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The Account Experience Podcast

The Account Experience Podcast

CustomerGauge 100 Episodes Dec 24, 2025

The Account Experience Podcast is hosted by Adam Dorrell, CEO and Co-Founder of CustomerGauge. The show explores how leading Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands use real-time B2B channel feedback through Net Promoter Score to inform their strategies. It focuses on equipping front-line sales teams with insights that help grow revenue and market share. Each episode features discussions with industry leaders about customer-centric business practices.

Episodes

"If you wanna have a bestseller, you gotta be a bestseller" with Lou Shipley, author of Unlikely Entrepreneurs
"If you wanna have a bestseller, you gotta be a bestseller" with Lou Shipley, author of Unlikely Entrepreneurs Dec 24, 2025 1786 In this episode of The Account Experience Podcast, Adam Dorrell sits down with Lou Shipley — former three-time software CEO, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, board member at CustomerGauge, and author of the new book Unlikely Entrepreneurs, already a top-three Amazon bestseller ahead of launch. Adam and Lou reflect on more than twenty years of working together, using that shared history
Taylormaking Your B2B Experience: Ken Hughes on Lessons from Pop's Biggest Brand
Taylormaking Your B2B Experience: Ken Hughes on Lessons from Pop's Biggest Brand Nov 12, 2025 1856 In this episode, Adam Dorrell chats with CX royalty, Ken Hughes (the King of CX), about the human side of experience. They explore how emotion drives loyalty and trust, drawing lessons from B2C giants like Taylor Swift for the B2B world. Ken shares some great anecdotes about how storytelling and vulnerability make ga reat CX experience. He emphasizes that CX is a philosophy, not just a departmen
The Man Who Interviewed 10,000 Customers
The Man Who Interviewed 10,000 Customers Nov 6, 2025 1677 In this episode, Adam Dorrell, CEO of CustomerGauge, speaks with Mark Fonseca, Partner at Pragmetrics, about his experience conducting over 10,000 customer interviews. Mark shared his unique three-question approach to B2B customer loyalty assessments, focusing on Net Promoter Score, understanding the "why," and identifying what it takes to achieve a perfect score.  Mark spoke about the importance
Lights! Camera! Experience! With Chris Savage of Wistia
Lights! Camera! Experience! With Chris Savage of Wistia Jul 7, 2025 2266 In this episode of the AX Podcast, Adam Dorrell sits down with Chris Savage, CEO and Co-Founder of Wistia, to explore the growing role of video in customer experience.   Video has become a powerful tool in sales and marketing, but how can it be leveraged to improve account experience and customer retention?   Drawing from the world of storytelling and the classic “Hero’s Journey” narrative, this e
Your First Customer Is Your Colleague
Your First Customer Is Your Colleague Jun 23, 2025 1654 Host Adam Dorrell welcomed back the outspoken and often hilarious Ben Phillips, CCXP, leader of Customer Experience in Fortune 500 companies, for the second time! He’s an author, CX professional, and top voice in the customer experience world — truly one of the few real experts in B2B CX. The two dove into the strategy gap in B2B CX programs and how internal experience is as important as measuring
The Two Speeds of Change in Customer Experience
The Two Speeds of Change in Customer Experience Jun 9, 2025 2147 What happens when Customer Experience (CX) moves from buzzword to boardroom priority? In this episode, Host Adam Dorrell was joined by Nienke Bloem, a globally recognized CX leader and educator with CSP and CCXP qualifications. She’s dedicated to working with customer experience leaders and elevating their CX impact. If you’ve seen her live or watched her videos, you’ll know her contagious energy
Challenging the C-Suite to Get On the Phone With Customers
Challenging the C-Suite to Get On the Phone With Customers Jun 4, 2025 2381 What happens when traditional B2B customer surveys fail spectacularly, yielding less than 1% response rates and delivering feedback that's months too late to act on?  Gerard Hutchings, Head of Business Development Strategy at RBC BlueBay Asset Management, found himself facing exactly this challenge in the asset management industry. But instead of accepting defeat, he created something revolutionar
Breaking the Mold: What Could a Disruptor Do in CPG Customer Experience?
Breaking the Mold: What Could a Disruptor Do in CPG Customer Experience? Mar 24, 2025 1906 Disruptors have made a large impact and step-changed performance in many other sectors. What if these 3 disruptors did exactly that to established customer experience (CX) approaches: Netflix, Uber, and Amazon? Hosted Adam Dorrell alongside Nigel Tordoff, Chair of the CPG Experience Council, discussed how consumer-focused technology companies like Amazon, Uber, and Netflix have disrupted tradition
The Power of Transparency in Leadership: How Getronics Builds Trust With Customers
The Power of Transparency in Leadership: How Getronics Builds Trust With Customers Mar 10, 2025 2022 In this episode of The Account Experience Podcast, host Adam Dorrell sits down with Bill Main, Director of Global Customer Success and Customer Experience at Getronics, to uncover the secrets behind building a truly customer-centric organization. Bill shares how Getronics achieves a 50% NPS response rate, why customer experience is more than just a number, and how leadership transparency builds tr
When the Champion Leaves, How Can the Team Pick up the Pieces?
When the Champion Leaves, How Can the Team Pick up the Pieces? Oct 24, 2024 2457 In this episode, Host Adam Dorrell spoke with Ragna Ghoreishi, a seasoned Vienna-based customer experience (CX) leader and owner of RagnaDigital, a boutique CX consultancy. Ragna spoke candidly about her experience at a global IT organization working on a large B2B CX project when suddenly the project sponsor and champion left. This is a situation Adam has seen in many companies. He asked Ragna
How Coca-Cola LATAM Aims to Deliver Experiences “Only Coke Can Do”
How Coca-Cola LATAM Aims to Deliver Experiences “Only Coke Can Do” Oct 23, 2024 1361 "Our ambition is to be the undisputed LATAM CX leader, delivering experiences 'Only Coke can do.'" In a special edition of the Account Experience Podcast, Adam Dorrell is in Bogota, Colombia, where he was one of the presenters at The Coca-Cola Experience Summit Latin America 2024. For its second year, the conference had 80+ attendees and 31 bottler operations represented, continuously serving as a
Closing the Loop Is Like a Ghost: Don’t Do It and It’ll Haunt You
Closing the Loop Is Like a Ghost: Don’t Do It and It’ll Haunt You Aug 26, 2024 1747 In this episode, Adam talks with a friend of the podcast and CustomerGauge Vice President of Customer Experience, Cary Self. He’s got years of optimizing experience and energizing entire workforces around navigating customer feedback and managing the follow-up process. Discussion topics include the right timing to follow up (48 hours is just the title of an Eddie Murphy film, not the time it shou

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