According to Andrea Amorós, Associate Principal Research at ADP, giving research a seat at the big table is all about building meaningful connections with the people you’re presenting to.
Andrea joins the Awkward Silences podcast to provide insight into how she learned to make research meaningful for stakeholders at higher levels of the organization. Having been hired to conduct discovery but with no plan set up for her, she took the initiative to interview the leaders within the company to understand their needs and identify opportunities for strategic research.
Tune into this episode to hear Andrea’s advice on building relationships with stakeholders, approaching push-back, and creating meaningful change in the current research landscape.
Highlights:
[00:00:50] Andrea’s motivation to give research a seat at the big table
[00:07:46] What bringing research to the big table really means
[00:11:06] Presenting research to bigger audiences versus smaller audiences
[00:14:08] Making presentations meaningful to the audience
[00:17:47] How Andrea made it to the big table
[00:22:26] How product-specific research can be escalated to the big table
[00:24:53] The marginalization of research today
[00:30:27] How changes in research apply to other fields
[00:32:23] Andrea’s advice for building courage
[00:36:17] The possibility of getting to the big table without presentations
[00:38:46] Navigating push-back
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About Our Guest
Andrea M. Amorós is the Associate Principal Researcher at ADP, a payroll solutions provider leader globally. She has always been a really deep thinker, curious about understanding human behavior and the unconscious mind. Her expertise lies in conducting strategic research and discovering patterns at scale to improve people's lives. She has a background in Design Engineering and has worked in various startups, consultancies and large-scale corporations.
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