Designer at Heart, Strategist by Practice

My work is a hands-on journey of insight and critical thinking,

focused on designing the paths that create lasting value for people, businesses, & the planet.

My Guiding Principles

My work is rooted in the belief that design is a force for good.
It’s how we navigate complexity, make better decisions, and enable positive
change

Creative
Optimism

Embracing complexity and uncertainty with imagination and persistence

Staying curious while trusting the creative process.


Listening deeply, uncovering what’s hidden, and knowing that the right answers emerge over time.

Imperfect
Progress

Bringing strategy and structure to the creative process to guide change

It is never about getting it perfect, but about making honest progress.

Shaping ideas with intention, grounding them in the present while leaving room for what comes next.

Intentional
Design

Using design as a tool to cut through noise and define clear paths forward

Making sure every action and idea is rooted in purpose.

Letting that conviction guide decisions toward value for people, society,
and the planet.

Strategic Thinking. Proven Impact

Over a decade working at the intersection where
design, innovation, & entrepreneurship
meet real world complexity

250+

Entrepreneurs & Businesses Mentored

300+

Workshops & Lectures Delivered

16+

Countries of Global Reach & Experience

10+

Strategic Frameworks & Systems Designed

My Philosophy

Design Beyond Aesthetics

I am driven by the conviction in design as a force for good

I believe creativity is the only human quality with the power to transform

Design is my tool for making sense of the world’s beautiful complexity.

It’s not just an aesthetic exercise;
it is a thorough practice to tune into what truly matters, ask better questions, and build solutions that are both thoughtful and practical.

Design becomes meaningful when it helps people make better decisions. Turning uncertainty into understanding and ideas into action.

Academic Partnerships and Teaching Experience

My Approach

Intentionality for Lasting Value


It all starts with purpose.
I use creative thinking to transform vision
into actionable outcomes. These are different ways we can work together

Strategic Advisory & Mentoring

I partner with leaders & their teams to cut through organizational noise

We design the paths that foster better decision-making, ensuring your strategy is set for resilient growth and competitive advantage.

Entrepreneurial Incubation & Growth

I provide the focus needed to transform your vision into resilient paths to market

Leveraging design conviction, we define market fit and build the foundations to manage complexity from launch to scale.

Professional Speaking & Keynotes

I deliver insights that translate complexity into actionable perspectives

Nurturing a creative mindset, these sessions inspire audiences to embrace change, driving innovation and immediate direction.

Catalytic Design & Strategy Labs

Together, we build creative confidence and a mindset for innovation

Through hands-on experiences, we develop the conviction to navigate complexity, anticipate change, and foster a culture where new ideas thrive.

Curriculum Design 
& Strategic Frameworks

I partner with institutions to align industry demands with academic structure

Using my practice, we co-design curricula that translate market realities into future-ready programs, preparing professionals to lead with conviction.

A Different 
Perspective

Let’s stop talking about design and start using it.

I bring a unique blend of strategic expertise and hands-on collaboration to every challenge.

Navigating Complexity: Designing Paths, Delivering Progress

My commitment is to creating the conditions for m eaningful change,
turning uncertainty into action and vision into forward momentum

Alcanzar una Estrella (Reaching for a Star)

MAIA Impact School

A three year educational initiative redesigning how entrepreneurship is taught to young women in Guatemala, where I led the creation of an experiential curriculum that challenged systemic inequity and expanded access to leadership and economic agency.

At its core, this project addressed how education systems can unintentionally reproduce inequality while claiming to promote opportunity.

Challenge:

The national public curriculum in Guatemala aimed to institutionalize entrepreneurship across the country. However, in practice, it reinforced systemic inequity by funneling young people, especially those at risk of social exclusion, into low ceiling vocational pathways.
Rather than expanding access to leadership and economic agency, the system effectively gate-kept high level professional futures, limiting how young people could imagine and shape their own trajectories.

My Approach:

I designed a three year experiential learning ecosystem that redefined how entrepreneurship was taught and experienced.

Curriculum & Learning Design

  • Created a Project Culture curriculum grounded in experiential and project based learning, positioning students as active designers of their own learning process.
  • Bridged traditional academic frameworks with real market dynamics.

System Integration

  • Integrated design methodologies, financial literacy, venture capital logic, and intellectual property frameworks.
  • Positioned students as active designers of real world ventures.

Capacity Building

  • Led a Train the Trainer model to ensure long term continuity & pedagogical ownership.

Outcome:

The program transformed the classroom into a laboratory for real world experimentation and venture creation.

Beyond delivering a curriculum, the project created an environment where 16 year old girls could prototype their own futures, moving beyond localized micro enterprise toward professional agency and leadership.

Catalyzing the Future of Youth Employment through Policy Innovation

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Programa ProJoven

A national policy innovation initiative addressing youth employment in Honduras, where I designed and led a large-scale participatory process to break institutional silos and enable coordinated, cross-sector action.

The project reframed youth employment not as an educational issue, but as a structural coordination challenge.

Challenge:

A comprehensive assessment of the national education system revealed that efforts to address youth employment were fragmented across public institutions, private organizations, and civil society.

This fragmentation resulted in isolated initiatives, organizational silos, and limited systemic impact, masking the underlying barriers facing youth employment outcomes, ultimately reframing the issue from a simple educational one to a complex structural one.

My Approach:

I designed and led a large scale participatory policy innovation process to enable coordinated action across sectors.

Ecosystem Convening

  • Designed and executed a multi-regional Policy Hackathon ensuring diverse cultural representation.
  • Convened stakeholders from public, private, civil society, and academic sectors.

Process Design

  • Structured collaborative policy development across six key opportunity areas.
  • Adapted delivery to overcome the national digital divide, using WhatsApp as the primary participation channel.

System Enablement

  • Designed the process as a replicable model rather than a one-off event.

Outcome:

The initiative resulted in 21 actionable policy memorandums, five top-level national alliances, and the creation of a national Policy Hackathon Playbook fostering unprecedented intersectoral dialogue.

More importantly, it introduced a new structural language for cross-sector collaboration, enabling stakeholders to co-create policy solutions and influence national education and employment strategy.

Institutional Strategy & Sustainability

INSERT Impact
Venture Builder

A strategic redesign of an impact venture builder’s operating model, where I worked with the team to transition from donor dependency to a self sustaining, regionally scalable organization.

This project focused on designing long-term institutional viability beyond donor dependency.

Challenge:

INSERT, an established impact venture builder in El Salvador, required a new institutional strategy to secure long-term financial viability while strengthening its role within the regional entrepreneurship ecosystem.

The existing operating model was heavily donor-reliant, limiting the transition from donor-dependency to a self-sustaining model with long-term growth potential.

My Approach:

I designed a comprehensive, multi-layered (financial, customer, internal process, growth) institutional strategy centered on long-term systemic and financial sustainability.

Strategic positioning

  • Mapped internal capabilities and regional ecosystem opportunities.
  • Defined expansion pathways aligned with INSERT’s mission and assets.

Business model design

  • Formalized proprietary methodological toolkits as revenue-generating assets.
  • Designed new income streams to support long-term viability.

Structural transition

  • Established the foundation for a joint-venture-based funding model supporting early-stage impact companies.

Outcome:

The work resulted in a clear institutional and financial blueprint that repositioned INSERT for long term sustainability.

Together with the team, we designed the conditions to transition away from donor dependency while strengthening INSERT’s presence as a key stakeholder within the Central American entrepreneurship ecosystem and enabling strategic expansion into the Spanish ecosystem.

Designing the Next Outcome

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Thoughts on Design

Where curiosity meets purpose

Notes, reflections, and ongoing questions shaped by design practice.

Where questions matter more than answers.