​Small teams, big impact—how do you scale your research maturity when resources are tight?

Join us for a practical and inspiring webinar where we dive into strategies tailored specifically for small research teams.

Whether you're just starting out or looking to level up, this session will give you the tools and insights to amplify your research efforts without overwhelming your team.

During this session, Emily Barnes, Senior Askable Plus Researcher, and Stefano Portaluri, UX Research Lead at Immutable, share practical strategies tailored specifically for small research teams.

It's packed with actionable advice on how to build a research culture, prioritise high-impact activities, and collaborate across departments.

​What you’ll learn:

• ‍Challenges for small teams: understand the common constraints small teams face, such as limited resources and time pressures, and how to approach scaling your research maturity. ‍
• Strategy for small teams: learn how to prioritise high-impact research activities, build a strong research culture, and leverage tools to extend your team’s capacity.
• ‍Scaling research maturity: learn how to strategically advance your research capabilities.

​Speakers

​Emily Barnes (Host)

Askable Plus researcher, Askable

​Emily believes that putting people and their needs at the heart of strategic decisions leads to better business outcomes. With over 20 years of experience in senior leadership and management consulting roles, she loves creating mutual value by helping businesses understand their customers and identify the right problems to solve. 

A notable Askable Plus researcher, Emily excels in transforming customer insights into practical solutions for products, services, and communication strategies. She is also a dynamic leader, trainer, and facilitator, committed to inspiring teams with a clear vision and driving them towards innovative thinking and practices.

When she’s not delivering projects as an Askable+ researcher, Emily provides customer experience design, employee experience design, service design and marketing strategy consulting services. Connect with Emily on LinkedIn.

Stefano Portaluri

UX Research Lead, previously at Immutable and WooliesX
Psychologist

​With a background in Organisational Psychology and Behavioural Economics, Stefano has worked across a range of industries including, finance, media, government, utilities, and e-commerce.

He is incredibly passionate about understanding people, their underlying needs, and how we as Human-Centered design thinkers can help solve key customer and business problems. With a strong background in research and human behaviour he works to help uncover those golden insights that drive great customer experiences. Connect with Stefano on LinkedIn.