Portrait of Marialejandra García Corretjer

Marialejandra García Corretjer PhD Human-Centered AI & Experience Design Leader

Executive Advisor |  Globally leading digital transformation with
human-centered practices

A GLIMPSE OF ME: CURIOSITY & COMPASS

Curious by nature, stubborn by conviction, I create for others because I believe the best design catalyzes meaning and changes how people and organizations move through the world.

NAVIGATING MY DRIVE: WHERE I DO MY BEST WORK

I thrive where most draw boundaries, creating a system: between strategy and execution + between a client's ambition and what can actually be built + between a team's potential and where they are today. All wrapped as 1 vision.

DESIGN AS A GROWTH INSTRUMENT

Human-centered design applied early beyond craft, is how we reduce risk, earn client trust, and build things people actually use. I have focused on letting results speak for themselves specially when organizations and others didn't yet believe it.

  1. 07   2023 — nowTransformation

    Human-Centered AI in Practice

    Transferring my core thesis on human–AI empathy into practice, while navigating a new business model with a growing team that reaches beyond the market.

    Carries every thread below it  →  read the chapter

  2. 06   2021 — 2026Convergence

    Global Design Leadership

    Where every thread came together: everything I had learned, put into practice across a global, cross-functional design team.

  3. 05   2019 — 2021Scale

    Andy: Product-Led Growth

    The mechanical layer of my thesis on full display: a startup’s product-led growth ecosystem, built with the business sense of the gallery and the grit of my first venture.

  4. 04   2015 — 2022Rigor

    Realizing Empathy

    The PhD that gave me rigor and the core thesis of the value I bring: designing for empathy between people and AI.

  5. 03   2014 — 2020People

    Scaling Human-Centered Capability

    As mentor, professor and consultant I found my leadership style: sustainable growth comes from investing in people.

  6. 02   2012 — 2014Grit

    First Entrepreneurial Venture

    My entrepreneurial spirit came out: the attitude, determination and grit it takes to bring something to life and sustain it in a market.

  7. 01   2010 — 2012Business

    Art Gallery

    My first business perspective: managing, selling and growing a business, my first touch point with luxury-adjacent markets, and technology quietly supporting growth.

The journey to my practice

Design at its core, has always been the tool to shift conversations & push for leading growth.

16 years · 7 chapters · One unique discipline built through time.

WHAT THIS PORTFOLIO REPRESENTS

This is more than a collection of projects, it is the record of a discipline being built in perseverance and innovation. I honed skills in sales, business management, and marketing executed at a fine art gallery in Providence, earned a PhD publishing a scientific model on designing human-AI empathy products, and now growing a cross-functional team as part of a global digital product and experience design consulting practice with an estimated over 40% revenue growth year on year.

Every chapter contributed something to the next one, making every lesson an empowered perspective that allowed me to grow in a unique way.

THREE THINGS THAT MAKE THIS DIFFERENT

Research → Practice

A PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and influential published AI research that directly informs how I approach product strategy and human-centered design in commercial contexts.

Discipline → Revenue

Design built to make craft function as part of high quality standards AND as a business capability, generating pipeline, earning client trust, and improving margins year-over-year.

Individual → Organization

~750 people taught or mentored, teams scaling, capabilities transferred, the most durable thing I build is people who carry this thinking forward.

More on my background

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Portrait of Marialejandra García Corretjer

Marialejandra García Corretjer PhD Human-Centered AI & Experience Design Leader | Executive Advisor

Globally leading digital transformation with human-centered practices

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, throughout my career I have worked and lived in many places, where each experience has enriched my approach to work, innovation, design and leadership. Now, after 16 years, I am living in Barcelona, Spain always ready to further my professional goals.

Palm trees along a Barcelona beach

My background is in Industrial design from Rhode Island School of Design, where I focused on building engaging product, interactions, services, and experiences for a wide variety of audiences.

Throughout my work experience, I acquired an entrepreneurial outlook, bringing a unique perspective to projects transversally. This required me thinking beyond design and user needs, but also to create a necessary balance with the business objectives, stakeholder management, and market trends.

Dancer in a Puerto Rican flag dress
City street at dusk

Adding to that mindset, I have developed an expertise in research for design & innovation. This is not only achieved through agile, human-centric, and design thinking methodologies, but also through scientific methodologies that refined my eye for detail and data driven decision-making.

I aspire to apply my wide and diverse set of skills to create and improve client projects, products, and services tailored to their unique set of needs. I am passionate about my work and I often find in each project with a human experience need inspiring and motivating. I am both a people person that loves to maintain a fun, caring team culture as well as a resilient, fast learner, that loves a good challenge.

In recent years, with my presentation and teaching skills, I have developed a keen sensibility at building teams. With clear career growth objectives, managing them, empowering colleagues and clients through training and coaching that serves a growing business I navigate it with the understanding that to be a good leader it is about guiding others to have the confidence and stamina to be leaders in their own right.