Pedro Janeiro

Design Thinking is the glue between all disciplines. DesignThinkers Group is one of the leading ‘design driven’ Innovation Agencies facilitating organizations around the world making the transition from being strictly product orientated and sales driven, towards being service orientated and human centered. We are a Global Agency, represented in 18 countries and train, develop and facilitate creative multidisciplinary teams and communities to drive positive change. Design Thinking is a mindset to develop and deliver innovative ideas, change and solutions to complicated problems. It is an activity-based process with a strong emphasis on teamwork and co-creation. Our mission is to provide space and time for teams and individuals to be inspired and challenged, to ‘learn-by-doing’ and strengthen their ability for creative problem solving and help organizations build the necessary environment and mind-set. www.designthinkersgroup.com

Leading the Design Thinking team at Novabase since 2011, in a major corporate transformation program aiming at creating a superior service and customer experience using design methods to reinvent what we sell, how we sell and how we deliver. 1200 people trained in Design Thinking bootcamps - half of the workforce. Huge revamp on services portfolio and market positioning. A new corporate culture, tolerant to failure and avid for innovation. We are now fostering co-creation and value networks to contribute to the international expansion of this Lisbon based IT company, turning it into an outlier in the market through design. Invited lecturer at Universidade Nova de Lisboa on Design Thinking. Lousy guitar player, but nevertheless a proud owner of a Gibson Les Paul and a Mesa boogie amp, distressing family and neighbours in equal measures on a regular basis.

Business Consultant

Business Consultant

Executive education: Design Thinking bootcamp (2011) and Design Thinking 2.0 Bootcamp (2012)