Her Story
About Ana
I have been working in Voice of the Customer for more than 15 years across different industries including telecommunications, investments, and healthcare. My current position is in healthcare, where I help businesses understand consumer needs and identify what satisfies and dissatisfies consumers. I use customer feedback from surveys, focus groups, social media, and conversation transcripts to generate analyses using text analytics and statistical methods. This information becomes dashboards, reports, and insights that help leaders identify priorities aligned with business needs, and I track how actions are moving numbers in the right direction. A critical part of my role is collaborating with all different teams and levels throughout the organization, from vice presidents and directors to frontline staff who work directly with consumers. I need to adapt to each team's busy schedules and different goals, understanding their unique needs whether they're in product, marketing, IT, or customer service, and showing them how customer insights can help them achieve their results. My educational background includes a master's degree, an MBA, and a business degree with a specialty in the financial area, all from Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, a highly competitive public university where I had to pass a rigorous entrance exam. This business foundation helps me understand what different teams need in terms of returns, reimbursement, customer satisfaction, and company growth, and it enables me to have meaningful conversations about how we can collaborate as a company team to improve customer satisfaction.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Ana
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
There's always more than one answer or solution for a problem. You just need to take the one that is the best one, according to the current situation, to the current information that you have. And always think about, you know, like, maybe in the future, the decision or the solution could change, but at that moment, you have to take the best alternative that you have. Don't stay in the analysis paralysis, or you're never gonna make a decision.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
They need to be prepared, so they need to look for what is what the companies are looking for, what are the backgrounds that they are looking for, what are the kind of experience that they are asking in their job descriptions. So, they need to understand what is what the companies are looking for, so that they can start focusing on getting all those checkpoints. Like, yes, I have this, I need to work on that, and prioritize that as a part of their development, like taking courses, maybe getting a master. In my case, the master's really helped in different ways, especially to have the checkpoint, but also to get more experience, to get also connections, so all those kind of things make a difference. So I think that they really need to understand how the companies are taking decisions. And with AI, I think that now everybody needs to be prepared to use AI in the future, so everybody should take turns about AI.
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