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Episode 94
Guest: Harold Heald

Why the “Voice of…” Matters in Service Excellence w/ Harold Heald, Agilent

Overview

For service leaders, understanding the perspectives of frontline teams is critical to improving all areas of the business. But knowing what questions to ask and how to act on that feedback can be challenging, especially across complex, global organizations.

Harold Heald, Associate Vice President, AFO Service Contact Centers for Agilent Technologies joins us on the next episode of the inService™ Podcast Live to discuss his organization’s journey capturing and utilizing the “voice of” the personas involved in the service experience. He will share how they have used it to support leadership decisions, technology investments, AI adoption, and staffing strategies across global service operations. Tune in to explore practical strategies for translating the voice of the frontline into targeted priorities, meaningful actions, fostering engagement, and balancing compliance with valuable innovation in complex service environments.

Harold Heald leads the Americas Service Contact Centers for Agilent Technologies. Harold started in service as a Field Service Engineer with Dako, later acquired by Agilent. He went on to service as Regional Manager of the Americas for the Diagnostic Service team, and later as the Global Associate VP for the Biomolecular Service Organization helping to integrate several recent acquisitions. He completed Agilent’s Executive Leadership program in 2017. Harold served 10 years in the United States Marine Corps, working in Personnel Administration and as an Aviation Electrician, during that time he spent five years volunteering with the Young Marines of the Marine Corps League. Harold has a master’s in project management and recently earned his PMP certification.

Topics: Customer Experience, Workforce & Talent

About the Host

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Gerardo Pelayo, Ph.D.
Service CouncilChief Research Officer
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Gerardo Pelayo, Ph.D. is the Chief Research Officer at Service Council. With a hybrid background that integrates cross-industry hands-on experience with his depth as an analytical modeler (Ph.D. in Logistics & Supply Chain from the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program) built on a process-driven foundation as an Industrial Engineer, Gerardo brings to the table a prescriptive communion between dynamic innovation and operational pragmatism. Having developed his career at the seams of solutions, delivery and growth with a marked focus in the service value chain, Gerardo joins us to deepen Service Council’s expertise on trends, challenges, and best practices for accelerating business outcomes across the service value chain including expanding the lens of research from its current analytical trends into a framework of business best practices. His onboarding will also expand Service Council’s professional services offering with the formalization of the Service Index™ assessment program while assisting organizations with operationalizing the research findings into tangible change management and transformation.

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