INDEPENDENT THINKING. HUMAN POSSIBILITY.
Designing
Better Systems.
Business design, healthcare innovation, and systems leadership.
The independent professional platform of Simon Mawer, MBA, LLB.
01 / A CONNECTED PRACTICE
Simon Mawer
MBA, LLB
Better systems begin with a different way of seeing.
Blue Wren brings together Simon’s work as a business designer, healthcare leader, educator, and author. It is a place for ideas and experience that connect human-centered design with the realities of organizational change.
02 / CONNECTING PERSPECTIVES
I
Design & Innovation
Human-centered inquiry, business design, and strategy. Connecting what people need with what organizations can make possible.
II
Healthcare Transformation
Healthcare systems design, implementation, and organizational learning. Considering the whole system without losing sight of the individual.
III
Education & Leadership
Executive education, systems thinking, and the practice of leading change. Helping people develop new perspectives on complex challenges.
SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Stanford Medicine · Rotman School of Management · Plug and Play · Alio · Keck Medicine of USC
Experience across professional roles, education, and collaboration. Institutional names are descriptive, not endorsements of Blue Wren.
People
Organizations
Systems
A STUDY IN CONNECTION
03 / FEATURED PUBLICATION
Healthcare by Design
University of Toronto Press, 2025
An invitation to consider healthcare through the lens of design: connecting human experience, organizational practice, and the systems that shape care.
Ideas & publications
04 / SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Where disciplines meet practice.
Stanford Medicine · Innovence Lab
Healthcare innovation
HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
Rotman School of Management
Business design education
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Plug and Play
Corporate innovation
DESIGN & INNOVATION
Good ideas grow through conversation.
For former students, institutional collaborators, and people exploring thoughtful change in complex systems.