The CX Cast
The CX Cast
Forrester
458: How Employee Experience Powers Total Experience Growth
25 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2026 at 11:33 am.
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Customer growth comes from two sources: strengthening relationships with existing customers and attracting new ones. Forrester's Total Experience (TX) framework was designed to measure both. Now it takes the next step.
Host Angelina Gennis welcomes James McQuivey, VP, Research Director at Forrester, to discuss the next generation of Total Experience and the introduction of EX impact, a new measure that reveals how employee experience influences customer experience (CX) and brand experience (BX). James explains why employee experience is not simply another score to add to the model. Instead, it acts as a force that can accelerate or hinder growth ambitions. Using examples from retail brands such as Costco, Trader Joe's, and Aldi, Angelina and James explore how employee empowerment, enablement, and inspiration shape customer outcomes and long-term business performance. They discuss:
Why Total Experience focuses on customers and non-customers as the two sources of growth
How employee experience can amplify or constrain CX and brand performance
What Forrester's new EX impact measure reveals about organizational momentum
Why some companies achieve strong CX despite weaker employee experience, and the risks that creates
How leaders can use connected customer, brand, and employee data to make smarter investment decisions