Two-time founder & award-winning designer. I talk about founders' mental health and the mindset to live a joyful life. I love fixing old motorcycles 🛵

I’m a two-time founder and award-winning design director with a proven track record of leading teams to successfully bring over 50 innovative physical and digital products to market.

With 20+ years of experience across startups, consultancies, and corporate settings, I’ve developed a holistic approach that combines creative design thinking, operational and manufacturing expertise, and emotional intelligence to drive innovation and team success.

Today, I serve as Director of Products at Grizzly Industrial, where I lead three brands: Grizzly, Shop Fox, and South Bend, overseeing product strategy, design, merchandising, pricing, logistics, and development.

In parallel, I continue to coach a select group of founders and leaders, placing emotional intelligence at the core of my work to empower better decision-making, stronger collaboration, and sustainable growth. 

I also write regularly:

Advise Myself → essays on emotional intelligence and personal growth

The Design Practice → essays on product management, design, and leadership


Originally from Argentina 🇦🇷 and now based in Bellingham, WA, I enjoy life as a dad, exploring the outdoors, and restoring old motorcycles 🛵 🏍️.

Career Highlights include:

 ➜ Founded and led two startups, including one exit in 2022.
 ➜ Directed the design and launch of 50+ products across industries.
 ➜ Earned 35 patents for innovative product designs.
 ➜ Exhibited twice at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), with one design in its permanent collection.
 ➜ Created products that won more than 75 major design awards.
 ➜ Founded and built a design consultancy serving global brands such as Crate & Barrel, CB2, Club Quarters Hotels, and Herman Miller.
 ➜ Established overseas manufacturing operations for multiple clients.

Manuel Saez

Francesca Sciandra Therapy

Supporting my clients in exploring and resolving anxiety, depression, sleep issues, low confidence, and relationship challenges. I provide a calm and non-judgemental space for exploration and growth.

Providing a high standard of care. Conducting new client consultations and comprehensive intake sessions. Developing and implementing case formulations and treatment plans aligned with client goals and needs. Monitoring clients’ progress to ensure their well-being.

Trained in Hypno-Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Analytical Hypnotherapy with Psychotherapy, DHPC(NC), DAHP, GQHP, GHR Reg. Currently on the pathway to becoming a UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist.

Integrative Therapist, Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Hypnotherapist

Providing one-to-one and group supervision for hypnotherapists. I support trainees, those newly registered, and experienced hypnotherapists. I work within the standards of practice and code of ethics set by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC).

Hypnotherapy Supervisor

Helping my clients create calm, authentic, and joyful lives. My approach is accepting and insightful and brings together a range of approaches including transformational, holistic, and mindfulness coaching. Qualified coach offering one-to-one sessions and group programs.

Therapeutic Coach

Francesca Sciandra

Artist with a focus on painting and experiential art.

Artist

MYNDUP

MYNDUP offers live one-to-one video sessions for therapy, counselling, coaching, and mindfulness. We make it easy for everyone to anonymously access a range of tailored, full-spectrum mental health support. 

The customer experience team looks after every touchpoint for our clients and practitioners, helping us deliver on our mission to provide full-spectrum mental health support. Creating systems for collecting and synthesising customer feedback, including designing and running qualitative research studies.

MYNDUP supports 50,000+ employees in 30+ countries across 4 continents.

Head of Customer Experience

Managing the creation of educational content on a range of mental health topics, including stress & anxiety, sleeplessness, improving self-confidence, and the importance of talking about mental health.

Customer Marketing Manager

Wavepaths

Guiding Wavepaths Deep Listening sessions on-site and virtually for corporate and private clients. Wavepaths provides adaptive music for use in psychedelic therapy and as psychedelic therapy. 

Following and supporting the creation of protocols to provide a consistent, high-quality experience to all guests to address the set & setting, deep listening experience, post-session processing, and integration.

Using a person-centred approach to support the processing and integration of the deep listening experience.

Clients including Vivobarefoot, 180 Amsterdam, and Massive Music.

Wavepaths Guide

Urban

Creating and delivering group workshops and 1 to 1 sessions to support mental wellbeing at work using a range of mindfulness approaches. Confidently delivering programs on site and virtually to support corporate wellbeing programs.

Topics and workshops including Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation, Mindfulness and Working from Home, Mindfulness and Self-Care, Mindfulness for Anxiety, and How to Cultivate Inner Happiness.

Maintaining a consistent 5.0 / 5.0 rating from clients for session quality and delivery.

Clients including Facebook, PwC, Astrid & Miyu, and Pharos Energy.

Mindfulness & Meditation Practitioner

Contractor

Providing end-to-end user experience design services on a contract & consultancy basis within global marketing and advertising agencies and early to late-stage startups.

User Experience Design Lead

General Assembly

Creating and delivering course lectures and lessons. Providing students with extensive feedback, conducting 1 to 1 reviews, and facilitating design critiques and studios. 

Teaching subjects including user experience design, conducting & synthesising user research, user interface design, service design, interaction design, and usability & accessibility.

Lead Instructor, UX Design Immersive Program

Hogarth Worldwide

Client-facing role, managing a team of user experience designers and user researchers to deliver end-to-end user experience design services. Working closely with team members across product management, business analysis, creative, and development.

Clients including Santander, Microsoft, TK Maxx, and Netflix.

DOOR3

Senior User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer

Humanscale

Marketing Specialist

Offering integrative therapy, psychotherapeutic counselling, and hypnotherapy for people seeking transformative healing and change. Challenges I help my clients with include:

• Managing stress and overcoming anxiety
• Treating forms of depression
• Resolving sleep problems, including insomnia and sleep anxiety
• Exploring and resolving relationship issues and difficulties
• Improving emotional regulation and awareness 
• Overcoming low self-confidence and low self-esteem
• Resolving attachment issues, including anxious, avoidant, and disorganised patterns of relating to others
• Overcoming feelings of isolation or loneliness
• Processing and integrating psychedelic experiences and non-ordinary states of consciousness

Experienced mental health and creative professional with over 20 years of experience across corporate & individual wellbeing, coaching, technology, marketing, experience design, and team leadership. Enjoy working with people, relationship-building, and supporting others in creating pathways for achievement, growth, and success. 

Key professional skills:
• Experienced manager, successful in leading and growing teams, setting objectives, and managing delivery and feedback
• Entrepreneurially minded with experience in areas of business including strategy, marketing, design, technology, delivery, and customer experience
• Skilled with client-facing roles in small to medium enterprises and global organisations
• Specialist knowledge of wellness, coaching, mindfulness, and experience design
• Highly empathetic communicator with strong active listening and problem-solving skills
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills
• Positive attitude with a growth mindset
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple work streams
• Commitment to continual professional and personal development, growth, and achievement

Clients and companies I have worked with over the course of my career include: 
• 180 Amsterdam 
• Astrid & Miyu 
• Canon
• Crown Estate 
• Facebook
• Fresh Direct 
• Grey Healthcare Group (WPP) 
• HomeSense
• Hogarth Worldwide (WPP)
• Kohler Co. 
• Massive Music
• MediaCom (WPP) 
• Microsoft 
• Netflix 
• Oxford University Press 
• Pharos Energy
• PwC
• Rebecca Taylor
• Regent Street Association 
• Santander UK 
• SAP 
• SportsAid
• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide 
• Teladoc
• Wallpaper*
• Vivobarefoot

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