From Reactive to Predictive – How Do We Anticipate Customer Needs Without Overstepping?
Customer expectations continue to evolve, with organisations increasingly looking beyond resolving issues to anticipating customer needs before they arise. Advances in AI, data analytics and customer journey insights are making predictive service a reality, enabling contact centres to proactively personalise experiences and prevent unnecessary contact. However, delivering this successfully requires organisations to balance innovation with trust, ensuring they add value without crossing the line into being intrusive.
As contact centres become more predictive, the role of the organisation is evolving too. New technologies are changing the skills required across the business, creating opportunities for teams to move beyond transactional interactions towards higher value customer engagement. Leaders must consider how people, processes and technology work together to support this shift, whilst maintaining transparency and customer confidence.
This webinar will explore how organisations are using AI and customer insights to deliver more proactive service, what organisational changes are needed to support this evolution, and where the ethical boundaries lie. We’ll discuss how predictive models are reshaping customer journeys, influencing workforce planning and creating new roles and capabilities within the contact centre.
Join us to hear the experiences of industry leaders and gain:
- An understanding of how AI, customer data and journey insights are enabling more proactive and predictive customer service.
- Practical examples of how organisations are preventing customer issues before they occur whilst maintaining trust and transparency.
- Insight into how predictive service is changing organisational structures and the skills needed for future success.
- Guidance on balancing personalisation with privacy, ensuring proactive engagement enhances rather than diminishes the customer experience.
- Ideas for creating a contact centre that not only responds to customer needs – but anticipates them in ways that deliver meaningful value.
When is it?
Date: Tue 15 Sep 2026
Time: 12:00 – 13:00 (BST)
Location: Zoom
Who is it for?
People responsible for customer contact in their business or looking to learn more about what is possible in our industry.
How much is it?
Free to attend.
Speakers
Steve Reid, Country Remote Customer Meeting Point Manager, IKEA UK & IE
James Adamczuk, Global CX Sales Strategy Lead, Zoom
About the Speaker
Lucie Child, Head of Strategy, Planning & Control for Customer Care, The Very Group
Lucy works as Head of Strategy, Planning & Control for Customer Care at a multi-brand online retailer and financial services provider in the United Kingdom and Ireland whose purpose is to help families get more out of life. Lucie is a relative late-comer to the contact centre industry, having made the leap 5 years ago after a 20 year ‘squiggly career’ in customer insight & marketing but has not looked back! Lucie chairs the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Special Interest Group for the CCMA and is also a judge for the UK National Contact Centre Awards and ECCCSAs.

