anna lisniak
I help |become resilient to change and grow into their best
Experience Design Advisor + Mentor. Resilience & Growth Coach
Hire me
for a holistic approach to your business, career or life
Experience design advisory + consulting
Design and operations consulting for creative agencies, startups, and SMBs. I work with product (UI/UX audits, design management), design delivery processes, and teams (building, growing, coaching, leading etc).

Design coaching + mentorship
Career & Growth coaching and mentorship for UI/UX designers, leaders and teams. How to start, how to excel, how to grow, how to lead. We'll talk about both hard and human skills that you need to do the job.
Resilience & growth coaching
With the powerful questions, coaching helps you bypass doubts, fears, and mental clutter and gain access to your true self — true goals, wishes, strengths, skills, knowledge you didn't know you had in you all along.
Every success story starts with a human resilient enough to build him/herself first, then — company, team and product. Every business is about humans — both leading and following
I work with
those who dare to grow fast and strive for more
Startups & SMBs
with Design, Digital and Product strategies, team ops & development, UI/UX design (SaaS in health and EdTech mostly)
UI/UX Designers
become more efficient in professional growth, leadership and career - through team and 1:1 mentorship
Humans
discover your true self, gain resilience, treat your life as an exciting project and build the future the way you want to
How I can help
Through consulting, coaching or mentorship I work with leaders, teams and individuals

Experience design advisory & design ops consulting

  • UI/UX leadership for complex products (SaaS, CRM, LMS, EMR etc)
    Holistic evaluation and audit of complex digital products to ensure the best user experience across all platforms and channels. Healthcare, mental health and edtech preferred
  • Startup advisory + mentorship
    Design & content strategy for MVP launch, design roadmap, design team set up, UX/CX/SD mentorship for teams.
  • Design teams operations
    Team operations and design delivery processes setup for digital agencies and design departments of SMBs.

Mentorship for UI/UX designers, leaders and teams

  • Portfolio assessment & interview prep
    I do detailed portfolio and CV reviews with further instructions for improvement and help you get ready for job interviews
  • Mentorship for designers & design leaders
    We work together on your goals/questions/projects. Mentorship is tailor-made to fit your needs in professional growth the most efficient way.
  • Design leadership for teams
    As a fractional Design Director, I help design teams grow and excel while being fully aligned with company's business goals

Resilience & Growth coaching for life, career and business

  • Discover your true self
    You have a unique set of skills, and your potential is limitless. If you don't see it that way, you have lots of things yet to learn about yourself.
  • Align your goals to your values
    Getting to the core of your values releases the fuel of moving forward, fast — to the goals that are truly yours.
  • Get balanced & efficient in what really matters
    Balance is not an even split. It's the right amount of energy invested in what matters most with the profits of a happy life.
My ultimate goal is to help you set up the process of thinking / working / living so that you don't need me anymore — to grow and excel
About me →
Interim Design Director, consultant, mentor, and advisor with 17 years of hands-on UI/UX design experience and 10 years of experience managing both creative and cross-functional teams (product management, C-level operations, and executive consulting).

Owner of Anna Li Design & Consulting LTD.

Professional life coach, Erickson Coaching International graduate.

Writing a book on human skills development, resilience & growth.

17 years in UI/UX and product design
10 years in ops + team management
4 years in business consulting
Blog
thoughts on human skills development, self-awareness, resilience and personal growth
    Get in touch — hannalisniak@gmail.com
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