Blaise Galinier Design Leader

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My Journey

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AXA Canal+

Paris

Foundations

Early consultancy and large‑org experience; learned how decisions get made and how to operate inside complex institutions.

Sky Ericsson Microsoft

AllofUs

Craft

Eight years of agency work: product and service design, innovation across TV, consoles, installations and startups.

BBC

BBC

Leadership

Led teams and programmes; delivered large initiatives across corporate constraints and political complexity.

Elsevier HSBC

R&D, Elsevier, HSBC

Technical depth

Hands‑on product work, close engineering collaboration, data and architecture focus; practical AI exposure.

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Integration

Bringing human, organisational and technical fluency together to shape strategy and AI‑enabled systems.

Leadership Philosophy

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Shield and empower

I build teams, not org charts. I remove noise and blockers so designers can focus on root problems and craft durable solutions.

Speak business

Design only matters when it survives contact with the business. I translate user value into commercial impact to secure buy‑in and resources.

Embrace the mess

Complex systems are messy by design. I map the chaos, identify leverage points, and create robust structures that tolerate change.

How I Work

Pen & paper rapid sense‑making and collaborative sketching.
Figma from rough ideas to production‑ready components and design systems.
PowerPoint concise narratives for stakeholders, from research to business cases.
AI prototyping, synthesis, and idea‑generation to accelerate discovery.
Cup of tea relationship building and the conversations that unlock progress.

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Let's Connect

blaise.galinier@gmail.com | LinkedIn

PS: It's pronounced "blez" and it's he/him.