We are a creative laboratory with the mission to make the workplace a space for growth and joy.
Neue Leadership Circles
It’s hard to lead a team for the first time — especially from your kitchen table. In late 2020 we build and hosted 3 ...
Collaging Future Hybrids
A workshop series to carve out what the future of work means to us — and how it can be designed.
Social Innovation Community with Deutsches Rotes Kreuz
Since 2020 we are supporting the central digitalization divison of the German Red Cross in building an internal community for social innovation.
Candid Slackbot
A little helper to give constructive, non-violent feedback to your colleagues!
Communities and Networks in AWO
Bridging silos and leveraging learning with communities and networks in one of the biggest employers in Germany.
Kiron – Performance Review for Agile Teams
A growth process that helps people define their own growth path linking personal interests, team feedback and the business strategy.
Employee Experience Design Training
Create People-related processes that help your company achieve its goalsWhat we do with you!
We like to say: we are not experts but collaborators…it’s true, instead of massive briefings and plans we usually team up with our clients, learn more about how we work with you.
Foster
Facilitation, Team Coaching and Capability Building
Generate
Participatory Design, Co-Design, Experience Design, Learning Design, Communication Design, Prototyping, User Research & Testing
Employee Experience is a vast field and there are many touchpoints — so far we have worked on leadership development, impactful onboarding, modern performance management, recognition-rich cultures, career growth, self- and formal development, high impact learning cultures.
We would love to work with you on trustful leadership and transparent communication, investment in people, flexible and human work environments as well as open and flexible work spaces. Other topics that get us excited are self-organization of small teams and alternative organizational structures.
Our Clients
We are proud to work with some of the most progressive organisations out there
Community
Read what we are thinking about and working on right now
Building and testing prototypes at Wohlfahrtskongress 2022 in Berlin
On 27—28. September our own Julius will host a workshop about building communities at ...
Our Design Thinking for HR Online Course is now for free
In 2020 we created an online course to do Design Thinking for HR quick ...
Collaging Future Hybrids Workshop in Berlin
A series of workshops to explore what employment, collaboration and life mean to us ...
Open EX Lab Call on 31.05.2022 at 13:00
We get together at the end of the month to discuss, present, brainstorm what ...
Presenting Personas with Empathy
Episode 2 of the workshop clinic was about how to work with Personas. Our case ...
Building Communities — Talk at the Digital Social Summit 2021
We got invited to the Digital Social Summit 2021 together with our client Deutsches ...
Why we created EX Lab.
We believe work is a space to explore ourselves, try out new things and grow together with peers working towards a common goal.
We are convinced our HR teams and People people must step out of their support function to become the heart of organisations; enabling their colleagues, ensuring teaming and pushing the boundaries of what work means.
But how can people try and fail or work together across functions when they are managed and controlled by a top-down approach which rewards individual behaviours?