Innovation Strategist and Design Researcher who strongly believes in the power of solid research and visual design
Gladys Rosa-Mendoza has helped companies from the Tribune Companies, AT&T, McDonald’s and Facebook/Meta shape their future landscape by taking the research from just abstract numbers to involving company stakeholders in the world of their customers. She lives to understand users and to design beautiful and useful experiences, services and products, and has a thorough understanding of the value visual storytelling has to building a brand within a business and consumer context.
She is also an educational product developer that has created over 400 products for the top 3 educational publishers and has authored her own award-winning series of children’s books for the pre-kindergarten dual language market.
Recent Posts by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
The Missing Link in Customer Experience Transformation
Customer experience transformation succeeds or fails in the space between strategy and execution. While executives define the direction, middle managers determine how that direction influences everyday decisions, team priorities, and customer interactions. Organizations that equip managers with clarity, authority, and practical tools are far more likely to sustain meaningful improvements in customer experience.
The Hidden Trade-Offs Behind Customer Experience
Every customer experience reflects a series of organizational trade-offs. Rather than attempting to eliminate competing priorities, effective organizations make those trade-offs explicit, align around shared principles, and make decisions that consistently balance customer needs with operational and business objectives.
Prototyping Culture: Designing Change Through Experimentation
Culture rarely changes because an organization announces a new set of values. Lasting change occurs when people experience new ways of working. Design thinking and experimentation help organizations prototype behaviors, strengthen collaboration, and build organizational cultures that evolve through practice rather than intention alone.
