Hi, I'm Helena

a Foresight Strategist, Innovation Advisor, and Leader in Service & Experience Design based in London, UK.
I work at the intersection of Strategic Foresight, Innovation, and Service & Experience Design, helping organisations anticipate change and design strategies for uncertain futures.
My experience spans multiple continents and industries including global professional services firms (two Big Four consultancies among them), large organisations, startups, and the mobile games industry. Across these varied environments, I have applied and led teams to use a futures-driven mindset to challenges ranging from innovation strategy and organisational transformation to the conceptualisation and development of digital products and mobile games.
My work translates emerging signals and long-term thinking into practical opportunities for innovation and strategic action. For over three years, I taught experience design within MBA programmes, bridging academic insight with real-world practice.
Currently at Deloitte, I work across Innovation, Service Design, and Strategic Design, helping organisations navigate complex challenges and emerging opportunities. I develop and lead teams to apply foresight-informed perspectives and strategic points of view designed to provoke new thinking and prompt action, combining human-centred design, systems thinking, and futures' methods.
Passionate about expanding how organisations imagine the future, I frequently explore science fiction as a tool for futures thinking, helping teams move beyond speculation and translate future possibilities into tangible strategies, products, and future-ready solutions.

Experience Highlights

Track record in multiple continents across consulting, industry, and academia, applying foresight, innovation strategy, and human-centred design to complex organisational challenges.

Foresight, Strategy & Service Design

Strategy & Innovation Consulting

Experience Design Lecturer (MBA Programmes)

Mobile Games Concept & Product Development

Strategy & Experience Design

Education Snapshot

Academic background combines design, strategy, and futures thinking, shaping my multidisciplinary approach to innovation
and foresight.

BA in Arts & Design

Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo

Disruptive Strategy Certificate

Harvard Business School

Postgraduate in Interaction Design

ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN

International Certified Future Strategist

Kairos Future (Stockholm)

Game Design

Escola Britânica de Artes Criativas & TECNOLOGIA

Applied Strategic Foresight

Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Impact Overview

10
+
years across global consultancies, enterprises, startups & gaming
300
+
innovation workshops designed
& facilitated
240
+
MBA professionals taught
(independent + corporate cohorts)