Patricia B. Seybold is a consultant, customer advocate and thought leader with 30 years of experience working with customer-centric business visionaries and technology pioneers in many industries to help these leaders transform their businesses to better meet and anticipate their customers' needs. She is the CEO of the Patricia Seybold Group, a Boston-based consulting firm focused on customer-led innovation, customer experience transformation, customer-centric business and IT strategies and roadmaps, and in helping leaders shift their organizations' behavior to align around customers' outcomes and customers' key issues. Seybold is the author of three best-selling books, Outside Innovation (2006), Customers.com (1998), and The Customer Revolution (2001).