Research that works.
Systems that last.
Decisions that land.
I build the infrastructure, practice, and thinking that makes research genuinely useful. Not just delivered.
The researcher who also fixes the room.
Over five years I have worked across healthcare, fintech, consulting, and startups; running studies, synthesising findings, and sitting in rooms where decisions get made. Research is the core of what I do, and alongside it has grown a deep interest in the conditions that make research work well at an organisational level.
I find myself drawn to the questions behind the questions. Not just what users need, but how a team is set up to find that out consistently. Not just what the findings say, but how they travel through a business and actually change something. That interest has led me to build research infrastructure, design operational frameworks, and take on work that sits at the intersection of research practice and organisational effectiveness.
Beyond my day roles, I consult independently and build products. I created PanelFit, an AI-powered participant screening tool, because I lived the problem across multiple projects and knew exactly what was missing. That instinct, seeing a gap in the system and closing it, is what connects everything I do.
I do not just deliver research. I build the conditions that make great research repeatable, credible, and useful to the people who need it most.
Understand what is broken, what is missing, and what decision needs to be made
Define scope, stakeholders, and the research question that will actually be useful
Mixed methods chosen for the question, not the comfort zone
Patterns not just themes. Insight that connects to business context
Findings that reach the right people in the right form and actually change something
Understand what is broken, what is missing, and what decision needs to be made
Define scope, stakeholders, and the research question that will actually be useful
Mixed methods chosen for the question, not the comfort zone
Patterns not just themes. Insight that connects to business context
Findings that reach the right people in the right form and actually change something
This is not a linear checklist. In practice, steps overlap, loop back, and adapt to the constraints of the environment.
Systemically. I look for the root cause, not just the surface problem. I design solutions that hold up over time.
Directly. I translate complexity into clarity and adapt how I speak depending on who is in the room.
Honesty, rigour, and the willingness to be wrong. I work best with people who take the work seriously without taking themselves too seriously.
A research practice, whether inside an organisation or independently, that sets a higher bar for how insight drives decisions.
Four projects. Four different problems.
What working with me actually looks like.
I look at the conditions around research and improve them. Good research programmes do not happen by accident.
Every project is anchored to a decision or a metric. I track what changed and make the link to impact explicit.
Whether it is a panel, a process, or a team rhythm, I design for sustainability so the programme outlasts any single project.
Comfortable in a stakeholder strategy session and a research debrief. I communicate differently depending on who is in the room.
Unclear briefs, competing priorities, fast-moving environments. I find structure without oversimplifying what is genuinely complex.
If a research plan will not answer the actual question, I say so. I am a collaborator but an honest one.
If you have a problem worth solving,
let's talk.
Open to research ops roles, research management, senior UX research, and consulting. I work best where research is taken seriously.
No cover letter needed. Just tell me what you are building.
oonyekaorji@gmail.com