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Isabelle Zdatny

Author Bio

Isabelle is an XM Catalyst with the Qualtrics XM Institute. She helps large organizations design and operate successful experience management (XM) programs by producing industry thought leadership, developing and delivering training, consulting with companies, and speaking on key XM topics and trends. She currently leads the XM Institute’s research into how companies identify, design, and deploy innovative new experiences. Other areas of expertise include digital CX design, metrics management, consumer psychology and emotions, and behavioral economics. Prior to its acquisition in 2018, Isabelle spent five years working at Temkin Group – a research, consulting, and training firm dedicated to helping many of the world’s largest brands accelerate their experience transformation efforts. Isabelle is a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) and a graduate from Wellesley College.

Articles attributed to Isabelle Zdatny


The Evolution to Modern Experience Management

Over the last several years, we’ve seen organizations increasingly invest in efforts to better listen and respond to the needs of customers and employees. While organizations often prioritize these ...

By Bruce Temkin, Isabelle Zdatny


The State of CX in the Retail Banking Industry

To understand how the quality of customers’ experiences varies across industries, XM Institute conducts annual large-scale U.S. consumer studies. As part of these studies, we ask respondents to rate...

By Isabelle Zdatny, Katie Johnson, Talia Quaadgras


Examining 12 Years of Consumer Trust Ratings

Qualtrics XM Institute publishes an annual trust rating across industries.1 Based on a review of our 2022 and 2023 results, we found that: Groceries are the most trusted. With a trust rating of ...

By Bruce Temkin, Isabelle Zdatny


The State of CX in the Health Insurance Industry, 2023

To understand how the quality of customers’ experiences varies across industries, XM Institute conducts annual large-scale U.S. consumer studies. As part of these studies, we ask respondents to rate...

By Isabelle Zdatny, Noah Gilbertson, Talia Quaadgras


10 Lessons Learned from 1,000 Value Assessments

Over the past four years, Qualtrics’ Value Advisory team has conducted over 1,000 value assessments with XM professionals. These assessments have focused on securing budget for new XM investments, t...

By Isabelle Zdatny, Topher Mitchell


Seven Types of Data for Modern XM Programs

A Modern Experience Management (XM) program – whether that’s a customer experience (CX) or employee experience (EX) program – needs to be capable of coordinating and consolidating the collection...

By Isabelle Zdatny, Terry Anderson


What Will Generative AI Mean for Your XM Efforts?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from a domain for geeky discussions to a mainstream topic of interest. While AI has been around for decades, the introduction of Generative AI (“Gen AI”) m...

By Bruce Temkin, Isabelle Zdatny


Do Your Executives Have the Ambition Necessary For XM Success? Assess It.

Experience Management (XM) programs are ultimately about driving change: change in people’s behaviors, change in operating processes, and change in strategic priorities and investments. But this lev...

By Bruce Temkin, Isabelle Zdatny


Tips for Designing Action-Centric Dashboards for Executives

Executive dashboards are a critical Experience Management (XM) tool as they provide senior leaders with easy visibility into the progress and impact of the organisation’s customer or employee experi...

By Isabelle Zdatny, James Scutt


How XM-Centric Is Your Culture? Assess It.

As we’ve described in the XM Operating Framework, organizational Culture is one of the three building blocks of a successful Experience Management (XM) program, along with Technology and Competencie...

By Bruce Temkin, Isabelle Zdatny


The Path to Building a Modern Digital CX Program

Digital CX is Integral to Business Success In today’s world, every single business is a “digital business.” In the wake of the pandemic, we’ve moved beyond the Digital Transformation Era and ...

By Bruce Temkin, Isabelle Zdatny, Juliana Holterhaus


Establishing an EX Center of Excellence to Drive HR Impact

Many organizations have some employee listening projects underway, but these efforts tend to be decentralized and forfeit the full potential of strategic employee experience (EX) management. In an eff...

By Cecelia Herbert, Isabelle Zdatny


Accelerate B2B CX Programs with Robust Governance, Listening Portfolios, and Engaged Employees

While building a successful, sustainable customer experience (CX) program is never easy, business-to-business (B2B) firms must contend with unique environmental complexities – such as multiple custo...

By Isabelle Zdatny, Moira Dorsey


Introducing 2023, The Year of Empathy

Let’s face it, everyone can use more empathy. We need to improve how we collectively treat customers, patients, visitors, members, employees, colleagues, partners, friends, family members, and even ...

By Cecelia Herbert, Isabelle Zdatny


The Three Core Functions of a CX Center of Excellence

Organizations looking to mature their customer experience (CX) programs often establish a CX Center of Excellence (CoE). Since we’ve been hearing a lot of questions about the topic, we decided to pr...

By Bruce Temkin, Greg Chase, Isabelle Zdatny