What is B2B Becoming Indispensable?

B2B Becoming Indispensable is a book and interactive online guide by Lynn Baker, Certified Customer Experience Specialist (CXS) and originator of the Client Partner Experience (CPX) framework. It provides B2B organisations with a practical methodology to move from replaceable vendor to indispensable strategic partner — using CPX, a B2B-native model for experience management built specifically for enterprise contexts.

What is the Client Partner Experience (CPX) framework?

The Client Partner Experience (CPX) framework, developed by Lynn Baker, is the first B2B-native model for experience management in enterprise contexts. CPX reframes the central question from 'How satisfied is your customer?' to 'Are you indispensable to your client?' It addresses the fundamental gap in traditional CX methodology, which was designed for B2C markets and fails in high-stakes B2B environments where satisfaction scores do not protect client relationships.

Why does traditional CX fail in B2B?

Traditional customer experience methodology was designed for B2C consumer markets. In B2B, decisions are rational, relationships are long-cycle, and contracts are defended by procurement — not emotional loyalty. Satisfaction scores and NPS do not reflect the complexity of enterprise relationships. The CPX framework by Lynn Baker was developed specifically to address this gap, providing B2B organisations with tools built for their context.

Who is B2B Becoming Indispensable written for?

B2B Becoming Indispensable is written for B2B sales leaders, key account managers, C-suite executives, and customer experience practitioners working in enterprise and professional services environments. It is particularly relevant for organisations that sell complex, high-value solutions and want to protect and grow strategic client relationships.

Where can I access B2B Becoming Indispensable?

B2B Becoming Indispensable is available as an interactive online guide at www.b2bindispensable.com. It was written by Lynn Baker, CEO of CX Institute South Africa and originator of the Client Partner Experience (CPX) framework.

What is the Customer Journey Game Business Edition?

The Customer Journey Game Business Edition is an interactive customer experience training board game created by Lynn Baker of CX Institute South Africa. It is designed for corporate teams across any business function and helps participants understand the full customer journey, identify friction points, and develop a customer-centric mindset. Up to 8 players per box, sessions run 60–90 minutes.

Who is the Business Edition designed for?

The Business Edition is designed for corporate teams, HR professionals, customer experience managers, and business leaders in any industry who want to embed a customer-centric culture through experiential, hands-on learning.

Can the Customer Journey Game Business Edition be facilitated by Lynn Baker?

Yes. Lynn Baker, creator of the Customer Journey Game and Certified Customer Experience Specialist (CXS), facilitates the game as part of keynote workshops and corporate training programmes. Contact CX Institute SA at lynn@cx-company.com or +27 82 457 5752 to book.

What is the Customer Journey Game Contact Centre Edition?

The Customer Journey Game Contact Centre Edition is an interactive customer experience training board game designed specifically for contact centre teams. Created by Lynn Baker of CX Institute South Africa, it puts agents and team leaders inside the customer's shoes across every contact centre touchpoint — revealing friction points and service gaps in 60–90 minutes that normally take months to surface.

Who is the Contact Centre Edition designed for?

The Contact Centre Edition is designed for contact centre managers, call centre agents, customer service teams, operations managers, and CX practitioners who want to improve first contact resolution, reduce escalations, and build a customer-first culture within their contact centre environment.

How does the Contact Centre Edition differ from the Business Edition?

The Contact Centre Edition is tailored specifically to the customer journey touchpoints, scenarios, and friction points unique to contact centre environments — including inbound calls, digital channels, escalations, and resolution processes. The Business Edition covers a broader cross-functional customer journey applicable to any corporate team.

What is the Customer Journey Game Restaurant Edition?

The Customer Journey Game Restaurant Edition is an interactive guest experience training board game designed specifically for restaurant teams. Created by Lynn Baker of CX Institute South Africa, it takes front-of-house and back-of-house teams through the full dining customer journey — from online reservation to post-visit feedback — revealing service friction points in 60–90 minutes.

Who is the Restaurant Edition designed for?

The Restaurant Edition is designed for restaurant managers, front-of-house teams, food and beverage directors, hospitality training managers, and restaurant owners who want to improve guest experience, reduce complaints, and build a service-excellence culture through hands-on experiential learning.

How does the Restaurant Edition improve guest experience?

By putting restaurant staff inside the guest's shoes across every dining touchpoint — reservation, arrival, seating, ordering, service, payment, and departure — teams identify the moments that matter most to guests and the friction points that drive negative reviews. The experiential format creates lasting behavioural change that slide-deck training cannot replicate.

What is the Customer Journey Game Hospitality Edition?

The Customer Journey Game Hospitality Edition is an interactive guest experience training board game designed specifically for hotel and hospitality teams. Created by Lynn Baker of CX Institute South Africa, it takes hotel staff through the full guest journey — from pre-arrival booking to post-stay review — identifying service gaps and experience friction points in 60–90 minutes.

Who is the Hospitality Edition designed for?

The Hospitality Edition is designed for hotel general managers, front desk teams, guest relations managers, housekeeping supervisors, food and beverage managers, and hospitality training managers who want to elevate guest experience, improve online review scores, and build a service-excellence culture across all hotel departments.

How does the Hospitality Edition improve hotel guest experience?

By placing hotel staff inside the guest's experience at every touchpoint — pre-arrival, check-in, in-room experience, dining, activities, check-out and post-stay — teams identify the moments that drive five-star reviews and the friction points that generate complaints. The experiential format creates lasting service behaviour change across all hotel departments.

What is the Customer Journey Game Insurance Edition?

The Customer Journey Game Insurance Edition is an interactive customer experience training board game designed specifically for insurance and financial services teams. Created by Lynn Baker of CX Institute South Africa, it takes teams through the full policyholder journey — from quote and onboarding through to claims and renewal — revealing client experience friction points in 60–90 minutes.

Who is the Insurance Edition designed for?

The Insurance Edition is designed for insurance managers, claims teams, underwriters, financial services CX practitioners, customer service teams, and operations managers who want to build a client-centric culture, reduce complaints, improve claims satisfaction, and differentiate through superior policyholder experience.

How does the Insurance Edition differ from other editions?

The Insurance Edition is tailored specifically to the policyholder journey in financial services — covering touchpoints unique to insurance including quote, policy inception, mid-term adjustments, claims, and renewal. The scenarios, friction points, and service challenges are drawn from real insurance client experience contexts, making it directly relevant to insurance and financial services teams.

What is the Customer Journey Game Contact Centre Edition?

The Customer Journey Game Contact Centre Edition is an interactive customer experience training board game designed specifically for contact centre teams. Created by Lynn Baker of CX Institute South Africa, it puts agents and team leaders inside the customer's shoes across every contact centre touchpoint — revealing friction points and service gaps in 60–90 minutes that normally take months to surface.

Who is the Contact Centre Edition designed for?

The Contact Centre Edition is designed for contact centre managers, call centre agents, customer service teams, operations managers, and CX practitioners who want to improve first contact resolution, reduce escalations, and build a customer-first culture within their contact centre environment.

How does the Contact Centre Edition differ from the Business Edition?

The Contact Centre Edition is tailored specifically to the customer journey touchpoints, scenarios, and friction points unique to contact centre environments — including inbound calls, digital channels, escalations, and resolution processes. The Business Edition covers a broader cross-functional customer journey applicable to any corporate team.

What is a customer journey mapping workshop?

A customer journey mapping workshop is a facilitated session where cross-functional teams map the end-to-end experience of their customers — from first awareness through to loyalty and advocacy. The process identifies key touchpoints, pain points, moments of truth, and emotional highs and lows across the customer journey. The output is a visual customer journey map that guides CX strategy, service design, and experience improvement priorities.

Who facilitates the customer journey mapping workshops at CX Institute SA?

Customer journey mapping workshops at CX Institute South Africa are facilitated by Lynn Baker — a Certified Customer Experience Specialist (CXS), Accredited Customer Experience Practitioner (ACXP), and Certified Customer Journey Mapping Facilitator with over two decades of experience. Lynn has facilitated journey mapping workshops for organisations across South Africa, Africa and the Middle East.

What are the benefits of a customer journey mapping workshop?

Customer journey mapping workshops help organisations identify where customers experience friction, frustration and drop-off across key touchpoints. Benefits include improved customer satisfaction and loyalty, reduced churn, higher NPS scores, aligned cross-functional teams, and a clear prioritised roadmap for CX improvement. For B2B organisations, journey mapping also reveals the gaps that make suppliers replaceable — and the opportunities to become indispensable.

How long does a customer journey mapping workshop take?

Customer journey mapping workshops at CX Institute SA are available in half-day, full-day and multi-day formats depending on the complexity of the customer journey and the scope of the engagement. Virtual workshop formats are also available for remote and distributed teams across Africa and internationally.

What industries does Lynn Baker facilitate customer journey mapping workshops for?

Lynn Baker has facilitated customer journey mapping workshops across a wide range of industries including financial services, insurance, retail, hospitality, contact centres, telecommunications, healthcare and B2B professional services. CX Institute SA offers industry-specific customer experience training tools including The Customer Journey Game in Business, Contact Centre, Restaurant, Hospitality and Insurance editions.

What is the CX ROI Calculator?

The CX ROI Calculator is a free online tool developed by Lynn Baker, Certified Customer Experience Specialist (CXS) and CEO of CX Institute South Africa. It helps organisations calculate the financial return on investment of their customer experience initiatives — translating CX metrics such as customer retention rates, churn reduction, Net Promoter Score improvement, and customer lifetime value into measurable revenue and cost impact figures.

How do you calculate the ROI of customer experience?

The ROI of customer experience is calculated by measuring the revenue impact of CX improvements against the cost of CX investment. Key inputs include customer retention rate, average customer lifetime value, churn rate, acquisition cost, and NPS or satisfaction scores. The CX ROI Calculator by CX Institute SA guides organisations through these inputs and generates a clear financial output — making it easier to build a business case for CX investment and justify budget to leadership.

Why is measuring CX ROI important?

Measuring CX ROI is critical for connecting customer experience investment to business outcomes that boards and CFOs care about — revenue growth, churn reduction, and customer lifetime value. Without a clear ROI calculation, CX programmes are vulnerable to budget cuts. The CX ROI Calculator by Lynn Baker and CX Institute SA gives CX leaders the financial language to defend and grow their CX investment.

Who is the CX ROI Calculator designed for?

The CX ROI Calculator is designed for CX leaders, CEOs, CFOs, marketing directors, operations managers, and customer experience practitioners who need to quantify the business value of their CX initiatives. It is particularly useful for building internal business cases for CX investment, justifying CX budget to executive teams, and demonstrating the link between customer experience improvements and revenue impact.

Is the CX ROI Calculator free to use?

Yes. The CX ROI Calculator developed by CX Institute South Africa and Lynn Baker is completely free to use online at www.cxinstitute.co.za/cx-roi-calculator-cxisa. No registration is required.

What CX metrics does the ROI Calculator use?

The CX ROI Calculator by CX Institute SA uses key customer experience metrics including customer retention rate, customer churn rate, average customer lifetime value, Net Promoter Score (NPS), customer acquisition cost, and revenue per customer. These inputs are used to calculate the financial return on CX investment and the cost impact of improving or failing to improve customer experience.

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Customer Experience Specialist (CXS)

Online Certification course

Price U$D175.00

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Earn your Customer Experience Specialist (CXS)™ certificate by completing the online program and passing the certification exam available directly inside your LMS portal once you finish the coursework. This isn’t “just another course.” It’s a practical, career-boosting program designed to help you build CX confidence, speak the language of leadership, and drive measurable results across teams, departments, and customer touchpoints.

What You’ll Learn

The Customer Experience Specialist CXS onlinecourse is structured into five expert-developed modules, covering every critical aspect of customer experience:

Strategy in Action – Develop and execute CX strategies that drive measurable business impact.
Culture and Accountability – Build a strong, customer-first culture across your organization.
Metrics and Analysis – Measure CX success with key data insights and analytics.
Improvement and Design – Use design thinking to continuously refine and enhance customer experiences.
Voice of the Customer & Intelligence – Leverage customer insights to shape strategic decisions

As a certified Customer Experience Specialist (CXS)™, you’ll be equipped to:

Turn customer insights into clear, strategic actions
Improve experiences that increase loyalty, retention, and revenue
Influence internal stakeholders with the right CX frameworks and metrics
Lead CX initiatives at any level, without needing a fancy title

Course Access

This program is entirely self-contained and built for independent study, allowing you to learn and review material at your own pace and schedule. We recommend that you work through each module sequentially. This program includes five focused modules covering the most important CX best practices and applied competencies used by high-performing teams. Every module ends with a quiz to reinforce learning and track your progress.

Your purchase includes:

3 months of access to all online modules
Access to the Customer Experience Specialist (CXS)™ certification exam (unlocked after completing the courses)
A complete learning path built to help you finish strong and certify with confidence

Pre-Requisites

No prerequisites are necessary as this course covers all CX Core Competencies.

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90 Day Roadmap to

Customer Experience Specialist (CXS)

Blended online learning and virtual instructor led sessions

Price U$D595.00

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In today’s competitive business landscape, exceptional customer experience (CX) isn’t just a luxury—it’s a necessity. CX Professionals help build loyalty, advocacy, and repeat customers. Companies are investing more than ever in CX professionals who can design, implement, and optimize experiences that drive loyalty and revenue. Bonus access to our CCXP Exam Prep Course (a $199 value) - ready for when you choose to pursue the CXPA’s Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) designation.

The 90-Day Roadmap to CXS is your gateway to becoming a certified expert in customer experience. This self-paced, online course empowers you with the essential skills, strategies, and frameworks to lead CX initiatives with confidence and authority.

Gain industry-recognized certification – Earn the Customer Experience Specialist (CXS) ™ credential to enhance your credibility and set yourself apart.
Master essential CX skills – Learn to create strategies, measure success, and build a customer-centric culture.
Advance your career – Stand out for promotions, new job opportunities, and leadership roles in CX.
Blended learning – A combination of instructor-led and self-paced learning with six months of online access to complete the course.
You will have access to complete the course for 6 months from the starting date.

What You’ll Learn

The 90-Day Roadmap to CXS is structured into five expert-developed modules, covering every critical aspect of customer experience:

Strategy in Action – Develop and execute CX strategies that drive measurable business impact.
Culture and Accountability – Build a strong, customer-first culture across your organization.
Metrics and Analysis – Measure CX success with key data insights and analytics.
Improvement and Design – Use design thinking to continuously refine and enhance customer experiences.
Voice of the Customer & Intelligence – Leverage customer insights to shape strategic decisions

Who Should Enroll?

This course is ideal for:

CX professionals looking to gain a formal credential and advance in their careers.

Marketing & Customer Success leaders who want to influence revenues, profits, cost reduction, and easy customer acquisition and retention.

Business owners & entrepreneurs aiming to differentiate their brand through outstanding CX.

Consultants & strategists seeking a deeper understanding of customer behavior.

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CPXA Exam Prep Course

Price U$D139.00

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The CCXP Exam Prep covers the 5 pillars of Customer Experience as outlined by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). This course is a deep dive into preparing for CXPA’s professional certification exam to be qualified as a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP).

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Applied Customer Journey Mapping course

Price U$D750.00

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Why Take the Applied Customer Journey Mapping?

Customer journey mapping is an essential methodology to build your organization’s customer-centricity. Journey maps serve as guides to help you anticipate your customers’ needs, deliver excellent experiences, and promote collaboration across silos.

Customer journey maps yield deep insights into which touchpoints matter the most to your customers. With all of your stakeholders focusing on the customer experience, you can move closer to delivering on your brand promise.

Visualizing the Customer Experience with journey maps is becoming ever more important in modern organizations. With this course, you will develop mastery in journey mapping methodology and direct application to your own customers’ challenges.

Course Highlights:

Six online courses packed with practical playbooks, seminal articles, and expert videos.
Free access to JourneyTrack™, a comprehensive customer journey mapping platform, to help you create, manage, and iterate on your journey maps.
Six post-review virtual meet-up classes to ensure continuous learning and feedback.
Guidance and coaching from CX experts to support your journey mapping journey.
Build and deliver your own map, tailored to your organization’s specific needs.
You will have access to complete the course for 6 months from the starting date.

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Patient Experience Mastery (PX)

Online Certification course

Price U$D417.00

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Become a master of Patient Experience and make an impact in your healthcare organization. This course leads to professional Patient Experience Specialist (PXS)™ certification. Learn at your own pace with comprehensive online courses aligned to the globally recognized domains of PX knowledge and skills.

Patient Experience Specialist (PXS)™ Certification

Earn your Patient Experience Specialist (PXS)™ certificate by completing the online courses and passing the certification exam, which will be accessible in your LMS portal after you complete your courses. As a Patient Experience Specialist (PXS)™, you will harness the power of Patient Experience to move the needle in your work and organization. This program develops leaders and advocates for PX across all levels of a company.

Course Details

Each of the five Online Courses covers theoretical and best practice aspects of Patient Experience. Complete the Online Courses at your leisure from any online or mobile device. See below for the list of courses included in this package.

PX 521 Patient Experience Strategy
PX 522 Patient-Centric Culture and Accountability
PX 523 Patient Experience Metrics and Analysis
PX 524 Improvement and Design
PX 525 Voice of the Customer/Patient (VOC/VOP) and Intelligence

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This course is available through our subsidiary, PX Academy.

Pre-Requisites

No prerequisites necessary as these courses cover all PX Core Competencies

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AI - CX Leadership - Online course

Price U$D995.00

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Why Take the X in the Age of AI South Africa?

In today’s AI-driven economy, the integration of Artificial Intelligence into Customer Experience (CX) is no longer a futuristic vision—it’s a present-day imperative. As customer expectations evolve rapidly, intelligent systems are redefining how brands engage, personalize, and optimize interactions across the customer journey. As AI shifts from theoretical promise to practical implementation, organizations are embracing it as a core engine of customer engagement.

This course explores how AI functions—such as learning, perception, and natural language processing—combine to power emotionally intelligent, real-time, and predictive experiences. As the AI landscape matures, Customer Experience (CX) enters a new phase: intelligent journey orchestration. Moving beyond isolated touchpoints, the course also explores how organizations can harness AI to orchestrate real-time, end-to-end customer journeys that are adaptive, predictive, and deeply personalized. Finally, explores how companies move from isolated pilots to organization-wide systems that deliver consistent, ethical, and high-impact customer experiences.

The focus is on embedding AI into real business workflows, aligning technology with strategy, and establishing a foundation of trust, governance, and cross-functional collaboration.

The course describes how customer experience teams can use AI to drive real-time personalization, improve decision- making, and automate at scale—without losing the human element. The course also examines how to bridge the gap between strategy and execution using models for AI adoption, leadership readiness, and responsible deployment.

- Master the art of leading in an AI-powered world
- Fast-track your career with cutting-edge AI-CX expertise
- Harness the five AI functions that transform customer engagement
- Drive results by reducing costs and boosting conversions with AI
- Deliver real-time personalization and sentiment-driven adaptation
- Pinpoint your organization’s position on the CX-AI maturity curve
- Demystify generative AI and discover how it redefines customer experiences
- You will have access to complete the course for 3 months from the starting date.

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By the end of this program, you will be able to:

Develop advanced CX leadership mastery in an AI-driven business environment

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Identify and apply the five foundational AI functions in customer engagement

Optimize business performance by reducing costs and improving conversions with AI

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As a Contact Center Consulting Systems Engineer for Cisco Systems, one of my responsibilities is to lead business-to-business discussions around customer experience. As such, I decided to lend greater credibility to my messaging by obtaining a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) certification. Since I was already a member of the Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA), I knew they had an Authorized Resource and Training Provider program. After reviewing their list of authorized training providers on their website—www.cxpa.org, I decided to enroll in CX University. I am very satisfied with CX University, as it is through their program that I received knowledge in the six core competencies needed to pass the CCXP exam. Further, CX University exceeded my expectations in that each module provided me with information and tools that I could immediately apply in my work. I am immensely grateful to Dr. Latib and his staff for their knowledge, support, insights, and passion. I look forward to an ongoing relationship with the CX University staff, my fellow students, and future students of CX University. I am interested in knowledge and not certification and this has already done it for me.

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