Words Matter: What Leaders Can Learn from What Customers Say

Rebecca Gibson, Gibson Learning and Performance, is a tireless contact center advocate who believes passionate, connected employees are the key to memorable customer experiences. She specializes in practical, creative approaches to contact center training, employee development and support, performance management, and contact center quality. 

With over 20 years of contact center experience, Rebecca has worked in HR and recruiting, training and development, software product design, and consulting leadership. Her consulting and training experience includes Genesys, Magellan Health Services, ICMI, and extended engagements with USAA, Convergys, Verizon Wireless, and Covered California. She’s a frequent contributor to Contact Center Pipeline and other industry publications and currently serves on the ICMI Advisory Board. Connect with her at in/rebeccargibson/and @gibsonlearning.

Nate Brown loves two things very much...customer experience and community. Fortunately, these concepts go hand-in-hand! As a community builder, Nate co-founded CX Accelerator in 2018. Quickly growing to well over four thousand members, this vibrant collection of CX leaders is helping one another to maximize their career and accomplish remarkable things in service to others.

As a Customer Experience executive and consultant, Nate has built up contact centers from scratch, anchored complex CX functions, and helped to foster exceptional employee-customer connections in dozens of organizations. He's worked in a variety of industries including gaming, SaaS, technology, retail and healthcare for brands such as CHEP, WB Games, UL, and Sunbasket. Nate serves as the Head of Education and Enablement for Metric Sherpa.

Shortly after authoring The Ultimate CX Primer, Brown was dubbed the “CX Influencer of the Year” by CloudCherry, and a top global CX thought leader by ICMI, CX Network, Exceeders, Netomi, and MartechVibe to name a few. Nate was voted "most impactful influencer in the CX landscape for 2023" by Kustomer. He has been widely recognized for a unique ability to infuse energy and excitement into the work of CX for employees at all levels of the organization. When not "CX'ing, Brown is a competitive disc golfer, certified pickleball instructor, husband and 2X girl dad.

E-WRITE’s Leslie O'Flahavan has helped thousands of people learn to write well for online customers. She delivers customized writing courses for frontline agents, social media managers, and contact center managers. She is a problem-solver for all the writing challenges faced by contact centers: email, chat, text, and social media. She helps contact centers train agents to write well, measure the quality of their writing, and rewrite their template libraries. In 2018, she completed an overhaul of customer service writing for a global airline’s domestic and international contact centers. Since 2015, Leslie’s been on ICMI’s Top 50 Thought Leaders on Twitter list. She's a LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) trainer for the courses “How to Write Customer Service Email,” “Serving Customers Through Chat and Text,” and “Serving Customers Using Social Media.” Leslie is also the author of Clear, Correct, Concise E-Mail: A Writing Workbook for Customer Service Agents. Connect with Leslie at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @LeslieO.

Ron Stevenson is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Dialpad Contact Center. Based in Seattle, Ron has many years of industry experience launching software products for cloud, mobile, social, and telephony, with companies like Genesys, Salesforce, Microsoft, and several Seattle-area startups.