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ABOUT ME

Laura Zambelli Sessona

DOLOMITIC NOMAD

I was born on the Dolomites and in 2010 I turned my life upside down: 

I left my 500 people village to spend 6 months in Vancouver, Canada.

Since that day, I've lived in 9 other beautiful towns and cities around the world: South Orange (NJ), Milan (IT), Delft (NL), Barcelona (ES), Rome (IT), Canary Islands (ES) and now Valencia (ES).

PASSIONATE ABOUT CREATION

I spend my working hours interacting with people, extrapolating meaningful insights and translating them into solution concepts & strategies. I also facilitate and empower teams to implement such solutions and evolve them through time.

I am specialising in (nature) life coach as I intend combining design and coaching practices to enrich my work and increase my impact.

I'm imperfect, growing and evolving.

I'm creative, provocative and challenging the status quo.

I'm also compassionate and caring of people and the planet 

I'm stubborn and insatiably hungry for betterment.

2010 - present

2010 - present

MY SUPERPOWERS
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Active listening
& communication
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Reframing
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Solution exploration & design
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Facilitation
& visualisation
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Planning
(& improvisation) ;)
TOOLS I USE MOST OFTEN
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Post-it/
Miro/Mural
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Google Drive
suite
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Sketch/Adobe Illustrator/Figma
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Keynote/
PowerPoint
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Favro/Trello

04/2017-03/2018

04/2018-03/2022

06/2017-11/2017

09/2016-03/2017

2013 - 2015

05/2015-11/2015

07-08/2011

2010 - 2013

2008 - 2010

My PROFESSIONAL journey (CV)

01/2023- Present

04-12/2022

09/2019-04/2022

Lead UX research, service, strategic & business design freelancer

Empower ambitious companies with service design skills, mindset and tools to impact their business & increase users’ satisfaction

 

Business design student @ d.MBA

Nature life coaching student @ Sentieri Interiori

Life coaching & UX design/Figma student @ Udemy online education

Principal UX Researcher @ adidas sports apps/Runtastic

• Lead, plan, execute, analyse and communicate research activities & outcomes

• Manage UX research team's activities backlog

• Systemise UX research processes, workflows

• Extend UX research capabilities within the organisation

• Scale up the team

Design research & service design lecturer @ TAG Innovation School & Mylia/Adecco

• Organise study material & lecture dynamics

• Interactive lectures lead

• Design & organise learning journeys

Sr. Service & Strategic designer @ Sketchin

• Lead research & design strategy project activities & execute UX tasks

• Stakeholder orchestration

• Team wellbeing enhancement

Design research freelancer with NOYO and Insitum

• Design research activities lead

• Projects’ outcome production lead

• Administrative management

Communication & capacity building team coordinator @ Ebbf

• Team activities coordination

• Social media posts material design

Customer service representative @ CPM International for Airbnb

• Offering client support in the most efficient way

Innovation consultant trainee @ Claro Partners

• Lead research activities & offer project support

• Lead a 1week Design Sprint project

• Organise the BCN ServiceJam2017

Strategic design intern @ STBY & freelancing projects

• Design of a tool to support the daily work of the STBY team 

• Lead my thesis project activities

• Student projects 

MSc Strategic Product Design student @ Delft University of Technology

Industrial design intern @ Lucitalia Milano

• 3d model design for existing & new products 

BSc Industrial Design student @ Polytechnic of Milan - Design School

Warehouse & production manager @ H8 Snc, a small manufacturing firm 

• In/Outcoming goods management

• Relationship coordination with suppliers & partners

• Goods production & shipment

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LET'S CONNECT!
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I'm interested to know more about you, work together on some project/challenge or just pick each other's brain.

I'm also very honoured and excited to present my work and perspective at conferences, social and company events

 

Currently you can find me based in Valencia, Spain, or hiking a beautiful mountain top

in the Dolomites.

Come meet me in personsend me an email or connect via Linkedin and let's have a conversation!

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