Innovation Facilitation & Workshop Design
I design and facilitate workshops that do actual work — aligning stakeholders, unblocking product decisions, and building shared understanding across disciplines, organisations, and borders.
Workshop Formats
Miro-based collaborative sessions for distributed teams and cross-border organisations. Designed for alignment, not just attendance — with clear outcomes before anyone joins the call.
Hands-on sessions with technical and business stakeholders, guiding teams through creative design thinking methods to define user journeys, surface risks, and build shared product vision.
Early-stage product definition workshops that translate vision into storyboards, epics, and roadmaps. Designed to get founders, designers, developers, and investors pointing in the same direction.
I led Miro-based UX workshops with the EU Commission, representing the German Government in discussions on user interface integration across borders. These sessions focused on aligning different nations' design standards, regulations, and user needs to ensure a seamless experience across member states.
In-person, I facilitated workshops with technical and business stakeholders — guiding teams through creative design thinking methods to define the user journey for the app. The challenge was bridging the gap between business goals, technical feasibility, and very different national user expectations.
What these sessions delivered
Outcome
A user-centred framework for cross-border digital services — built through genuine collaboration between nations rather than imposed from the top down.
Product Discovery Sprint
Storyboards · Epics · Wireframes · Personas
Workshop artefacts confidential — NDA
I helped a health tech startup translate their vision into a structured product roadmap — taking them from an ambitious idea to a clear, buildable plan. The challenge was getting a diverse group of stakeholders (founders, clinicians, developers, investors) aligned on what to build first, and why.
Using participatory design methods, I guided the team through a series of workshops that moved from big-picture vision to concrete, prioritised epics — with the user always at the centre.
What these sessions delivered
Outcome
A scalable, user-centred app roadmap aligned with the startup's long-term goals — and a team that understood exactly what they were building and who it was for.
Workshop Methods
I draw on a toolkit of proven facilitation methods — choosing the right combination based on where the team is stuck and what they need to produce.
Design Thinking Sprints
Structured problem-solving in compressed time — from problem statement to testable concept in a day or two.
Co-Creation Sessions
Bringing users, designers, engineers, and policymakers into the same room to build shared understanding of needs and risks.
Stakeholder Mapping
Surfacing who has power, who has needs, and who's missing from the conversation — before it becomes a problem.
Journey Mapping
Making invisible user flows visible — as a shared artefact that anchors conversations between disciplines.
Assumption Mapping
Getting risky assumptions out of people's heads and onto the wall — so teams can test what matters most first.
Participatory Design
Putting the people who live with a problem in the driving seat of solving it — especially for vulnerable or underserved populations.