow button and leave us a review today.

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Hey CX Nation,

In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #251 we welcomed Vinod Muthukrishnan, VP & COO at Webex by Cisco based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.

Vinod leads all go-to-market, business and customer operations. He was previously Co-Founder/CEO of CloudCherry, a customer experience management company, which was acquired by Cisco in October 2019.

Prior to that he spent nine years at sea as a First Officer before running Global Sales at Market Simplified. Based in the Bay Area, Vinod enjoys cricket and expanding his library of leadership and P.G. Wodehouse books.

In this episode, Vinod and Adrian chat through the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback. Plus share some of the ideas that his team at Webex by Cisco think through on a daily basis to build world class customer & employee experiences.

**Episode #251 Highlight Reel:**

1. How time in the Merchant Navy led to a career in entrepreneurship
2. Building CloudCherry & being acquired by Cisco
3. The shift of contact centers from cost to revenue centers
4. Why understanding your customer journey is paramount
5. Foundation for building a world class tech-stack

Click here to learn more about Vinod Muthukrishnan

Click here to learn more about Webex by Cisco

Click here to get in touch with Webex

Huge thanks to Vinod for coming on The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring his work and efforts in pushing the customer experience & customer success space into the future.

If you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, stop by your favorite podcast player hit the follow button and leave us a review today.

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Are you looking to learn more about the world of Customer Experience, Customer Success & Revenue Operations?

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