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Welcome back to the Insights Unlocked podcast. In this episode, we are thrilled to sit down with Kate Towlesy, Research Operations Advisor, author of Research That Scales, and founder of the ChaCha Club.
Kate shares her fascinating journey and dives into the evolving role of research ops, offering actionable insights on scaling systems, fostering trust, and embedding research into organizational culture. This is one conversation you don't want to miss.
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Welcome to the Insights Unlocked podcast. I'm Nathan Isaacs, Senior Manager for Content Production at User Testing. And joining us today as host is User Testing's Leah Hogan, Principal for Experience Research Strategy. Welcome to the show, Leah. Thank you, Nathan. And our guest today is Kate Towsey. Kate is a research ops advisor, coach, and educator.
She's the author of Research That Scales and founder of the Cha-Cha Club, a members club for research ops professionals. Welcome to the show, Kate.
It's really great to be here. All right. Awesome. I am so thrilled to be having this conversation, Kate. And, you know, for a long time, I've been waiting for your book. So I was one of the first people to preorder it, and I've been sharing it with everyone. And I think really to start the conversation, I would love to hear about your journey, because
You didn't start as a research ops manager, but you're now I think one of the leading voices, if not the leading voice in the research ops space. And I'd love to just understand, like, what got you there?
I think like many people who work in insurance firm, I've heard people, my father is in insurance and he said, nobody chooses an insurance job or career. You just land there. And I think it's very similar with research operations. I hear from so many people who have started in hospitality, sometimes not even in the operations department of hospitality, but they've been
working at the front desk and learning how to engage with people, how to run systems, and then kind of working into other places within hospitality. And then they found their way through some strange circuitous journey into research operations. And then, of course, you get more direct routes, like researchers who actually realize one day, it's the systems that I really love.
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