OUR MISSION
Through people-centered design and innovation, XPLOR is reinventing the experience of work, shaping a future where work truly enriches the lives it touches
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We are solely dedicated to enhancing people's experiences at work
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We distinguish ourselves from typical people and management consulting firms, design agencies, and branding studios. Our exclusive mission revolves around employees (present, future, and former), for whom we specialize in crafting tailored, authentic moments and seamlessly integrated experiences — all thoughtfully designed to generate a meaningful impact for both individuals and businesses.
We've spent decades working on the 'inside' of organizations. We have figured out how to harness human-centered design approaches, strategy, data and systems thinking along with other disciplines including organization design, behavior change and agile methodology to innovate from the inside-out.
As world-leading experts in employee experience design, we apply creativity and bridge data-driven strategy, human-centered experience design and service design with world-class implementation capabilities to help organizations do more than think and talk about employee experiences. We help them take impactful action with intention.
Our founder.
Meet Lisa Morris, the founder of XPLOR. As the leader of our team, Lisa sets the direction for our work and is renowned for her inveterate problem-solving skills and equal measures of right-brain and left-brain thinking. With over two decades of experience as an applied organizational anthropologist, strategist, and transformation expert turned designer, Lisa's days and dreams are all about designing experiences that make the world a vastly better place to work. Before starting XPLOR, Lisa served as a Senior Director at Sparks Grove, where she led the Global Employer Brand and Employee Experience Practice and co-led the Service Design Practice. During her tenure, she helped some of the world's most prominent brands, including Coca-Cola, Red Hat, and Johnson & Johnson, tackle complex employee engagement challenges. Prior to Sparks Grove, Lisa spent nearly 20 years at Accenture, where she worked with a diverse set of global clients, including Accenture itself. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications and a graduate degree in Organizational Behavior and Communication from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Additionally, Lisa holds advanced certificates in Employer Brand Strategy, Graphic Design, Human-Centered Design, and Service Design, and is a certified Human-Centered Design Instructor and Facilitator. At XPLOR, Lisa leads a networked team of human-centered researchers, strategists, and experience designers with expertise in in organizational and business transformation, employer brand strategy, design research, service design, and graphic design. As needed, we call upon other designers with expertise in disciplines such as industrial design, interaction design, UI, UX, and information architecture to support our clients. Together, we are a curious and humble team of rebel thinkers, meaningful makers, and devout practitioners of design craft, always eager to learn. We believe that every organization creates experiences for people, but all too often, these experiences are random or unplanned. At XPLOR, we are united in our commitment to unleashing the power of design to make an indelible impact on the quality of working lives.
