Strategy & Service Design Consultant

Carla Sarli

I help organisations make sense of complexity, align teams, and translate strategy into clear, actionable service and product directions.

How I help

Designing clarity in complex service systems — and turning it into aligned, actionable direction.

I partner with organisations navigating complex service environments, helping teams understand challenges, align stakeholders and shape services that connect customer needs with operational and business realities.

Diagnosis

Understand and align

When teams don’t share the same understanding of the problem.

  • Map customer journeys and service ecosystems
  • Surface friction, gaps, and dependencies
  • Build a shared view across teams and stakeholders
Outcome:A clear and aligned understanding of the current state.
Strategy

Define direction

When everything feels important and decision-making stalls.

  • Identify opportunity areas and strategic directions
  • Prioritise based on customer, business, and delivery realities
  • Support clearer choices about where to focus
Outcome:Clearer decisions and a focused direction forward.
Action

Make it actionable

When strategy exists but is difficult to implement or adopt.

  • Translate strategy into concrete experience directions
  • Create frameworks and artefacts teams can align around
  • Bridge across design, product, and business
Outcome:Teams that are aligned, confident, and able to move forward.
Selected organisations

Experience across complex organisations.

In Australia, I have worked with Tier 1 organisations as well as selected Tier 2 clients. Previously, across Latin America, I collaborated with global organisations.

Australia
NAB
AGL
EnergyAustralia
Selected Tier 2 clients
Global clients
Meta
PepsiCo
Bayer
AB InBev
DirecTV
Shire
The Coca-Cola Company
Golden Arches
Millicom
AbbVie
Selected work

Recent work shaped by service complexity.

My portfolio includes selected work across banking, digital engagement and service transformation. Because it contains confidential client work, it is shared on request only.

Writing & research

Writing as a part of my practice.

Writing and speaking are part of my professional practice, and teaching and research have been an important part of my professional trajectory. I have published articles and essays mainly in Spanish in indexed journals and edited books, and have presented at conferences such as UX Australia.

Iris Alba’s Graphic Work at Sudamericana Publishing House

Book chapter analysing the graphic work of Iris Alba and its role within the history of Argentine publishing design.

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Book chapter — Iris Alba: Gráfica, Flecha Books

2025

Story Showing: The Use of Infographic Resources to Present Research Results

Conference presentation exploring the use of infographics and visual artefacts to communicate design research outcomes.

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Design Research Conference — UX Australia

2023

Infographics as an Artifact

Book chapter examining conceptual frameworks and production strategies used in the innovation of infographic design at Clarín newspaper.

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Book chapter — Pensar el diseño, Ediciones Infinito

2021

The Social Studies of Science and Technology as Theoretical–Methodological Tools for Analysing Design Processes

Research conference paper applying Science and Technology Studies as analytical frameworks for understanding design processes.

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34th Research Conference SI+ Herramientas y procedimientos / Instrumento y método

2020

On How Modern Typographic Design Slips Through Clarín’s Redesign and Infographics — A Review on 60 Years of History

Peer-reviewed article examining the evolution of typographic and infographic design in Clarín through sixty years of editorial transformation.

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Journal article — InfoDesign

2019

About Carla

A cross-disciplinary practice for complex organisations.

I am a Melbourne-based service design and strategy consultant with more than 15 years of experience working across Latin America and Australia.

I specialise in environments where services span multiple channels, teams and systems — situations where clarity, alignment and strategic direction are essential.

With a background spanning graphic design, research, teaching and consulting, my practice brings together analytical depth and visual precision to make complexity understandable and actionable.

Contact

Open to selected collaborations.

If you are exploring how to improve a service, align teams around customer experience, or shape a strategic direction for complex organisations, I’d be happy to connect.