SERVICES

We Help You Answer Pressing Questions in
Behavioral and Social Research

We help clients understand, predict, and shape health and social behaviors and attitudes. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, we support clients’ programmatic goals through thoughtful custom study design, data analysis, and reporting. Owned by a cognitive neuroscientist, we are passionate about bringing together current practices from behavioral science, decision science, and behavioral economics to address today’s pressing health and social issues.

RESEARCH DESIGN

Our approach allows leaders to make informed, data-driven decisions, whether you are building a program, evaluating one, or looking to better understand an issue or population. Starting by understanding your programmatic needs, we’ll work with you to design a research plan customized to your goals. Our research plans are developed to produce concrete insights for action.

Successful programs are informed by data and evaluated rigorously.

FORMATIVE RESEARCH

When you’re developing a new program, policy or communications, we use formative research to pinpoint:

  • What drives your audiences’ behaviors and attitudes?
  • How do drivers vary within the population?
  • What barriers are there to adoption of target behavior?

Using both qualitative and quantitative research, we develop an ecological map of the target issue to contextualize the larger framework of social norms, individual beliefs, infrastructure, policy, and other factors. We help our clients make data-driven decisions out of the gate to inform your next steps.

Formative research may include:

  • Online, phone or mail surveys
  • Expert, stakeholder and in-depth interviews
  • Focus groups
  • Advisory panels
  • Message & concept testing
  • Experimental tests
  • Literature review & environmental scans
  • Data analysis & analytics

We contextualize the ecology of the target behavior

EVALUATIVE RESEARCH

Evaluation data is key to understanding the impact of a program, policy, intervention, or communications campaign. We help you operationalize your impact goals and develop observable metrics to assess progress towards your goal. You’ll understand how well the program is working, how segments of the population differ, what drives success, and existing barriers to success.

Evaluative research may include:

  • Online, phone or mail surveys
  • Expert, stakeholder and in-depth interviews
  • Focus groups
  • Advisory panels
  • Message & concept testing
  • Experimental tests
  • Data analysis & analytics

RESEARCH METHODS

Our researchers are experienced in a diverse set of methods covering the gamut of qualitative and quantitative research that we customize and “mix and match” to achieve your programmatic goals.

QUALITATIVE

  • In-depth phone interviews
  • Expert & stakeholder interviews
  • Focus groups
  • Observational research
  • Program evaluation
  • Message & concept testing

QUANTITATIVE

  • Online surveys
  • Phone surveys
  • Mail surveys
  • Intercept surveys
  • Panels
  • Public opinion

SECONDARY

  • Literature reviews
  • Environmental scan
  • Data analysis & analytics

DEVELOPING A PROGRAM?
EVALUATING A POLICY?
LOOKING TO UNDERSTAND BEHAVIORS?

Reliable Insights to Drive Behavior Change