Carla Casas DiegoIndependent practice
ENES

AI adoption & business transformation

Make AI useful
in your business.

I help retail businesses and SMEs find practical uses for AI, improve everyday workflows and help their teams use it with confidence.

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Carla speaking about AI, energy and leadership at Formación, talento y liderazgo.
Carla Casas Diego
Based in Barcelona · Open to opportunities in Barcelona and London · Remote across EMEAStrategy / Learning / Leadership

A practical place to start

One workflow.
One clear next step.

Start with a specific challenge. We agree the scope, format and budget before the work begins.

For a business owner or team lead

AI workflow review

Look at one recurring task in marketing, sales or operations and decide where AI could help.

  • A map of the current workflow and its friction points.
  • Prioritised AI opportunities, with data and human-review needs.
  • A scoped recommendation for a first pilot.
Discuss a workflow review ↗

For a team ready to practise

Practical AI team training

Work on relevant tasks using the tools your team can actually access.

  • Exercises built around an agreed team use case.
  • Reusable instructions and a checklist for reviewing outputs.
  • A plan for continued practice after the session.
Discuss team training ↗Explore classes and workshops ↗

My role covers business needs, use-case definition, learning and adoption. Where a pilot needs custom development or integrations, technical delivery is scoped separately with developers.

My starting point: thirteen years in footwear and e-commerce, plus 15+ workshops and AI-era leadership labs across eight organisations. See the work behind this ↘

01 / My perspective

A promise means little
if the experience contradicts it.

I spent thirteen years inside a footwear business, from launching its e-commerce channel to leading marketing and running the business through crisis, sale and closure. Strategy had to survive contact with the shop floor.

That experience shapes my work today. I look at the value a business creates for its customers, the decisions and workflows behind it, and the capabilities people need to deliver it. AI opens new possibilities across all three.

My work brings practical AI applications together with learning design, communication and leadership development. People need space to understand, experiment and practise, with support that continues beyond a workshop.

02 / Ways to work together

From business direction
to everyday practice.

01

AI adoption & enablement

Identify relevant use cases, explore how work happens and support practical pilots. I combine hands-on workshops, AI-assisted prototypes and collaboration with developers where implementation needs technical expertise.

02

Strategic marketing & business transformation

I help businesses define the role they want to play in their customers’ lives, grounded in what people value, the context in which they choose and what the business can credibly deliver. That becomes a strategic compass for positioning, the value proposition and decisions about where to compete.

Then I work through what that direction asks of the business: the offer, the customer journey, and the culture and operations behind it. From a first impression to an after-sales conversation, every interaction should make the same promise tangible. The aim is a business people have a clear reason to choose, with the internal coherence to earn that choice again.

03

Learning & leadership development

Design and facilitate experiences around real challenges: communication, feedback, coaching and leading change. Use AI-supported practice to help learning continue after the session.

03 / Selected work

What this looks like
in practice.

Carla facilitating a SKYMEDIC workshop with participants and a projected exercise.
SKYMEDIC · Workshop

AI adoption · Healthcare

Making an AI assistant useful to a sales team.

I defined the use case and adoption approach for a CRM-connected Claude assistant delivered with a developer through Telegram. I ran the four-workshop programme around it, connecting the tool to the team’s day-to-day work.

My role: use-case definition, developer collaboration and adoption support.

Strategic marketing · Footwear

Connecting the brand to the whole business.

Across thirteen years with VIALIS & ARO, I launched e-commerce, led marketing and worked across stores and international distribution. The e-commerce channel grew to over 40% of company revenue. I later ran the business as Business Manager (de facto) through sale and closure.

My role: marketing leadership, customer experience and business management.

Visit ARO Shoes ↗

Current brand website · My work with the company: 2011–2024.

Learning design · Leadership

Giving people somewhere to practise.

I created The Feedback Room, an AI-assisted application for rehearsing difficult conversations with follow-up beyond the workshop. Across my practice, I have delivered 15+ workshops and AI-era leadership labs across eight organisations.

My role: learning design, facilitation and AI-assisted product creation.

Carla and a co-facilitator leading a workshop at De’Longhi.
De’Longhi · Workshop

Talks & conversations

Ideas shared.
Questions explored.

Carla and Marlene speaking together about AI and leadership at the RRHHDigital event.
RRHHDigital · BarcelonaAI, energy & leadershipA joint talk with Marlene Marín at Formación, talento y liderazgo, organised by RRHHDigital and The Imagine House.About the event ↗
Carla on a panel discussing AI applied to companies at an ESADE Alumni gathering in Sevilla.
ESADE Alumni · AndalucíaAI in businessA panel discussion on applying AI in companies, at the Andalucía alumni gathering organised by ESADE Alumni in Sevilla.View the ESADE Alumni event ↗

04 / Background

Business experience.
Human curiosity.

Executive MBA at ESADE, postgraduate study in AI and Machine Learning at the University of Texas at Austin, and a foundation in business economics. My further learning includes strategic marketing.

Coaching, Emotional Intelligence & NLP

Deusto Salud · Completed 2026

Training in coaching relationships, emotional regulation and leadership, facilitating change and learning, and programme design and follow-up. I draw on this foundation to design learning experiences and support people through change, including the adoption of AI.

I co-founded AYAM, a practice connecting AI and leadership development. Some of the work above was delivered through AYAM. I now also work independently.

Explore Lead with AYAM ↗

English, Spanish and Catalan.
Open to freelance collaborations and in-house roles.

Read my CV ↗

Let’s talk

What are you
trying to change?

Tell me which task or workflow you want to improve, who is involved and which tools you use. We can start by discussing a workflow review or practical team training.

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