
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

Disruptive Innovation: The Most Dangerous Infection Your Company Can Catch
Disruptive innovation is powerful, but without structural and cultural immunity, it can infect and collapse your organization from within.

AI In Education: Empower or Hinder?
Will AI in classrooms empower real learning or hinder it? Explore how Gemini AI could transform, or limit, education’s future.

Beyond Data: Why Ethnography Still Matters in an AI World
Explore how AI in design research blends speed with human insight, preserving empathy and context in ethnographic research.