Gartner Expert

Patrick Quinlan

Sr Director Analyst, KI Leader

Patrick helps Customer Service and Support Leaders transition to a digital first, data-driven strategy with the intent of improving margins.

As a practitioner, Patrick helped organizations:

* Design and develop internal and external-facing training in multiple modalities.

* Implement knowledge management practices, including strategy, training, and success measurement.

* Deploy learning and content management systems.

* Design and implement automation to improve agent efficiency.

* Develop chatbot workflows and design conversational interfaces.

* Mature data and analytics teams, including developing machine learning based renewal models.

* Lead customer journey workshops, identify friction points and actions, and develop mid-touch and tech-touch playbooks.

* Bridging customer support and customer success to provide proactive customer assistance

* Make sense of Voice of the Customer feedback, including providing contextualized supportability data to product teams.

Previous experience

Extensive program management experience related to training, self-service support, assisted support, customer success, data and analytics, and product supportability

Professional background

Citrix Systems, Sr. Manager, Self-Service and Analytics, 15 years

Qlik, Chief of Staff, Global Support and Success, 2 years

The Faulkner Journal, UCF, Assistant Editor, 2 years

Areas of coverage
  • Service and Support Strategy and Leadership

  • Service and Support Customer Experience and Analytics

  • Service and Support Channel Strategy and Execution

Education

MA, Technical Writing, University of Central Florida

Honors Fellowship

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

How do I reduce case volume through automation, without sacrificing customer experience?

02

How can customer support teams partner with customer success to drive product adoption?

03

How can support leaders tell a data-driven story that shows the value their organization offers the enterprise?

04

How do I turn data gathered through the customer journey into actionable insights?

05

What's the best strategy for deploying generative AI to improve support operations?