JOURNEY

CHAPTER 03 · 2014–2026

Scaling Human-Centered Capability

Mentoring, teaching, and enabling design-led growth in people and organizations

~750

people taught or mentored over 11+ years

20%

became entrepreneurs

20%

transitioned to UX / product design

60%

embedded human-centered thinking into engineering & leadership

75%

were engineers

THREE ARENAS

1

Academic Education

6 years as Assistant Professor at La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull. UX/UI, creativity, project management, and entrepreneurship for engineering students. Delivered in Spanish, Catalan, and English.

2

Organizational Coaching & Training

2 years Startup context (Andy): weekly sessions aligned to agile milestones. 5 years in Enterprise context (Stefanini): multi-week programs across UX, pre-sales, engineering, HR, and product owners. 35,000+ employee organization.

3

Global Innovation Communities

La Innovation Kitchen and Design Thinkers Group: lecturer, workshop facilitator, jury member, and mentor across international programs. Cross-cultural learning and applied translation.

Workshop participants collaborating around tables
Leading a session at a Stefanini event in Brussels
Online design thinking session

THE LESSON

The most durable thing you can build and invest in is not a product or a practice; it is people, those who carry a way of thinking forward wherever they go next.