Marie Glad

Marie Glad is the founder and CEO of Royal Sister, and Professor of User Experience (UX) at Barcelona Technology School. She facilitates transformation and designs solutions for personal and professional empowerment within business, tech, lifestyle, culture and sustainability.

Marie has a broad background within branding and UX design, and has worked as a business consultant for blue chip companies like IBM, IKEA and SonyEricsson. Marie has also been an e-democracy candidate for the local government in Stockholm and has made several documentaries for Swedish Television. More recently she worked as Senior UX Designer for the sharing economy platform TrustedHousesitters.com.

Marie is an explorer of life and artistic expressions, with the urge to inspire people to live in alignment with their life purpose. She is also a permaculture designer, singer-songwriter, workshop facilitator, and yoga and meditation teacher. She speaks fluently English, Spanish and Swedish.

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