This week's episode features a "from the vault" discussion with Annette Franz.Annette’s the founder and CEO of CX Journey Inc., a customer experience strategy consulting firm that helps clients ensure that the customer is at the center of all they do.As a seasoned Customer Experience veteran with over 30 years of experience, Annette’s held CX leadership roles at some of the top brands in the country including J.D. Power, Fidelity, and Mattel. And her latest book was just released this month! Built to Win: Designing a Customer-Centric Culture That Drives Value for Your Business.While lots of experts talk about the value of customer-centric experiences, there aren’t enough lessons out there on how to build a customer-centric culture in your organization and how to ensure that the customer is fully ingrained into your organization’s DNA. And that’s just what Annette focuses on in Built to Win, and we take a deep-dive discussion into those lessons.Some of the topics we discuss include:The difference between being customer-focused and being customer-centric and the value of a customer-centric cultureThe barriers to creating a customer-centric cultureThe value of defining both behaviors and anti-behaviors that tie to your organization’s valuesWhy your employees should come “more first” [that’s not a typo!]How to ensure your customer experience thinking is outside-in vs inside-outHow to apply the Platinum Rule to your customer experienceRESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODEAnnette's siteAnnette on LinkedInAnnette's book - Built to Win: Designing a Customer-Centric Culture That Drives Value For Your BusinessAnnette's book - Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the "Customer" in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business)