What if your global CX strategy could scale effortlessly, without ever overruling local teams? In this episode of The CX Equation, hosts Chantelle Casey and Mark Clydesdale welcome Rob Grierson, Head of Group CRM, Customer Analytics & Innovation at Specsavers, to explore how global teams can unify customer experience across 10+ markets without diluting local expertise. Rob shares practical frameworks for building a global CRM community, strengthening personal relationships across regions, and creating shared testing standards that inspire trust. He also breaks down Specsavers’ “steal with pride” culture, where teams confidently adopt proven tactics from other markets to accelerate impact. This conversation reveals how global scale, when combined with local autonomy, becomes a powerful CX advantage.

In today’s data-driven world, creativity is the true competitive differentiator and the cornerstone of next-level customer experiences. In this episode of The CX Equation, hosts Chantelle Casey and Mark Clydesdale sit down with Matt Broekhuizen, Head of Customer Engagement at VCCP, to explore how iconic brands like LEGO and Sainsbury’s blend tech, data, and creativity to create emotionally resonant customer experiences. Matt shares frameworks for aligning cross-functional teams, building human-centered CRM programmes, and utilising AI to enhance creative excellence, proving that the most successful CX strategies prioritise brand storytelling over technology.

Today, personalisation has become a buzzword that’s thrown around frequently in marketing circles. But what does meaningful personalisation really look like, and how can businesses deliver it at scale? In this inaugural episode of The CX Equation, hosts Chantelle Casey and Mark Clydesdale dive deep into the evolution of personalisation and provide actionable insights for businesses looking to move beyond surface-level customisation.

The CX Equation brings you unfiltered conversations on enterprise CX. From CRM to loyalty, hosts Chantelle and Mark uncover what’s really working — and what’s not — in customer experience transformation.