Product Innovation & Design Leader

Turning ambitious opportunities and complex problems into products and design capability.

Open to senior product, innovation and design leadership roles

BEFORE

Most designers are brought in once the problem is defined.  I've spent much of my career helping teams work out what the problem actually is.

Teams hire me to move from ambiguity to outcome; finding the opportunity, shaping the direction, building the product and strengthening the team around it.

What I do

Enable Design Capability

Building design capability, ways of working and leadership that turn strategy into action. Enabled a 15-person global design team at STA Travel and coached five senior leadership teams through RCA’s Design Age Institute.

Shape Product Direction

Using research, strategy and design to turn ambiguity into clear product and experience direction. Worked with Sedex, Liberis and RCA’s Design Age Institute to shape what to build, where to focus and how to move forward.

Turn Ideas Into Products

35+ product experiences, from early opportunity and emerging technology to product vision, proposition and launch. At ROXI, led a 0→1 connected consumer product from vision to 100,000+ units sold, £14m investment and acquisition by Sky.

Perspectives on product, design & innovation

I’m a product innovation and design leader with a background spanning industrial design, digital products, service design and design leadership. I help organisations navigate change; creating new products, shaping experiences and building the teams to make them happen.

My energy comes from tackling hard problems and exploring what hasn’t been done before to turn what’s possible into something real.