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I'm here to help you experience the power and joy of people-centered tranformation

Marco Monterzino
Human-centered Designer & Innovation Facilitator
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I am a human-centred designer and innovation facilitator with over 20 years of experience.

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My expertise lies in understanding people's needs, framing problem spaces, generating ideas, prototyping and testing them. This is based on the firm belief that anything can and should be rapidly prototyped and tested before significant amounts of money and time are to be invested.

My career began in industrial design after graduating from the MA Industrial Design course at Central Saint Martins College in London. That's when I started working with luxury brands, where I honed my skills in human-centred product innovation - here is one of the first projects I had the privilege to work on.

 

I found immense satisfaction working with diverse clients after that, from fast moving consumer goods, to consumer electronics, to food and beverage. This experience revealed that design culture is a deep mindset transferable across industries. Ultimately this led me to focus on human-centred design and facilitation, also known as design thinking, for innovation processes, strategy rollouts, and collaborative workshop activities.

 

With over a decade of experience as a designer, design thinking is deeply ingrained in my approach. This enables me to build trust and guide senior leaders and teams through transformative journeys, unlocking their potential for innovation through experiential learning and creative collaboration. My experience emphasises that an organisation or a business are only as good as their people, making collaboration design, user research, user testing, and experiential learning central to the value I bring to my clients.

 

Since 2012, I have been helping senior leadership and project teams discover the power and joy of collaborating in agile digital-first environments to transform, innovate, and thrive in today’s constantly evolving work landscape.

''I had the pleasure of
working with him for 18 months, I hugely valued his contributions, insight and ability to reframe problems. I  would recommend Marco’s capability, insight and humility for any organisation seeking strategic, human-centred design to further their business.

Dr Edward Hobson, Head of Design & Innovation Effectiveness, Innovate UK KTN
'' Marco brought flexible and creative thinking to solve problems and develop new ideas. His participation in the Ideation sessions with R&D helped push out the possibilities for new and innovative solutions.''
Suzanne Allers, Partner, Untapped Innovation
'' Marco has consistently demonstrated his ability to translate design thinking into learning programme innovation throughout the collaboration. He is experienced and drives projects forward with passion and enthusiasm.''
Joshua Dale, Art Technology Manager, SPACE
'' Marco delivered the project on time and, as expected, to an exceptional standard. He made it easy for the company to understand his workflow, and we found him to be gregarious and a pleasure to work with.''
Daniel Bottiglieri, Head of Marketing and New Business, Brainlabs
'' I have found Marco to be a highly intelligent and articulate individual, who is very good at identifying ‘big picture’ opportunities and highly capable of generating expansive responses, and he can be trusted to deliver thorough outcomes.''
Nicholas Rhodes, Programme Director, Product Ceramic & Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins
'' Marco has consistently demonstrated his ability to contribute in driving our innovation forward with a passionate and proactive attitude. Throughout the project he demonstrated a natural ability to think outside the box and to inspire us to embrace new ways of working.''
Bjoern Vibrans, Managing Director, Design3

Transform along with your people,
become a future-ready innovation powerhouse!

schedule a free discovery call to start your human-centered transformation journey

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