Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #271, we welcomed Marcus Smith, CEO at Cloud Trailz based in Atlanta, GA. Cloud Trailz offers their customers Saleforce help without all of the hassle by providing professional, expert users that come with the playbooks required to achieve utilization & success with the world's largest CRM. In this episode, Marcus and Adrian chat through the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback. Plus share some ...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's CXWeekly Update episode I walk through some ideas, goals & CTAs that me & the team at CXC have been focused on. Full candor, we're in a full blown sales sprint to the end of the year to close 2025 with a bang & tee up the best year yet in 2026. We're also working on a ton of new customer focused business content -- including my 2nd book "Make Happiness A Habit" that we are launching in the New Year. Don't worry we have a ton of amazing guest in...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #269, we welcomed Valerie Li, Co-Founder & CEO of Duckie.ai based in San Francisco, CA. Duckie. ai is a no-code platform for customer support teams to build their own AI agents to deflect tickets and automate repetitive processes. In this episode, Valerie and Adrian chat through the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback. Plus share some of the ideas that Michele & her team think through on a daily ...

Hey CX Nation, Here's the first CXWeekly Update from CXC in a long time! This week's episode I walk through some ideas, goals & CTAs that I've learned from the 5 years of building CXC. Don't worry we have a ton of amazing guest interviews coming down the pipeline over the next couple of weeks. Part of our goal at CXC is to create more customer focused business leader content, including short episodes like these ones that are digestible, actionable & most importantly entertaining &...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #267, we welcomed Michele Shane, SVP Business Development at UJet.CX based in San Francisco, CA. UJET is a next-generation cloud contact center platform that leverages AI to modernize the customer experience. The UJet.CX platform & services embed intelligent automation at every touchpoint, empowering agents, optimizing customer journeys, and transforming operations into real-time insight engines. In this episod...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #266, we welcomed Adam Coffey, Founding Partner of The Chairman Group based in Dallas, TX. The Chairman Group™ is a consulting firm founded by Adam Coffey. Adam spent 21 years building 3 national companies for 9 private equity firms. During his career Adam completed 58 acquisitions and had $2.4 billion in successful exits. As an author, Adam's books "The Private Equity Playbook" (2019) (2024), "The Exit Stra...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #265, we welcomed Mario Baddour, President & CEO of InteLogix, based in Park City, UT. InteLogix provides customer experience (CX) solutions and accounts receivable management (ARM) operations that enhance customer loyalty and revenue for their clients. They combine human engagement with digital tools and automation to minimize customer effort and boost loyalty by offer long-term value through scalable CX and b...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #264, we welcomed Mika Yamamoto, Chief Customer and Marketing Officer at Freshworks based in San Mateo, CA. Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH) builds uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences. Their enterprise-grade solutions are powerful, yet easy to use, and quick to deliver results. Their people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, making employees more effective...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #263, we welcomed Maxime Marchand, Senior Director of Product Management at GoTo based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As the leader in cloud communications and IT, GoTo addresses real-world challenges with practical innovations and a customer-first mindset. They offer secure, reliable, and AI-enabled solutions that are simple to adopt for small and midsize businesses and scalable to enterprises worldwide. Customers a...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #262, we welcomed Pasquale DeMaio, Vice President at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Seattle, WA. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of busine...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #261 we were capturing live interviews at Customer Contact Week at The Caeasar's Forum in Las Vegas, NV. We joined 5,000+ attendees, from 49 states, 51 countries, and spent time meeting & learning from 250+ of the largest solution providers in the CX & customer contact center space. Let's call it what is folks, this is essentially the "Super Bowl of CX" the best & brightest companies in our game gather at CCW...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #260, we welcomed Patrick McCullough, President of Hallmark Business Connections, based in Kansas City, MO. Just like you rely on Hallmark to strengthen your personal relationships, you can count on them to keep your business going and growing. We help businesses by turning customers into advocates, employees into champions and companies into more connected environments all through the power of an unexpected Hallmark ca...

Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #259, we welcomed Joe Anderson, Senior Director - Head of CX & Digital Transformation at TaskUs based in New Braunfels, TX. TaskUs is a different breed of BPO. They are a collective of highly capable humans, who understand how to deploy technology and data to best serve your purpose. From Digital CX to Trust & Safety, AI Services, Risk + Response, Consulting, and anything in between, we consider ourselves respons...

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 ...

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 trainin...

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...

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

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 custome...

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 minim...

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 th...