Dale McManness

Chief Operations Officer Customer Direct

Dale McManness is the COO of Customer Direct, a leading outsourced contact center partner located in Missouri. He is responsible for setting the strategy and vision to deliver, though technology and automation, an excellent customer experience with low customer effort.

Dale has over 20 years of contact center leadership experience, including the last 10 years in the contact center BPO industry. Dale joined Customer Direct in 2016. Prior to Customer Direct, he held contact center leadership positions at Speed Commerce and Home Depot.

Dale takes pride in leveraging technology and automation to provide a high-level of service delivery to their customers. He builds employee alignment with company goals to ensure key targets of the organization are achieved and the company “Delivers on what they promise” to their partners.

Day 3: Thursday, May 27th

12:30 PM The Post-COVID Contact Center (It's been a year - how do we get back to delivering excellent customer service again?)

One year ago, most people had a lot of patience understanding that a lot of contact centers were both seeing enormous increases in volume and simultaneously transitioning from a brick & mortar environment to a WFH environment. A year later, customer attitudes on poor customer service are less generous and yet, the WFH model may be here to stay for a lot of contact centers.


With that in mind, what tools and techniques can contact centers begin using to replicate and even improve the level of service they were delivering pre-pandemic as it relates to:

- New Hire Training/Onboarding

- Transition/Soft Launch

- Coaching/Mentoring

- Ongoing Training/Development

- Performance Monitoring