The Mentors
The best learning comes from people who have done the work. Our mentors bring years of experience across design, research, strategy, behavioral science, technology, and business. They share practical lessons from real projects, real customers, and real-world challenges. You'll learn more than frameworks and methods. You'll learn how experienced practitioners think, make decisions, and create experiences that make an impact.
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Design Strategist · UX Educator
With more than two decades in human-centered design and innovation, Vanitha brings a strategic perspective to complex experiences across channels and markets. Her work connects customer needs, business priorities, and design decisions to create experiences that work as a whole.
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UX Educator · UX Leader
Kayre brings nearly two decades of experience across research, usability testing, design, and education. Her strength lies in helping practitioners develop both the craft and the critical thinking needed to make better experience decisions.
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UX Strategist · Lead Instructor
With 25+ years across UX strategy and business consulting, Masood brings a practitioner's perspective to experience challenges. He combines strategic thinking with practical methods that professionals can take directly into their work.
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UX Strategist · Training Leader
Ashish brings more than two decades of UX strategy and leadership experience to the learning environment. His focus is on helping professionals move beyond individual design activities and develop the strategic thinking needed to shape experiences at an organizational level.
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CX Director · Design Leader
Nasheed works at the intersection of digital experience, customer behaviour, and influence. His perspective brings a strong emphasis on creating experiences that earn attention and trust while helping practitioners understand the decisions behind customer action.
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UX Leader · UX Educator
Abdul brings more than 20 years of experience across UX leadership, research, consulting, and academia. He has a particular interest in making complex digital experiences simpler, clearer, and more useful for the people who rely on them.
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Innovation Strategist · Design Leader
Lisa brings more than three decades of experience across UX, research, product strategy, and innovation. Her work today sits at an important intersection of human-centred design, AI, and product thinking, giving learners a perspective on where the discipline is heading next.
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Human Factors Expert · UX Educator
Pamela brings human factors and behavioral science into the practice of experience design. Her work spans research, usability, and design, with a focus on understanding how people behave and using that understanding to create more effective experiences.
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UX Consultant · UX Research Educator
Daniel brings more than a decade of experience working with government digital services and inclusive user research. His perspective is grounded in designing for real people, diverse needs, and the complexities that come with serving broad populations.
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UX Mentor · Design Consultant
With 18+ years across UX design and research, Shikha brings a practical and evidence-led approach to experience work. She helps practitioners strengthen their design judgement by balancing empathy for users with the discipline of research and evidence.
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Design Leader · UX Educator
Fatema brings a research-led approach to experience design, combining consulting experience with a strong focus on how teams understand and respond to user needs. Her emphasis is on turning research into insights that can genuinely influence design.
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CX Director · UX Strategist
Rachana works at the intersection of behavioural science, persuasion, and experience design. She helps practitioners understand how digital experiences influence decisions and how principles of influence can be applied with greater responsibility, clarity, and trust.
Usability Analyst · UX Educator
Suzi brings decades of behavioural and persuasion research into the practice of digital experience. Her work helps practitioners look beyond what people do to understand why they do it, and how those insights can shape more effective experiences.
Design Strategist · UX Researcher
Shruti focuses on the systems and structures that allow experience strategy to work inside complex organizations. She brings a leadership perspective to experience governance, helping teams create the alignment and consistency needed to scale better experiences.
UX Consultant · UX Educator
Amit brings together design thinking, UX consulting, and practical experience transformation. His approach focuses on making experience principles useful in the real world, helping professionals connect what they learn with the challenges they face every day.
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UX Consultant · UX Educator
Aveek brings more than 2,500 hours of training experience across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. His extensive work with professionals across markets gives him a broad perspective on how experience practices translate across cultures, industries, and organizational contexts.
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UX Consultant · UX Educator
With more than 27 years in research, consulting, and education, Ilona brings a seasoned perspective to user-centred design. Her work is grounded in helping professionals develop a deeper understanding of users and build that understanding into everyday design practice.
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Komal focuses on the discipline behind good experience research. She helps practitioners ask better questions, build stronger research approaches, and turn findings into experience strategies that teams can understand and act upon.
Design Consultant · UX Educator
Renuka brings together UX strategy, research, usability, and consulting to tackle complex experience challenges. Her work is particularly focused on bringing structure and clarity to problems where user needs and business priorities have to come together.
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UX Strategist · Digital Transformation Leader
Girish works at the intersection of enterprise UX, AI, and experience strategy. His focus is on simplifying complex workflows and designing AI-powered products that remain understandable, useful, and human-centred.
LinkedInDesign Leader · UX Educator
Ashok focuses on the craft and systems behind effective interfaces. He helps teams build accessible, usable design systems that create consistency without losing sight of the people using the product.
UX Director · Lead Instructor
Sumeet brings a strong focus on the fundamentals of interface design, from navigation and interaction to visual communication. His approach helps practitioners strengthen their craft by understanding the principles behind good design rather than relying on convention or preference.
Design Leader · UX Educator
Yogesh brings together design systems and inclusive design to help teams create experiences that work consistently across products and people. His work focuses on reducing friction while building standards that are practical, reusable, and accessible.
UX Specialist · UX Educator
Sachendra focuses on the discipline of experience evaluation. He helps teams plan and conduct usability studies, interpret what they learn, and turn evidence into recommendations that can support better design decisions.
Experience Strategist · CX Leader
Stephen brings a leadership perspective to the relationship between experience and business strategy. His work helps organizations connect customer experience with broader business vision, market realities, and organizational direction.
We are building a community of practitioners who believe experience is shaped by what we learn, what we practise, and what we pass on.
If you have expertise, experience, and a perspective worth sharing, we would like to hear from you.
Learn from people who have spent years shaping the discipline. Build the knowledge, judgement, and perspective to shape what comes next.
