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Customer Service Revolution | Customer Experience & Employee Experience Insights

Customer Service Revolution | Customer Experience & Employee Experience Insights

John Dijulius - Customer Experience & Customer Service Expert 256 Episodes Aug 20, 2026

Customer Service Revolution is a podcast hosted by customer service expert and best-selling author John DiJulius. It features interviews with leaders who are transforming their industries through exceptional customer and employee experiences. Each episode provides actionable insights for CEOs, CXOs, and other executives to build a culture that drives loyalty and referrals. The podcast aims to help businesses stop competing on price and instead create a brand that customers and employees can't live without.

Episodes

267:  The Transformation Economy: The Next Evolution of Customer Experience
267: The Transformation Economy: The Next Evolution of Customer Experience Aug 20, 2026 38:38 The Transformation Economy What comes after the Experience Economy? According to internationally acclaimed author and management advisor B. Joseph Pine II, the next competitive advantage is not simply creating memorable customer experiences. It is helping customers achieve meaningful, lasting change. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, John DiJulius talks with Joe Pine, coa
How to Extend Your Healthspan with Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti
How to Extend Your Healthspan with Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti Aug 13, 2026 46:38 How to Extend Your Healthspan with Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti Living longer is not the real goal. Living longer with the strength, energy, mental clarity, and independence to enjoy those years is what matters. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, John DiJulius speaks with Dr. Sandeep "Dr. Deep" Palakodeti, founder and CEO of Velocity Health and author of The Ultimate Asset: Exte
265:  How to Build Accountability Without Micromanaging
265: How to Build Accountability Without Micromanaging Aug 6, 2026 35:38 Accountability Without Micromanaging: How Great Leaders Create Ownership Delegating work should free leaders to focus on strategy, relationships, and growth. Too often, however, delegation swings between two unhealthy extremes: micromanagement and abandonment. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, Denise Thompson and John DiJulius explore how leaders can build accountability
264:  The Friction Tax: Are You Trapping Customers?
264: The Friction Tax: Are You Trapping Customers? Jul 30, 2026 32:55 The Friction Tax: Are You Trapping Customers? Signing up takes less than a minute. Canceling takes 45. The cancellation button is buried. Customer support is difficult to reach. Returning a product requires multiple steps. A "retention specialist" keeps a customer on the phone until surrender feels easier than leaving. That is more than poor customer service. It is the customer friction tax: the e
263: Crisis Management: What Customers Remember Most
263: Crisis Management: What Customers Remember Most Jul 23, 2026 37:19 Crisis Management: What Customers Remember Most A company may not have caused the crisis—but it still owns the customer experience surrounding it. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, Denise Thompson and John DiJulius examine what leaders should do when customers may be at risk, facts are still developing, and the organization's reputation is suddenly on the line. Using rece
262:  Who Really Owns Customer Experience? (part two)
262: Who Really Owns Customer Experience? (part two) Jul 16, 2026 31:55 How to Build the Teams That Make Customer Experience Stick Episode 262 of the Customer Service Revolution Podcast Launching a customer experience initiative is one thing. Building the internal structure that keeps it alive is another. In this episode of the Customer Service Revolution Podcast, John DiJulius continues his conversation with Dave Murray, Vice President of The DiJulius Group, about th
261:  Who Really Owns Customer Experience?
261: Who Really Owns Customer Experience? Jul 9, 2026 45:47 Why Customer Experience Fails Without the Right Internal Ownership Every company says customer experience matters. But too many organizations launch CX initiatives without clearly defining who owns the work, who champions it, who keeps it moving, and who makes sure it becomes part of the culture. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, John DiJulius turns the tables and intervi
260:  Why Leaders Must Be Great Storytellers
260: Why Leaders Must Be Great Storytellers Jul 2, 2026 36:35 Storytelling is how leaders turn information into belief, alignment, and action. Leadership Storytelling Is No Longer Optional In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, John DiJulius and Denise Thompson discuss why storytelling is one of the most important leadership skills in today's workplace. Most leaders are good at sharing information. They communicate updates, goals, met
259: Why Customer Experience Transformations Fail in the Middle
259: Why Customer Experience Transformations Fail in the Middle Jun 25, 2026 35:07 How middle managers make or break customer experience transformation   Why Customer Experience Transformations Fail in the Middle Most customer experience initiatives do not fail because the strategy was wrong. They fail because the strategy is announced by senior leadership, introduced to frontline employees, and then loses momentum in the middle. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolu
258: When Service Innovation Makes Customer Experience Worse
258: When Service Innovation Makes Customer Experience Worse Jun 18, 2026 30:20 Why AI, automation, and self-service only improve customer experience when they reduce effort without removing humanity. Summary n this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, Denise Thompson and John DiJulius challenge one of the biggest assumptions in business today: that modernizing service delivery automatically improves the customer experience. Companies are investing heavily
257: Happy Employees Create Happy Customers? Not Automatically
257: Happy Employees Create Happy Customers? Not Automatically Jun 11, 2026 44:47 The real link between employee experience and customer experience is not happiness alone. It is readiness, training, empowerment, accountability, and leadership. Summary The phrase happy employees create happy customers is popular in customer experience, but it is incomplete. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, Denise Thompson and John DiJulius challenge the oversimplifi
256: Daniel Pink on the Human Skills AI Can't Replace
256: Daniel Pink on the Human Skills AI Can't Replace Jun 4, 2026 40:22 Why taste, touch, composition, and wisdom may become the most valuable leadership skills in the age of AI. Summary  In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, John DiJulius interviews bestselling author Daniel Pink about the human skills that artificial intelligence cannot replace. Pink explains why AI may be powerful at generating options, but humans still need taste to know w

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