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THREE CONNECTED EXPERIENCES

Your business runs on relationships.
Each one has its own journey.

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Customer Journeys

Earn loyalty that shows up in revenue and retention.

See what builds customers’ confidence, where friction changes their behavior, and which improvements can increase conversion, retention, and customer value.

Evaluation • Onboarding • Renewal

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Partner Journeys

Build an ecosystem that drives predictable growth.

Reveal what helps partners invest, perform, and grow with you — and where friction is limiting their ability to create opportunities and deliver results.

Recruitment • Onboarding
Enablement • Growth

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Employee Journeys

Clear the path between your people and your customers.

Expose the internal friction that slows decisions, complicates work, and gets between employees and the outcomes they’re accountable for.

Sales-to-CS handoff • Ticket escalation
Renewal prep • Growth

THE ECONOMICS OF EXPERIENCE

Organizations see lifecycles.
People live journeys.

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HOW WE HELP

Start where your
business needs us most

WE RUN IT

End-to-End Journey Mapping

Best for leaders who need clear answers about what’s driving adoption, retention, and growth.

Our four-step process reveals what customers, partners, and/or employees are trying to accomplish, where their experiences break down, and what influences their behavior. We identify the changes with the greatest business impact and turn them into a practical plan your teams can act on.

Map your journeys with us

WE GUIDE THE ROOM

Private Workshops

Best for leaders aligning teams around what must change.

We design and facilitate a focused working session that brings cross-functional perspectives together, surfaces gaps and assumptions, and creates a shared view of the experience. You leave with shared priorities, clear decisions, and concrete next steps.

Plan a private workshop

WE STRENGTHEN YOUR MAPS

Map & Process Audits

Best for teams that want more value from the maps they already have.

We assess your existing maps and how they’re being used, then show you where to strengthen the research, sharpen the insights, and embed journey thinking into the metrics, decisions, and planning cycles that run your business.

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Takeaways

From internal assumptions

to high-performing journeys

  • 01

    Hypothesize
    the journey

    Whether we’re mapping customer, partner, or employee journeys, people across your organization each hold part of the story. We bring those perspectives and assumptions together in a first-draft map — a hypothesis to test, not a truth to defend.

    This process also begins building alignment before our research even starts. People who help create the initial map have a stake in discovering what’s really happening — and acting on what comes next.

  • 02

    Validate the journey

    Next, we put the draft to the test. We use the right mix of qualitative and quantitative research to answer your most pressing business questions, confirm what the organization already understands, and overturn assumptions that don’t hold up.

    Then we translate what we learn into validated maps that make the journey clear at a glance. Each map is designed for the people who will use it — to build empathy, sharpen decisions, and spark action across the organization.

  • 03

    Analyze root causes

    No one sets out to create friction. It accumulates — one reasonable decision at a time.

    Journey maps make some sources of friction visible right away. Others live behind the scenes in how the organization operates. We dig in together, tracing pivotal moments back to the people, processes, policies, and systems shaping them.

    That gives teams a shared understanding of what’s really driving the experience and what changes will have the greatest impact.

  • 04

    Envision the
    future state

    The same map that explains today’s experience becomes a canvas for designing tomorrow’s.

    Together, we chart a journey that better serves the people living it and delivers outcomes for your business. Then we work backward to define the experience changes, organizational capabilities, and priorities required to make that future real.

    The result isn’t a blue-sky picture. It’s a practical vision your teams can use to guide decisions, coordinate investments, and improve the journey over time.

JOURNEY MAPPING TRAINING

Build journey-mapping capability
within your organization

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Private Team Workshops

Best for leaders who want teams turning journey insights into business results.

 

Your teams learn the method by applying it to the journeys your business actually needs to improve. We help them turn competing assumptions into a shared view of the experience — then use that view to decide what should change.

You end up with more than maps. You build teams that can see across organizational boundaries, connect experience friction to business performance, and use the method again without us in the room.

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CX Design for Business Success

Best for professionals who want to turn customer insight into better business decisions.

 

Journey mapping is the central framework in this self-paced course. Participants learn to see experiences end to end, connect customer needs and behaviors to business outcomes, and use human-centered design methods to identify and develop meaningful improvements.

Organizations can pair the course with live coaching from Kerry, giving teams expert feedback as they apply the methods to their own design projects.

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Journey Mapping Skill Builder

Best for professionals who want a practical jumpstart in journey mapping.

 

Get a focused introduction to seeing an experience from the outside in and capturing it in a useful journey map. Guided lessons and exercises introduce the core principles, common pitfalls, and practical tools you need to begin applying the method.

This skill builder will get you oriented, build your confidence, and help you start contributing to journey-mapping work right away.

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Kerry Bodine is the LeBron James of journey mapping.

JOHN DUMO

Vice President of Customer Success + Customer Experience, Softchoice

Renewal is won or lost
across the entire journey

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BETTER CONVERSATIONS. BETTER OUTCOMES

A map helps you see the experience. Journey
management helps you
change it.

A journey map captures people's experiences with your organization. Journey management keeps that view current — and brings it into the decisions, investments, and operating rhythms that shape what happens next.

We help you turn customer, partner, and employee journeys into practical frameworks for managing experience and business performance across the organization.

  1. Keep journeys visible and useful

    Establish clear ownership and a regular rhythm for updating, sharing, and using your maps. Give cross-functional teams a common view of the experience — and clarity about the role each one plays in improving it.

  2. Build journeys into how the business runs

    Build journey priorities into budgeting, planning, product development, process improvement, and other functions that influence where the organization focuses its time and resources. Experience becomes part of how the business operates, not another initiative competing for attention.

  3. Measure what changes

    Create a measurement framework that connects improvements at individual moments and across end-to-end journeys to changes in people’s behavior and business results. See what’s working, where friction remains, and where further investment can create the greatest value.

CX Case Study

Real Impact,
Measurable Results

$6B
Mining and logistics company
Ready to focus its tech spend on the highest-impact opportunities
5
High-stakes journeys mapped
Each uncovering opportunities to protect and grow profit
50+
Solutions generated
To optimize data, tech, and processes across the org
$2M
Additional profit
By making process changes within one single journey
WHY EVOLVE

A journey map nobody uses is just expensive wall art.

Bring in Bodine & Co. when

  • Teams are solving different versions of the problem. The organization lacks a shared view of what people experience and what needs to change.
  • You have plenty of data but no coherent picture. Research, feedback, operational data, and frontline knowledge need to tell one useful story.
  • The experience crosses organizational boundaries. You need to see how teams, processes, policies, and technologies combine to shape what people experience.
  • You’ve mapped the journey, but little has changed. Insights need to be translated into clear priorities, ownership, and coordinated action across the organization.
  • Everything looks like a priority. Your leaders need to know which investments will create the greatest value for people and the business — and where to focus first.
  • The journey needs ongoing management. Sustained performance requires measures, governance, and operating rhythm to track progress over time.
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FAQs

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Then you'll fit right in.

Customer experience is your customers’ thoughts, emotions and perceptions about every interaction they have with you. Not your brand promise and not your NPS score — what’s actually in their heads, which is what makes it designable.

Customer experience is your customers’ thoughts, emotions and perceptions about every interaction they have with you. Not your brand promise and not your NPS score — what’s actually in their heads, which is what makes it designable.

Customer experience is your customers’ thoughts, emotions and perceptions about every interaction they have with you. Not your brand promise and not your NPS score — what’s actually in their heads, which is what makes it designable.

Customer experience is your customers’ thoughts, emotions and perceptions about every interaction they have with you. Not your brand promise and not your NPS score — what’s actually in their heads, which is what makes it designable.

Because growth breaks at the seam between them. Once partners are involved, roughly 75% of enterprise customer touchpoints sit outside your direct control, so fixing one side while ignoring the other caps what you actually gain.

Customer experience is your customers’ thoughts, emotions and perceptions about every interaction they have with you. Not your brand promise and not your NPS score — what’s actually in their heads, which is what makes it designable.

Customer experience is your customers’ thoughts, emotions and perceptions about every interaction they have with you. Not your brand promise and not your NPS score — what’s actually in their heads, which is what makes it designable.
CONTACT US

You’re here to make something better. 

Tell us what you’re working on — and we’ll tell you how we can help.

We’re great at:

  • Solving stubborn business challenges that stand between you and revenue growth.
  • Turn partner experience into measurable activation, productivity, and pipeline.
  • Leave with a practical read on where your experience breaks — and what to fix first.