John Gist is a seasoned
digital product strategist technologist UX designer innovation leader team builder design thinker service designer community builder
who is excited about the human potential that technology unlocks

He is a startup advisor and currently heads the Global Innovation Labs for Fidelity International.

PROJECTS

Digital Product

UXPrompts.ai

A prompt library revolutionizing UX design through LLM integration.
Digital Service

Fidelity Go

Running product sprints to launch the #1 ranked Robo Advisor in record time.
Innovation Reporting

The Future Forecast Report

Scaling a trend forecasting engine across a multinational corporate
Web3

Metaverse Campus

Exploring the potential of digital immersive experiences.
Training

The Facilitation Academy

Building and scaling a mature facilitation community across a 13,000+ workforce.
Service Design

B2B Service Blueprinting

Identifying overlapping opportunities across seven different geographies.

ESSAYS

01

FORBES.COM

How to design a results-driven innovation team

Corporate innovation is not all alchemy, there is a (bit) science to it.

02

NASDAQ.COM

AI-Powered digital human advisors are shaking up the financial services world

Would you take financial advice from a virtual avatar?

03

FORBES.COM

Cultivating culture in globally distributed teams

You don’t need to be in the same room, or even country, to build a winning team culture.

TALKS

John is an active member of various industry communities and is frequently invited to speak on the topics of generative AI, innovation culture, digital trends and user-centered design.

speaking
Conference

Can Gen-AI adoption be localised?

Data Science & AI Trends Summit

Behind the race to make AI moral

Chief Digital & Data Officer Summit

Formulating a roadmap for next-gen digital experiences

Digital Marketing Asia Conference

Design thinking & organizational change through 21st century ways of working

Finovate

Scaling service design in the enterprise

HR Innovation ASIA

Engaging Corporate Innovation:
The real culture of innovation and how to get better at change

International Innovation Summit

Bringing the voice of the customer into the boardroom & capturing the fintech opportunity

Finovate

Leveraging customer insights for digital products

National Chengchi University

Building a design-driven culture inside your organization

UX Hong Kong

Digital trends in financial services

National Chengchi University

Responsive, progressive and adaptive design systems

Pratt Institute

Selecting digital platforms for your future

MIT Sloan
LinkedIn