Working in the Liminal Space
As a PhD anthropologist with over a decade of fieldwork across three continents, I work with a broad range of clients: companies seeking to understand their customers and communities, NGOs navigating complex cultural landscapes, and public institutions designing services and experiences for diverse populations. What unites them is a shared recognition that the most important insights are found at the crossings. In collaboration with leading researchers, consultants and trainers, I bring rigorous social science methods to questions that matter, and translate the answers into action.
Working with me, you will have culturally specific, scientifically grounded, impactful and actionable insights to make your organization and the communities it serves thrive. In every project, I make sure to work with the right team, especially in collaboration with Habitus Research and Outdoorturk Training and Consulting.
Experience Consulting
Cultural Intelligence & Experiential Insight
Wouldn’t you want to learn about the thoughts, feelings, and values of your guests, clients, team members, target group or the communities that your organization serves? I provide deep ethnographic and mixed-methods research that uncovers the cultural undercurrents shaping your audience, market, or community. I surface what surveys miss and reveal the experiential patterns to provide actionable insights.
Experience Design
Combining anthropological methods with insights from the growing field of User Experience Design (UX), I adopt a broader lens to “Experience Design.” Drawing on my extensive experience in “spatial awareness,” my Experience Design Consulting services include the target groups of (potential) guests, clients, team members and staff, and decision-makers. Research-based brand and experience design that translates cultural insight into narrative, identity, and touchpoints that genuinely connect with the people you serve.
Training — Anthro 101 for YOU!
I bring the tools of anthropology directly into your organization through a signature series of interactive, game-based, and collaborative workshops. Carefully curated for your needs, these sessions provide critical insights into human behavior, cultural difference, and the dynamics that shape people’s experience of your organization.
Experience Awareness
Tailored for either physical or virtual spaces, including coffee shops, restaurants, event venues, festivals, stores as well as work environments, this training builds the skills to recognize, identify, and respond to varying experience patterns, with particular attention to connection and attunement.
Anthropology Connects!
In this format, we come together to work on strategies of attunement. The capacity to grasp the experience of one another, as an essential human skill, can provide priceless tools for team work, service quality, and branding and design strategies.
Difference is Good!
An interactive workshop series designed to shift how organizations think about difference — from a challenge to be managed into a resource to be cultivated.
Public Speech & Media
Keynotes, panels, and podcast appearances exploring what it means to cross identities, cultures, and disciplines in today’s world. Drawing on my years of fieldwork and academic research, my talks offer frameworks for understanding connection beyond difference, and building communication structures that hold space for complexity.