Rajib Ghosh
Global Product Design Leader | Innovation Strategist | Visionary | Consultant | Coach
Empowering individuals and teams to invent and realize extraordinary new possibilities.
As a visionary, I am driven by curiosity and a passion for imagining a better future. I see opportunities where others see challenges and connect ideas across different fields to create meaningful solutions. With over 25 years of experience in design, innovation, and strategy, I focus on improving lives while helping businesses grow. I believe in purpose-driven work, using empathy to design solutions that truly meet people’s needs. I stay optimistic in the face of uncertainty, adapt to change, and see obstacles as chances to grow. As a leader, I inspire teams to think creatively, take risks, and experiment with new ideas, fostering collaboration and innovation. I’m committed to learning, mentoring future leaders, and turning bold ideas into real, impactful change to create a better, more connected world.
My goal is simple — to empower you and your organization to unlock your full potential, achieve extraordinary and meaningful results, and create impact that lasts.
Click here and discover how we can make that happen. Together.
Over the past 25 years, I’ve had the privilege of working across a wide range of organizations and collaborating with exceptional individuals. This journey—shaped by hands-on practice, reflection, and even failure—has helped me develop a distinct blend of skills, insights, and mindset rooted in real-world experience rather than theory alone.
At the core of my consulting practice is a working model that integrates behavioral insights, real-world evidence, and creative perspective, all framed within the dynamic relationship of Me (the consultant), You (the client), and Technology. I help organizations and teams uncover deep human truths, generate bold ideas, and validate them through practical application—ensuring that every solution drives meaningful and measurable impact.
Engagements
01
Ideation Jam
Duration: 1 - 3 days
The Ideation Jam is a high-energy, facilitator-led, co-creation workshop that helps teams unlock creativity, clarify and detail fuzzy ideas, and generate actionable solutions. Through rapid ideation, structured collaboration, and synthesis, teams explore new possibilities, align around priorities, and gain creative confidence and momentum. Whether you’re a startup shaping a value proposition or an enterprise team addressing a complex challenge, this session delivers alignment, energy, and a clear set of ideas — all within a single day.
Applications
Build team alignment and create momentum on key initiatives
Identify blind spots, constraints, and quick wins
Clarify problem statements, reframe assumptions and evaluate ideas
Explore multiple solution directions in a structured way
Rapidly ideate on specific experiences when the problem is clearly defined
Examples
Startups: “We have an idea with AI but can’t quite define what problem we’re solving.”
Scale-ups: “We need fresh thinking to explore new revenue models using AI.”
Product Teams: “We know the user pain point — now let’s sketch out how to solve it using AI.”
Design Teams: “Let’s get fast UI concepts out before the next sprint planning.”
Outcomes
Aligned and reframed challenge statement
15–30 actionable ideas with initial concepts
1–3 prioritized solution directions
Clear next steps and ownership
02
Experience Audit
Duration: 1 - 3 days
The Experience Audit is a focused, collaborative, expert-led evaluation of your product or service experience through the lens of your users and customers. Using heuristics, behavioral insights, and Human Centricity, we uncover friction points, usability issues, and missed opportunities. Whether preparing for a launch, addressing drop-offs, or refining a mature product, this evaluation provides fast, actionable insights and clear, prioritized recommendations to improve the experience and drive measurable impact.
Applications
Review an app, website, or physical service experience in-depth
Validate design decisions and flows pre-launch - Identify what’s confusing, broken, or misaligned with user needs
Get clarity on where to focus the next sprint or redesign
Gain an external, unbiased user-centric perspective
Examples
Startups: “Before we pitch, we need an honest Experience sanity check.”
Product Teams: “We want to improve our onboarding and task flows.”
Service Businesses: “Customers are dropping off, but we’re not sure why.”
Founders: “We want to quickly uncover what’s holding our experience back.”
Outcomes
Clear understanding of UX pain points and opportunities
Prioritized list of issues and suggestions
Aligned team perspective on what matters most
Ready-to-act design recommendations for next steps
03
Design/Strategy Sprint
Duration: 3 - 5 days
The Design/Strategy Sprint is a highly collaborative and immersive engagement that helps teams align on purpose, strategy, envision future-ready experiences, and build a design or innovation strategy. It combines strategic alignment, human-centered design, and AI-informed foresight to create clarity and momentum. Ideal for strategic alignment, launching products, transforming services, or crafting long-term experience visions, this ensures business, design, and tech decisions move forward in sync — toward meaningful outcomes.
Applications
Align cross-functional teams around a shared product or business vision
Define a design strategy that is principle-led, AI-aware, and future-ready
Rapidly prototype innovative solutions with business, user, and brand value
Identify scalable opportunities to increase efficiency and reduce costs
Create an execution roadmap with stakeholder buy-in
Examples
Design Leaders: “We need to set a design strategy that scales and guides teams.”
Founders & CXOs: “We want to align around a shared product vision before building.”
Product Teams: “We need to explore and prototype AI-powered experiences.”
Strategy Teams: “We want to discover future-forward growth opportunities.”
Outcomes
Shared alignment across leadership, product, and design teams
A clearly articulated design strategy that guides decision-making
A North Star vision grounded in user needs and business intent
Prototypes of innovative, AI-informed product/service concepts
Roadmap for validation, rollout, and scale
04
Strategic Innovation Intensive
Duration: 2 - 6 weeks
The Strategic Innovation Intensive is a collaborative and extensive deep-dive that blends business strategy, creative thinking, and technology foresight to develop validated innovation strategies. Through user and stakeholder research, insight generation, ideation, and prototyping, teams uncover new opportunities and shape bold, executable directions. Ideal for solving complex challenges or enabling AI-driven transformation, it turns ambiguity into clarity and delivers strategies that are visionary, scalable, and built for impact.
Applications
Discover new growth, product, or service opportunities grounded in user insight and market shifts
Develop a clear innovation strategy aligned with business, brand, and AI capabilities
Improve organizational readiness and adoption for AI-driven transformation
Align leadership teams on a bold yet actionable strategic direction
Prototype and validate concepts before scaling investment
Examples
Strategy Teams: “We want to discover untapped whitespace in our category.”
Innovation Leads: “We need a structured process to explore AI-driven opportunities.”
CXOs: “We’re facing resistance to AI — how do we improve internal understanding and adoption?”
Product Teams: “We want to move from fragmented ideas to a coherent, validated strategy.”
Transformation Leaders: “We’re evolving our business model — but need creative, human-centered direction.”
Outcomes
Clear, validated innovation strategy aligned across teams
2–3 opportunity areas with business, user, and tech viability
Strategy artifacts ready for executive buy-in and roadmap inclusion
Actionable plan to improve adoption of AI and other transformative capabilities
Internal alignment and momentum for innovation and change
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Case Studies
Fueled by purpose and driven with intentionality, design is a courageous and imaginative act to invent extraordinary new possibilities.
Context
Design is contextual. Context is the cornerstone of good design, shaping outcomes that are meaningful and relevant. Understanding the environment, needs, and nuances makes design intuitive and impactful.
Creativity
Design is creativity. Good design, born from childlike openness, transforms ideas into extraordinary new things, inspiring emotions, sparking innovation, and fostering a lasting bond.
Clarity
Design creates clarity. Good design simplifies complexity with intention and precision, empowering people to connect with what truly matters, sparking inspiration, and creating impactful, lasting experiences.
Connection
Design is connecting. Good design connects its creator and experiencer as much as it connects deeply with the experiencer. This essential connection ensures purpose, fulfillment and meaning.
Courage
Design is courageous. To create exceptionally good design, we must dare to venture into the unknown, challenge conventions, and imagine possibilities that others have yet to experience.
Care
Design is caring. Good design embodies empathy and thoughtfulness, addressing needs with passion to create solutions that truly connect and add lasting meaning to people’s lives.
Connotation
Design’s connotation is its significance. Good design infuses values and emotions into context, transforming itself, creating relevance, and fostering meaningful connections with the experiencer.
Craft
Design is craft. Good design embodies the pride of craftsmanship, where skill, precision, and passion transform ideas, infusing enduring value and profound meaning into everything it touches.
Celerity
Design is timely. Good design comes from enabling swift iterations, agile thinking, and timely innovation, fueled by curiosity and collaboration, that transforms bold ideas into impactful and enduring realities.
Photography, Typography, Art and AI
I am deeply touched, moved, and inspired by art in any form. My personal exploration spans photography, experimental typography, and art, where I find immense joy in blurring the lines between these forms to create unique expressions. More recently, with the advent of Generative AI, I have ventured into the fascinating intersection of AI-driven creativity and human artistry. This collaboration aims to push boundaries and forge new paradigms in art.
Here are some of my works that reflect this ongoing journey of exploration and creation.
