Through design-led change we create more meaningful and memorable emotional connections with customers and colleagues.
It’s not just what a service does, it’s how a service makes people feel that counts.
As a co-founder and director of Engine, Oliver helps organisations to identify where, when and how they can provide better, more meaningful and valuable services.
Oliver is a passionate advocate of co-creation, design thinking and helping organisations to help themselves through actively building their internal service design capabilities. Oliver works across all sectors, but has extensive experience in travel, automotive, hospitality and energy sectors.
Oliver is a recognised pioneer in his field and regularly speaks and writes internationally on service design and innovation. He is also a board Director of the Design Business Association.
Joe Heapy is co-founder and Director of Engine Service Design. With roots in industrial product design, Joe is an advocate of the social value of design in improving people’s lives.
Joe has worked with clients across sectors to improve business performance and the experiences of service users. He helps organisations to formulate strategy and deliver service innovation: improving and interconnecting customer experiences.
Joe has collaborated with Demos to research and publish The Journey to the Interface, a book describing user-centred approaches to service design in the public sector, is Honorary Professor of Design at Glasgow School of Art and a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art in London.
James heads up our Dubai studio and is Client Director for all projects across the UAE and surrounding regions.
James has a background in product design, design research, and product and service strategy. He is responsible for the delivery of projects across all sectors, and his work includes the design and development of services for clients including Dubai Airports, Mercedes-Benz, E.ON, Microsoft and the BBC.
James has worked both sides of the client/agency divide and has a strong appreciation of what it takes to deliver great products and services from both perspectives.
He regularly speaks and runs training workshops on service design and its impact on business, and has helped develop design programs at BA and MA level.
Lisa has previously held senior positions in Marketing, Sales and Operations within international bluechip organisations. She's responsible for ensuring that Engine delivers the best customer experience possible and understands what it takes to deliver this across the full range of Engine's activities.
Paddy works with new and existing clients to identify how Engine can help them deliver improved services and customer experiences that increase business performance.
With some 20 years insight gained in a variety of roles, agency and client-side, he’s well versed in both the experiential and operational gains that service design can bring.
Itamar leads service design projects focusing on service strategy, design and product development across a range of sectors.
Itamar has a background in visual communications and interdisciplinary design. She is passionate about people, interactions, and the processes behind decision-making. Itamar specialises in vision, strategy and service development for implementation and delivery. She has worked extensively in Aviation, Retail, Healthcare, Automotive, Education and Financial Services.
David leads service design projects focusing on service strategy, design and development of front-line service capability.
David is passionate about using a people-centred approach to uncover latent needs, to identify key opportunity areas and to make better objects, services and experiences.
He has experience in transportation design and design research, working across insight, innovation and strategy projects.
Beth works on projects across a range of clients and spends time in both our London and Dubai studios.
Beth grew up in the Middle East and trained in product design in Edinburgh and Oslo. She uses her different cultural hats to relate to those living and working in various contexts.
Beth enjoys creating products and solutions that drive positive change for people and efficiency within organisations. Beth has designed improved services within luxury retail, travel sector, telecommunications as well as in non-profit sector.
Marc works across a suite of projects to design and develop engaging internal and external communications for the services being developed.
Marc has a background in Graphic and Textile Design. He has worked with different startups designing their brand and corporate identity and brings a unique view on visual communications. Marc enjoys bringing textures into digital pieces and visualisations, making them tangible and real.
Having grown up in Malaysia and worked internationally, Angus appreciates how cultural understanding plays a pivotal role in designing experiences that have the right emotional impact. Angus focuses on the use of storytelling to translate hidden needs in to innovative opportunities.Angus has experience designing products, technologies and services across healthcare, consumer and transport sectors. He regularly speaks at design conferences and meet ups.
Rania’s background is in Economics and is a certified Project Management Professional. She has over 10 years experience in project management and business planning in consulting services. Rania believes in planned creativity and works to create the proper atmosphere for Engine’s design team to do their job creatively with quality, within time and within budget.
Jaiye has over fifteen years of experience in building brands. She has held senior new business and marketing positions at some of the largest marketing communications consultancies in the world as well as at graphic design and brand implementation agencies. At Engine, Jaiye is responsible for developing conversations with new and existing clients through sharing our news, views and thought pieces across all our channels including social media, web, events, and PR.
Duncan has twenty years of experience working in the planning, delivery and change management elements of programmes. His work focuses on how organisations can evolve their services to drive most value out of their interaction with customers, and how to manage a team through such a design-led transformation. In particular, he has developed an expertise in sectors where there is a large infrastructure component to consider, such as health, aviation, transport, telecoms, and energy production. Clients have included the NHS, Dubai Airports, Transport for London, BT, and AES Sonel. He is also an active coach and mentor in his free time, and in this capacity supports a number of small businesses in the development of their strategy and culture.
Aisleigh has worked at some of the world’s largest creative, digital and advertising agencies providing financial analysis and advice to peers and clients alike. She has experience as a management accountant and financial analyst and is adept at increasing work process efficiency, monitoring budgets to provide financial accountability and ensuring coherence with international accounting standards. Aisleigh joins Engine as finance manager responsible for our London and Dubai studios.
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