I've shipped products to factories. I've founded and built brands from zero. Now I lead the platform behind 250+ digital products. The thread through it all: I turn experience from opinions into a system that scales.

➤ At enterprise scale: I govern a design system adopted by 250+ digital products worldwide and lead a community of 1K+ product professionals. Winner, Best Governance, Design System Awards 2024.

➤ From zero to one: I co-founded and ran a consumer brand end to end, scaled a social business with a 250% e-commerce conversion uplift, and shipped industrial products to  Formula 1, Tefal, and Ligne Roset.

➤ Into the AI era: I am piloting design system integration into GenAI development tools (Figma MCP, GitHub Copilot), so AI-built interfaces inherit quality by default.

Currently employed as Global Head of Digital Experience and Platform Strategy at Schneider Electric.

I got to enterprise leadership the long way: founder first, executive second.

That order changed how I lead. Nobody owes an internal platform adoption, so I run mine the way I ran my businesses: earn every user with value, speed, and trust.

▸ I have practised design in every form it takes: industrial, brand, service, and product. Range is my raw material for systems thinking.

▸ I solve organisational problems, not just interface problems: governance models, operating rhythms, and team structures that make quality scale without slowing anyone down.

▸ I have a working point of view on AI and experience: the companies that win will not be the ones generating the most interfaces, but the ones whose platforms make every generated interface trustworthy.

Let's write the next chapter together.

I am open to executive conversations about Leadership roles for Experience, CX, Platform, and Product.

cath.stolarski[at]gmail.com