For years, I worked inside some of the most complex systems and high-pressure projects — leading transformations, pushing for performance and chasing outcomes that looked great on paper.
But behind the metrics, I kept seeing the same patterns:
Brilliant people burning out.
Leaders making decisions in isolation.
Teams surviving, not thriving.
That’s when I realised…
The problem wasn’t the complexity of the system.
It was how we were working together — or not.
I’ve spent my career moving between engineering, strategy, and business transformation. And through it all, one truth kept showing up:
The system behaves exactly as it was designed to.
So if we want different results — more belonging, more clarity, more purpose — we need to redesign the experience of work itself.
That’s why I started Humanising Our Workplaces — to bring a new lens to culture, leadership and systems change.
My work blends strategy with soul. I help teams and leaders:
Because performance doesn’t grow in spite of people. It grows because of them.
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Natalia is a systems thinker, transformation strategist and founder of Humanising our Workplaces – a platform and movement reimagining how work feels by placing connection, wellbeing and purpose at the centre of organisational success.
With over 20 years of experience spanning engineering, systems integration and business transformation, Natalia brings a rare blend of technical mastery and human insight. She has worked and led some of the UK and Latin America’s most complex infrastructure programmes, including Heathrow Terminal 5, Elizabeth Line, Thameslink, HS2, Bogota Metro and the East Coast Digital Programme, where she served as Head of Programme Systems Engineering.
Natalia began her career in Venezuela, where her early leadership in process improvement management made national headline. At just 22, she helped a manufacturing SME become the first in the country to achieve ISO-9000 certification, delivering a keynote speech that marked the start of her passion for public speaking and people-centred leadership.
Since moving to the UK over two decades ago, she has earned a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Warwick, gained Chartered Engineering status with the IET and built a reputation as a trusted leader in systems integration and organisational change. Her work consistently blends strategic clarity with deep human touch, helping organisations untangle complexity, align teams and design systems that enable both, performance and people to thrive.
Natalia is also an inspiring communicator and sought-after speaker, known for her ability to translate complex systems into stories and strategies that resonate across technical and non-technical audience alike. Whether delivering keynote on engineering leadership, culture or ED&I, she brings warmth, wit and wisdom to every stage.
In 2025, Natalia launched Humanising our Workplaces – a bold initiative to challenge outdated leadership models and co-create new ways of working rooted in trust, belonging and human dignity. Through writing, masterclasses, advisory work and video storytelling, she helps individuals and organisations become Humanisers – people who lead with clarity, think in systems and build better culture from inside out.
Originally from Venezuela, Natalia now lives in the UK with her two sons. She balances professional life with motherhood, a chronic health condition and an unapologetic obsession with cacao (and the occasional battle with houseplants).
She believes that workplaces can be places of growth, connection and healing – and she’s on a mission to help us get there.
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