{"id":126,"date":"2026-11-01T11:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cxm.academy\/en-ae\/michel-stevens\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:59:40","slug":"michel-stevens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cxm.academy\/en-ae\/michel-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull cxm-v6 cxm-v6-hero cxm-v6-hero-full cxm-v6-hero-fade has-soft-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide cxm-wrap is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-hero-grid is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-hero-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-eyebrow wp-block-paragraph\">Founder &amp; Course Director<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading cxm-v6-h1\">Michel Stevens<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-lede wp-block-paragraph\">I don't build courses for one team. I build them for the whole organization.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cxm-v6-btn-navy\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#programs\">See his programs<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/en-ae\/courses-teams\/\">Train your team<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full cxm-v6-hero-bg\"><img srcset=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/michel-stage.webp 1x\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/michel-stage.jpg\" alt=\"Michel Stevens on stage under a slide that reads Customer experience, more than meets the AI\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull cxm-v6 cxm-v6-thesis has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide cxm-wrap is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-g2 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-stack is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-eyebrow wp-block-paragraph\">The thesis<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most CX programs fail for the same reason<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-stack is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone trains one team and sends them back into an organization that hasn't been trained. The customer keeps traveling across marketing, sales, product, operations and service, and keeps meeting people who are not in the same conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michel built CXM Academy to fix that: customer fluency across the whole organization, so the people who make decisions about customers actually understand them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today CXM Academy reaches sixteen countries, from France to Indonesia to Argentina. Michel hosts the CXM Academy Podcast, with long-form episodes on how customer experience differs across countries and cultures and short-form episodes with practitioners, and he leads two of the academy's flagship programs.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"programs\" class=\"wp-block-group alignfull cxm-v6 cxm-v6-programs-band has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide cxm-wrap is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-head is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-eyebrow wp-block-paragraph\">His programs<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two programs. One refusal to treat CX as a department.<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-g2 cxm-v6-fac-programs is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-card is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-tags is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-tag wp-block-paragraph\">Flagship program<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full cxm-v6-media\"><img srcset=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/v6-card-professional.webp 1x\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/v6-card-professional.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling CX manager during a CXM Professional class\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CXM Professional<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-skill-course wp-block-paragraph\">Map. Measure. Manage. Master.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-body wp-block-paragraph\">Five modules and a capstone, designed for the people who own a CX program inside their organization. Every learner walks out with a CX strategic plan: a working document that argues for the case, names the customer, picks the journey priorities and manages the change.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list cxm-v6-facts\">\n<li><strong>Financial argument:<\/strong> frame CX in the language Finance and the executive committee actually use.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Voice of Customer system:<\/strong> design a Voice of Customer that produces decisions and foundational insights.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Journey management:<\/strong> journey management that drives change, including the operational reality behind every step.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Change management:<\/strong> Service Design, ADKAR and other techniques, applied to the reality you work in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-who wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Michel's promise:<\/strong> a working CX program that you can use on Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-card-foot is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-price wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EUR 495<\/strong> per person, self-paced<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-chips is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-chip wp-block-paragraph\">Online<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-chip wp-block-paragraph\">Classroom<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/en-ae\/course\/cxm-professional-eng\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: CXM Professional<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-card is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-tags is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-tag wp-block-paragraph\">CXM Skills<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full cxm-v6-media\"><img srcset=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/v6-skill-journey.webp 1x\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/v6-skill-journey.jpg\" alt=\"A participant working on a customer journey map on the wall\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Customer Journey Specialist<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-skill-course wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the journey map, to the change that follows it.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-body wp-block-paragraph\">For practitioners who already build journey maps and want them to drive change. Six chapters: strategic alignment, deconstructing the customer voice, the five-step method, the business case, the certification and a bonus research report.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list cxm-v6-facts\">\n<li><strong>Strategic alignment:<\/strong> anchor journey work to a real decision before the workshops start.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Deconstruct the voice:<\/strong> separate event from emotion, complaint from cause, qualitative from quantitative.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>The five-step method:<\/strong> Align, Listen, Map, Decide, Embed, each with a framework, an exercise and a deliverable.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>A business case:<\/strong> framed in the language Finance and Operations both accept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-who wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Michel's promise:<\/strong> a journey management approach that produces decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-card-foot is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-price wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EUR 495<\/strong> per person<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-chips is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-chip wp-block-paragraph\">Online<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-chip wp-block-paragraph\">Classroom<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/course\/customer-journey-specialist-eng\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Customer Journey Specialist<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull cxm-v6 cxm-v6-words has-soft-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide cxm-wrap is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-stack is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-eyebrow wp-block-paragraph\">In his words<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-quote-line wp-block-paragraph\">You can't fix that with a workshop if the rest of the organization never gets in the room. That's why I built CXM Academy. If you want to change what customers feel, you have to change what the entire organization believes. Same language. Same lens. Same understanding of what's actually at stake when a customer decides whether to stay or leave.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-muted wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Michel Stevens<\/strong>, founder of CXM Academy<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull cxm-v6 cxm-v6-quotes has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide cxm-wrap is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-head is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What his learners say<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-g2 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-card cxm-v6-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-skill-k wp-block-paragraph\">CXM Professional<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-quote-line wp-block-paragraph\">The course is for everyone who wants to understand customer behavior, develop CX as a field of expertise, or improve the culture of customer-centricity in their organization.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-person is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full cxm-v6-avatar\"><img srcset=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/learner-camilla-norseng.webp 1x\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/learner-camilla-norseng.jpg\" alt=\"Camilla Norseng\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-person-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Camilla Norseng<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-muted wp-block-paragraph\">Head of Customer Experience<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-muted wp-block-paragraph\">ICE, Norway<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-card cxm-v6-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-skill-k wp-block-paragraph\">CXM Professional<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-quote-line wp-block-paragraph\">A particular strength was the professional dive into models and methods. It gives a solid foundation for engaging management and creating organizational support for the work on customer experience. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-person is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full cxm-v6-avatar\"><img srcset=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/learner-stine-hjartved.webp 1x\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/cxm-academy\/assets\/images\/learner-stine-hjartved.jpg\" alt=\"Stine Hjartved\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-person-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stine Hjartved<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-muted wp-block-paragraph\">Retail Manager Northern Europe<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-muted wp-block-paragraph\">BMW, Denmark<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull cxm-v6 cxm-v6-closing has-navy-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide cxm-wrap is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cxm-v6-head cxm-v6-head-center is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ready to build customer-centric habits that last?<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"cxm-v6-intro wp-block-paragraph\">Start self-paced today, or book a conversation and we'll match the right layer and delivery to your organization.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cxm-v6-btn-gold\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/en-ae\/courses\/\">Browse our courses<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cxm-v6-btn-ghost\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/contact\/\">Book a conversation<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder &amp; Course Director Michel Stevens I don't build courses for one team. I build them for the whole organization. The thesis Most CX programs fail for the same reason Someone trains one team and sends them back into an organization that hasn't been trained. 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