CX consultant, keynote speaker, CEO, and Forbes Councils member, Annette Franz (The 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter by Business Insider) covers the importance of EX (employee experience) and how it translates to CX (customer experience) in this chat on employee engagement.

WSJ and NYT bestselling author, Shep Hyken discusses some of his latest work on delivering amazing customer service and experiences. In this podcast, Shep shares classic service-driven inisights and comical personal stories.

VP and Verizon Global Sales Leader, Kelley Kurtzman shares her experiences on the importance of personalized and predictive customer service and how Verizon stayes ahead in the automation game.

Former contact center leader at Microsoft, Dee Nilles shares some of her best practices for managing thousands of agents, inisghts on the future of the contact center, and effective strategies on how to combine technology and personable corporate culture.

Low-touch, automated interactions are all the rage in many industries, including the travel and hospitality space. How is this rise of bots impacting the ability to make a human connection? Reservations.com co-founder Mahesh Chaddah, who believes passionately in the human touch, shares his take on where agents and bots fit into the contact center of the future.

In this two-part episode from CCW Austin, we welcome Stacey Haynes from Fossil and Aransas Savas from WW (formerly Weight Watchers). Stacey begins by revealing how to make the most of customer experience partnerships, while Aransas shares how to make purposeful design the centerpiece of your customer contact (and business) strategy.

From newsworthy security breaches to "low-touch" digital channels, customers are justified in having trust issues. Do not, however, let them question YOUR experience. Take Luke's advice, and learn how to make your entire omnichannel experience secure, customer-centric, frictionless and personalized.

Live from CCW Austin, "Wonder-FULL" author Kelly Radi reveals how to unleash your inner superpowers, which will in turn help your team members play to their strengths. The result will be a better, more empowering office dynamic -- and a better, more customer-centric engagement experience.

Is customer engagement moving away from voice? Not according to Manny Marrero from Getaroom, whose company continues to make the voice channel its priority. Reliance on a conventional channel does not, however, mean the company is averse to using advanced analytics technology to make more meaningful customer connections.

The customer experience is too important to leave to chance or guesswork. Let Trent Haynes from BNY Mellon Pershing and Brian LaRoche from CallMiner reveal how a deeper approach to analytics can help you better understand your customer -- and better position your agents for success.