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60-minute session $2,000

Claude for Research Leaders

the leadership layer, not the IC one

For heads of research, research ops leads, and team leads making decisions about how their team uses AI. This session covers the leadership layer: what to standardize, what to leave flexible, what policies actually matter, and what governance looks like when the tools change every six months. Practical, opinionated, and built for the people making the calls.

The questions your IC team can't answer.

Your researchers can tell you whether a given prompt works. They can't tell you what AI-at-scale should mean for your team's practice, or how to build governance that doesn't just sound good in a Notion doc. That's what this session is for. Here are the two tracks most leaders want to cover.

Strategic direction

What to decide, what to defend
  • Deciding what Claude should and shouldn't do in your research practice
  • Standardizing workflows without flattening individual researcher judgment
  • Quality guardrails that hold up when researchers use AI differently
  • What to tell stakeholders (and what not to) about your team's AI use
  • Hiring and interviewing: what AI literacy looks like in a researcher now
  • Measuring whether AI is helping your team or just making them feel busier
  • Positioning research against the "AI can do research" stakeholder narrative
  • Budgeting for AI tools, skills training, and the time to build systems properly

Operational questions

The stuff that lands on your desk
  • Rollout: introducing Claude to a team that didn't ask for it
  • Governance: data handling, PII, and participant confidentiality with AI tools
  • Building your team's Skills library without it becoming a second job
  • Shared vs. individual workflows: what goes in the team library, what stays personal
  • Training new hires on your team's Claude setup in a way that actually sticks
  • Handling the researcher who hates AI, and the one who uses it for everything
  • Running AI-assisted research through existing review and ethics processes
  • When to say no to stakeholders asking Claude to "just run the interviews"

Or, pick a time right here.

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built for heads of research and team leads
With Nikki's guidance, our team has emerged more confident, more strategic, and better equipped to influence product direction. I cannot recommend Nikki highly enough as a strategic research advisor.
Kyle Collins · Director, Customer and Channel Experience, WSIB

Or, look at the other two sessions.

Not sure where to start?

Tell me where your team is with Claude, what's working, what isn't, and what would actually move the needle. Thirty minutes, no pitch deck.

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