RAKBANK

Leading Culture Transformation and driving Innovation Strategy at RAKBANK by integrating Service Design, Journey Mapping, and Human-Centered Design principles to radically enhance Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX). 

Successfully embedded scalable Innovation Frameworks improving internal capability, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement.

VP - People Transformation & People Product Innovation 

WXO - World Experience Organization

Founding Member

Legal & General

Directed strategic Innovation and Experience Design initiatives, embedding Service Design and Human-Centered Design practices across organizational culture. Facilitated cross-functional teams through agile sprints, redefining Customer and Employee Journeys and enabling measurable business outcomes and lasting Culture Transformation.

Head of People Experience & Strategy

?What If! Innovation | Part of Accenture

Transforming organizations by integrating human-centered design, behavioral science, and service innovation to create seamless experiences that empower employees and delight customers.

Strategic Leadership & Innovation:
• Pioneered an enterprise-wide experience design practice, aligning customer journeys with employee enablement to drive measurable improvements in engagement and retention.
• Designed cross-functional innovation programs, accelerating solution delivery through rapid prototyping and experimentation, resulting in enhanced customer satisfaction.
• Developed behavioral change frameworks, empowering teams to anticipate customer needs and proactively address service challenges.

Experience Design & Transformation:
• Redesigned end-to-end onboarding experiences, using journey mapping and behavioral insights to improve retention and customer satisfaction.
• Created Employee Value Proposition (EVP) strategies, reducing turnover and enabling teams to deliver exceptional service across critical touchpoints.
• Implemented rapid prototyping methodologies, shortening innovation cycles and improving operational efficiency through iterative design and testing.

Core Expertise:
Journey Mapping & Experience Innovation
Behavioral Change Design & Implementation
Business Model Innovation & Scaling
Leadership Capability Building
People Product Design & Development
Experience Strategy & Transformation
Rapid Prototyping & Experimentation

Innovation Manager (Culture & Innovation)

Accenture

Driving Transformation Through Service Design, Behavioral Insights, and Innovation
Partnered with global organizations to lead transformative initiatives, combining human-centered design, behavioral science, and service innovation to reimagine customer and employee experiences across diverse industries.

Strategic Advisory & Leadership:
Guided enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, leveraging behavioral insights and design thinking to elevate service delivery and employee engagement.
Led multidisciplinary innovation programs, accelerating digital transformation through methodologies like rapid prototyping and experimentation.
Designed and deployed scalable frameworks for organizational change, empowering clients to embed sustainable innovation practices and foster customer-centric cultures.
Client Collaboration & Implementation:
Directed end-to-end service design projects, from strategy development to implementation, driving measurable improvements in customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Facilitated design thinking workshops and innovation sprints, building client capabilities to sustain continuous improvement and innovation.
Applied agile methodologies to streamline solution development, ensuring alignment with client goals and user-centered outcomes.

Core Expertise:
Experience Strategy & Design
Behavioral Economics & Insights
Service Innovation & Transformation
Change Management & Organizational Design
Digital Transformation
Customer Journey Mapping & Design
Innovation Framework Development

Innovation Manager (People Strategy & Transformation)

GP Strategies - EMEA Region

Driving Enterprise Transformation Through Design, Innovation, and Behavioral Science
I lead organizational transformation by blending human-centered design, service innovation, and digital enablement to deliver seamless customer experiences and empower employee excellence.

Strategic Vision & Impact:
•Architect seamless CX/EX journeys, integrating service design, systems thinking, and behavioral insights to deliver measurable business impact.
•Champion digital innovation initiatives that modernize service delivery, enhance workforce productivity, and anticipate evolving customer needs.
•Craft future-ready solutions by combining deep behavioral insights with emerging technologies to drive engagement and satisfaction.

Transformation Leadership:
•Designed and implemented integrated journey strategies, resolving complex challenges while aligning customer and employee touchpoints.
•Pioneered workplace evolution initiatives that foster engagement, enable exceptional service delivery, and support future-of-work models.
•Led digital transformation projects, enhancing self-service capabilities, streamlining operations, and improving customer satisfaction.

Core Expertise:
Customer Experience Architecture & Journey Mapping
Service Design & Innovation
Behavioral Economics & Change Design
Digital Enablement & Transformation
Organizational Transformation & Future of Work
Systems Thinking & Integration

Director - Strategy & Culture Transformation

In this role, I combine design strategy, business partnering, and innovation to deliver impactful solutions for FTSE100/500 clients. By blending customer and employee experience design, I’ve driven measurable improvements in learning, culture, and performance outcomes while enabling digital and organizational transformation.

Core Focus Areas:
• Customer Experience Innovation: Aligning learning and culture strategies with business goals to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Modern Learning Functions: Designing scalable, digitally-enabled solutions that connect employee performance to customer impact.
• People & Culture Design: Building frameworks that empower employees to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
• Digital Transformation Strategy: Leveraging technology to enhance both customer and employee interactions.
• Leadership & Early Career Development: Equipping leaders and new talent with the skills to champion customer-centric cultures.
• Agile Project Management: Delivering fast, iterative improvements to meet evolving customer and business needs.
• Social Learning & Innovation Scanning: Identifying emerging trends to keep learning solutions customer-focused and future-ready.

Impact Highlights:
• Partnered with FTSE100 clients to modernize learning ecosystems, increasing employee performance and improving customer satisfaction by 15%.
• Designed leadership development programs that aligned cultural behaviors with customer-first business strategies, reducing time-to-impact for new leaders.
• Delivered blended learning solutions that enhanced customer-facing team capabilities, driving a 20% improvement in customer resolution rates.
• Created digital transformation strategies that streamlined processes, reducing operational costs and improving CX consistency.

Architect/Consultant - Design, Innovation & People Experiece

The Mindset Software Company

Client Partnership Impact
•Guided major clients (Warburtons, Missguided, Burger King, Cambridge Assessment)
•Led Mindset software integration strategies
•Developed internal campaign launches
•Delivered strategic L&D consultancy

Experience Innovation
•Redesigned user interface focusing on learner engagement
•Enhanced software usability through user-centric design
•Created intuitive learning experiences

Data & Analytics Leadership
•Transformed backend architecture
•Implemented behavior analytics
•Enabled data-driven decision making
•Developed engagement tracking systems

Specialised in combining strategic consultation with user-centric design to deliver measurable learning outcomes.

Head Of Audience listening & Innovation

TalkTalk

Driving customer and employee transformation through strategic experience design and digital innovation.

Experience Design & Digital Transformation
• Designed customer-centric face-to-face and digital experiences, increasing engagement across key customer touchpoints.
• Led Office365 adoption through 'Learnathon' initiatives, improving digital collaboration and customer service delivery.
• Established strategic partnerships with LinkedIn and Microsoft to enhance digital learning ecosystems and customer-facing solutions.

Leadership & Talent Development
• Created next-generation leadership pathways that aligned leadership behaviors with customer-centric business goals.
• Implemented spot-coaching and mentoring programs, enhancing leader readiness to address evolving customer needs.
• Designed graduate and apprenticeship schemes, equipping new talent to deliver superior customer and employee experiences.
• Partnered with stakeholders on new manager development, focusing on customer-first team leadership.

Culture & Performance
• Transformed performance management frameworks at TalkTalk, aligning employee behaviors with customer expectations.
• Co-created an organization-wide culture change program, driving a 15% increase in employee engagement and improved customer satisfaction.
• Developed an integrated behavior framework spanning the employee lifecycle, ensuring consistency in customer-facing roles.
• Aligned organizational values across recruitment, performance, and leadership to build a customer-centric culture.

I specialize in driving sustainable organizational change by combining human-centered transformation with strategic experience design that delivers measurable customer and employee impact.

Group People Experience Lead

Telefónica

Strategic Consulting & Innovation
•Guide organisations through learning transformation
•Develop customised L&D strategies
•Enable digital learning adoption
•Drive organisational change initiatives
•Partner with stakeholders to define success metrics

Learning Design Leadership
•Architect innovative customer service learning solutions
•Design multi-faceted programs for diverse learning styles
•Break traditional learning models through creative approaches
•Leverage digital and experiential learning techniques

Change & Implementation
•Led Tesco Mobile learning strategy for 1,200 staff
•Guide organisational change management
•Drive digital transformation initiatives
•Enable sustainable behavior change

Community & Culture
•O2 Big Thinker and community advocate
•Design distinctive, adaptable experiences
•Bridge business objectives with learner needs
•Drive engagement through creative leadership

Core Strengths
•Strategic consulting and thought leadership
•Innovation-driven solution design
•Data-informed decision making
•Stakeholder management
•Digital transformation expertise

Specialised in transforming organisations through innovative learning design and strategic consultation.

Learning and Development Consultant

Tesco Mobile

Team Leader
After successfully completing the in house manager program at Tesco Mobile: 

•	Part of the Aspire Programme, providing short and long term cover for team managers with the focus to become a full time manager this can range from 2 weeks cover to long term
•	Dealing with both internal and external customers
•	Resolving escalations
•	Set expectations 
•	A standout role model
•	Advising and coaching new team members this being on a 121 or group level
•	Develop excellent interpersonal skills
•	Delivering presentation to a wide range of audiences

Team Leader/Coach

•Creating and maintaining a positive, rewarding work environment.
•Focus on ensuring employees feel valued and invested in their work.
•Collaborate with internal stakeholders
•Responsible for recognise performance achievements and service anniversaries. 
•Responsible for creating and distributing employee feedback surveys compiling  the results of the survey and present our recommendations to organizational management.

Employee Experience Manager (TAG) 

Customer Service Advisor
•	World class customer care
•	Provision of efficient, courteous customer service
•	Working as part of the I.C.E team 
•	Working as part of the TAG team 
•	Hitting stretch in all API and achieving APR of 1
•	Member of the Think Big team, helping out in my own time with Bolton lads and girls club, delivering training and feedback Train the Trainer scheme

Customer Service Specialist

I help innovation leaders, CX and EX directors, and HR professionals design experiences and innovation strategies that deliver measurable business and cultural impact.

With deep expertise in Customer Experience (CX), Employee Experience (EX), Service Design, Culture Transformation, and Human-Centered Design, I turn ambitious strategies into scalable realities.
Whether you're:

• Scaling Innovation Frameworks and Capability Building
• Redesigning digital or physical Customer and Employee Journeys
• Embedding Behavioral Science and Design Thinking methodologies
• Launching Venture Incubation initiatives or agile experiments (MVP Testing)

I provide practical, outcome-focused solutions that resonate across your organization and your customer base.

Specialties:
✅ Innovation Strategy and Operating Models
✅ CX & EX Strategy and Journey Mapping
✅ Behavioral Science & Human-Centered Design
✅ Service Design and Prototyping
✅ Culture Transformation and Organizational Change
✅ Agile Methodologies & Venture Incubation

If you're facing challenges with CX, EX, or scaling innovation... DM me lets have a chat.

Danny Seals

The time has come for me to start exploring new senior opportunities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I’ll be available from January. If you’re building the next chapter of customer or employee experience in the UAE, we should talk.

The UAE moves fast, faster than most organisations are structurally designed for. 

The challenge is creating experiences that keep pace internally and externally while driving growth and loyalty.

Over the last decade, my work has lived at the intersection of experience strategy, innovation, service design, and transformation.

Across industries, I’ve been building, scaling, and embedding the systems that elevate how organisations design and deliver experiences.

My craft blends four core disciplines:

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 Designing experience-led strategies that connect brand, business, and behaviour.

𝗘𝗫 + 𝗖𝗫 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Orchestrating the front-stage journey and the back-stage systems that create it.

𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 Leveling up teams in journey mapping, insight synthesis, product thinking, and service and experience design

𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲-𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Shifting organisations from process-driven structures to product-led, experience-driven operating models.

I’ve also been sharing this work more widely speaking at:
talabat  thanks Maha 
Talent Tribe UAE thanks Mark 
Soon presenting EXE

Along the way, I’ve had powerful conversations with leaders like Mark, James, Tanvi, Arjan Schimmel, Callum Nathalie, Daniel exploring the future of experience, strategy, and tourism in the region. 

Connected Lorna and Ruth together who have gone on to create Dubai first employee experience focused event and community EXE


𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗜 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴:
• EX–CX Integration
• Experience Architecture
• People-Product Transformation
• Insight-led Design
• Innovation Capability Building

𝗜’𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀:
Head of Experience, Experience Strategy, Director of Innovation, People-Product Transformation, CX/EX Integration, Experience-led Transformation particularly within Dubai or Abu Dhabi.

If you know a leader shaping the next chapter of experience in the UAE, I’d value an introduction.

❓𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺:
Which UAE organisations are genuinely pushing the boundaries of experience design and or customer and employee experience right now?

Talking about experiences 

Here’s a recent picture, that was taken when I visited the grand mosque in Abu Dhabi.

Experience Strategy & Transformation Leader | Customer + Employee Experience | Innovation, Journey Design & EX/CX Integration

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The folks at Miral Destinations launched their new Stranger Things experience in #AbuDhabi similar to the breakdown I did of teamLab Inc. experience here's my honest breakdown of the experience...

We arrived as a group of adults who had Netflix Stranger Things stitched into our minds, we knew the lore, the soundtrack, and we have the nostalgic f

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Laura Joy

Woolf - The People Performance Consultancy

I’m in my zone of genius when I’m helping people focused business leaders create teams of happier PEOPLE, more efficient PERFORMANCE and even bigger PROFITS. In each business I've worked in I’ve used my unique system to make a difference that’s measurable on the bottom line.

Business Healthcheck | Team Cohesiveness | Ways of Working

The People & Performance Consultancy

LJ Coaching Ltd

To show women who are over being just “ok” how they can regain control and make the moves they want without losing themselves or their sanity. Zero overwhelm. Zero guilt.

One to One programme | Leadership Coaching for Women in Business

Career & Life Coach 

Blue Crescent Capital

Advising and supporting the Private Equity team evaluate and land investment opportunities.

Performance & Transformation Consultant

Empiric Student Property plc

People & Performance Director

Tenpin Ltd(part of Ten Entertainment Group Plc)

Accountability for the establishment and delivery of the people strategy in the complex, fast paced leisure business.  Responsibility for all aspects of the employee life cycle delivered through the reconfigured people team and including recruitment, operational training, L&D, succession planning, performance management, reward and wellbeing and delivered through a clear internal comms strategy. Part of the Senior Leadership Executive team reporting to the CEO.

People & Talent Director

Moneyline-UK

People Manager, designing, implementing and developing the people strategy in a not for profit social lender. As the first appointee to the role this has required understanding the business and implementing grass roots HR practices which are capable of flexing as the business goes through rapid expansion. Due to the complexity of the roles regulation this included a heavy focus on recruitment and training.

People Manager

Alghanim Industries

HR Director - Retail, with accountability for the development and delivery of the HR strategy across the Middle East for the home and electronics business. Part of the senior leadership team and one of only female directors in the company. Dual reporting working alongside the Senior VP for Retail and CHRO to deliver both the retail division KPI’s and the wider company corporate HR initiatives.

HR Director ME - Retail

Kayan Restaurants

General Manager & HR Director, with responsibility for establishing the HR function at basic, operational and strategic levels across multi franchise brands within Kuwait. Reporting to the CEO of the business the role requires a high level of coaching and tools to aid the development of the senior managers whilst designing grass root strategies and policies.

HR Director & Group General Manager

M. H. Alshaya Co.

Project Manager H&M, with responsibility to work across the support functions on key projects to identify and implement solutions to improve short to mid term efficiency whilst working on long term projects and HR Initiatives to support future growth potential.

HR Project Manager MENA - H&M

HR Business Partner - H&M, accountable for developing and implementing the strategic HR vision across 8 countries in the Middle East. Managing a team to support store and team growth to a headcount of 2400. I acted to influence the direction of the people agenda alongside the Vice President, whilst providing clear guidance to coach and develop the Senior Team.

HR Business Partner MENA - H&M

People Place

Senior Recruitment Consultant, managing accounts and sourcing clients for luxury and fashion clients including Selfridges, La Senza and Superdrug. Implemented targeted approach to generate premium candidates to satisfy client’s current and future needs which resulted in an 83% assignment success rate.

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Increasing people engagement to increase performance and profits 🙋🏼‍♀️ | Corporate Consultant & Executive / Leadership Coach | Coffee lover ☕️ | Culture creator 💫 | Organisation design | Personality profiling 4️⃣D |

Ladies, stop diluting yourself, be the unapologetic leader and claim the life you really want where you can truly have it all.

IT’S TIME TO SIMPLIFY THE MUST-DO’S | ELIMINATE THE SHOULD DO’S | AMPLIFY THE WANT TO’S

Because real leadership starts with YOU.

Let me introduce myself... I’m LJ, proud Mancunian with 20 years’ experience in Senior HR leadership roles internationally with world leading brands, plus building my own businesses, it’s fair to say I’ve climbed the ladders and readjusted the scaffolding. 

I'm all about putting people (YOU) first. Some people say that, but I do it.

Here's how I can help:

If you're a female leader who's wanting to transform your career without sacrificing your life, I get you. I believe you CAN HAVE IT ALL. It's about getting clear on what you want and make it happen unapologetically. You can say goodbye to burnout and stress and secure your seat at the table you actually want to be at.

Sound a dream? I've done it repeatedly and I have the secret sauce.

Interested? I offer:

✅ 1:1 coaching (my signature)  
✅ In person 1 day intensives (limited availability) 
✅ Fast Fix Immediate Impact power hours (for those niggly challenges)

Drop me a message and I'm happy to chat about how I can help you.

Or

If you're a business leader who's seeing your peers shout about record results, building teams that are the best of the best, but you feel like you’re stuck in the middle of a seesaw – frantically trying to improve the results whilst dealing with inefficiencies, a rumbling of grumbling and an increasing demand to take action to support your teams, then my consultancy support is for you.

Is it possible to engage your teams to accelerate performance? YES!

My track record speaks for itself. Not an arrogant brag, truth. 

I've worked with CEOs and leadership teams to deliver double digit growth, more efficient happier teams and improved customer satisfaction. 

I’ve seen the best and worst in organisations and I’m on a mission to show that you can get great results, smash through KPIs without burning out, disengaging or having a revolving door for your team.

The approach is bespoke, logical, & actionable. Just what you need in your already busy life.

Interested? Here's how we can work together:

🔴  Engagement healthcheck
🔴  Team cohesiveness
🔴  Organisational optimisation
🔴  Leadership development 

Plus me by your side as your fractional support to get the perfect balance of happier PEOPLE, more efficient PERFORMANCE and even bigger PROFITS. It's a triple win.

To find out more head to www.woolfconsulting.co.uk.

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