Martina Hodges-Schell is a transformation consultant and coach.
Martina helps organisations become more customer-centric and works with them in developing their culture, teams and practices to innovate, collaborate and deliver outstanding products.
Over twenty-five years, Martina has supported a wide variety of industry-leading enterprise, public sector and startup clients in their transformation journey and to launch new products/services. She has led product innovation capabilities and built thriving and diverse cross-disciplinary teams for world-class consultancies (Pivotal, Flow, Method), tech leaders (Amazon, Yahoo!) and start-ups/scale-ups (Play.com, Travelmatch). She founded Northshore to bring this expertise to you.
She co-authored “Communicating the UX Vision” to help teams communicate and collaborate better, coaches leaders and startups, and teaches user-centered design at the University of the Arts London.
What People Are Saying
“Martina’s unique perspective is one that I’ll always seek out. Her experiences put her in a class of her own when it comes to helping organisations collaborate well and successfully scale-up their design practice. It’s always been a pleasure to work with her, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”
— Adrian Howard, Co-founder, Quietstars
“Martina’s experience, grace and ability to connect with people at all levels make her a formidable ally in effecting sustainable change. I’ve had the privilege to witness her in action many times over, and seen her successfully grow design organizations throughout the world. Without a shadow of doubt, she is my go-to advisor when it comes to collaboration and practice-building.”
— Alberta Soranzo, Transformation Design Director, Lloyds Banking Group