Myra Golden
Myra Golden runs Myra Golden Media, a customer service and public relations agency that specializes in strategic customer relations consulting designed and tailored for each client's needs.
With more than 15 years of experience, Myra has developed a proven process that positions organizations to regain customer goodwill after even the worst has happened and to improve corporate reputations in the eyes of consumers through improved complaint response and more responsive customer service. Myra Golden Media specializes in a number of areas including customer recovery, customer loyalty, crisis management, call center training, and social media for customer service.
Myra's customer recovery systems have been used for more than a decade in corporations throughout North America, Australia, Africa, and the Philippines helping organizations build a multi-faceted customer recovery strategy and create a true customer service culture. One of the leading experts on restoring customer confidence after service failures, Myra has designed programs to help companies keep customers, even after service failures occur. She has created customer recovery programs for such clients as Verizon Business, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Scotts Miracle-Gro, National Car Rental, Michelin Tires, and Frito-Lay.
Considered one of the pioneers for leveraging social media for customer service, she has helped hundreds of companies design and launch a comprehensive social media strategy for listening to and getting involved in online conversations about their brand and protecting corporate reputations online. Her Tweeting for Customer Service video and her in-demand Keynote "Social Media is the New Customer Service" has inspired hundreds of companies to explore and launch social media customer service strategies in order to immediately respond to gripes about their brands online.
Myra's passion for customer service distinction stems from more than 15 years of serving customers directly, including her work as the Global Head of Consumer Affairs for an international car rental company where she and her team worked to regain customer goodwill after service mishaps and to maintain a positive public reputation with consumers. Her experience and training (she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Human Relations, both from the University of Oklahoma) has given her the unique ability to develop critically acclaimed systems for earning rock-solid customer loyalty and enhancing an organization's reputation with consumers by creating a culture of creating warm experiences, developing an aggressive customer recovery strategy, and designing a social media strategy.
She is co-author of Beyond WOW, creator of 5 customer service eLearning suites that are used by corporations worldwide, and founder of CallCenterWebinars.com, an e-Learning company that provides customer service training for many of the nation's Fortune 500 companies. She is also an active customer service blogger with thousands of corporate subscribers.
Myra is known to "bring it" in her entertaining, highly interactive and memorable keynotes and training sessions. Whether Myra is presenting to an audience of thousands, training a few dozen, or broadcasting a live webinar on 4 continents, she never fails to WOW conference attendees and employees with her relentless preparation for the event, high energy, and relevant and fresh content.
Myra Golden runs Myra Golden Media, a customer service and public relations agency that specializes in strategic customer relations consulting designed and tailored for each client's needs.
With more than 15 years of experience, Myra has developed a proven process that positions organizations to regain customer goodwill after even the worst has happened and to improve corporate reputations in the eyes of consumers through improved complaint response and more responsive customer service. Myra Golden Media specializes in a number of areas including customer recovery, customer loyalty, crisis management, call center training, and social media for customer service.
Myra's customer recovery systems have been used for more than a decade in corporations throughout North America, Australia, Africa, and the Philippines helping organizations build a multi-faceted customer recovery strategy and create a true customer service culture. One of the leading experts on restoring customer confidence after service failures, Myra has designed programs to help companies keep customers, even after service failures occur. She has created customer recovery programs for such clients as Verizon Business, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Scotts Miracle-Gro, National Car Rental, Michelin Tires, and Frito-Lay.
Considered one of the pioneers for leveraging social media for customer service, she has helped hundreds of companies design and launch a comprehensive social media strategy for listening to and getting involved in online conversations about their brand and protecting corporate reputations online. Her Tweeting for Customer Service video and her in-demand Keynote "Social Media is the New Customer Service" has inspired hundreds of companies to explore and launch social media customer service strategies in order to immediately respond to gripes about their brands online.
Myra's passion for customer service distinction stems from more than 15 years of serving customers directly, including her work as the Global Head of Consumer Affairs for an international car rental company where she and her team worked to regain customer goodwill after service mishaps and to maintain a positive public reputation with consumers. Her experience and training (she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Human Relations, both from the University of Oklahoma) has given her the unique ability to develop critically acclaimed systems for earning rock-solid customer loyalty and enhancing an organization's reputation with consumers by creating a culture of creating warm experiences, developing an aggressive customer recovery strategy, and designing a social media strategy.
She is co-author of Beyond WOW, creator of 5 customer service eLearning suites that are used by corporations worldwide, and founder of CallCenterWebinars.com, an e-Learning company that provides customer service training for many of the nation's Fortune 500 companies. She is also an active customer service blogger with thousands of corporate subscribers.
Myra is known to "bring it" in her entertaining, highly interactive and memorable keynotes and training sessions. Whether Myra is presenting to an audience of thousands, training a few dozen, or broadcasting a live webinar on 4 continents, she never fails to WOW conference attendees and employees with her relentless preparation for the event, high energy, and relevant and fresh content.
The Way of Harmony
This keynote features insights Myra gained from a fascinating interview with the owner of a successful barbershop with a 60-year history. This talk focuses on how you can take your customer interactions and transform them into impressive experiences using the keys Myra learned from the famous Sanders Barbershop.
Today's customers want an experience; an experience that is easy, meets their needs and is enjoyable. Myra, a former global...
Verbal Aikido
Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. Although this sounds like a good thing, the net result is an increase in stress for frontline customer service professionals. According to Newsweek magazine, the stress level of consumer services professionals is comparable to that of air-traffic controllers and police officers. In short, the role of customer service now ranks as one of the 10 most...
Horsepower
How getting your "horses" going in the same direction leads to a culture where employees are fully present, passionately engaged and emotionally connected with customers
This keynote focuses on how to create a culture where employees instinctively connect with customers through sincere interest, empathy and personable conversation. Myra asserts, "we are hard-wired for empathy and connection" and "when employees bring empathy and connection...
