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She Started With the Call Center, Then Changed the Culture

Suzie Dieth, VP and Chief Experience Officer at NRG and CMSWire's 2026 CX Leader of the Year, joins CX Decoded to trace nearly 21 years of building a CX program from scra

Databricks, Tealium and Treasure AI: 3 CDPs, 1 Stage

Three competing CDP vendors — Tealium, Treasure AI and Databricks — join CX Decoded for an unusually candid panel on real-time activation, the orchestration layer and why

Inside Erica's Brain: What 8 Years and 3 Billion Chats Taught Bank of America

Jorge Camargo, Head of Digital Platforms at Bank of America, joins CX Decoded to discuss the eight-year evolution of Erica, the bank's AI assistant — covering scale, pers

Clarks' AI Playbook: Product Feeds, Brand Mentions and the New Customer Journey

Clarks' Mario Protano joins CX Decoded to unpack how AI is reshaping product discovery, why brand mentions are replacing clicks as a success metric, and how the 200-year-

How Loyalty Credit Union Built an AI Bot Members Actually Trust

Jessica Herring, VP of Member Experience at Loyalty Credit Union, joins CX Decoded to talk AI chatbot design, member trust, and why she skipped the NPS score entirely.

Price Gets You in the Room. It Doesn't Keep You There.

Justin Racine, chief digital officer at Geriatric Medical & Surgical Supply, joins CX Decoded to explain why B2B buyers are more emotional than the industry assumes — and

Marketing's Job Now? Systems Engineer, Not Just Storyteller

Dexian CMO Kip Havel joins CX Decoded to talk about the expanding scope of the marketing job — from rebrand strategy to AI skepticism to why customer feedback nobody aske

Security, Service and the Chick-fil-A Standard: A Chief Customer Officer's 12-Year Journey

Brinks Home chief customer officer Veronica Moturi joins CX Decoded host Dom Nicastro to explain how a security and home automation company rebuilt its call center from t

Content as Infrastructure: A Different Way to Think About CMS

Sanity CEO and co-founder Magnus Hillestad joins CX Decoded to argue that content management has been solving the wrong problem for years — treating content as a marketin

The Eggfluencer, the Algorithm and the Egg Carton: Marketing's New Frontier

Pete & Gerry's Organics CMO Phyllis Rothschild joins Dom Nicastro on the CMO Circle podcast to talk premium egg marketing, brand building and the evolving consumer journe

The Compass Program: Charter Steel's Five-Year CX Bet

Brian Mekka spent 15 years managing CX for 60 million Kohl's shoppers. Now he's doing it for 300 steel buyers — and the stakes are completely different. Charter Steel's d

From the Bullpen to the Bot Strategy: Wellfleet's Ben Larsen on Digital Experience in Insurance

Ben Larsen has spent nine years inside a company that built its reputation on something increasingly rare in insurance: actually caring. Wellfleet Insurance — a Berkshire

Roll Tide to ROI: How Alabama Football Shaped LGI Homes' VP of Marketing

Hayden Clark went from coaching wide receivers at Vanderbilt and working on Nick Saban's staff at Alabama to VP of Marketing at LGI Homes, where he now leads five in-hous

More AI, More Problems: Why This CMO Says Slow Down

Allison Kavanagh didn't come to this conversation to celebrate AI. The CMO of Inflow Health came to interrogate it. Her company exists because follow-up care gaps — the k

The Contact Center OG Running CX for a Luxury Women's Brand

Tyler Gardner has been in the contact center world since he was 18, taking calls for DiscoverCard off a paper dial sheet. Today, he runs customer experience for Cuyana, t

Drupal Founder: AI's the Ultimate Business Stress Test

Drupal founder and Acquia executive chairman Dries Buytaert joins CX Decoded fresh off DrupalCon Chicago to break down how AI is disrupting every leg of the open source e

How AT&T Turns Customer Obsession Into Practice

In this episode of CX Decoded, Dom Nicastro distills a CMSWire TV conversation with AT&T's John Miller into five essential takeaways on customer obsession. From employee

How NiCE's Rebrand Reflects the New Reality of Customer Experience

CX Decoded dives into how contact centers and digital teams turn customer interactions into real business value. In this episode, host Dom Nicastro sits down with Barry C

From Headset to C-Suite: Miranda Collard on CX Leadership

In this episode of CX Decoded, Editor-in-Chief Dom Nicastro sits down with Miranda Collard, Global Chief Client Officer at TP, to explore her remarkable journey from head

Top 2025 Moves for CMOs and CX Leaders

In this episode of CX Decoded, Editor-in-Chief Dom Nicastro sits down with CMSWire's VP of Research, Sarah Kimmel, to unpack top findings from two pivotal reports: the 20