Mike leads a multi-disciplinary team of designers and user researchers at Reed.co.uk, leading UK Job and Careers site. Previously he built up design and research organisations at Eurosport, Discovery and BT.
Mike is a champion of user-centred design, empowered teams and cross-business collaboration. He’s passionate about improving design maturity and transforming businesses, and customer experience, through quality product design.
Past Talks
13 October 2022
Learning about the latest and greatest techniques are great. But what really matters is how you get those changes implemented in your companies. This panel will discuss the main tactics for demonstrating the value of process improvements as well as tips on how to get buy-in at both a senior stakeholder level as well as within the product development teams.
10 October 2022
This talk will walk through an approach to building and retaining teams and how to identify early in the hiring process what to look for and how to build teams based on individual, product, and business objectives.
- Planning teams to optimise efficiency and future growth
- Team focus on user and business outcomes
- Structuring teams for both empowerment and cross-business collaboration
- Key tips and insights on the hiring process
