#839: Medallia's Courtney Shealy on moving contact centers from cost center to strategic asset
The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What if your company’s most valuable source of competitive intelligence and brand insight isn’t a market research report, but your contact center?
Agility requires more than just reacting to customer issues; it demands the ability to listen, understand, and act on the collective voice of the customer to proactively shape the business. This means transforming points of friction into opportunities for innovation.
Today, we are live at Medallia Experience 2026 in Las Vegas, and we're going to talk about transforming the contact center from a reactive, cost-focused operational hub into a proactive, strategic engine for growth. We'll explore how to unlock the wealth of insights from customer interactions to drive innovation, create more empathetic experiences, and deliver tangible value across the entire enterprise.
To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome, Courtney Shealy, SVP, Global Presales at Medallia.
About Courtney Shealy
With 25 years in SaaS and CX, Courtney brings deep expertise in leading global sales engineering and strategy teams. She has a proven track record of connecting customers to innovation that drives measurable business outcomes. For the last 15 years, she’s focused on transforming CX adoption into an engine for revenue growth, efficiency, and stakeholder value. At Medallia, Courtney leads the Center of Excellence that helps customers maximize their CX investments—modernizing programs with AI, breaking free of outdated foundations, and accelerating results.
Courtney Shealy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-mcmahan-shealy-9b3251/
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| 0:00.0 | What if your company's most valuable source of competitive intelligence and brand insight isn't a market research report, but your contact center? |
| 0:08.0 | Agility requires more than just reacting to customer issues. It demands the ability to listen, understand, and act on the collective voice of the customer to proactively shape the business. |
| 0:18.0 | This means transforming points of friction into opportunities for innovation. |
| 0:23.1 | Today we're going to talk about transforming the contact center from a reactive, cost-focused |
| 0:27.6 | operational hub into a proactive strategic engine for growth. We're going to explore how to unlock the |
| 0:34.2 | wealth of insights from customer interactions to drive innovation, create more |
| 0:38.6 | empathetic experiences, and deliver tangible value across the entire enterprise. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to Season 8 of the Agile Brand Podcast. This season, we're going all in on expert |
| 0:50.6 | mode, MARTEC, AI, and customer experience, talking with the people and platforms |
| 0:54.9 | behind the brands you know and love. Again, I'm your host, Greg Kilstrom, and I help |
| 0:59.3 | Fortune 1000 companies make sense of MARTEC, AI, and marketing ops. Hit subscribe or follow |
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| 1:13.8 | technology services, talent services, and real-world adoption. |
| 1:18.0 | For more information, go to TechSystems.com. |
| 1:21.0 | Now let's dive in. |
| 1:25.0 | Tell me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Courtney Shealy, SVP Global Presales at Medallia. |
| 1:30.7 | Courtney, welcome to the show. |
| 1:32.5 | Thanks for having me, Greg. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, looking for it to talking through this with you. |
| 1:37.1 | Before we dive in, though, why don't you give a little background on yourself and your role at Medalia? |
| 1:41.1 | Sure. |
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