Episodes
Published 08/18/23
This podcast is being done in conjunction with Qual360 North America. The conference will be held on March 8 and 9 in Washington DC at the Gallup World Headquarters.  This year's theme is empath, diversity, and resilience.  Similar to last year, I will be hosting the event and I would love to see you.  To learn more, check the show notes or just DM me on LinkedIn.  Our guest today is one of the speakers at Qual360. Linda Mielnicki Light, Associate Director...
Published 03/06/23
Our guest today is Reed Cundiff, Chief Executive Officer at the Schlesinger Group.  Founded in 1966, Schlesinger is a leading provider of quantitative and qualitative research solutions and has built and bought leading technology solutions providing customers with both best-in-class service and software. Prior to joining Schlesinger, Reed served as a General Manager at Microsoft, SVP at the Yankee Group, and CEO of the Americas for Kantar. Find Reed Online: *...
Published 02/06/23
Our guest today is Jessica Nordell, Author and Speaker. In 2021 she published The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias.  Jessica has served as a teacher and journalist. She studied Physics at MIT, and holds a degree in physics from Harvard and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,  Find Jessica Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-nordell-48319748/  * The End of Bias: A...
Published 01/30/23
My guest today is Dr. Emmanuel Probst, the Global Lead of Brand Thought-Leadership & Senior Vice President of Brand Health Tracking at IPSOS, Author, and Professor at UCLA. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Paris France, Ipsos is among the largest global market research and consulting firms. Ipsos has over 18,000 employees and serves more than 5,000 brands.  Find Emmanuel Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelprobst/  * Website:...
Published 12/19/22
My guest today is Susan Fader, keynote speaker and founder of FaderFocus.  Susan has run FaderFocus as a Business Strategist & Transformationalist Catalyst specializing in Qualitative methods and strategic consulting. She helps clients achieve focus and get “unstuck”, reframing their energies, their confirmational biases, and the traditional ways of segmenting their customers.  Find Susan Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fadersusan/  *...
Published 12/05/22
My guest today is Anne Beall, Founder and CEO of Beall Research.  Founded in 2003, Beall Research is a strategic market research firm based in Chicago that services some of today’s top brands.  Anne holds a Ph.D. from Yale and has worked at Boston Consulting Group and National Analysts.   Find Anne Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebeall/  * Website: https://beallrt.com/  * Strategic Market Research: A Guide to Conducting...
Published 11/28/22
Our guest today is Hunter Thurman, President of Alpha-Diver.  Alpha-Diver is a consultancy that leverages neuroscience to help brands target the right consumers and identifies the best moments for activation.  Prior to starting Alpha-Diver, Hunter served as a Consultant for WPP in Global Insights, Strategy, and Innovation. Additionally, he served as an Innovation Strategy Mentor at The Brandery. Find Hunter Online: LinkedIn:...
Published 11/14/22
Our guest today is Marbue Brown, founder of “The Customer Obsession Advantage” and author of the “Blueprint for Customer Obsession.”  Prior to starting his own consulting firm, Marbue has served as the Head of Customer Experience at Chase, Global Lead of Customer Experince at Amazon, and Senior Director of Customer Experience Measurement at Microsoft.  Find Marbue Online: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marbue-brown-43a8a52/   Find Jamin Online: Email:...
Published 10/31/22
Hi Fam! You are listening to the happy market research podcast.  Be warned, today's episode is a bit self serving.  In 2019, I co-founded HubUX. A research operation platform for private panel management, DIY recruitment and qualitative automation. Why? Because opinions are moving fast AF. In fact, Gen Z defines themself as the generation that adapts to changing trends. Brands don't even have time to create ads that can benefit from trends. By the time these...
Published 10/26/22
My guest today is Michael Brereton, the Executive in Residence for the Department of Marketing at Michigan State University. Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States.  Prior to joining MSMUR’s program as Executive in Residence, Michael served 27 years at MaritzCX, 11 of which were as...
Published 10/10/22
My guest today is Emmanuel Probst, the Global Lead of Brand Thought-Leadership & Senior Vice President of Brand Health Tracking at IPSOS, Author, and Professor at UCLA. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Paris France, Ipsos is among the largest global market research and consulting firms. Ipsos has over 18,000 employees and serves more than 5,000 brands.  Find Emmanuel Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelprobst/ * Website:...
Published 09/26/22
My guest today is Kate Ioas, Senior Customer Insights at Abercrombie & Fitch. The original Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 in New York City by David T. Abercrombie as an outfitter for the elite outdoorsman. Today Abercrombie & Fitch has over 44,000 employees serving 854 locations.  Prior to joining Abercrombie & Fitch, Kate served in the research function at Disney Parks, Doner, The Martec Group, and Rocket Companies. Find Kate Online: *...
Published 09/19/22
My guest today is Ashley Le Blanc, Executive Vice President of Little Bird Marketing. Insights Marketing Day 2022:  * Location: Chicago, IL* Date: October 6, 2022* Tickets: https://events.bizzabo.com/imd-chicago-2022 * Website: https://www.insights-marketing.org/  Find Ashley Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymariahleblanc/ * Little Bird Marketing: https://littlebirdmarketing.com/  Find Jamin Online: * Email: [email protected] *...
Published 09/08/22
My guest today is Susan Fader, founder of FaderFocus.Susan has run FaderFocus as a Business Strategist and Transformationalist Catalyst specializing in qualitative methods and strategic consulting.  She helps clients achieve focus and get “unstuck”, reframing their energies, their confirmational biases, and the traditional ways of segmenting their customers.  Find Susan Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fadersusan/ * FaderFocus:...
Published 09/05/22
My guest today is George Carey, Founder and CEO of The Family Room.  Founded 29 years ago, The Family Room is a market intelligence company that helps brands connect emotion to brand relevance and growth.  Fifteen years ago, The Family Room launched a global longitudinal tracking with a proprietary framework called Passion Points. This data is used by top brands including Nike, HBO, YouTube, McDonald’s, LEGO, and Disney. Prior to starting The Family Room, George was a...
Published 08/29/22
My guest today is Daniel Fitzgerald, CEO and President of Apollo Intelligence. Founded in 2020, Apollo provides access to 2M healthcare stakeholders worldwide — including physicians, patients, caregivers, and allied healthcare professionals — serving the life science insights industry on its mission to accelerate health innovation to improve life.  They support 80 of the top global-100 life science firms, as well as global market research agencies and consultancies, across 14...
Published 08/22/22
My guest today is Susan Fader, founder of FaderFocus.Susan Fader is Business Strategist and Transformationalist Catalyst, as well as a sought after Speaker for her original thinking of reframing business challenges and baseline assumptions. She specializes in strategic consulting and qualitative research methods. She helps clients achieve focus and get “un-stuck,” reframing their energies, their confirmational biases, and the traditional ways of segmenting their customers.  Find...
Published 08/18/22
Find Jamin Online: * Email: [email protected] * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil* Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil  Find Us Online:  * Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch * Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp * Website: www.happymr.com  Music:  * “Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com  This Episode is Sponsored by: The Michigan State University’s Master of...
Published 08/15/22
Today I’m joined by Joe Mulvaney, Senior Vice President of NA for Qualitative at Schlesinger Group.  Schlesinger Group is a technology-led data company that delivers a broad range of qualitative and quantitative research solutions to connect human answers to business questions as a single point of access to your worldwide audiences.  Prior to starting joining Schlesinger, Joe founded Quotus, a research operations company. He also served as Senior Vice President of Operations at...
Published 08/11/22
Today I’m joined by Daniel Berkal, SVP of Research at The Palmerston Group. Founded in 2008, The Palmerston Group is a qualitative market research agency.  Prior to joining The Palmerston Group, Daniel served in senior roles at Young & Rubicam, Research International, and Synovate. He is also a professor at Humber College in Toronto Canada.  Daniel has two active TikTok channel. danielberkal and thepalmerstongroup.  Find Daniel Online: * Email:...
Published 08/08/22
Find Jamin Online: * Email: [email protected] * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil* Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil  Find Us Online:  * Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch * Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp * Website: www.happymr.com  Music:  * “Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com  This Episode is Sponsored by: The Michigan State University’s Master of...
Published 08/01/22
My guest today is Jill Kushner Bishop, Founder & CEO of Multilingual Connections.  Founded in 2005, Multilingual Connections is a professional translation service of documents and websites, foreign language audio transcription, multimedia localization, and interpretation services. Prior to founding Multilingual Connections, Jill Culture was a Diversity & Language Consultant to Chipotle and started her career as an English and Spanish teacher to elementary school...
Published 07/25/22
My guest today is Aryn O'Donnell, Vice President of Corporate Services at Fieldwork.  Find Aryn Online: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arynodonnell/ * Website: https://www.fieldwork.com/  Find Jamin Online: * Email: [email protected] * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil* Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil  Find Us Online:  * Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch * Facebook:...
Published 07/18/22