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November 16-20, 2025
Disney's Coronado Springs ResortOrlando, FL

2025 Schedule

Session 501: Experience Management Without the Wait: Start With What You Have

Rae Ann Bruno  (Cumming, Business Solutions Training, Inc.)

Date: Thursday, November 20

Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

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Track: Connecting the Dots: Frameworks and Methodologies, Optimizing Culture and Leadership

Session Type: Session

Vault Recording: TBD

Audience Level: Fundamental/Intermediate

Experience Management can feel out of reach for IT teams without digital experience monitoring tools or dedicated headcount. But the truth is: you don't have to wait for the perfect setup to start making meaningful improvements. In this session, we'll show you how to begin managing experience with what you already have — and lay the groundwork for eventually developing Experience Level Agreements (XLAs).

You'll learn how to uncover experience gaps using existing operational data, walking a mile in your users' shoes through observation and journey mapping, and capturing sentiment at key moments without deploying a new platform. We'll explore lightweight, practical ways to gather and act on experience insights — even in resource-constrained environments — and how small actions can drive big change.

Whether you're a team of one or a team with no tools, this session will equip you with strategies to build momentum, show impact, and prove that experience management and XLAs are possible — wherever you're starting from.

Takeaway

Start managing experience with existing tools and data.
Uncover experience gaps through observation and journey mapping.
Capture user sentiment without deploying new platforms.
Use lightweight methods to gather and act on experience insights.
Build momentum toward developing Experience Level Agreements (XLAs)