Lior Arussy

Keynote Speaker Lior Arussy delivers results. His strategic framework for converting organizations from product to customer centricity is drawn from his work with some of the globe’s leading brands – Capital One, Thomson Reuters, HSBC, E.ON, Nokia, SAP, University of Pennsylvania and Wyeth. Arussy’s methodology enabled a European logistics corporation to move from 3% annual organic growth to 44% annual organic growth in 2 years.

Arussy led the internet security division at Hewlett-Packard where he grew the business by 50% per quarter for 3 consecutive years. His strategy of enabling eBanking access to consumers via mission critical security was a new concept at the time.  At the height of this era, Arussy managed the eBanking security infrastructure for 120 of the largest banks in the world with combined assets of $8 Trillion…no bank was ever compromised. He also was the head of the call center division for Nice Systems.

Speaker Lior Arussy is the founder of Strativity Group, a global customer experience research and consulting firm, which helps clients create delightful customer experiences and execute profitable customer strategies. Arussy grew the company from his garage to a multi-national professional firm with offices in the US, Canada, the UK, Norway, Turkey and Australia. The company was recognized by Forrester Group as one of the leading pioneers in the area of customer centric transformation. Strativity measures their success by a single method: the customer’s successful execution of their strategies.

His latest book, Customer Experience Strategy, is described as “the most ambitious and successful attempt at a comprehensive text on the practice of customer experience management…refreshingly practical.” strategy + business magazine

Arussy is the recipient of CRM Magazine’s “Influential Leader Award” and the author of 5 books on customer experience and employee engagement. His syndicated column “Focus: Customer” reaches over 1,000, 000 readers worldwide every month. Over 100 of his articles have appeared in publications around the world, including Harvard Business Review.

A Roadmap to Employee Engagement

Sharing first-hand insight from client experiences, Lior Arussy – whose work has impacted over 220 million customers and 375,000 employees around the world – outlines the key actions that lead to exceptional employee performance, improved financial results and positive, lasting change.

Lior’s presentation shows why you cannot afford unengaged employees and why benchmarking must stop. Every day that your customers are engaged with cynical employees is a day you lose profits, business, and customers. Lior provides an understanding of the root causes of cynical employees.

The first step that will change the fate of your organization is to create a powerful, world-changing vision to inspire your employees. The next step is to ensure they have the tools to execute it.

Customer-Centric Transformation – The Blueprint to Execution and Profitability

How do you transform your organization, people, processes, tools and culture into the new era of customer focus? Every organization is talking about customer centricity; very few organizations know how to lead this transformation. Welcome to the blueprint for customer-centric transformation.

Employee engagement is a reaffirmation of the relationship between a company and its employees. In this talk, Lior provides both the roadmap to build your vision and the tools for your organization to create fully engaged employees.

Exceptional or Nothing – The New Performance Standard

Lior Arussy conducted a multi-year study with 30,000 participants to determine the obstacles to excellence performance; he asked questions like: Do you aspire to deliver excellence? Do you believe you deliver it already? Do you know how to?

His book, Excellence Every Day (2009), reveals their answers. “Understanding excellence and how to deliver it is at the heart of the matter. We have been captivated by misconceptions and faulty logic that is encapsulated in what I call “The Excellence Myth.” The myth presents a paradox: It is precisely the traditional definition of excellence that stops us from achieving our capacity for excellence. Instead of inspiring us to reach our full potential, The Excellence Myth debilitates us, permitting us to accept something less.

Delight or Sell – Customer Experience as a Competitive Advantage

In a customer empowered era, an exceptional experience is key to differentiation and profitability.  We are all customers.  We know what feels right and what feels wrong.  More importantly, we know what is great and what is not.

In his “tough love” vintage style, Lior Arussy will challenge you to stop boring your customers and start giving them an exceptional experience.