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Design with Impact

Actionable strategies to help you get traction in business

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Layers of impact
Getting your first/next design job
The 2 design jobs
Leadership Modes
All leadership is change leadership
The Spaces in Between
Learning into Leadership
The other design job (no one told you about)

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Work with me

If you are ready for the next step in your leadership journey beyond the status quo, here are a few ways I can help:

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My Story

What if Customer Experience could become your most powerful growth engine?

As Managing Director of a NZ top 25% service business, I lead Reframr's high-performing team on a mission to shift the status quo of business towards excellence grounded in people, purpose, and performance.

We partner with leaders and organisations who are done with guesswork and overwhelm and want a clear roadmap towards sustainable and measurable growth and impact. Focussed on customer retention, acquisition and strategic clarity, our proprietary Clarity Roadmap Sprint™ helps organisations across sectors and industries define their strategic north star, declutter their product roadmaps and align and energise cross-functional teams on business critical initiatives.

Recognised globally as an authority on Customer Experience strategy, I judge the Auckland Business Awards for Customer Excellence, deliver keynotes at select events and advise product and marketing leaders growing the CX mandate in their organisations.

Over the past decade, I have built New Zealand's largest community of customer experience professionals, helping CX evolve from an emerging practice with no formal in-house customer experience functions to a recognised industry in New Zealand with teams of 50+ practitioners now present across Aotearoa's largest organisations.

 

​Curious what we can do together? Let's talk.

My public talks and interviews

LI Live: Thinking Aloud

I spoke with Baruk Jacob on Shifting Mental Models for organisational change

Podcast: This is a Prototype

I spoke with Doug Powell about Design Leadership superpowers and the often jarring transition design leaders face when going from “on the tools” to “on the team.”

Podcast: This is HCD

I spoke with Gerry Scullion on the Intersection of Design & Leadership

Talk: Design Leadership Beyond the Job Title

A Lunch'n'Learn with Optimal Workshop

Podcast: Service Design Show

I spoke with Marc on Design Leadership beyond the status quo.

Podcast: Rebels, Dreamers and Happiness Seekers

I spoke with Renee on Designing For Humanity.

Talk: Making CX tangible - moving from ideas to impact

I spoke at the Customer Experience and Engagment Summit in Auckland on the elements that help make Customer Experience a tangible practice.

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+64 221 60 7024

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