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Amelia Sizemore Is Now A Certified Customer Experience Professional

Kerry Bodine

Last week, my colleague Amelia and I joined nearly 400 other customer experience professionals at the annual CXPA Insight Exchange in New Orleans. The following day, she took the CXPA ’s exam to become a certified customer experience professional.

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Inspiration, Dedication, Perspiration – welcome to the mind of the Customer Experience Professional!

ijgolding

Last week I was afforded the undeniable pleasure of spending two whole days with Diane Magers, CEO of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). Great Customer Experience Professionals know that their reward comes as a result of doing the right thing – not putting ourselves first.

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Embedding Customer Centricity: The Customer Experience Jigsaw Puzzle

ijgolding

Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. What is fascinating about the questions I am asked, is that more often than not, most organisations have started their journey to becoming Customer Centric. Starting an organisations Customer Experience transformation is hard – something I have written about in the past.

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Customer Experience Professionals: Why We Do What We Do

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BM: Generally, the customer engagements I’m proudest of are those where the value of becoming more customer-centric has been amply demonstrated and I’ve “converted” sceptics within the company. KS: Becoming the CX professional I am today didn’t just happen overnight. IG: Experience, experience, experience.

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The secret diary of a Customer Experience Professional (aged 41 & 3/4)

ijgolding

What you are about to read are the exploits of one Customer Experience Professional as he went about his business during a working week. Whether it makes you laugh, cry or feel pity for me, I genuinely hope that my diary provides a useful insight into my work in helping organisations to become more customer centric.

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What it takes to be a Customer Experience Professional – My CX Journey, by Carlton Gajadhar

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I have had the pleasure of meeting many amazing Customer Experience Professionals (CXPs) over the years – amazing for a whole variety of reasons. The natural step for me was to get involved in promoting CX within my place of work to become more customer-centric, but this was my first negative hurdle.

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Transformational Leadership – the key to unlocking the competencies of Customer Experience Professionals

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If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis.