Jeanne Bliss

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About Jeanne Bliss

Jeanne Bliss is not an observer of how businesses grow through customer focus and experience - before writing and speaking on the topic - she pioneered practices for how to do this work for 25 years. Reporting to the CEOs of Lands' End, Microsoft, Allstate, Mazda and Coldwell Banker corporations - she held the very first customer experience or chief customer officer role within those organizations. She learned how to push the customer rock up the hill by having it strapped to her own back - where she learned the skills to transform a company to earn the right to growth - by improving customers' lives. And in doing so, has become one of the chief architects of the customer experience movement.

As a result of her background, Jeanne has an unparalleled ability to guide with relevance and impact - how exactly to do this work - as only one who has lived it can. She has driven achievement of 95 percent loyalty rates, improving customer experiences across 50,000-person organizations inside five major US corporations, moving the customer to the strategic agenda, and redirecting priorities to create transformational changes and customer-driven business growth. And since 2002, has guided leaders around the world as a coach to every business vertical on how to lead differently - to honor customers and employees at the end of their decisions.

Jeanne is the author of the groundbreaking book, "Chief Customer Officer" (Jossey-Bass, 2006): the first of its kind to address the role of the customer leadership executive. It quickly became a bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. Her second book, "I Love You More than My Dog: Five Decisions that Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad," (Portfolio, 2001) was also a bestseller and translated into five languages. Her third book, "Chief Customer Officer 2.0" (Wiley) is a staple and highly sought resource for customer experience professionals everywhere. Her fourth book, "Would You Do that To Your Mother? The "Make Mom Proud Standard For How to Treat Your Customer" is Bliss' gift to leaders, service and CX practitioners, to make the work she has pioneered achievable and actionable - from every level of the organization.

Jeanne is a highly sought after speaker, keynoting high profile conferences and corporate events. She has spoken for speaking clients such as Intuit, Pella Windows, Staples, Activision, MetLife, Zappos, and AARP, and has appeared in major media outlets such as Nasdaq, Fast Company, Forbes, MSNBC, The Associated Press and The Conference Board. She is the co-founder of the Customer Experience Professional's Association.

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Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine May 28, 2015

by Jeanne Bliss

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A Customer Experience Roadmap to Transform Your Business and Culture

Chief Customer Officer 2.0 will give you a proven framework that has launched and advanced the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical around the world.

And it will take years off your learning curve.

Written by Jeanne Bliss, worldwide authority on customer experience, and preeminent thought leader on the role of the Customer Leadership Executive (such as Chief Customer Officer, Vice President of Customer Experience, etc.) this book follows the five-competency model she uses to coach the C-Suite and Chief Customer Officers.

1. Manage and Honor Customers as Assets

2. Align Around Experience

3. Build a Customer Listening Path

4. Proactive Experience Reliability and Innovation

5. One Company Accountability, Leadership & Decision Making

Chief Customer Officer 2.0 will get you into action quickly with a united leadership team, and will shift your business intent to earning the right to growth by improving customers’ lives. Jeanne Bliss fearlessly shares her tools and leadership ‘recipe cards’ for leading and enabling your business transformation. And she provides practical guidance on how embed the five competencies into how your company develops products, goes to market, enables and rewards people, and conducts annual planning.

Including over forty accounts of actions by Customer Leadership Executives around the world, this is the book you have been waiting for that tells it like it is and gives you the framework to build your customer-driven growth engine.

Jeanne Bliss pioneered the Customer Leadership Executive position, holding the role for twenty years at Lands’ End, Allstate, Coldwell Banker, Mazda and Microsoft Corporations. Since 2002 she has led CustomerBliss, a preeminent customer experience transformation company where she helps companies achieve customer-driven growth. She is a worldwide keynote speaker, and sought frequently by major media for her point of view. Jeanne is the co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, established to advance the worldwide discipline of customer experience and customer experience practitioners. She is also the best-selling author of Chief Customer Officer: Getting Past Lip Service to Passionate Action (2006), and I Love You More than My Dog: Five Decisions to Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad (2011).

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Would You Do That to Your Mother?: The "Make Mom Proud" Standard for How to Treat Your Customers May 8, 2018

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Customer experience pioneer Jeanne Bliss shows why “Make Mom Proud” companies outperform their competition. Her 5-step guide to customer experience and culture transformation makes this achievement possible.

Bliss urges companies to make business personal to earn ardent fans and admirers, by focusing on one deceptively simple question: "Would you do that to your mother?"

“Make Mom Proud” companies give customers the treatment they desire, and employees the ability to deliver it. They turn “gotcha” moments into “we’ve got your back” moments by rethinking business practices, and they enable employees to be part of the solution to fix customer frustrations.

Bliss scoured the marketplace seeking companies who excel at living their core values, grounded in what we all learned as kids. She offers a five-step plan for evaluating your current behaviors and implementing actions at every level of the organization.

Step 1. “Be the Person I Raised You to Be”
Understand how you are hiring, developing and trusting employees to bring the best version of themselves to work. Vail resorts, for example, the world's largest ski resort operator, banned the three words "Our policy is..." from their vocabulary, freeing employees to take spirited actions to deliver "the experience of a lifetime."

Step 2. “Don’t Make Me Feed You Soap”
Learn the eight key frustrations that bind us as customers (waiting, fear, anxiety, the black hole of no communication, etc.) and how to apply actions from companies who are delivering a seamless, frictionless and easy experience.

Step 3. “Put Others Before Yourself”
Determine if your focus is on helping customers achieve their goals – and evaluate how that is fueling your growth. Canada's Mayfair Diagnostics, for example, spent over a year studying the emotions of patients entering an imaging clinic, so they could redesign their welcome to deliver warmth and caring over procedure and process. The newly designed clinic achieved profitability in record time.

Step 4. “Take the High Road”
Learn how companies who do the right thing rise above the competition. Virgin Hotels, for example, named #1 U.S. hotel by Conde Nast Reader's Choice Awards, walked away from price gouging at the mini bar, so you'll never pay more for that Snickers bar than what you'd pay at the corner market.

Step 5. “Stop the Shenanigans!”
Evaluate your current company behaviors and identify the key actions that you can begin immediately.

With 32 case studies and examples from more than 85 companies, this is a practical and easy to follow guide for your experience and culture transformation. Filled with comics to snapshot our experiences as customers, a “mom lens” to reflect continuously on your performance, and a “make-mom-proud-ometer” quiz – the book makes Bliss’s approach accessible and approachable.

Join the movement to #MakeMomProud by applying this book across your organization.

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"I Love You More Than My Dog": Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad Oct 6, 2009

by Jeanne Bliss

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Hundreds of businesses have customers who admire them, but only an elite few have true advocates— passionate, loyal, vocal fans—who rave about them to anyone who will listen.

Jeanne Bliss, who served as a senior customer executive at five major companies, says there’s no shortcut to becoming beloved—you can’t hire a fancy marketing firm to get there. You earn it by how you decide to run your business—as Wegman’s and Harley-Davidson have for decades and as relatively new companies like Zipcar and Zappos are doing right now.

After studying and working with dozens of beloved companies, Bliss has identified five key decisions that lead to customer devotion:

• Decide to believe
• Decide with clarity of purpose
• Decide to be real
• Decide to be there
• Decide to say “sorry”
Her examples and advice will help readers sustain growth and profit even in a tough economy.

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