Creating the human conditions for better work, innovation, and leadership.

Collaborate honestly

Collaborate honestly

I help leaders and teams identify hidden frictions, strengthen relationships and build better ways of working together.

I bring together applied design thinking, embodied practices and participatory methods such as LEGO® Serious Play® to help teams understand different perspectives, build trust and create better ways of working together.
The Designfulness Approach

Why capable teams still struggle

Teams don't struggle because they lack talent or good intentions. Pressure, low trust, different perspectives and unclear expectations can make working together harder than it needs to be.
These frictions can slow projects, complicate decisions, limit people's contributions and make it harder for teams to innovate and perform effectively.

Designfulness works from the inside out, connecting individual self-awareness with the relationships and team dynamics that shape how people work together.
INNER
Who we are
Understand our values, needs, strengths, assumptions and behaviours, and how we show up at work.
OUTER
How we work together
Explore how we communicate, build trust, make decisions, solve problems and collaborate.

Core principles

Presence
How to help your team respond, rather than react?
Build awareness of how pressure, emotions and behaviours affect how we show up and contribute.
Connection
How do we understand each other better?
Build trust, psychological safety and shared understanding so everyone can contribute.
Collaboration
How do we use insights to work better together?
Create clear agreements for communication, decision-making and problem-solving.
Innovation
How do we unlock our collective potential?
Use creativity and different perspectives to explore challenges and develop new solutions.

Where teams get stuck

Pressure is changing how your team works
Capable people become reactive, communication gets harder, and leaders find themselves repeatedly stepping in.
You’re struggling to align
Different perspectives, assumptions, priorities, or functions are making decisions and collaboration harder than they need to be.
There’s friction beneath the surface
People are trying to work together, but tension, low trust, or things left unsaid are getting in the way.
You need to solve something together
Your team needs to make sense of a complex challenge, explore possibilities, and move from discussion into shared action.
Some voices are louder than others
When some perspectives dominate and others stay unspoken, teams miss important information and shared understanding.
Trust is getting in the way of collaboration
People are trying to work together, but tension, low trust, or things left unsaid are getting in the way.
Services
Bespoke team-development and leadership experiences designed around what your people actually need.

From focused workshops and leadership off-sites to multi-session team-development processes that strengthen collaboration and unlock innovation.
01
Team Foundations workshop
Build the conditions for trust, psychological safety, shared identity, and stronger collaboration.
02
Creative Problem Solving
Help teams make sense of complexity, surface diverse perspectives, and co-create solutions that drive innovation.
03
Resilience & Capacity 
Build grounded presence and practical ways to respond, not react, when pressure, uncertainty, or competing priorities are high.
04
Conflict Navigation
Create a supported space to name tension, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and build safer, more honest ways of working together.
05
Applied Design Thinking
Interactive learning experiences that build human-centred problem-solving skills, creative confidence, and practical tools for moving ideas forward.
06
1:1 Somatic Leadership
Private coaching for leaders who want more grounded presence, clarity, confidence, and choice in high-stakes moments.
Designfulness™ team friction test

Where is friction showing up in your team?

Identify the hidden frictions affecting how your team works together.Answer six questions to uncover where friction may be showing up across your team's dynamics, from psychological safety and communication to collaboration and ways of working.
Take the Team Friction Test
Book a free diagnostic call

Our method

Three ways of working. One human-centred approach.
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The tools are not the transformation. They create the conditions for people to see differently, connect differently, and work differently together.
Embodied Presence
Build awareness of how stress and pressure shape how we show up, respond, and lead.
Design Thinking
Explore complexity, surface perspectives, frame challenges, and create practical solutions together.
LEGO® Serious Play®
Make thinking visible, give every voice space, and help teams explore identity, ideas, relationships, and possibilities together.
Chris Menezes
Head of Personalization, BMO
Toronto, Canada
Bank of Montreal (BMO)
"Eli is a talented UX professional with a strategic mindset and a passion for not only how we can improve the customer experience, but how we can implement UX strategies (Workshops, LEGO Serious Play, etc.) to improve operations."
Insiyah Hussain
President, Ryerson Consulting Association
Toronto, Canada
Ryerson consulting Association
"Elisabet is an absolute sweetheart and the workshop that she facilitated for our RCA students during the Design Thinking Conference was very informative, engaging and fun. She made sure all the delegates were on the same page during the workshop and provided mentorship, direction and feedback throughout the entire workshop."
Yaiza Lopez Garcia
Content Creator, Behst Machinery Corp Calgary, Canada
Behst machinery corp
"Elisabet facilitated a team-building workshop for my team and by the end I definitely felt closer to my coworkers. I felt like I gained a lot of insight into how each team member works individually and how we can work better as a team. The blend of yoga and Designfulness framework, as well as hands-on creative work were the strengths of Elisabet’s workshop. She was clear, concise, and inspirational. I highly recommend it!"
Yaiza Lopez Garcia
Content Creator, Behst Machinery Corp Calgary, Canada
Behst machinery corp
"Elisabet facilitated a team-building workshop for my team and by the end I definitely felt closer to my coworkers. I felt like I gained a lot of insight into how each team member works individually and how we can work better as a team. The blend of yoga and Designfulness framework, as well as hands-on creative work were the strengths of Elisabet’s workshop. She was clear, concise, and inspirational. I highly recommend it!"

Meet Elisabet

Founder, Designfulness
Elisabet Camprubi
Team Development & Embodied Leadership Facilitator
I bring together human-centred design and embodied leadership to help teams understand what's getting in the way of working well together.

With over 15 years of experience in UX design, research, innovation and facilitation, I've worked with organisations across government, finance, telecommunications and entrepreneurship.

My approach combines Applied Design Thinking, LEGO® Serious Play® and embodied practices to help teams explore different perspectives, understand their dynamics and turn insights into practical change.

I have a background in Industrial Design Engineering and a Master's in Design and Communication. I'm also a certified Body-Oriented Coach and LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator.

My work includes organisations such as BMO, Government of Ontario, Government of Alberta and York University, where I designed and delivered a five-month Design Thinking programme for women entrepreneurs.

My focus is simple: helping people understand themselves, strengthen relationships and work better together.
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