Carol Buehrens
As your faculty chair, Carol Buehrens is a customer experience strategist, author, keynote speaker and educator. Her best-selling customer experience book, "" provides practical advice to bring customer experience best practices to your own organization.
Focusing on constructing extraordinary experiences for over 30 years, Buehrens has led numerous teams to success at large corporations, including Northrop, McDonnell-Douglas, Bechtel, Liberty Mutual, GE, Mercury Marine and ICW Group Insurance Companies. At Northrop (now Northrop Grumman), Buehrens innovated the learning experience to meet and surpass the requirements of the government development contract for the B2 Bomber program, leading the way for disrupting how 3D Modeling and Design engineering training was traditionally conducted. Her tutorial-facilitated program would go on to train over 15,000 engineers for numerous stealth programs, far exceeding contract expectations.
For the past 20 years, she has lead teams in the improvement of customer experience. In her 18 years at ICW Group, she actively helped the organization grow from a $40M company to over $3B in business annually. Her passion for improving customer experience has resulted in numerous awards, including the “CX Innovation Award” from the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), the ICW Group CEO Award and the Liberty Mutual Star Award. She has been listed in the top 20 of the since 2015. She is a founding member and expert of the international Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA) and an active member of the San Diego Customer Experience Special Interest Group (CX SIG).
Buehrens provides corporate and educational workshops on customer experience worldwide. She brought to fruition the first university-backed, accredited Customer Experience Certificate Program, now taught across the nation and internationally at leading universities.
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Michael Truett
Michael Truett is known for creating, improving and executing collaborative design thinking sessions and customer experience frameworks across diverse industries (media, streaming services, education technology, health and wellness, SaaS, PaaS) at different stages of growth — early-stage start-ups, seasoned companies looking to transform, high growth and declining businesses.
His experience includes roles as a professor, board member, keynote speaker to leading global business transformation (B2B, B2C, B2B2C), business development/launch strategy, lifecycle management, AI transformation and all stages of the customer journey at companies like Spotify, The New York Times, Dow Jones and more.
Truett's passion for DT and CX is based upon his adventurous lifestyle. He has a love for traveling, experiencing new cultures, surfing, golfing, running ultra marathons, participating in triathlons and spending time with his friends and family.
Client initiatives he supports include customer-obsessed strategic planning, experience journey and persona mapping, AI transformation, CRM/omni-channel transformation, strategic business and product-level transformation and operational best practices, among others.
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JP Saini
As chief information officer for TRC, Saini focuses on leveraging technology to digitally transform business and support profitable growth through improving customer experiences. He is passionate about the mix of CX and technology and the impact of ensuring infrastructure is reliable, maintainable, scalable, flexible and secure for all customers.
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