Ken has over two decades of experience in the customer experience research with industry experience in retail, technology, hospitality, financial services, automotive and transportation with a recent focus on financially linked business insights, SaaS deployments, and CX consultation. With a background in Mathematical Operations Research, he’s eager to find ways that companies can be more profitable through truly actionable insights into data. Ken has also had the privilege of helping clients to improve their customer engagement in travel, sports and media to better understand how to make use of the vast quantities of data that is now available but often underutilized and misinterpreted. Delivering relevant insights, fact-based execution, and bottom-line results which has led to multiple publications and 2 US CXA Awards in 2022.

Kazuki “Kaz” Ohta is the CEO at Treasure Data, a leading customer data platform.

Roy Atkinson is one of the most recognized thought leaders in IT, service management, and customer experience, and serves as CEO, Clifton Butterfield, LLC, a business advisory practice. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation and a 2021 member of HDI’s Strategic Advisory Board. He is a prolific writer, speaker, webinar presenter, and podcaster as well as an industry analyst. He holds a masters certificate in advanced management strategy from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. 

A seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in leadership and talent development, Bob has worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies. Prior to starting his own business in 1999, he managed a 150-employee placement agency for a Fortune 1000 company. While at Thomson Reuters, as a Director of Coaching and Executive Development, he accumulated 900+ hours of coaching internal mid-level leaders. After eight years at Thomson, he took on the challenge to build a $2.5M Executive Coaching business for a professional services firm, where he designed and implemented best-practice leaderdevelopment solutions. Bob completed a master’s degree in Business Communications from the University of St. Thomas in 2011. Bob is certified in a variety of assessments including Zenger Folkman 360, Marshall Goldsmith Process, MBTI, Behavioral Styles, DiSC, and Korn Ferry Suite of tools.

Tom DeWitt, Ph.D. is the Director of CXM@MSU, an entity dedicated to the advancement of customer experience management (CXM), and a fixed-term faculty member in the Department of Marketing of the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. As the Director of CXM@MSU, Dr. DeWitt has created North America’s first academic program in customer experience management (Masters of Science in Customer Experience Management - MS-CXM) and hosts industry conferences twice each year for organizations to share best practices in CXM. Tom’s research interests lie in the areas of consumer behavior and services marketing. For more than a decade Dr. DeWitt has also provided customer experience management (CXM) solutions to organizations and audiences around the world through consulting, workshops and presentations. Prior to joining academia, Tom enjoyed a career in the hospitality industry, where he served in senior management roles in the USA and Asia.

Worth another listen!! Listen to 3 authors from the latest best-selling 4th edition of the Customer Experience series. Gabriela Ciupitu, Faran Niaz and Peter Verheijde join the podcast to discuss their careers, the chapters they wrote, the importance of managing experiences and words of wisdom from across the globe. This roundtable provides the listener insight into the topics covered in this new edition from 3 respected authors with broad experience in working for and helping organizations achieve better customer experiences.

Worth another listen! Listen to 3 authors from the latest best-selling 4th edition of the Customer Experience series. Greg Uglioni, Carolene Meli and Kristin Haynes join the podcast to discuss their careers, the chapters they wrote, the importance of storytelling and words of wisdom from across the globe. This roundtable provides the listener insight into the topics covered in this new edition from 3 respected authors with broad experience in working for and helping organizations achieve better customer experiences. 

Howard is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance which was recently listed by Forbes as “One of the ten most important business books of 2021.” Howard was named by IDG as “One of The Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow Today,” and by Enterprise Management 360° as “One of the Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers That Will Change Your World.” Prior to founding his own companies, Howard spent 18 years with Ernst & Young Consulting which then became part of Capgemini, one of the world’s leading global consulting firms, where he helped launch their digital practice. Howard speaks regularly at major industry conferences and is proud to have been on the faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, his alma mater. He is a frequent contributor to CIO Magazine.

James Dodkins used to be an actual, real-life, legitimate, award-winning rockstar. He played guitar in a heavy metal band, released albums, and tore up stages all over the world, James is now the CX Evangelist at Pegasystems where he researches the mindsets, principals and philosophies of companies that deliver ‘Rockstar Customer Experiences’. He shares those strategies through transformative training, engaging video content and inspiring keynote talks. James is also a two time #1 Best Selling Author and the Ex-host of Amazon Prime’s weekly topical CX show, ‘This Week In CX’.

Mark Slatin is the CEO and Founder of Empowered CX, an independent consulting practicededicated to helping leaders accelerate their path to scalable growth by empowering them to delight their customers, consistently. He celebrated his 8th year as a Certified Customer Experience Professional and serves on the Customer Experience Professionals Association Board of Directors where he chairs the Higher Education subcommittee. Mark brings a value to his clients that’s quite rare, he spent 9 years as a practitioner, leading the CX efforts from launch to maturity.