#65: Transforming CX with AI plus People, Processes, and Platforms, with John Durocher, Calix

#65: Transforming CX with AI plus People, Processes, and Platforms, with John Durocher, Calix

Author: The Agile Brand October 14, 2025 Duration: 23:03

Are your people, processes, and platforms delivering value or to drive better customer experiences, or are they—and your CX—disconnected and siloed?

Agility requires a willingness to adapt and evolve, as well as a deep understanding of how customer trust is built (or broken) through simplicity, personalization, and empowered employees. 

Today, we're going to talk about how brands can transform their customer experience using AI-powered strategies. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome, John Durocher, Chief Customer Officer at Calix. 

 
About John Durocher
 
John Durocher leads the award-winning Calix Customer Success organization as chief customer officer. In his previous role as executive vice president of customer success at Salesforce, he led the teams actively engaged with Salesforce global customers. Prior to joining Salesforce.com, Mr. Durocher spent 17 years with Accenture's financial services practice and has a solid track record of planning, and executing growth initiatives, and a passion for bringing innovative ideas to clients.

Mr. Durocher is recognized as a thought-leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), authoring a number of papers and articles that have been published in industry and research publications.

Mr. Durocher has also been actively involved in developing software solutions for the Financial Services Industry and is a patent holder on several that have been deployed globally.
 
John Durocher on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndurocher/
 
Resources 
 
Calix: https://www.calix.com

Don't miss Calix's ConneXions conference, October 18 – 21, 2025 at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas. Learn more and register here: https://www.calix.com/events/connexions.html

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