IGNITE! 2025 Session: Workshop, 3:00-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 25 at VML Offices
Interactive Workshoop: The NEW Fickle, Non-Linear Customer Journey
Your customer journey maps are lying to you.
While you’re tracking neat, linear paths from awareness to purchase, your customers are zigzagging through TikTok videos, getting derailed by peer conversations, restarting their research after viral social posts, and making decisions based on real-time events your funnel never anticipated.
The old way: Build a linear journey map and hope customers follow it
The new reality: Customers enter anywhere, exit everywhere, and get influenced by factors you’re not tracking
Join facilitators Jeff and Marc for 90 minutes that will fundamentally change how you think about customer behavior. Through hands-on design thinking exercises, you’ll work with Sarah’s electric vehicle purchase journey—a perfect example of how social media, peer influence, and external events constantly disrupt traditional customer paths.
You’ll Walk Away With:
✅ A new journey mapping framework that replaces linear funnels with dynamic “customer webs”
✅ Tools to identify and prepare for the 20+ factors that derail modern customer journeys
✅ Ready-to-implement strategies for creating “disruption-proof” marketing campaigns
✅ Templates and worksheets to transform your team’s approach immediately
Perfect For:
Marketing managers, digital strategists, customer experience professionals, and anyone tired of watching customers disappear from perfectly logical journey maps.
Stop chasing ghosts through broken funnels. Learn to design marketing that works with how customers actually behave.
This is not a lecture—expect collaborative exercises, real-world scenarios, and practical tools you can use Monday morning.
Register now—your customers aren’t waiting for you to catch up.
Note, the workshop is INCLUDED with your conference registration – you will receive a code at checkout, which you will use to register for the workshop so we know who is coming. If you’re not attending the conference but would like to attend the workshop, those tickets are also available for purchase via the link.
FACILITATORS

Jeff Hendrickson
Digital Transformation Strategist, AIDCOM Consulting
Jeff Hendrickson is a multifaceted strategist, coach, author, and artist with over 30 years of global business experience spanning UX, digital transformation, and leadership development. Through AIDCOM Consulting, he partners with enterprise clients to align decision-making with emotional intelligence and agile strategy, while his Boomer Biz Academy helps experienced professionals transform their knowledge into monetizable content, courses, and coaching programs. After decades of leading transformation initiatives across industries and continents, Jeff now guides clients through the complexities of modern change with an emphasis on empathy, innovation, and AI. Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn.

Marc Macaluso
CEO & Founder, Union Pointe Consulting
Marc sees the world differently: through the eyes of Customers. With a lifelong passion for Customer Experience (CX), Marc founded Union Point to help companies of all sizes improve their CX. Before launching the company, Marc led Customer engagement initiatives at Emerson Electric and Regal Beloit. In the process, he became an expert in using User Research to identify friction in the Customer interaction with the Company. Through these efforts, he was able to help retain Customers, while growing their contribution to sales and profits. His use of User Experience techniques gives him a powerful set of tools designed with one simple goal: understanding the Customer journey leading to improved customer loyalty. Connect with Marc on LinkedIn.
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