Working with teams and organizations
I partner with organizations navigating growth, transformation, or structural change, especially where the human and structural layers are both under pressure. My approach is built on principles that work across sectors, because complexity is complexity.
Featured Projects
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The Continuity Blueprint
Designing the blueprint for a cross-border production engine between UK and Italian correctional facilities, transforming an award-winning design curriculum into a scalable social enterprise with luxury-grade manufacturing standards.
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OKRs as Global Design Engine
How I architected a unified OKR framework for 110+ designers, transforming fragmented silos into a high-velocity global engine with 90% target achievement.
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The Architecture of Resilience
Leading a 110-person design engine through pandemic and geopolitical crisis to deliver a Tier-1 cloud-native banking platform with zero security compromise.
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The Strategic Partnership Protocol
A strategic blueprint for scaling high-stakes partnerships in regulated environments, ensuring 100% quality benchmarking and 30% faster on-site implementation.
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The Career Compass
Architecting a global UX career framework for 50+ designers to replace subjectivity with objective competency mapping, driving talent retention and clear growth.
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The Acceleration System
How I architected a global UX onboarding and L&D system for 2,500+ employees, accelerating new-hire time-to-value to 30 days through 6 role-specific learning paths.
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The Talent Engine
How I engineered a global recruitment engine at Backbase to scale a design team from 12 to 50+ across 11 hubs, cutting hire time to 3 weeks with 78% retention.
We work with four pillars to shape your sustainable future.
1. People: Talent Lifecycle Engineering
From recruitment to retention: Architecting the infrastructure that scales teams without diluting culture or quality.
Key Example: Scaling global teams from 12 to 50+ while maintaining a 78% retention rate through standardized competency mapping.
2. Strategy: Strategic Governance & Alignment
Closing the gap between C-Level vision and R&D execution through high-stakes OKR frameworks and discovery protocols.
Key Example: Transforming fragmented global silos into a unified delivery engine with 90%+ target achievement.
3. Operations: Operational Design & Velocity
Eliminating delivery friction by engineering standardized methodologies that drive measurable 15-25% gains in team output.
Key Example: Reducing time-to-value for new hires to 30 days and shortening hiring cycles from 6 months to 3 weeks.
4. Organizational Design: Growth Infrastructure & Resilience
Designing robust, cloud-native operating models that allow teams to remain agile and secure during hyper-growth or crisis.
Key Example: Architecting the ‘Sanctuary’ – systems that protect the craft and the person, ensuring long-term institutional stability.
Structure without people is architecture without life. People without structure is potential without direction.
The work is building both, simultaneously.
What collaborators say
Her ability to quantify problems and go beyond anecdotal evidence allowed our teams to solve strategically important problems, making serious impact in the company.
Emil Flach, Design System Owner, Backbase / JetBrains
People love to work in her teams. Empathy, mentorship and critical thinking makes her the respected team lead.
Jacco Geelkerken, Director of Business Analysis, Backbase
Holistic view and strategic thinking when working on interdisciplinary projects.
Silke Wartenber, ECD, Isobar
Partner with me when…
Your team has outgrown its current structure and culture is beginning to fray.
Hiring velocity has stalled, and you’re losing top talent to competitors.
There is a disconnect between high-level business OKRs and daily output.
You need a Crisis Architect to stabilize a high-stakes project under extreme pressure.
Ready to talk about what’s possible?
Book a consultation. No pressure, no pitch. Just a conversation about where you are and where you want to be.