⭐️ Experience Design Director, Folk
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Louise Helliwell is an experienced Design Lead and Senior Design Strategist with 15 years of experience in design, curation, and making. She founded and curated a collaborative retail space, designed digital products and services, directed photoshoots, wrote scripts and storyboards, and designed prototypes, websites, brand systems, visual identities, and campaigns for clients across a variety of industries.
⭐️ Group Design Lead, Wise
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Jade aspires to be the leader she never had – empathic, encouraging, and inspiring. By helping designers become authentic and empathetic leaders and allies, she ensures product design teams collaborate and thrive. Her goal is to create a space where people feel inspired, invested, and protected to do their best work. In 2012, Jade designed MobileEye, the App Store’s first mobile app to help the blind community explore the world through their smartphones. Check out Jade’s TEDx Auckland talk about MobileEye here.
Jade Tan
⭐️ Fine Artist & Creative Director, Founder, 701 Studio
📚 Branding Now course participant
Shumaiya Khan is a painter, writer, and creative. She founded 701 Studio in 2020, which aims to curate emotive connections through art, performance, and branding. Her work was exhibited twice in Madrid with Galeria Azur, FLUX London curated by Lisa Gray, The Other Art Fair London March 2022, and Affordable Art Fair 2022. She is currently selected for Studio Blup’s BLUP50 talent cohort for 2022-2023 as part of the ‘ones to watch’ who are changing the cultural landscape. Shumaiya has been featured in ‘The FLUX Review’ and Lucy Donovan’s ‘Girl & Gallery’ podcast with an episode airing on January, 2023. She will be featured in the 2023 edition of ’99 Future Blup-Chip Artists’.
⭐️ Creative Director, Design Strategy & Innovation, Volkswagen Group Future Center Europe GmbH
📚 Creative Leadership course participant
Melanie is a Creative Director focussing on Design Strategy. She is a strong believer in thoughtful holistic design.
⭐️ Founder & Concept Director, Pimm Concept & Design Agency
📚 Design Thinking and Innovation week delegate, Branding Now course participant
Kristine is a business master with a strong creative and conceptual skillset. She has worked with 50+ global consumer brands through the last decade and studied the changes in how customers behave, demand, and connect to brands based on their beliefs. She is striving to create value because she believes that value IS what creates money.
Kristine Westrheim Lium
⭐️ Advisory Client Engineering Designer, IBM
📚 Design Thinking and Innovation week delegate
With over 10 years of web development experience and 8 years of web accessibility research, Aline is currently enrolled as a Designer and Front End Developer at IBM Brazil. Using design thinking and agile methodologies, Aline helps pinpoint IBM users' daily work pains by developing tech solutions. On top of her main role, she leads the company's accessibility initiatives helping teams better understand and apply global accessibility recommendations.
⭐️ Associate Product Designer, The New York Times
📚 UX & Product Design week delegate
Rosa Otieno is an Associate Product Designer at The New York Times. She is known for developing thoughtful and effective experiences. Rosa is passionate about eliminating obstacles in health and wellness while shaping digital media experiences. Rosa's curiosity about social systems helped her earn a degree in sociology from Boston University. Over the past five years, she designed powerful experiences, tackled human and operational needs at Silicon Valley startups, and created content on diverse leaders that shape culture.
⭐️ Senior Knit Designer, Nike
📚 Design Thinking and Innovation week delegate
An experienced senior designer working in sustainable technical textiles, Alex is passionate about sustainability and the intersection between craft, design, and digital technology. She is working in zero waste flat knit for Nike's pinnacle upper technology Flyknit used in the brand's bestsellers, Nike Vaporfly 3 and Invincible 3. She seeks to ignite collaboration and cross-functional exploration pushing the limits of the design process to create the future. She has experience in Agile, digital transformation, and leading multi-stakeholder digital platform pilot projects.
⭐️ Founder, AIDO STUDIO
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Regina is the founder of AIDO STUDIO, a company based in Mexico City which helps clients develop a successful business plan by providing creative and entrepreneurial advice. Their mission is to create strong foundations for the brand in order to allow for structured growth and to challenge the status quo.
⭐️ Founder and Creative Director, Rula Galayini
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Founder and Creative Director of Rula Galayini, Award Winning Global Handbag brand made in the Middle East and Retail Consultancy Division with a primary focus on Middle Eastern Fashion/Luxury. Roula Galayini brand was voted by Vogue UK as one of the world’s best bags in 2013, decreed by the Huffington Post as the “it” bag of Paris Fashion Week in 2014, won the Mediterranean Fashion Prize sponsored by Dior and Chanel twice over, and was recently a Vogue Arabia Fashion Prize finalist. Additionally, Rula Galayini has been featured on CNN, BBC and the US TV hit series “The Carrie Diaries,” and spotted in the arms of countless regional and international celebrities.
⭐️ Senior Product Designer, Shopify
📚 UX & Product Design week delegate
Mahta is a product designer with a passion for creating positive change through great user experiences. She specialises in user research, user experience design, and visual design. When she is not designing experiences, she spends her time expanding her knowledge in various UX/UI areas, designing posters and album arts, as well as writing songs and playing music.
⭐️ Senior UX Designer, Amazon
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Sandra is an experienced UX/UI Design Director and Digital Creative Manager who specialises in creative thinking, story-telling, and product innovation. She has over 20 years of experience in web and native app design alongside team leadership roles. She previously worked as a Regional Creative Director for an interactive media advertising and marketing agency, managing creative teams, planning media and production strategies, and dealing with resource allocation and production management.
⭐️ Founder, Olga Hanono Studio
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Olga is a founder of Olga Hanono Studio which specialises in interior design. Olga was Awarded Designer of the year 2019 by the World Wide Alliance of Interior Designers and was named one of the TOP 100 World Interior Designers by the Andrew Martin review, 2020. Her innovative design style and playful personality landed Olga collaborations with some of the world’s top brands including COMEX, Lladró, and an exhibition with MUNAL in Mexico City.
⭐️ Co-Founder / Managing Partner at Him & Her Inc.
📚 Creative Ops course participant
Erin is a Creative Leader in the digital marketing space. Fuelled by data and backed by thoughtful design, she worked alongside Fortune 500 companies like Blackberry, HTC, Amour All and Sun Life to assist with their digital marketing needs. Erin co-founded Him & Her, a data-driven creative agency that offers end-to-end creative and marketing services for businesses unsatisfied with the status quo. She leads the agency in all efforts to help innovative small and medium-sized businesses, including real estate developers with all their marketing and ERP needs in a speedy and flexible way.
⭐️ Executive Creative Director, No2ndPlace
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Lizi Hamer, Executive Creative Director of No2ndPlace, was named by The Drum as one of the world’s most creative women and selected by Cannes Lions as one of the world’s top 15 female creative directors. Lizi is the co-author of Creative Superpowers, co-founder of Sisu Girls, and builder of the SheSays Singapore Community. Her campaigns have brought a blind man’s world to life, changed law, and won awards for impact, storytelling, and craft, leading Lizi to be labelled as one of the most creative women in the world. Lizi is no stranger to the stage, having enthralled audiences at TedX, on The Gruen TV show, and the Master's Stage of Creativity at Spikes Asia.
⭐️ Senior Brand Designer & Strategist, Noise Studio
📚 Branding Now course participant
Victoria is a Graphic Designer & Illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina with a passion for branding. Currently, she works as a Senior Brand Designer & Strategist at Noise Studio. Before joining Noise studio, Victoria was a Senior Visual Designer at R/GA.
Victoria Rojo
⭐️ Integral Designer & Branding Consultant
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Tamara is an integral designer and brand strategist who believes that design is the tool that connects people with ideas. She uses her visual and storytelling skills to create emotional experiences and human brands. In her 14 years of experience, she has navigated the advertising industry as an art director, the social media universe as a design director, and the corporate world as a senior visual analyst. Previously, she worked as a visual design senior analyst at Accenture Chile. Tamara is currently a freelance brand strategist and multi-designer helping brands to be more empathic.
Tamara Parraguez
⭐️ Multidisciplinary Artist & Designer, Head of Creative, SafetyWing
📚 Creative Leadership course participant
An Indonesian-born award-winning artist & designer currently leading the creative team at SafetyWing, Namira is building a global safety net for the remote workforce. Namira’s practice spans moving images, immersive participatory installations, experimental storytelling, and creative curation.
⭐️ Associate Creative Director, Foria
📚 Creative Leadership course participant
Billi is an experienced multi-disciplinary creative providing a 360° integrated approach to creative art direction, strategy conception, and storytelling. She specialises in advertising and marketing for global luxury fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands, with over ten years of experience in content, digital, social media, branding, web, video, print, and in-store. She is currently an Associate Creative Director at Foria, an award-winning lifestyle brand on a mission to support lifelong pleasure and sexual well-being which was featured in the Cosmopolitan, New York, The Rolling Stones, and many others.
⭐️ Independent Design Director and Digital Designer
📚 Branding Now course participant
Sylvia is a Ghanaian-born multidisciplinary senior designer specialising in conversion-led branding & design for brands. She is working with startups to help them build intriguing visual identities and brand strategies. Her clients include Absolut Vodka, Coop Danmark, WWF, Stanford University, and McDonald's among others.
Sylvia Dickoh
⭐️ Founder, Play & Public
📚 Branding Now course participant
Lindsey is a digital designer from Portland who creates brands and websites for businesses that make the world a better place. She creates identities, custom Squarespace sites, social content, and other wonderful things that a brand might need. Lindsey is a founder of Play & Public agency, a branding and web design studio dedicated to supporting brands on a mission to make the world a better place.
⭐️ Creative Direction & Strategy
📚 Design Leaders Programme Delegate
A creative hybrid, Danah is a creative director, a copywriter, and a brand strategist all in one. She advises brands on creative strategies and ideas that will enhance their performance and brand positioning. Danah creates and manages campaign-able concepts and tells stories in two languages, English and Arabic. Danah oversees and directs the creative elements and sometimes dabbles with execution.
Danah Karam
⭐️ Partner & Head of Design, Elespacio
📚Creative Leadership course participant
Agnieszka is a creative director at Elespacio where she leads creative efforts in advertising, web design, illustration, animation, and video. She collaborates with various marketing teams to increase brand affinity, awareness, and sales for multiple lifestyle brands. Based in Barcelona and Berlin, Agnieszka leads a team of designers, UX, researchers, and motion and videographers and together with her partner, manages their agency.
⭐️ Head of Design Operations, SafetyWing
📚 Creative Ops course participant
As a Head of Design Operations, Gilda Furgiuele started the Ideationist to help inspire and grow creativity in individuals and teams. Her work is established in her experience as a creative and informed through her roles in creative operations. By developing the people, process, and product of creative teams, Gilda’s passion is in designing the tools, environment, and challenges that drive innovative thinking.
⭐️ Owner of Content Marketing and Social Media Agency, KAR
📚 Creative Ops course participant
A founder and creative director at KAR Creative Studios, a digital content and creative studio specialising in content for consumer packaged goods brands. They help CPG brands evolve by deepening their relationship with their consumer via social-first content. Some of their clients include Stratia Skin, Pop & Bottle, Tapatio, and more.
⭐️ Head of Multimedia + Video, Moment Factory
📚 Creative Ops course participant
Sadah is a sound designer, new media artist, and dramaturg based in Brooklyn. She works in live, digital, and virtual forms of storytelling through multimedia theatre, audio dramas, virtual/augmented reality, and immersive experiences. She is currently Head of Multimedia and Video at Moment Factory, a multimedia entertainment studio specialising in the conception and production of immersive environments combining video, lighting, architecture, sound, and special effects to create remarkable visitor experiences.
⭐️ Marketing Executive
📚 Innovation Strategy course participant
Ivy is an experienced marketing executive with over 25 years of success in building strong technology brands. Based in Silicon Valley North, Ivy is exceptional at translating technical functionality into benefit-driven, customer-focused messaging and programs to achieve awareness and revenue goals. She bridges across the organisation to ensure alignment and drives high-performing teams towards shared goals. Ivy is passionate about coaching and nurturing talent, bringing out the best in the team with a collaborative, transparent, and accountable leadership style. She is always learning from every experience.
⭐️ Founder, SCALA
📚 Design Leaders Programme delegate
Riz Walker is a multi-scale designer and strategist with over a decade of expertise in workplace and commercial interiors. With a diverse design background in the workplace, higher education, and urbanism, she plays a leading role in all aspects of research-based design and its integration into the development and construction of projects. Riz is skilled at identifying the client’s goals and developing design strategies to reflect the design intent, budget, and spatial and programmatic requirements. Riz also teaches a graduate seminar at UCLA guiding her students through the completion of their portfolios with an emphasis on the power of visual and verbal storytelling. She is a founder of Scala, a studio that focuses on creating designs that equally honours the formal architecture, the interior finishes, and the furniture design all the way through to the accessories and artwork.
⭐️ Creative Director, EY Doberman
📚 Branding now course participant
Nanna Bergh is the Design Director at the innovation studio EY Doberman which focuses on transformation, innovation, and customer experiences. Nanna’s resumé includes a long list of significant assignments, and among many other projects, she has worked with the Royal Swedish Opera’s streaming platform (operanplay.se). Previously, she was VP of Design at Door, a live streaming platform for artists.
Nanna Bergh
⭐️ Creative Director at Higlobe
📚 Creative Leadership course participant
Jess's experience is with brand design, illustration, art direction, and product design. Jess is passionate about typography and experiments with hand lettering within her work. Depending on the project, her style ranges anywhere from vibrant and experimental, to clean design by the grid. She appreciates collaborating with other designers as well as taking the lead on projects.
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