My Promise

My expertise

I speak at events and give lectures about human-centered Industrial Design and its adjacencies, like Sustainable Development, Packaging Strategy, Product Platforming, Innovation as a mindset, or Creative Problem Solving. I deliver these sessions across academic and corporate settings to international audiences of all seniority levels and various prefessional backgrounds. I have also mentored classes, individual students or experts throughout their respective projects. At Honeywell, my role included the facilitation of project kick-offs, innovation workshops, and hackathons across diverse lines of business, such as Personal Protective Equipment, Gas Detection, Intelligent Life Care, or Aerospace.

My mission

Design is putting the right purpose into the right context.

My workstyle

I enjoy direct, in-person interaction with the audience, through engaging formats like workshops. When delivering lectures, I seamlessly embed two-way conversations and Q&A sessions into the presentation flow - an approach I also adapt for remote, online audiences. I tailor my content according to the audience, their specific goals and their context, while remaining within the boundaries of my expertise. I always strive to make my presentation interesting, entertaining and inspiring.

My actions

Making it engaging

• I start with targeted questions to the audience to better understand their goals and build a personal connection.
• I treat students as equal adults with the right to debate and challenge my content. I leverage their opinions.
• I use less conventional methods, like games, challenges or practice runs to let the participants dive into the shared know-how, with a touch of humour.
• I use impactful visuals and video content to anchor the message. If suitable, I get involved - hands on - in the exercises to demonstrate how to tackle them.

Making it interesting

• I connect design tools directly to the participants' specific professions and goals so they see immediate utility.
• I draw from my international experience as design student and industrial designer to deliver real-world expertise, applicable know-how and practical tips.
• I pair relevant theories with concrete examples to make complex concepts easy to understand.
• I provide context and anecdotes to show this knowledge impacts both professional projects and everyday life.

Making it entertaining

• My presentations are rich in personal anecdotes, using humor and self-deprecation to share lessons from past failures and successes.
• Switching between slides, videos, conversations and practice games keeps the audience alert.
• My sessions are intentionally high-paced, to lower perfectionist anxiety, encouraging participants to experiment spontaneously.

Making it inspiring

• I lead participants throughout a thought process which they feed with their own experience and data.
• I challenge the obvious and surprise the audience with unexpected twists, quirky angles, and unconventional viewpoints to spark their curiosity.
• All my content fits within a framework of personal values and cultural moral compass. The audience is actively invited and enticed to interpret my content into their own subjective context.
• I primarily deliver food for thought rather than any strictly settled academic theory.

Making it useful

• When suitable, I facilitate the definition of workable next steps with the team.
• If requested, I gather data from the workshop and artefacts from participants to build the report.
• I remain available for additional support, reviews and feedback sessions about the implementation of the findings.

My preferences

I prioritize exploring and sharing ideas over formal, rigid teaching. I do not deliver dogma. Instead, my focus is on creating space for audiences to experiment and stretch the boundaries of their own thinking to foster creative outcomes. I strive to raise their awareness of how they currently approach a topic, showing them how to enrich that perspective with design thinking and a creative mindset.