I supported Manchester NHS Sexual Health Services in co-creating insights and recommendations to improve care for trans and gender diverse (TGD) people.
Helping your design team work better together.
With 15+ years of expertise in UX, design thinking, and facilitation, I help design leaders create workshops that drive collaboration, problem-solving, and alignment.
- Solve complex challenges – Tailored workshops to spark creativity and better decision-making.
- Boost engagement & collaboration – Proven techniques to get teams aligned and working together.
- Facilitate with confidence – Expert-led sessions that maximise participation and impact.
Let’s design a session that works for your team!
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My core facilitation principles
Spaces for different minds
Some people are talkers and some are quiet reflectors. I make sure my workshops have spaces for everyone.
My authentic self
I bring my honest authentic and vulnerable self to invite and encourage others to share more of themselves.
Focused on the outcome
Workshops are great, but only if we arrive at a destination and something has changed or shifted.
Design challenges
I design and lead workshops that spark creativity, alignment, and breakthrough ideas. From guiding innovation teams at Walgreens & Boots to running hackathons for teens, my approach blends structured methods with real-world pragmatism—ensuring ideas move from concept to action.
Whether it’s a high-energy ideation sprint or a custom workshop, I create spaces where bold thinking and practical execution come together.
Sample design workshops
From vision to value: defining your winning proposition
Shape a proposition with clarity and focus with clear next steps
Problem-Solving Workshops
Unlock your team by reviewing research, data, and insights to focus around a problem.
Run a design sprint
around an idea
Rapidly create and test ideas for products or services.
What people have said
Danny is by far the best consultant in his category that I have ever worked with. Truly great digital experts, for me, have been hard to come by. Danny is different.
Entrepreneur, Investor, Founder
Beauty Pie
Danny introduced innovative ways of working, demonstrated solid and imaginative design thinking and built a good rapport with our clients.
Co-founder
Clearleft
Danny’s ability to facilitate workshops in particular is second to none – he’s engaging, full of energy and always adds a tonne of value (on all things UX) in every interaction.
Co-Founder & COO
Future Foundry
Team challenges
Great teams don’t just happen—they’re built on trust, strong relationships, and a clear shared purpose. I help teams deepen understanding, navigate challenges, and align on strategy through thoughtfully crafted sessions.
Whether facilitating team reflections at Parkinson’s UK, or running ‘Skills marketplace’ sessions at John Lewis, I create inclusive, outcome-driven workshops where every voice is heard, and meaningful progress is made.
Sample team workshops
Team retrospective
Create a neutral, supportive space for your team to reflect, hear each other, gain insights, and align on the best path forward.
Break down silos and build relationships
Harness the power of deep listening and storytelling to foster connection, reveal hidden talents, and strengthen team collaboration.
Custom workshops
I’ll design and run a workshop around your specific goals / outcomes. I can match the tone and style needed for your organisation.
What people have said
I have learnt so much from working alongside Danny at DOT PROJECT as have the incredible charities we support. Danny has taken on so many new challenges with such focus, commitment, energy, but most importantly empathy.
Co-Founder
DOT Project
Danny was instrumental in helping to push the product development process forward. It was impressive to see how he was able to introduce and embed a range of innovative tools and methodologies. I would highly recommend him for guidance, coaching and leadership with product design teams.
Product Manager
John Lewis
I never thought someone who is used to working in a corporate environment would be able to engage 40 teenage girls for 2 days in a fun and interactive way, teaching them ideation, UX, prototyping tools and programming using Scrum and Agile.
Founder & CEO
Acorn aspirations
Case studies
Powering up Power to change
I led an ecosystem of stakeholders through a design sprint to re-imagine how Power to Change provide's support to community businesses.
Facilitating a teenager hackathon
I co-facilitated, and designed materials and structure for a 2 day hackathon for teenage girls.
Running the first hackathon at John Lewis
I designed, hosted and ran a 2 day hackathon with John Lewis online team to design and test a new digital fashion proposition.
My design experience
I’m an independent consultant with 20 years of expertise in UX design, product strategy, and design sprints.
Workshopping
- Delivered design thinking workshops for 100s of charities
- Ran design sprints to innovation teams at Walgreens & Boots, Clarks
Design Leader
- Head of UX at Clarks (2019) and UX Manager at John Lewis (2016)
- Innovation Design Director at Future Foundry (2022)
UX and product design
- 20 years as both consultant and design leader
- Researched and designed a number of premium brand websites.
Let's workshop together
If you’ve got a challenge, problem or team you’d like my support to workshop it, get in touch.