The Mentors

Learn from people who have shaped the practice.

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.

Learn from experience. Build what's next

Our mentors

Vanitha Shankar

Design Strategist · UX Educator

Vanitha Shankar

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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Ashish Majumdar

UX Strategist · Training Leader

Ashish Majumdar

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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Masood Nasser

UX Strategist · Lead Instructor

Masood Nasser

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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Dr Daniel G. Cabrero

UX Consultant · UX Research Educator

Dr Daniel G. Cabrero

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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Shikha Daga

UX Mentor · Design Consultant

Shikha Daga

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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Fatema Ranpura

Design Leader · UX Educator

Fatema Ranpura

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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Amit Inamdar

UX Consultant · UX Educator

Amit Inamdar

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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Aveek Majumdar

UX Consultant · UX Educator

Aveek Majumdar

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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Nasheed Kulay

CX Director · Design Leader

Nasheed Kulay

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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Girish Dhulekar

UX Strategist · Digital Transformation Leader

Girish Dhulekar

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.

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Renuka Pinto

Design Consultant · UX Educator

Renuka Pinto

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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Aboli Maydeo

UX Leader · UX Educator

Aboli Maydeo

With over two decades in the field, Aboli has shaped digital experiences across finance, healthcare, retail, and e-commerce, moving fluidly between hands-on design work and the strategic thinking that guides it. Her approach centers on turning complex, ambiguous problems into clear, user-centered direction.

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Rachana Jindal

CX Director · UX Strategist

Rachana Jindal

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.

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Ashok Shetty

Design Leader · UX Educator

Ashok Shetty

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.

Have experience worth sharing?

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.

Your next chapter starts with experience.

Learn from people who have spent years shaping the discipline. Build the knowledge, judgement, and perspective to shape what comes next.