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What sets me apart from other consultants

I've been a product manager

I have research-based MSc and PhD

I've been a product manager

Series Stage Companies 

I've worked on small Agile Scrum teams and...


Large Scale Scrum 

... I've worked as a product owner in large-scale Scrum environments overseeing multiple Scrum teams working on multi-year initiatives. 


I'm a writer

I have research-based MSc and PhD

I've been a product manager

Pop Psychology  

I wrote a book on all the ways I thought my life would be and why they hadn't turned out that way, based on my expertise in behavioral science and the power of the stories that we tell ourselves.

Check it out here


Thought Leadership 

Content that's not AI slop and unlike what you'll find from consultants with a narrower lens.

For instance


In-App Content 

I understand technical constraints. My expertise is in behavior change. Let's do this.

I've done this for health and wellness apps, fitness apps, and education too. 

I have research-based MSc and PhD

I have research-based MSc and PhD

I have research-based MSc and PhD

What these experiences taught me  

How to... 

... spot gaps and trends, 

... take the latest insights and bring them into production to test and validate in the real world,

... how to write and present, 

... how to influence.



a few Projects

Engaging Chronically Disengaged Patients

Situation 

Patients with multiple chronic conditions were ignoring all traditional outreach attempts.

  • Digital health company serving patients with multiple chronic conditions belonging to Medicare, Medicaid, and DSNP populations
  • Target population chronically unresponsive to traditional health plan outreach
  • Low engagement with PCPs and self-care behaviors despite high clinical risk and incurred (or potential for) high cost utilization


Approach 

Built a behavioral playbook that addressed capability and sustained behavior change, not just motivation.

  • Developed evidence-based behavioral playbook grounded in self-efficacy and habit research
  • Designed daily intervention touchpoints combining reminders with capability-building exercises 
  • Created a novel patient-centric approach based on behavioral science that addressed behavioral barriers, not just motivation
  • Worked alongside product, dev, design, and QA teams to implement features aligned with behavioral framework


Outcome 

Medication adherence increased 18% and hospital admissions dropped 35% within one year.

  • 18% increase in medication adherence
  • 35% reduction in hospital admissions
  • Results achieved within 12 months
  • Methodology now core to company's product strategy

Behavioral Economics in Healthcare Incentives

Situation 

Financial incentive programs were producing initial spikes in engagement but failing to sustain behavior change.

  • Healthcare clients often see suboptimal engagement in their rewards and financial incentive programs
  • Alternatively, initial engagement spikes followed by rapid drop-off
  • Traditional incentive structures failing to produce sustained behavior change among chronic disease and rising-risk populations


Approach 

Applied behavioral economics principles to design incentives that work with human psychology, not against it.

  • Applied behavioral economics principles: loss aversion, hyperbolic discounting, random variable effects, and hedonic rewards
  • Designed incentive timing and structure based on habit formation research across populations with different needs and care plans
  • Created segmented communication  approaches recognizing different behavioral profiles
  • Built measurement framework to track behavior change vs. program adherence


Outcome 

Achieved sustained behavior change beyond short-term compliance, with significantly improved cost-effectiveness.

  • Sustained behavior change with low to no financial rewards over time
  • Incentive schemes now grounded in evidence rather than intuition
  • Replicable framework deployed across multiple client populations
  • Cost-per-behavior-change significantly improved vs. previous approaches

AI-Powered Research Operations

Situation 

An early-stage healthcare company was spending too much time gathering research instead of building product.

  • Early-stage healthcare company struggling to monitor rapidly evolving regulatory and industry landscape
  • Team spending excessive time on research synthesis and hypothesizing instead of product development
  • Risk of missing critical competitive or regulatory developments


Approach 

Designed an AI agent system that automates research monitoring while maintaining PhD-level rigor.

  • Designed AI agent system for automated research monitoring and synthesis
  • Built methodological safeguards to maintain research rigor and avoid algorithmic blind spots
  • Created filtering and prioritization framework tailored to company's strategic needs
  • Implemented automated messaging to drop relevant news briefs into email / Slack in real-time to circumvent manual searching


Outcome 

Research now runs continuously and automatically, freeing the team to focus on strategy and product decisions.

  • Research monitoring now fully automated and continuous
  • Product team redirected from information gathering to strategic decision-making
  • Critical developments are no longer missed or take time to find and validate
  • System serves as scalable research infrastructure as company grows

Logistics Digital Transformation

Situation 

A global logistics company needed warehouse workers to actually adopt new technology—not just tolerate it.

  • Multinational logistics company undertaking complete warehouse management system overhaul
  • Needed technology adoption across diverse workforce in high-pressure environment
  • Previous digital initiatives had struggled with user adoption and workflow disruption


Approach 

Used ethnographic research to design around how workers actually operate, not how process maps assume they do.

  • Led ethnographic research to understand actual warehouse worker behaviors and cognitive patterns
  • Conducted business analysis to align product specifications with real-world operations
  • Designed user experience accounting for cognitive load, workflow interruption, and frontline constraints
  • Developed implementation strategy prioritizing human factors alongside technical requirements


Outcome 

Efficiency increased 20%, achieved best-ever productivity, and 96% of volume now runs through the system.

  • 20% increase in warehouse efficiency
  • Best-ever labor productivity metrics for the organization
  • 96% of volume now processed through automated technology


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