
Researcher Without Borders
San Francisco Bay Area

Researcher Without Borders
San Francisco Bay Area
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Helping organizations create innovation and improve the everyday lives of people all around the world:
Custom research and fieldwork across the U.S., Europe and the emerging markets of China, India, Brazil, Russia + Africa.
Proud to wear the title of the much maligned "Pseudo-Ethnographer" and purveyor of "Ethnography Lite", "Rapid Ethnography" and other contextual and observational research methodologies.
Research Without Borders: Global Custom Research + International Fieldwork:
• Qualitative + Ethnographic Research
• Multicultural + Cultural Interpreter
• Focus Group Moderator
• In-Depth + Contextual Interviews
• User Experience + Design Research
• Market Feasibility Studies + Immersions in the Emerging Markets + BoP
• Participant Recruiting + Global Fieldwork Management
• Author: Beyond Translation; The Marketer's Field Guide to Understanding Today's Transcultural Consumer
(Market Research industry)
2003 — Present (5 years)
Helping local and global organizations understand the needs and aspirations of people around the world by using the power of context-based research, experiential market immersions and localized cultural intelligence to deliver seamless research solutions with contextual perspective and global relevance.
Custom Global Research:
Deep Dive market immersions + feasibility studies in the emerging economies of China, (www.rethinkingchina.com), India, the BRICs + BoP.
Local + Global fieldwork with the Research Without Borders team, a global network of localized partners across the US, Europe, Asia + the emerging markets:
• Ethnographers + Socio-Cultural Researchers
• Transcultural Analysts + Interpreters
• Bilingual + Transcultural Moderators
• Quantitative Specialists + Analysts
• Field Recruiters
• Local Market Experts
• Futurists + Forecasters
Cultural Ethnography Ethnographic Film Cross-Cultural Communication Emerging market + Bottom of the Pyramid consumers Microfinance + Rural Economic Development Africa, Brazil, China, Cuba, India, Latin America, Vietnam
SFAMA
Modern Ethnography
Bay Area Association of Practicing Anthropologists (BAAPA)
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
Soroptimists