Design - Hove, England, United Kingdom
Leah Ryz is more than a User Experience consultant or practitioner. She's a self-confessed non-purist and commercial realist, that's helped dozens of businesses, strike the balance between their needs and the needs of their users. Using not only her skill and experience, she also calls upon her own personal and often difficult past experiences, to apply UX principles to your own business. Leah has worked with a variety of businesses over the last 12 years, and has personally implemented important UX improvements at companies who are household names all over the world. In time, she has become one of the field's go-to people for troubleshooting, recognising and defining UX issues, and crafting strategies to achieve real change.She knows how to help a company make the difficult, sometimes painful changes required to show their customers true UX excellence. Leah is known as a straight talker, but one with a lot of heart. She firmly believes that no business can transform themselves without truly appreciating the value of changing on a fundamental level. Of course, this change must be balanced carefully between meeting the consumer's UX needs and the simple practicalities of business. No two organisations are the same or even equally positioned in the market. Leah understands how to make the most of those differences, and how to guide companies to unique, effective and practical new business cultures. Lastly, she has the personal skills required to get all of the key stakeholders ‘on board' in a meaningful way.Corporate culture is by its very nature conservative and resistant to radical change. However, everyone has to own the change, or it will be little more than window dressing. Leah has what it takes to truly understand all of a company's most important people, and get them to embrace meaningful change. It isn't easy, it isn't fun, but it is the real key to changing your company's place both in the market and in your customers' lives.