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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 Jul 2, 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

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 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 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 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 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
255: Is Your Customer Experience Better—or Are You Just Measuring the Wrong Things? May 28, 2026 25:51 John DiJulius explains why so many leaders believe their customer experience is improving while customers feel something very different. Summary: In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, Denise Thompson and John DiJulius unpack one of the most dangerous gaps in business today: the difference between what leaders think customers are experiencing and what customers are actuall
254: Incentives That Drive Service Behaviors May 21, 2026 54:27 Are Your Incentives Creating the Customer Experience You Actually Want? Summary: John DiJulius explains how the behaviors your company rewards, measures, and recognizes become the customer experience your customers actually receive. Every company has incentives. Some are obvious: bonuses, commissions, contests, scorecards, performance reviews, and promotions. Others are quieter: praise, at
253: More Than a Keynote: How Great Speakers Help Companies Change May 14, 2026 01:04:30 What Companies Should Know about a Customer Experience Keynote Speaker Summary: In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, Denise Thompson sits down with John DiJulius for a behind-the-scenes conversation about what it really means to be a conference speaker. While many organizations think of a keynote as a high-energy moment in an agenda, John explains that the best keyno
252: The Skills Leaders Need When AI Changes Everything May 7, 2026 28:59 Why Human Leadership Is the New Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI Summary: AI is changing how companies operate, scale, and compete. But according to Dr. Brynn Scarborough, the future will not belong to the companies that automate the most. It will belong to the companies that intentionally develop the human leadership skills AI cannot replace. In this episode, John DiJulius sits down
251: Why Customer Experience Leaders Must Prove ROI Apr 30, 2026 33:00 Learn how to prove customer experience ROI by measuring Return on Experience, customer retention, referrals, earned sales growth, complaints, and loyalty. Summary: Customer experience leaders are facing a new reality: it is no longer enough to say customer experience matters. Executives want proof. In this episode of the Customer Service Revolution Podcast, Denise Thompson and John DiJuliu
205: The Secret to Scaling Service Culture Across 19 Resorts (pt 2 of 2) Apr 23, 2026 27:42 How do you scale a world-class customer experience across 19 resort properties and 20,000 employees? Summary: This episode is part 2 of 2 In part two of this conversation, John DiJulius and Jess Shannon of Sandals Resorts International go deeper into what it really takes to sustain a customer experience transformation at scale. Jess shares how Sandals turned service standards into a compan
249: What It Really Takes to Scale Customer Experience Across 20,000 Team Members Apr 16, 2026 41:58 How do you scale a world-class customer experience across 20,000 employees and 19 resort properties? Summary: What happens when a hospitality brand known for exceptional guest experiences decides to get even more intentional? In this episode, John DiJulius sits down with Jessica Shannon, Chief Experience Officer of Sandals Resorts International, to talk about how Sandals is scaling custome

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