Welcome to episode eleven of The EXperience Lounge! A weekly podcast dedicated to EX design, the future of work and digital HR.

In this episode, Laura and Sasha spoke with the incredible Oen Michael Hammonds about Enterprise Design Thinking at IBM. Oen shared his thoughts on the journey of embedding design thinking across an organisation as well as what it means to truly embrace design thinking as part of an organisation's culture. Oen shared his tips for experience design practitioners looking to drive a culture of listening within their organisations as well as other incredible insights and inspirational stories. 

Oen Michael Hammonds is a designer, mentor, and Design Principal at IBM. Oen has designed across the gamut—services, advertising, graphic, interactive and environmental. Oen's current work with diverse clients in the consumer, business, and technology industries demonstrates his ability to jump in and solve tough and complex challenges. At IBM, Oen works with the Employee Experience Design team to drive the design and implementation of impactful IBM HR experiences by increasing alignment and integration between HR programs, groups, and tools while focusing on the needs of employees, first-line, and upline managers. In this role, Oen works with his team to facilitate strategic projects and initiatives that transform IBM HR to build iconic products and services with human-centered experiences.

You can connect with Oen on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oenhammonds/ 

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