Who We Are

Designing Business is a global network of design management consultants specializing in integrating and communicating design, brand, and business strategies to create innovative customer interactions and design-effective organizations. Many of our consultants have both design and business training and experience. This unique combination allows them to look at the bigger picture of design in all of its manifestations as it pertains to the specific business circumstances of each of our clients.

Whether our clients interact with customers through one channel or through multiple channels our consultant teams can apply their general design management expertise and specific design specialty expertise to solving problems. Designing Business's specific expertise is the design of digital interactions, especially via software applications, cd-roms and the web.

Principal: Brian Gillespie

As the name of the company suggests, founder and principal Brian Gillespie is passionate about helping clients include design in its many forms in their quiver of critical strategic business resources. Prior to starting Designing Business, Brian led the establishment and management of the interactive design department at successful Boston e-business design and development house, Event Zero, and also led the design of numerous interactive business cd-roms at Vertigo in Cambridge in the early nineties.

In addition to this extensive experience in the design of digital customer experiences, Brian has an MBA in Design Management from the University of Westminster in London.