Experience Management and XLA® Practitioner

Certification

The Experience Management and XLA® Practitioner certification is designed to validate the skills and knowledge required to deliver exceptional customer experiences in today’s fast-evolving service environments. Professionals who earn this certification demonstrate expertise in aligning customer journeys with business goals, fostering customer-centric service strategies, and applying industry best practices to optimize engagement across channels.

Training

Experience Management and XLA Practitioner is designed to enable delegates to build and manage Experience Level Agreements (XLAs). This is a hands-on, practical class detailing how to design the right XLAs for your business needs and how they need to be managed through an Experience Management Office (XMO). The class follows XLA Institute’s XLA Design Methodology with practical sessions at each stage.

This 2-day course is presented in collaboration with XLA Institute (formerly Experience Collab) and TSO and delivered by instructors accredited by APMG.

Prerequisite

As the final practitioner level, we require attendees to have already completed the Experience Management and XLA Foundation course. Additionally, to be eligible for the Experience Management and XLA Practitioner exam, learners must hold the Foundation-level certification.

What You Will Learn

The previous Experience course taught us what “experience” is and why it matters, the experience journey, and best practices to help implement experience for your organization. Experience Practitioner now teaches us:

  • How you build the right XLAs for your organization
  • A step-by-step XLA Design Methodology™ that you can follow to create your XLAs
  • How you can bring all the data points together into an Experience Reference Matrix™ (XRM)
  • How you can operationalize experience (XMO™)
  • How you design the right XMO™ for your organization

Who Should Attend?

This course is for all service, support, and IT professionals who are responsible for improving the customer experience and setting measurable XLA goals for their organizations, equipping them with an approach to executing XLAs as a critical foundation of experience management.

  • Professionals tasked with scoping an experience management project
  • Professionals who need to establish the current experience landscape to identify potential XLAs
  • Teams and practitioners building XLAs, including:
    • Service and support managers and directors
    • Service level managers and/or directors
    • Customer experience managers and/or directors

Upcoming Classes

Start DateEnd DateLocation
Dec 17, 2026Dec 18, 2026Virtual

Course Curriculum

Experience Management and XLA Practitioner will cover essential learning points such as:

  • Recap on Core Experience Frameworks
  • Welcome to the XLA Design Methodology
  • Different Types of XLAs
  • Applying the Methodology (including practicals at each step)
    • Experience Now Review
    • Experience Ambition Creation
    • Scoring and Weighting the Measures
  • The Experience Reference Matrix (XRM™) — How the Data Points Come Together
  • Making XLAs Operational — Welcome to the XMO
    • XMO Mission and Scope
    • Detailing Roles and Competencies
    • Experience Management Governance
    • XMO Designs

Certification Exam Details

Exam included with public, virtual, or onsite courses. All Experience Management and XLA® Practitioner exams are administered through APMG International.

All students taking an Experience Management and XLA Practitioner class will be provided with an exam voucher for an online proctored exam with APMG International. Students will have 12 weeks in which to schedule and take the certification exam. Exams are closed book and consist of 20 questions to be answered in 45 minutes. A score of 65% or better is required to pass and become certified.

Exam Format

  • Type: Closed book, online proctored exam, administered by APMG International
  • Number of Questions: 20
  • Time Limit: 45 minutes
  • Passing Score: 65%