Leadership & Capability

Experience & Transformation Leader
~ Design, Product, Research, Strategy & Delivery ~

I lead with clarity, systems thinking and a deep commitment to human‑centred practice. My approach blends strategic direction with hands‑on delivery, enabling teams to navigate change, build capability and deliver with confidence. I specialise in transformation leadership, AI‑enabled ways of working, cross‑functional alignment and creating the conditions for people and organisations to thrive.

My leadership philosophy

Clarity, Humanity & Systems

I lead with clarity, humanity and a systems mindset.

I excel in making complexity visible and navigable so organisations and teams can move with confidence and assurance.

A Balanced View

My approach balances deep empathy for people with a clear understanding of the commercial, operational and technological forces that shape real‑world delivery.

Connected & Meaningful

I connect the dots across teams, policies, platforms and incentives, ensuring decisions are grounded in evidence, aligned to strategy and meaningful for the people they affect.

Commercial Thinking, Human-Centric Outcomes

My blend of systems thinking and commercial grounding allows me to create environments where teams feel supported, leaders feel informed and organisations can deliver outcomes that are both human‑centred and commercially sound.

Leadership case studies

👉🏼 Rebuild of Line of Business Design Operations Post Acquisition

Post‑acquisition, design teams were fragmented and fatigued. Initially hired as the Product Design and Experience Research Director in Australia for our line of business, I was asked to rebuild the design operations, and unify the Australian team with the global organisation. My role then expanded to Australia/US across the line of business.

Activities

To reach our goals: 

  • Hired new designers within the Australian operations, then managed additional designers in the US and LATAM.
  • Collaborated with peers to produce new PDLC frameworks and rituals.
  • Guided the line of business design org through 5+ restructures.
  • Iterated on ceremony management and research ops to build expanded capability in design team.
  • Co-designed career ladders, grading systems, and hiring strategies.
  • Ran Australian and global collaborative design & product activities to unify geos.
  • Co‑chaired the Global Research Committee.
  • Mentored junior designers and created leadership opportunities.
  • Directed opportunities to inject increased global design organisation collaboration on strategic global initiatives.

Results

Outcomes reached: 

  • Rebuilt AU design operations and improved global design maturity.
  • Increased delivery velocity and reduced rework.
  • Strengthened retention and engagement through strategy and research work eg. design sprints.
  • Increased remit with US and LATAM team members in my role meaning better global understanding and leadership influence.
  • Improved collaboration across APAC.

Key Reflection

I build resilient, high‑performing design organisations that support delivery excellence through change.

👉🏼 Cross‑Functional Alignment During Ambiguity

Teams across two merged companies and multiple domains had conflicting priorities. As the Product Design and Experience Research Director for our line of business, I was asked to drive alignment and reduce delivery friction via global collaborations and leadership with global partners in the integration program and merger of businesses.

Activities

To reach our goals: 

  • Facilitated alignment workshops, delivery and discovery forum and initiatives as well as product reviews.
  • Coached our team through multiple integration pivots and milestones, always hand in hand with cross-functional delivery leadership.
  • Managed up, across and into delivery to maintain strategic alignment, focus and clarity.
  • Regularly recalibrated roadmap commitments to suit asks from VC and business C-suite.
  • Led tiger teams on critical emergent issues.

Results

Outcomes reached: 

  • Reduced delivery bottlenecks.
  • Enabled successful delivery of major initiatives.
  • Increased engagement and clarity across core trios product, engineering and design, as well as alignment with other disciplines globally.

Key Reflection

I orchestrate alignment across complex ecosystems and seek to understand as well as absorb risk in order to enable teams to be empowered and collaborate. While there were challenges with global timezones there were opportunities to evolve sync and async practices to enable delivery effectiveness and excellence.

👉🏼 Establishing Research Standards Across Geographies

Research practices varied widely, leading to inconsistent insights. As the Product Design and Experience Research Director for our line of business, I was asked to join then co-chair our research operations approach, to create a unified research practice.

Activities

To reach our goals:

  • Directed tiger teams on critical emergent issues.
  • Led mixed‑methods research across AU and US.
  • Introduced research standards, templates, and synthesis frameworks.
  • Co‑chaired the Global Research Committee.
  • Mentored junior researchers.

Results

Outcomes reached: 

  • Improved research quality and consistency.
  • Enabled evidence‑based product decisions.
  • Strengthened organisational understanding of learner behaviour.

Key Reflection

I embed insight‑driven decision‑making into product strategy. Open sourcing research widely with central repositories and insights sharing forums at different levels of the business enables better shared knowledge and access to data and information.