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Season 7—Spring 2026  Â·  11 episodes  Â·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
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Morteza Pourmohamadi

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Morteza Pourmohamadi

Morteza Pourmohamadi is a senior design leader and systems thinker with 30 years’ experience, including a decade leading managers and multi-disciplinary teams. He partners with government, startups, and enterprise to shape ambiguous problem spaces and align stakeholders. Available for problem-framing facilitation, he helps teams surface assumptions, sharpen briefs, and accelerate delivery.

Contributions to UXM

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Book Excerpt  Â·  Crisis Engineering

The Crisis Worth Using

The five indicators of a genuinely useful crisis—and the difference between the kind that opens a window for transformational change and the kind that merely accelerates collapse. Excerpted from Crisis Engineering.

7 min read April 2025 â—† The Useful Crisis
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Guest Article

When the Window Opens: A Field Guide to Crisis Seizing

Written for UXM as a companion to the episode. Not theory—what Marina actually does when she walks into a failing system with a 90-day mandate and no authority to hire. Practical, specific, and unsettling in the best way.

11 min read April 2025 â—† The Useful Crisis

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The Useful Crisis
S7 Ep. 4  Â·  7 pieces  Â·  April 2025