Healthy Leaders Create Extraordinary Experiences, Episode 266

August 06, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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… Read Full Article

How to Build Accountability Without Micromanaging, Ep 265

August 06, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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 without micromanaging…. Read Full Article

The Friction Tax: Are You Trapping Customers? Episode 264

July 30, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

The Customer 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… Read Full Article

Crisis Management: What Customers Remember Most, Episode 263

July 23, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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… Read Full Article

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Who Really Owns Customer Experience? (part two) Build Teams that Make CX Stick, Episode 262

July 16, 2026 | By: John DiJulius and Dave Murray (Co-Author)

Who Really Owns the Customer Experience, part two 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… Read Full Article

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Who Really Owns Customer Experience? Episode 261

July 09, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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,… Read Full Article

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260: Why Leaders Must Be Great Storytellers

July 02, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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,… Read Full Article

259: Why Customer Experience Transformations Fail in the Middle

June 25, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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… Read Full Article

258: When Service Innovation Makes Customer Experience Worse

June 18, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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 in AI,… Read Full Article

257: Happy Employees Create Happy Customers? Not Automatically

June 11, 2026 | By: John DiJulius

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 oversimplified… Read Full Article