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Customer Experience Council


The CMA CX Council educates CMA members about customer experience and helps them drive customer centricity in their organizations by sharing knowledge and best practices that foster sustainable growth.

Council Members

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Co-Chair

Bruce Symbalisty

Creative Director & Partner, Reality Engine Inc.

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CMA Forward Administrator

Canadian Marketing Association

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Lesley Haibach

Senior Vice-President, Ipsos Customer Experience, Ipsos Corp.

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Jennifer Lang

AVP, TD Marketing Analytics & Insights, TD Bank Group

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Rosie Gentile

SVP, 1:1 Strategy, Cossette Inc.

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Lori Franze

Director of Collector Engagement, LoyaltyOne, Co.

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Audrey Grant

Director, Digital Marketing eCommerce & Customer Experience, Scotiabank

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Shannon Katschilo

General Manager and VP Medallia Canada, Medallia Canada

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Anton Morrison

VP, Experience Design, Appnovation

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Baijul Shukla

Director, Member Services and Strategic Partners, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers

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Jennifer McLeod

Vice-President, Business Development, Teleperformance Canada

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John Chan

Managing Director, Pearl Strategy & Innovation Design Inc.

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Lori Steiner

Director, Membership & Loyalty Marketing, CAA South Central Ontario

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Ursula Green

VP, CXO, Halmyre

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Sue Donaldson

Senior Director, Customer Research and Voice, Loblaw Companies Ltd.

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Aleena Mazhar

SVP and Marketing Director, Fuse Marketing Group

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Meghan Sherwin

Vice President, Marketing, Keilhauer

Recent Articles Authored by Council

From AI adoption to AI trust: What CX leaders must get right now

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming embedded across customer experience (CX)—from service and personalization to marketing, analytics and creative. While AI adoption is accelerating, industry data shows that customer trust has not kept pace.

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CX governance: the missing link between strategy and execution

Customer experience (CX) has become a priority for most organizations. Leaders talk about being customer-first. Teams invest in journey maps, customer metrics, dashboards, service design and voice-of-customer programs.

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How customer experience builds trust and strengthens brand

In today’s marketplace, brands are no longer defined primarily by advertising, logos or positioning statements. They are defined by experience.

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From vision to value: lessons from building a customer strategy and CX function

Over the last several years, “customer-first” has become a highly used phrase in business.

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Coalition 2.0: Why linked loyalty beats standalone points in Canada

This article came together following a CMA CX Council meeting, attended by members of the CX Council along with Zim Maizlin, Senior Director, Loyalty, Tim Hortons.

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Customer listening paths: Explicit, implicit and algorithmic

Customer listening has evolved significantly over time. And now, we are entering another era of considerable change in how we listen to our customers.

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