Emma Bridger

Author, Employee Experience by Design

Emma Bridger is one of the world’s leading employee engagement and experience experts. She’s passionate about working with organisations to help them design and create great employee experiences which empower people to be their best. She works with organisations to deliver high engagement, making a positive difference to organisations, employees and customers. 

With over 20 years’ experience, gained in a variety of roles, in diverse organisations, Emma came to this field via a more unconventional route, previously lecturing in psychology, her specialist area being behaviour change. Combining this understanding with practical business experience, and an MBA, Emma has demonstrated how organisations can achieve their goals, and create a competitive advantage, by focusing on experience and engagement.


Emma has designed a range of employee engagement and EX courses, for the CIPD. LinkedIn Learning and others, as well as contributing to, and being published in the UK Government Review - Engage for Success. She is a qualified and practicing coach, and a regular conference speaker,  case studies detailing her work have been published in industry journals. She was also named by HR Magazine as one of 2021’s most influential thinkers.

Her first book, now in its third edition, focuses on developing employee engagement and her second title – Employee Experience by Design,  was published by Kogan Page ins 2021, with a second edition coming out in 2024. Both books are 5-star rated reads on Amazon.