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From Spark to Strategy: Upwords on the Insightful Connections Podcast

Leave a Comment / Leadership, Marketing, News, Personal, Perspective, Research, UpLift / Layla Shea

Podcast summary: What inspires someone to leave a successful corporate career, move across the country, and start a qualitative research […]

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You Can’t Start a Fire Without a Spark!

Leadership, Marketing, News, Perspective / Layla Shea

At the start of every qualitative discussion, we tell participants: ‘there are no wrong answers’ In the ground rules of

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A Surprisingly Simple Fix to Gender Bias in Surveys

News, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

What’s wrong with this survey question? With which of the following do you identify? Male Female Non-Binary Prefer to self-identify

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Growing our team

Upwords Welcomes Deborah Klotz as VP, Insights

Leadership, Marketing, News, Personal, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

I’m thrilled to announce that Deborah Klotz is joining the Upwords team as a Vice President, Insights. Deborah is bringing

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conversations

The Decline of the Conversation

Leadership, Marketing, News, Personal, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

A client who was new in their role called me recently to say they were confused because a moderator on

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Doing More With Less

Need to do More with Less?

Leadership, Marketing, News, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

Last weekend I sat with my family by candlelight as we observed Earth Day. We reviewed the things that we

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Spectrum of Empathy

Finding Hope Through Empathy

Leadership, Marketing, News, Personal, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

Empathy has been a strong buzzword in corporate boardrooms for the past few years. We have conducted countless projects over

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Conversational Narcissism

How To Have Better Conversations: Avoiding Conversational Narcissism

Leadership, News, Personal, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

I overheard a conversation this weekend while at our local farmer’s market. A child came running to their Dad and

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Wisdom, Insight

Some Things Can’t Be Taught… But They Can Be Learned

Marketing, News, Personal, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

The school of real life and the difference between knowledge, wisdom and insight Looking back on my first couple of

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Knowledge exists in knowing we know nothing

We don’t know what we don’t know

Leadership, Marketing, News, Personal, Perspective, Research / Layla Shea

This weekend someone in my social media feed posted a lyric from the song Colours of the Wind from the

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