Workshop

    Half-day or full-day

    Map the experience, identify the best signal sources, and define one pilot-ready opportunity for new value creation.

    Practical, focused, and designed to produce concrete next steps.

    A working session that turns customer signals into a pilot-ready opportunity

    This is a hands-on workshop for leadership and cross-functional teams. The goal is not to produce a slide deck. The goal is to produce a clear opportunity, a practical path forward, and alignment across the people who will make it happen.

    Valto Loikkanen presenting on stage

    Cross-functional teams responsible for growth and customer experience

    Typical participants include:

    Leadership sponsor (growth, commercial, product, service, or CEO)
    Product and customer experience leads
    Sales and marketing leads
    Service and customer support leads
    Operations or delivery lead (when relevant)

    What you leave with

    By the end of the workshop, you will have:

    A shared view of the selected customer journey and experience today

    A clear list of the best signal sources inside current interactions

    A prioritized set of opportunities for new value creation

    One pilot-ready opportunity with a defined scope and next steps

    A simple measurement approach to validate progress early

    The practical core

    We focus on:

    Where new value can be created through experience and interaction
    What customers are already signaling through questions, friction, objections, and repetition
    What signals you capture today vs. what you are missing
    How AI-native customer experience can improve both the moment and the future value loop
    How to define a pilot that is realistic, focused, and measurable

    Simple structure, strong facilitation

    Half-day workshop (3.5–4 hours)

    1

    Align on the growth goal

    What new value are we trying to create, and for whom?

    2

    Map one journey

    Select one journey and map the current experience, touchpoints, and friction.

    3

    Signal inventory

    List the signals that are already present, and the signals that are missing.

    4

    Opportunity clustering and prioritization

    Identify where signals point to unmet needs and improvement leverage.

    5

    Define one pilot-ready opportunity

    Scope, owners, next steps, and early measurement.

    Full-day workshop (6–7 hours)

    Includes everything above, plus:

    Stronger definition of the AI-native interaction loop for the selected opportunity
    A clearer measurement model: signals, leading indicators, outcomes
    A practical pilot plan: timeline, owners, dependencies, risks
    Optional hands-on examples using selected partner tools when relevant

    Clear boundaries

    Not a generic AI inspiration session
    Not tool training or feature tours
    Not a long strategy project
    Not implementation work disguised as a workshop

    This is a focused, outcome-driven session designed to produce a practical pilot direction.

    Lightweight input, no heavy homework

    To make the workshop effective, it helps to have:

    The journey you want to improve (or a short list of candidates)
    Any existing customer insight sources (support themes, sales objections, feedback)
    Current metrics you already track (if any)
    The right people in the room for decisions and follow-through

    If you do not have these ready, we can still start and define them as part of the session.

    "Valto and his team led a group of senior executives through a two day workshop… of enormous value."

    Jeremy Laurin

    "Valto's wide experience and deep knowledge in entrepreneurship has been vital for us… ability also to combine strategic thinking with pragmatic approach for getting things started."

    Liisa Paavilainen

    "Valto makes things happen and keeps things going on… good ideas are put directly in action."

    Claes Mikko Nilsen

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    Get in touch

    Share your context and goals. I will suggest whether half-day or full-day is the best fit.

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