How to Harness the Power of Chat in Your Contact Center

E-WRITE’s Leslie O'Flahavan has helped thousands of people learn to write well for online customers. She delivers customized writing courses for frontline agents, social media managers, and contact center managers. She is a problem-solver for all the writing challenges faced by contact centers: email, chat, text, and social media. She helps contact centers train agents to write well, measure the quality of their writing, and rewrite their template libraries. In 2018, she completed an overhaul of customer service writing for a global airline’s domestic and international contact centers. Since 2015, Leslie’s been on ICMI’s Top 50 Thought Leaders on Twitter list. She's a LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) trainer for the courses “How to Write Customer Service Email,” “Serving Customers Through Chat and Text,” and “Serving Customers Using Social Media.” Leslie is also the author of Clear, Correct, Concise E-Mail: A Writing Workbook for Customer Service Agents. Connect with Leslie at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @LeslieO.

Ross is the Senior Director of Products for BoldChat by LogMeIn, leading product strategy, liaising with customers and development in order to push customer care agents towards a future of enterprise-class features, mobile dominance, and unparalleled efficiency. Before BoldChat, Ross held senior-level marketing, product, and consulting positions at technology companies, including Visionael Corp., Green Mountain Energy Co., and Tivoli (an IBM company). He has a special interest - and nearly 20 years' experience - in translating consumer data into actionable insights for customer service professionals. Ross earned a BS in Marketing at Boston College and a MBA from Texas A&M University.

A passionate connector of people, Erica Marois is a customer and employee experience enthusiast who loves helping others find unique solutions to their biggest challenges. She has 12+ years of experience in content creation and community building and volunteers as a facilitator for CX Accelerator. A content marketing specialist with 8x8, Erica works from home in Richmond, VA, where she lives with her husband and their lab-mix, Quinn. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling, and reading.