Stephanie Fairchild Email & Phone Number

As a Senior Manager, I wear many hats. I'm "head storyteller," key-findings detective, client hand-holder, and junior-staff mentor. In other words, I'm responsible for research design, execution, analysis, and delivery. In my role at ClearPath, I work primarily with the leaders and innovators in the technology sector. ClearPath Strategies is a boutique research and consulting firm. Our mission is to promote game-changing leaders and progressive forces around the world who tirelessly strive to make life better for more people. We provide research-based strategic advice and campaign and marketing support to politicians, business leaders, and advocacy organizations, around the world. We help good people do great things that impact people in a positive way; and we have fun doing it.

Provide support for custom marketing research projects across multiple industries

Seattle, Washington

Accountable for client leadership on critical business and research issues, both global and domestic.Design and report on custom research based on individual client needs, including segmentation analyses, A&U, equity research, price testing, etc.Research competitors and products to provide targeted recommendations that are relevant and timely.

Greater Seattle Area; New York City

Researcher specializing in finding actionable truths out of piles of data. I use equal parts creativity and precision to help people and companies make better decisions based on evidence. • Manage day-to-day client communications, including reporting of research findings to clients in the technology, healthcare, and business industries• Draft and manage quantitative and qualitative research instruments, and manage data collection and statistical analysis for large-scale, high-impact projects• High level project management, including tracking and overseeing progress, dependencies, and slips• Manage and train assistant research associate colleagues• Design and develop final deliverables, including performing the think-work behind the results and identifying key outcomes to share with clients

Kirkland, Washington

United States

Provide research and evaluative consulting services to three firms on a project basis, including:• Support for custom marketing research projects across multiple industries• Designing the research protocol for a health impact analysis to understand the impacts of a new development on a small, agrarian community• Performing an impact analysis for two years in a row that was undertaken to understand the unique contribution of AmeriCorps members on a nonprofit educational organization• Designed research protocols, conducted all data collection, and wrote final reports for grant-funded evaluation• Working with teams of economic development & community planners on community engagement strategies, market research tools, and data reporting for public sector clients• Conducting market research using the "retrospective post-then-pre" survey design to quantify market demand within target consumer groups for an innovative mixed-use development

Austin, Texas

Supported the assessment plan design, implementation, maintenance, and revision for the School of Undergraduate Studies. Worked closely with faculty, staff, programs, and departments to design appropriate methodology for assessments. Duties included:• Signature Course Alumni Survey: Collected, analyzed, and reported on over 1,200 responses from students who participated in the Signature Course program in the previous two years. Findings were used to illustrate the effectiveness of a highly innovative academic program that connects first year-students with distinguished university faculty• Conducted multiple workshops with UGS staff on best practices in data visualization• Formulated assessment methods and design plans for collecting and analyzing information for the various institutional programs within UGS, including training staff on how to implement assessment practices into their own workday• Helped spearhead an overall assessment of core curriculum • Supervised graduate assistant

Research and evaluation specialist specializing in needs analysis, developing program measures, collecting, analyzing, and reporting data, and making improvement recommendations for educational programs.Duties included:• Helped design research and evaluation strategy a math program for adults and children• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey data regarding the effectiveness an interdisciplinary graduate education program • Assisted in focus group facilitation and reporting of findings for municipal-based evaluation regarding employee performance and job satisfaction • Assisted in the creation of logic models to plan strategic evaluations and conducted reporting of multiple program evaluations, which included overall analysis of all data collected, identification of key indicators, evaluation limitations, and recommendations• Assisted in the creation of data visualizations and infographics for client reporting needs

Girls Inc Of Greater Los Angeles

Member of a research and evaluation team assigned to assess the impact of the program’s Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy curriculum. Duties included:• Administered surveys and facilitated focus groups with high school and middle school Girls Inc participants at multiple middle and high schools in Los Angeles• Conducted quantitative data analysis using SPSS to compare treatment and control groups and determine if program is having the desired effect