Excellent is a New Zealand‑founded platform that advances the discipline of Employee Experience (EX) Design through professional membership, EX Design courses, certification pathways, and community‑led co‑design tools. The product offers learning, networking and tested co‑design tools that help people leaders and employees collaboratively design workplace experiences. Founders Samantha Gadd and Jenny Busing built Excellent from Gadd’s prior consultancy, Humankind, which worked with over 500 organisations in New Zealand. The company positions itself as a community‑led hub for EX practitioners and aims to scale an international community of EX designers. Excellent emphasizes helping organisations retain and develop talent by enabling employees and leaders to co‑design meaningful work experiences.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

May 2023