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# 250: Lessons From 250 Episodes With Customer Focused Business Leaders From Across The World

By **Adrian Brady Cesana** November 26, 2024

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Hey CX Nation,

We're celebrating a huge milestone with this week's episode. Over the last 6+ years we've captured and chronicled 250 unique episodes & stories with various customer focused business leaders & Founders from across the world.

We decided for this episode to go back and feature some of the best learnings, findings & CTAs from some of our favorite guests over the years & break them out into short-clips across the Four CX Pillars: Team, Tools, Process & Feedback.

Our goal was to aggregate the key learnings & findings for future Founders & Executives to use as a foundation when thinking through how to build and design not only their business but their customer & employee experiences as they scale into the future.

\*\*Episode #250 Highlight Reel:\*\*

1\. Pillar #1 Team -- featured guests include:  
**Alex Ross (Co-Founder & COO at Hire Horatio) in CXCP #198  
Lloyd Lobo (Co-Founder & Board Member at Boast + CEO of a new stealth startup) CXCP #208  
Vivek Bhaskaran (Founder & CEO at QuestionPro) CXCP #245  
Trey Wade (Head of Consumer Experience at Molson-Coors Beverage Company) CXCP #232**

2\. Pillar #2 Tools featured guests include:  
**Lee Roquet (CEO at Finch) CXCP #123 & CXCP #238  
Kristi Faltarusso (CCO at Client Success) CXCP #169  
Somya Kapoor (Co-Founder & CEO) CXCP #199  
Lynn Schlesinger (CXO at Forbes) CXCP #241  
Craig Tobin (CEO at Ascent Business Partners) CXCP #248**

3\. Pillar #3 Process featured guests include:  
**Erik Huberman (Founder & CEO at Hawke Media) CXCP #240  
Uku Tomikas (CEO at Messente Communications) CXCP #214  
Melissa Kwan (Co-Founder & CEO at eWebinar) CXCP #204  
John Spottiswood (Chief Operating & Data Officer at Jerry) CXCP #234  
Dennis Yu (CEO of Blitzmetrics) CXCP #135  
Deon Nicholas (Founder & CEO at Forthought AI) CXCP #175  
Declan Ivory (VP of Global Customer Support at Intercom) CXCP #205  
Vasco Pedro (Co-Founder & CEO at Unbabel) CXCP #139**

4\. Pillar #4 Feedback featured guests include:  
**Morgan J. Ingram (Founder & CEO at AMP) CXCP #196  
Nick Francis (Founder & CEO at Help Scout) CXCP #163  
Steve Cornwell (Serial Founder & Investor) CXCP #203  
Natalie Onions (VP of Customer Experience at Customer.io) CXCP #190  
Bill Staikos (Head of CX at BNY Mellon) CXCP #166  
Ethan Beute (Principal Brand Marketing Strategist at Zillow, Follow Up Boss) CXCP #176**

Huge thanks to all of the other incredible guests that we've had the fortune of having on the show. Most importantly, thanks to the 10K+ members of the "CX Nation" for tuning into the podcast each and every week and making this show & our business a reality.

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