I have conducted over 50 workshops, training seminars, and have been a speaker at many prestigious events over the last 10 years. I have spoken about Design, Product, Innovation, and Career. I have also conducted multiple workshops for training, product ideation, research and validation, project discovery activities, as well as for strategic decision making.
Please get in touch to book my time to speak at one of your events or at your organisation some time – in person or virtual!
Recent talks & workshops
Talk: Generative AI for UX designers
Talk: Contextual Implementation of Research Methodologies
Talk: The Hand-off Tango - The Love-Hade relationship between designers and developers
Workshop: Using LEGO to Understand the Customer Experience
Workshop: Mapping the User Journey Across Channels
Workshop: Design Thinking Workshops for Product Innovation
Workshop: Simplify Complexity with Service Blueprints
Workshop: Alignments and Prioritization across Agile teams
Workshop: Turning Research Findings into Actionable Insights
Talks and Seminars:
- Design Thinking 101
- At the edge of glory – UX Design career paths for recent graduates
- Research Interviews and Usability Testing Best Practices
- Generative AI tools for designers
- Design in an Agile company
- Better foundational product design with DoGo Maps
- Innovation in companies – what does it take and how to make it happen?
- Project Management for Designers
- User Experience design, and where it fits in the product life cycle
- An introduction to UX Strategy
- Remote working – best practices and stories from the trenches
- Setting up a Corporate Innovation Lab
- Continuous learning and product innovation – Sense and Respond
Strategy training Workshops:
- Hook Model for creating sticky products
- Design Sprint
- Sketching for UX
- KJ Method for ideation and prioritization
- User Research with Google Forms
- Create a company in a day: Lean Business Canvas
- Defining your elevator pitch
- Charting the uncharted with the Innovator’s compass
Design Thinking Workshops:
Over the course of my careers, I have conducted numerous workshops to for initiation of projects, aligning stakeholders on the vision and direction of the product experience, and much more. Below are some of the more notable workshops I have conducted both in person, and remotely.
Saudi Tourism Authority, Saudi Arabia:
- Ideation workshops for the visitor’s experience at various locations of interest in Saudi Arabia, including Al Baha, Edge of the World, Al Maskmak historic district, Mount Uhud, Medina with stakeholders across.
Pizza Hut, Malaysia:
- Ideation workshop for multi channel experience for end to end pizza ordering, dine in, and delivery.
Nedbank, South Africa:
- Ideation + prioritization of app features
- Service blue print workshops with stakeholders
- Ecosystem design with card sorting
- Elevator pitch to bring alignment about product decisions
- Customer empathy mapping
- User archetype mapping exercise
- Rapid design workshop for customer app
Banque Misr, Egypt:
- Product experience hackathon for Small Business Loans
- Service blueprint workshops with department heads
- Design sprint for rapid prototyping and validation of proposition
Bank of Kigali, Rwanda:
- Ecosystem mapping for digital wallet for agricultural
- User journey mapping with LEGO
- Business model canvas workshop
- Elevator Pitch workshop
Bajaj Finserv, India:
- Product feature mapping and prioritization workshop
Axis Mutual Fund, India:
- User experience journey ideation and prioritization
- User empathy mapping
Experian PLC, USA:
- Simplifying product categorisation and navigation pathways for Experian’s international websites
Please get in touch to book my time to speak at one of your events or at your organisation some time – in person or virtual!