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Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions
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Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.

I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.

Tag: customer service

  • Great customer service is impossible when systems are built to protect the company first.

    I’ve always paid close attention to how customer service actually shows up, not in what companies say they value, but in the moment where something real needs to get done. I’ve felt it particularly in interactions where the person in front of you is no longer solving your problem, but managing your request within the…

    Giselle

    April 3, 2026
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations, 🔄 Client Systems, Strategic Sensemaking
    customer service, customer systems, diagnostic advisory, system realignment, trust
  • What Happens When Integrators Try to Live Inside Specialist Templates?

    For a long time I thought my life made no sense on paper. If you lined up my work history the way a career counselor would, it looked scattered. Laboratory work. Sales. Marketing. Workshops. Systems thinking. Copywriting. Organizational behavior. Training. Consulting. Framework-building. None of it followed the clean arc we’re taught to admire. I kept…

    Giselle

    January 30, 2026
    🧠 Zone of Genius
    career guidance, copywriting, customer service, customer servive, direct marketing, experimentation, frameworks, getting a degree, integrators vs. specialists, laboratories, marketing, organizational behaviour, performance architecture, sales, systems thinking, training, workshops
  • Stop treating customers as if they were one-dimensional

    The headline in a September 28th article in the Economist reads: Customer service is getting worse—and so are customers The opening paragraph of this article written by Schumpeter (here is an explanation about how this column got its name) addresses both the provision of service, and those receiving it. Rare is the company today that…

    Giselle

    November 17, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    buying behaviours, customer rage, customer service, customer service training, getting customers, sales, selling, the customer journey, what customer service is not
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