Tune in as we share real-talk conversations between women working in CX and those influencing the CX agenda from the periphery too.
Clare Muscutt talks with Adi Tobias about CX in platform-based businesses and neurodivergence as a CX superpower!
“But I think now working in an environment where I can legitimately show up to work like this, and lead a team like this, and present in any which fashion – nose ring, hair, coloured lips, coloured nails – ‘Doesn’t matter. We’re interested in your work. We’re interested in what you can put together. We’re interested in the way you lead.’ I think that is so, so important in leveraging the benefits of having people who aren’t neurotypical because it’s magical. It’s magical to have a brain that works like this. It is. I fully believe it. I sell it to my team. If I go off on a little rant, they know to bring me back to the conversation because ‘Full disclosure: this is who I am. I love what I do. And sometimes, I don’t necessarily, can’t necessarily stay in the conversation like you can, but it’s worth it. Like stick it out with me and you’ll see the benefit.’ And it typically…”
Clare Muscutt talks with Gita Samani about CX and Digital Transformation, Perfectionism, and Beating Burnout
“And I think when we spoke, as you said, you recognised it in yourself, as well, when we both sat here and we’re like… and we just literally breathed. We just breathed. And I think that was so important to realise that it’s not just yourself; there are other women out there or people out there – not just women – there are people out there who are feeling this way because they are striving for so much. And, you know, I do think it’s a symptom of my own making that I am a bit of a perfectionist and I like to make sure that everything is right, and everything is done properly. And I do get slightly irritated when it doesn’t happen, and it’s something I have been pulled up on. But sometimes, you just have to let the small things go, and you have to…”