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Punk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian Swinscoe

Adrian Swinscoe | Customer Experience Strategy Expert

Adrian Swinscoe discusses customer experience and strategy with industry leaders in this engaging series about how to deliver a standout customer experience and service. Topics covered in the interviews include customer service, customer experience, customer engagement, employee experience, employee engagement, technology, adaptable and responsive organizations, digital transformation, high-performing teams, how to best leverage artificial intelligence to drive better outcomes, other new

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00:14:50

Experience is Everything - Interview with Jeannie...

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2026/04/09

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features a recent chat I had with Jeannie Walters, who is the Founder and CEO of Experience Investigators, an international keynote speaker, and an author. Jeannie and I caught up at a recent event we were both at, and I took the opportunity to have a chat with her about her new book: Experience is Everything: Making Every Moment Count in the Age of Customer Expectations. We chat about the origin of the book, CX Foundations, the importance of mindset, four

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00:31:28

The unstructured data revolution in CRM - Interview...

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2026/04/02

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features a recent chat I had with David Roberts, President and CEO of SugarCRM, the sales CRM platform focused on B2B growth. We talk about why sellers/salespeople don’t get any value from CRM systems, whether the advent of AI makes things better, whether organisations are taking a tool-first, problem-second approach, what they should be doing instead, and the role of contextual intelligence, amongst other things.This interview follows on from my recent

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01:22:18

Closing the experience gap - Interview with Qualtrics...

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2026/03/26

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features a series of interviews that I conducted at Qualtrics’ recent X4 event in Seattle and features conversations with Qualtrics executives at the event:Brad Anderson, President of Products, UX, Engineering & Security;Mark Hammond, SVP Core AI - starting at 14:59;Assaf Keren, SVP and Chief Security Officer - starting at 14:59; andAli Henriques, Executive Director of Market Research - starting at 59:19. We discuss the highlights and themes of the

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00:42:05

The enduring and evolving ‘craft’ of customer support...

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2026/03/19

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features Nick Francis, one of the co-founders of Help Scout, a leading customer support platform, who after operating as the CEO for the last 15 years stepped back from the position in late 2025 and has now moved into the Chairman role. I first talked to Nick on the podcast back in 2017 and he joins me today to talk about his time as CEO at Help Scout, some of the biggest challenges he faced during his tenure, the lessons he learned, the ‘craft’ of

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00:30:07

How executives can turn fragmented CX efforts into...

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2026/03/14

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features Raymond Gerber, the Co-Founder of the Institute for Journey Management (I4JM), Founder of JourneyCentric-CX and author of three new books. He joins me today to talk about the third book (Journey to Customer Obsession- A Leadership Blueprint for CX Maturity and Enterprise Transformation: How executives can turn fragmented CX efforts into enterprise-wide customer obsession), which is effectively the executive edition of the other two books. We talk

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00:32:19

More Than A Motto - Interview with Justin Robbins of...

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2026/03/05

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features Justin Robbins, Founder & Principal Analyst at Metric Sherpa, Inc and a newly minted author. Justin joins me to talk about his new book called: More Than A Motto: Reignite Your Purpose, Rediscover Your Joy At Work. We discuss the highlights from the book, including the leadership blind spot, that burnout is a system outcome, not a personal failure, why purpose breaks without rhythm, and the RHYTHM model.This interview follows on from my

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00:42:30

The split personality disorder plaguing many brands -...

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2026/02/26

Today’s episode features a chat I had recently with Ping Wu, CEO of Cresta. We chat about a range of issues, including how many brands seem to be suffering from a split personality disorder, why CRM technology is fundamentally not the right type of technology to develop the type of conversational intelligence that is needed to drive better outcomes and why taking an automation-only approach to customer support is like ‘taking a shower with a raincoat on.’This interview follows on from my

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01:06:47

Transforming experience for business outcomes -...

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2026/02/19

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features three interviews I recorded whilst at Medallia’s Experience event in Las Vegas on the 10th, 11th and 12th February. The interviews are with Sid Banerjee, Chief Strategy Officer at Medallia, Mike Murchison, co-founder and CEO of Ada, and Paloma Paraja, Customer Experience Manager at Santalucia Seguros. We cover the big themes of the conference, the latest developments at Medallia, agentic CX, building an ACX team, the importance of context in

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00:37:18

The dangers of a CCaaS monoculture - Interview with...

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2026/02/12

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features Paul Hughes, who is Head of Direct Sales for the UKISA region at Mitel, where he helps organisations use technology to deliver human experiences built on trust, empathy, loyalty, and logic. Paul joins me today to talk about why hybrid is the new default and not a compromise, the dangers of a CCaaS monoculture, the problem with AI sameness and why most bots feel identical, linking UC/CX investment to business outcomes like revenue, resilience, and

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00:44:15

Loyalty is the core economic engine - Interview with...

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2026/02/05

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features Sara Richter, CMO at SAP Emarsys, and Fred Reichheld, Creator of the Net Promoter System®, Bain Fellow, and loyalty visionary. Sara and Fred join me on the podcast to talk about how the organisations that win treat NPS as a management system rather than a one-off score, the state of loyalty, including the impact that AI is having on loyalty, the idea of Earned Growth Rate that was introduced in Net Promoter 3.0 and what brands should be focusing

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00:32:45

Accessibility drives customer acquisition - Interview...

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2026/01/29

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast is with Joel Kellhofer, CEO of SignWow, which offers business BSL solutions, including Video Relay Service & Video Remote Interpreting, to make services accessible to Deaf customers. We talk about Joel’s background and experiences as a Deaf founder, some of the everyday communication barriers Deaf people face in public services, healthcare, hospitality, and retail, why brands often don’t design experiences that work for everyone, what they should be

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00:49:55

From product-led innovation to a service-led...

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2026/01/22

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast is with Deborah Honig, Chief Customer Officer at Samsung UK & Ireland. Deborah joins me today to talk about shifting Samsung’s UK & Ireland business from innovation-led storytelling to service-led experiences, the servitization process, how they are building AI into their products, how they are building trust with customers to fuel adoption, how customers are reacting to that and what’s next for Samsung and their move towards service-led

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00:57:55

Automate problems, not just symptoms - Interview with...

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2026/01/15

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast is with Nick Clark, a Partner & Director in the Service & Support Operations practice at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), as well as the author of the Service Matters! newsletter, which is a weekly newsletter about customer service, that he writes in a personal capacity. Nick joins me today to talk about why success with AI in customer service is much less about technical capability and much more about strategy, that brands need to go beyond the

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00:39:09

Describing yourself as ‘AI-first’ is a mistake -...

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2026/01/09

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast is with Chris Morrissey, who is the General Manager and Global Head of CX Sales & Go-To-Market at Zoom, where he drives strategy and execution for the company's customer experience business. Chris joins me today to talk about why describing yourself as ‘AI-first’ these days is a mistake, why reducing effort outweighs everything else in CX, the difference between "lip service personalization" and true personalization and how we should be moving beyond

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00:52:05

Brands should avoid making Gen AI or chatbots their...

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2025/12/18

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast is with Phil Regnault, Marketing Transformation Partner at PwC & PwC’s Adobe Alliance Leader.Phil and I talk about the recently published results of PwC’s 2025 Customer Experience Survey, which was a US-focused survey, and a recently released fresh cut of their survey featuring exclusive insights from Adobe users. We also talk about how many organisations are still struggling to scale their AI projects, generate meaningful commercial returns, or

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00:35:07

Douglas Adams’ Babelfish concept just got much closer...

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2025/12/11

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast is with Sharath Keshava Narayana, CEO and Co-Founder of Sanas, which provides a real-time speech understanding platform with accent translation, noise cancellation and now real-time speech translation technology.Sharath and I talk about the challenges with current translation methods, what they are doing with regards to real-time speech translation, the possibilities that this type of technology offers for customer service and experience and the exciting

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00:40:36

Twilio's secret sauce and CarFinance247's road to...

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2025/12/04

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast a two-parter that I recorded while attending the Twilio SIGNAL event in London on November 19th. My first guest is Peter Bell, VP of EMEA Marketing at Twilio. Peter and I talk about his highlights from the event, what he is seeing companies do well/right to help them harness the obvious potential of all of the new technology that is emerging, as well as some examples of brands that they are working with, what they are doing, what challenges they are

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00:31:28

Are machines making marketers more human? - Interview...

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2025/11/25

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features a discussion I recently had with Elizabeth Maxson, CMO at Contentful, a digital experience platform trusted by more than 4,200 companies around the world. Elizabeth joins me today to talk about a research report they recently published called When Machines Make Marketers More Human, whether marketers are moving beyond experimentation with AI tools, what sort of pain points/challenges they are facing, the possibility that all of these new tools are

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00:50:51

Why you need the I4JM in your life - Interview with...

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2025/11/21

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features a discussion I recently had with Ray Gerber and Mark Smith, Co-Founders of the Institute for Journey Management (I4JM). We talk about customer journeys, where most people go wrong with them, some examples of customer journeys done right, where AI fits into all of this, the backstory to the Institute for Journey Management, the problem they are trying to solve, and their plans for the coming year.Disclosure: I’ve known Mark and Ray for sometime

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00:41:01

CX is reaching a tipping point - Interview with...

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2025/11/13

Today’s episode of the Punk CX podcast features a discussion I recently had with Jonathan Rosenberg, who is the Chief Technology Officer and head of AI at Five9. Jonathan and I talk about why he believes CX is reaching a tipping point and what’s driving that, how things are likely to change for customers, agents, and businesses, what he’s seeing companies do well/right, as well as what to avoid in order to better harness the obvious potential of AI.This interview follows on from my recent

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