Discovering CX Transformation
Based on her PhD in CX and her 25+ years of experience driving CX transformation programs globally, dr. Zanna van der Aa explains the core concepts of Customer Experience transformation, navigating you through the sense and nonsense, sharing do's and don'ts, lessons learnt and successful, inspiring interventions.
She combines her scientific background with a very no-nonsense, pragmatic, energizing approach that you can apply immediately in your day-to-day work. Always connecting it to her vision of creating more Human Centric organisations by focusing on the three pillars of successful CX transformation: customers, employees and purpose.
Discovering CX Transformation
From Ideas to Impact: What Happens When Every Employee Steps into the Customer’s Shoes | EPS #54
In this episode, Zanna sits down with 25-year-old transformation lead Fahed Alshammari to unpack how Zain turned a one-line challenge—“infuse customer experience into the DNA of every Zainer”—into Unity, a region-wide culture movement. Fahed traces his leap from a dusty construction site to Zain’s innovation hub, where he helped crowd-source 600 frontline ideas in the first year. Purpose lectures and workshops then engaged ≈800 colleagues to co-create the telco’s first formal purpose statement, rooting CX in what employees genuinely care about. The result: CX ownership lives far beyond a department—it shows up in spontaneous elevator pitches and cross-country teamwork.
Together we strip the playbook to its essentials: Customer → Employee → Purpose, led by leaders who make themselves human. Fahed shares how Unity’s C-suite sponsors take an active role—recording frank video podcasts, modelling tiny habits, and backing every story with hard numbers—to turn buy-in into action. His final advice: draft a rock-solid six-month plan, AB-test just 5 % before you scale, and tell the personal stories that ignite change. If you’re wrestling with CX transformation, this conversation reveals how to sprint from ideas to impact—fast.
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