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Service Design · CX Strategy & Transformation · Value-Driven Innovation

From ambiguous goals to aligned action.

You know something needs to change. I make the problem clear, get your teams pulling the same way, and leave behind a way of working that keeps delivering after I've gone.

  • Better customer experiences
  • Clearer prioritisation
  • Stronger business value
15+
Years in service design, CX & innovation
6
Sectors
4
Recent markets

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Kerzner International · 2024 – Present

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A shared language for value, across three luxury brands

Brand, CRM, operations, data and finance had no common way to argue for the same guest. This gave them one: a lifecycle, a set of needs and an operating rhythm that connect guest experience to commercial outcomes across One&Only, Atlantis and SIRO.

HospitalityUAEGlobal

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), via Arthur D. Little · 2024 – 2025

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Deciding where AI belongs in a financial centre's client service

A client relationship function buckling under growth, turned into a benchmarked, prioritised digitalisation programme, with explicit boundaries for what AI should handle, what it should never decide, and where a human stays in the loop.

Financial ServicesUAE

Belong, stc & Telekom Srbija · 2017 – 2025

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Making CX a business system, not a touchpoint exercise

Three telcos on three continents, each needing the same thing: leaders who treat customer experience as a business system, and teams with the standing capability to act on it. One function built from zero, two leadership cohorts equipped.

TelecomsAustraliaSaudi ArabiaSerbia

XWORX Design Services · 2023 – 2024

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Building an agency's design capability, at consulting pace

A year leading design and innovation engagements across UAE government, aviation, energy and enterprise clients, while recruiting the specialists and raising the delivery quality behind them.

GovernmentAviationUAE

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