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MEET Andrea Ames

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Specializations

Customer Success Jedi, Facilitator, Consultant
With 35+ years in corporate high tech, and 5+ years as a small business owner, Andrea’s passion is for supporting people’s wild success at work—so much so that her clients call her The Customer Success Jedi. By embracing that we bring our whole selves to work, she has supported hundreds of business owners, executives, leaders, teams, and communities to honor their humanity and health, while getting business done by making THEIR customers more successful.

RAVES ABOUT  Andrea Ames

“Andrea is one of my favorite types of leaders: the strategic, systems-thinking visionary. She understands how systems support enterprise goals. Her talks and ideas are always insightful and fresh. At conferences, I always advise my teams to attend any session that she facilitates.”

Kathleen Pierce

Principal Analyst
Forrester
“I have never made such a deep connection with someone I didn’t know in such a short period of time.”

XCHANGE Activity Participant

“Today was wonderful with lots of great take-aways, from new games/activities to great modeling of facilitation skills to fun and networking.”

XCHANGE Workshop Participant

About

With 35 years in strategic, corporate roles focused on capability building, learning and development, and customer experience and success, Andrea is a customer success/retention strategist and a sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator, consultant, trainer, and coach. She has been designing and delivering learning and growth experiences in person since 1997 and online since 2009.

Andrea has a Master’s in Technical Communication with a specialization in online information design, and she is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, an ICF Associate Certified Coach, a Thrive Global Executive Coach, and a Tiny Habits Certified Coach, as well as an author of numerous articles and two award-winning books.

As curriculum designer, Program Chair, and instructor for the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley program in technical communication, Andrea supports professionals responsible for product experiences to achieve measurable business results in their organizations through her highly rated strategy, experience design and architecture, human factors, and usability courses.

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