216. How to Serve Customers Faster, Better, and Smarter at Scale | Alvin Stokes
About this episode
Alvin Stokes discusses the importance of emotional intelligence in AI deployments for enhancing customer experience and generating revenue.
Most companies are rushing to deploy AI faster than their competitors. Alvin Stokes of Princess Cruises says that is exactly the wrong instinct. Speed without emotional intelligence does not create better guest experiences. It creates tools your frontline team will not use, prototypes your customers will not trust, and revenue you will not recover. Alvin has spent two years inside one of the most guest-focused industries in the world, generating a nine-figure incremental revenue gain from AI programs by doing one thing most leaders skip: proving it works before scaling it. This episode is for any leader who wants to move fast with AI without breaking the customer relationship in the process. What You Will Learn About AI, Guest Experience, and Emotionally Intelligent CX: Why emotional intelligence is the missing ingredient in most AI deployments, and how Princess Cruises builds it into every tool before agents ever touch it The blueprint Alvin's team uses to prototype fast, pilot heavily, fail quickly, and scale only what actually works, producing a nine-figure revenue gain in 12 months How AI is changing what "listening to customers" means, from three-month-old NPS surveys to…
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