Anna Olsen Email & Phone Number

Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States

I lead and manage the business affairs of BSBRD such as calling and presiding over the board and league meetings, creating agendas, conducting votes and ensuring the financial stability and mission alignment of BSBRD. With the help of my stalwart teammates, we have rebuilt our committee structure and have successfully lead the league to return to normal operations post-COVID.

Building on my strong foundation of deep qualitative research skills, I now lead teams and mentor my junior teammates to refine their craft both for learning design and storytelling. I lead or co-lead multiple accounts, building strong relationships with our clients and ensuring the team understands their business so that we can deliver impactful work.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

As a Senior Consultant, I fully own projects from intake, scoping, and proposals all the way to building methodologies, conducting analyses and elevating the findings to actionable business insights. During my tenure at C Space, I have learned how to prioritize multiple conflicting deadlines while still delivering high quality work that directly impacts our client's business. In addition to these research and project management skills, my role also entails:Deep understanding of numerous qualitative research methodologiesRich storytelling to deliver easily digestible insights and impactLeading training for analysis of sub-sample populationsPresenting insights to clients at all levels of the companyInterviewing potential new hires and evaluating their fit with the companyMentoring and coaching junior employees both on research design and analysis/ storytelling

Greater Boston Area

C Space is the leading customer collaboration consultancy connecting the world's best-known brands with the people they serve to create Customer Inspired Growth.

• Screen potential participants for focus groups, product tests, and dispute resolution sessions• Interview and recruit participants both nationally and in the Greater Boston and Providence area in person as well as via email and phone• Compile participant information into databases using Research Tracker II• Research internet for potential participant information pertaining to target participant population

• Develop, program, and field market research questionnaires with both qualitative and quantitative measures • Examine and code qualitative data such as new product exploration, consumer attitudes, and brand image• Analyze and create visualizations for quantitative data • Craft comprehensive reports that tell an insightful “story” to address project objectives• Present findings, both internally and to clients

• Organized up to 30 volunteers per month to deliver groceries to over 220 homebound low income seniors• Recruited and on-boarded over 60 new volunteers by reaching out to businesses, colleges, community groups• Trained new volunteers in best practices, policies and procedures for multiple types of volunteer opportunities• Wrote and sent correspondence via email to the volunteer network on a weekly basis each month

• Supported Professor Juan Dominguez and his research team on testing in connection with the effects of an antiepileptic drug; gained solid understanding of statistical analysis programs (particularly SPSS)• Constructed X-maze used for the study “The Antiepileptic Primodone Impairs Male Sexual Behavior”• Collected data for the study; summarized and presented scientific articles germane to the lab’s research

Master’S Degree, Marketing Analytics, 3.7

Bachelor'S, Psychology

Education record

Activities and Societies: WIQH- DJ, Co-director of Publicity 2004-2005