Building Teams.
Aligning Organizations.
Driving Transformation.
Bahador Pazoki
Executive leader with 25+ years of experience helping organizations navigate growth, complexity, and change through leadership, organizational alignment, customer experience, and capability building.
860.778.6117 bahador.pazoki@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/bpazoki
My story
Throughout my career, I've often been asked to take on challenges others were reluctant to tackle—teams struggling to align, initiatives that had stalled, organizations navigating change without a clear path forward.
My background spans advertising, consulting, higher education, startups, customer experience, product design, and enterprise technology. While the disciplines have changed, the work has remained remarkably consistent: helping people and organizations realize their potential.
I've built creative organizations, developed UX practices, unified cross-functional teams, established governance models, launched new capabilities, mentored future leaders, and helped organizations navigate transformation.
Design was my entry point. Leadership became my purpose.
How I Lead
Build
Creating teams, capabilities, operating models, and environments where people can do their best work.
Align
Bringing together stakeholders, disciplines, and competing priorities around shared goals.
Transform
Helping organizations navigate change, modernize ways of working, and unlock new opportunities.
Career Journey
FactSet / 2022–2026
Unified a fragmented organization spanning UX, Engineering, Product Management, Accessibility, Research, and Content Strategy.
Governance / Alignment / Transformation.
EXO Design / 2017–Present
Helping founders transform ideas into brands, products, and businesses.
Cronin / 2017–2022
Built and scaled UX and digital experience capabilities.
University of Hartford / 2021–2024
Developed future design leaders.
Primacy / 2010–2016
Built the agency's first integrated creative organization.
Helped scale agency growth from approximately 40 to more than 100 employees.
Digitas / 2004–2010
Advanced from Senior Designer to Associate Creative Director while leading digital and brand initiatives.
Let's Talk
Whether you're building a team, navigating transformation, creating a new capability, or looking for leadership support, I'd welcome the conversation.