Uncontainable Growth

Ali Cudby is the Founder and CEO of Alignmint Growth Strategies, a consultancy transforming businesses through intentional customer experiences. As the author of the best-selling book Keep Your Customers, she specializes in customer experience and loyalty, employing a unique four-step method that she crafted from her extensive background in corporate planning, strategic marketing, and customer relations. Ali’s experience includes pivotal roles at the New York Times, Golf Digest, and Animal Planet TV network.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • [03:56] How Ali Cudby’s experience at the New York Times influenced her business philosophy
  • [09:37] The impact of making employees and customers feel valued and engaged
  • [11:56] Alignmint Growth Strategies’ unique brand mantra
  • [14:31] How adapting to AI can be a game-changer for contemporary businesses
  • [17:59] Practical steps to crafting customer retention strategies that eliminate churn
  • [22:06] The importance of aligning your company to serve customers effectively
  • [34:51] Advice for women leaders to embrace relationship-oriented leadership for long-term success

In this episode…

With one fundamental shift in your business approach, you can make a meaningful impact on your team and customers. Could crafting more intentional customer experiences be the key to explosive growth?

Ali Cudby, a customer experience maven, emphasizes developing retention strategies that make the customer feel seen, heard, and valued. This involves making small but powerful shifts in your communication and service-delivery tactics, which fosters customer and employee loyalty. You can enhance satisfaction by communicating service benefits from the customer’s perspective and developing a clear and consistent process for customer engagement.

In this episode of the Lead Like a Woman Show, Andrea Heuston welcomes Ali Cudby, the Founder and CEO of Alignmint Growth Strategies, for a discussion about crafting superior customer experiences. Ali talks about the “mint method,” her company’s unconventional name origins, and the importance of data in aligning your organization’s strategies.

Quotable Moments:

  • “When you make people feel seen, heard, and valued, that’s when you create long-term loyalty and customer retention.” – Ali Cudby
  • “AI becomes so powerful as it takes away the barriers to keeping information up to date and engaging with the customer more effectively.” – Ali Cudby
  • “Empathy is not just a soft skill, it’s a business strategy that underpins uncontainable growth.” – Ali Cudby
  • “The bullseye is about defining who we are for our customers, not just for ourselves.” – Ali Cudby
  • “Women leaders, listen to your relationship-oriented instincts; they hold the key to successful business outcomes.” – Ali Cudby

Action Steps:

1. Develop a clear and consistent process for customer engagement.

  • It ensures every employee understands how to make customers feel valued, fostering loyalty and retention.

2. Create a customer-centric mantra for your business.

  • It keeps the focus on customer experiences, driving decisions that enhance their satisfaction and loyalty.

3. Utilize AI tools to keep customer communication relevant and updated.

  • AI streamlines updating processes, making it easier to maintain fresh and engaging content for customers.

4. Communicate benefits from the customer’s perspective.

  • Doing so enhances empathy and relationship-building, leading to more effective customer interactions.

5. Foster an internal culture that prioritizes valuing employees.

  • When employees feel valued, they are more engaged and likely to deliver higher-quality customer service.

Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Artitudes Design by Andrea Heuston. Artitudes Design is an award-winning creative agency that has been creating visual communication for Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years. They have worked with notable companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Expedia, and have also served startups and nonprofit organizations.

They specialize in connecting speakers with audiences by creating visual value with presentations and through the creation of motion graphics, video, and content.

To learn more about Artitudes Design, visit their website today. Checkout their portfolio to see their previous projects, and contact them today to find out how they can help you bring your business a cut above the rest.

You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For!

Jess Weems Thibault is the VP of Growth at HireEducation, an organization dedicated to growing executive, sales, marketing, and product teams in the education sector. With an MBA from the University of Wisconsin and a solid background in secondary science education, Jess bridges the gap between teaching and ed tech. She has over a decade of experience in various nonprofit settings, including passion-driven involvement in middle school education.

Jess’s diverse career spans from being a self-employed artist to an energetic marketer, using her deep belief in human potential to shape the future of education and talent development.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • [3:30] How Jess Weems Thibault’s background as a teacher influenced her career in EdTech
  • [6:13] The role that creativity and structure play in Jess’s approach to education and technology
  • [10:32] How ed tech can transform teaching experience and student learning
  • [13:59] The significance of flexibility and support in the professional growth of women
  • [19:07] Why middle school education holds a special place for Jess
  • [25:51] The driving force behind Jess’s enthusiasm and passion
  • [30:04] The importance of believing that everything we need is already within ourselves

In this episode…

Ever felt like you’re waiting for someone or something to unlock your next step in life? What if the keys to your boldest moves and successes were always within you, just waiting to be realized?

Jess Weems Thibault, an educator turned growth marketer, explores her dual approach to making informed decisions that resonate with both the creative and analytical sides of problem-solving. Jess emphasizes the importance of believing in human potential and using our innate abilities to navigate the path of innovation and change. Reflecting on how her passion for maximizing human potential translates into her current role, Jess highlights the power of balancing your gut instinct with data for an enriched decision-making process. 

In this episode of the Lead Like a Woman Show, Andrea Heuston hosts Jess Weems Thibault, the VP of Growth at HireEducation, to discuss the power of informed decisions. Jess highlights the importance of ‘internal resources,’ such as self-belief and the combination of analytical and creative strengths, in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Quotable Moments:

  • “Humans are fascinating creatures, like, we have so much more capacity than we give ourselves credit for.”
  • “Good marketing should help people, right? It just helps them see the need that they have or know how to fix a need that they have.”
  • “There’s an energy in every conversation you have that has the potential to impact something else or be a connection later on.”
  • “I’ve always been obsessed with maximizing human potential.”
  • “You are the one you’ve been waiting for, everything you need or want is already within you.”

Action Steps:

1. Embrace a multi-disciplinary approach: Integrating various fields like education, marketing, and technology can spark innovation in your career.

  • This embraces the diversity of skills and knowledge, empowering leaders to tackle problems from different angles, as demonstrated by Jess.

2. Combine intuition with data in decision-making: Allow your gut feelings to guide you but back them up with factual data.

  • Balancing intuition and empirical evidence can lead to decisions that are both innovative and grounded, thus more likely to succeed.

3. Build, launch, and empower: Develop your ideas and give them life, but also empower others to take the reins.

  • Leverage personal leadership to initiate change, but foster a culture of ownership and innovation among team members for sustained growth.

4. Cultivate your unique superpower: Identify and harness your unique blend of skills and passions.

  • Recognizing and utilizing one’s distinctive capabilities can lead to more authentic and impactful leadership, as revealed by Jess’s left-brain right-brain synergy.

5. Maximize human potential: Seek to bring out the best in yourself and others by fostering environments of growth and learning.

  • Encouraging the development of potential in others can have a ripple effect, leading to a more engaged and productive workforce.

Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Artitudes Design by Andrea Heuston. Artitudes Design is an award-winning creative agency that has been creating visual communication for Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years. They have worked with notable companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Expedia, and have also served startups and nonprofit organizations.

They specialize in connecting speakers with audiences by creating visual value with presentations and through the creation of motion graphics, video, and content.

To learn more about Artitudes Design, visit their website today. Checkout their portfolio to see their previous projects, and contact them today to find out how they can help you bring your business a cut above the rest.

The Connector’s Advantage

Michelle Tillis Lederman is the Founder and CEO of Executive Essentials, a training company that provides communication and leadership programs and executive coaching services. She is an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach, and the author of four books, including The Connector’s Advantage.

As a former NYU professor, financial executive, and recovering CPA, Forbes named Michelle as one of the top 25 Professional Networking Professionals. She inspires individuals and organizations in the government, academia, Fortune 500, and nonprofit spaces to build relationships and get results. 

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • What led Michelle Tillis Lederman to write The Connector’s Advantage?
  • Cultivating mindsets to grow your influence and impact 
  • Michelle defines a connector and shares how to become one 
  • The 11 laws of likeability
  • Why Michelle wrote her early books
  • What is the Connected Leader Club?

In this episode…

Connecting and networking are crucial for personal and professional development. Anyone can be a connected leader. So how can you scale your influence and impact?

Versatile leader and networking professional Michelle Tillis Lederman has identified the core mindsets you must adopt to become an actionable leader. One approach involves cultivating a generous spirit by identifying ways to help others and maintaining curiosity about their situations. Connectors also prioritize relationships in each interaction and possess a keen sense of self-awareness. By being likable through authenticity, positive energy, and a confident self-image, you can empower those around you.

In this episode of The Lead Like a Woman Show, Andrea Heuston invites Michelle Tillis Lederman, the Founder and CEO of Executive Essentials, to speak about becoming a powerful connector. Michelle explains the qualities of a connector, her impetus to write her books, and how to join the Connected Leader Club.

Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Artitudes Design by Andrea Heuston. Artitudes Design is an award-winning creative agency that has been creating visual communication for Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years. They have worked with notable companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Expedia, and have also served startups and nonprofit organizations.

They specialize in connecting speakers with audiences by creating visual value with presentations and through the creation of motion graphics, video, and content.

To learn more about Artitudes Design, visit their website today. Checkout their portfolio to see their previous projects, and contact them today to find out how they can help you bring your business a cut above the rest.