The Customer Experience Bus - Fun On the Road To Customer Loyalty & Referrals

Destination: The Resilient Experience with Dr. Chris Recinos

This week’s guest is Chris Recinos. Chris has climbed the ladder as a front-line nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse faculty, nurse leader, chief nurse executive and nurse entrepreneur. She went from being a teen mom living in foster care to a Chief Nurse Executive with a PhD in her 30s and learned how to manage a business while raising a family. For more visit, https://nurseleadernetwork.com.

Originally aired on Thursday, April 29, 2021, as a video Livestream.

Destination: Memorable Customer Experiences with Micah Solomon

Micah Solomon is a hands-on customer service consultant, trainer and training designer, keynote speaker, and one of the world's leading experts on customer service, company culture, and the customer experience. Termed “the world's #1 customer service turnaround expert” by Inc. Magazine, he’s been named by The Financial Post as “The New Guru of Customer Service Excellence.” A bestselling author, Micah’s five books have been translated in more than a half-dozen languages and are the recipients of multiple awards. Micah is also a Senior Contributor to Forbes where he covers the subjects of customer service, the customer experience, and company culture, and his expertise has been featured in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, and, repeatedly, in the Harvard Business Review. For more about Micah, visit https://micahsolomon.com​.

Originally published as a video Livestream on Thursday, April 22, 2021.

Destination: Customer Experience Tools with Samantha Burns

This week’s guest is Samantha Burns. Sam is the Founder and Director of Brilliance and is an international client success co-creator with more than 20 years’ executive experience in customer success-related accountabilities. She has an MBA cum laude in customer loyalty from Surrey University, UK. Plus, a BA Degree in psychology and communications. Sam is dedicated to helping companies all over the world succeed by focusing on their customers’ success. Brilliance believes in business “doing well by doing good.” For more about Brilliance, visit https://brilliancecx.com​.

Destination: The Volunteer Experience with Gary Bagley

Gary Bagley is the Executive Director of New York Cares, New York City’s largest provider of volunteer-led social services programs, and the biggest affiliate of Points of Light, the global organization dedicated to volunteer service. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Points of Light and the New York State Commission on National and Community Service. Gary led New York Cares in garnering The New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Award for Overall Management Excellence and the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

Originally published on Thursday, April 8, 2021, as a video Livestream.

Destination: Better Than Normal Customer Experiences with Joseph driving solo

Joseph discusses research from Accenture and Bain & Co. regarding shifts in consumer behavior emerging from the pandemic. For example, he explores how people want to feel less anxious and more connected. How are you addressing the changing wants, needs, and desires of those you serve!

Originally recorded as a live stream on March 25, 2021.

Destination: Improvising Experiences with Eric Farone

This week my guest is Eric Farone. Eric is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director at Bovine Metropolis. Eric has been teaching improv to groups in Colorado since 1993 and online since March 2020. For over 25 years he has been a director, teaching improvisation to some of Denver’s top improv groups, such as ‘NERTS’, ‘Mouse Couch’, ‘Dungeon Cave’, ‘MooCrew’ and ‘The SansScript Players’. He has directed, hosted and played in “On The Spot” since 2000 and in "On The Spot Online". After 30 years, Eric still loves teaching groups to play. He really enjoys Improv Adventures because he gets to see family and friends laugh together during in these trying times "People laugh so much when they improvise, and I do too." For more about Eric and Bovine Metropolis, visit https://www.bovinemetropolis.com​.

Originally aired as a video Livestream on Thursday, March 11, 2021.

Destination: Emotional Value with Joseph driving solo

Joseph Michelli explores the increased importance of emotional value creation for employee and customer experiences. He also offers ways to differentiate your brand through your emotional value delivery.

**Originally recorded as a Livestream on Thursday, March 4, 2021.

Destination: The Creative Experience with Tracy Grammer

This week's guest is Tracy Grammer. Tracy rose to acclaim in the late 1990s as half of the legendary folk duo Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. Following Carter’s death in 2002, Grammer continued to perform, building a devoted following as an interpreter, multi-instrumentalist, storyteller, and champion of Carter’s legacy. Tracy Grammer is among contemporary folk music's most beloved artists. Renowned for her pure voice, deft guitar and violin work, and incantatory storytelling, Grammer has recorded and performed with Joan Baez and Mary Chapin Carpenter, headlined several of the nation's top folk festivals, including Philadelphia Folk Festival and Falcon Ridge, and enjoyed 12 consecutive years as one of folk radio's 50 top-played artists, both solo and with the late Dave Carter. For more about Tracy, visit https://www.tracygrammer.com​.

Originally aired as a video Livestream on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.

Destination: The Brand Experience with Suzanne Tulien

This week's guest is Suzanne Tulien. Suzanne is a Brand Clarity Expert, author, and speaker specializing in identifying, defining, and aligning her clients to their distinctive brand value positioning through her proprietary process, to achieve extreme clarity on her clients’ differentiation, master consistencies to build trust and create “on-brand” actions and behaviors from the inside out. She is the author of three books: Brand DNA, Personal Brand Clarity, and The 6 Myths of Small Business Branding. She speaks, trains, and consults internationally. For more about Suzanne, visit www.BrandAscension.com.

This episode originally aired as a video live stream on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.

Destination: The Magic Experience with Brad Montgomery

This week's guest is Brad Montgomery. Brad teaches people how to use emotional & social to boost performance, creativity, innovation & profits. He turns typical meetings into transformational events using, the power of encouragement. Other speakers TALK about happiness. But Brad SHOWS them how to harness the power of happiness in hands-on experiences that they’ll remember and implement. For more about Brad, visit https://www.bradmontgomery.com​.

Originally aired as a video live stream on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.