Coaching for thoughtful UX Researchers
I help UX Researchers, Research Managers, and product teams doing research build confidence, sharpen craft, and navigate the real world of practice.
What we’ll do together
Coaching is conversational and practical. We start from your context: people, constraints, risks, and decision moments, and choose the next most useful step toward your goal.
- Set research strategy that aligns with business goals and org maturity
- Build/scale a team: roles, hiring plan, rituals, quality bars, and career paths
- Enable Designers & Product Managers doing research to run effective, right‑sized studies with confidence
- Research Ops foundations: intake, recruitment/panels, templates, repositories, governance
- Evaluate and appropriately introduce AI in practice (planning, synthesis, coding) with rigor and impact in mind
- Influence at the executive level: framing, narratives, and making research count at decision time
We will balance the business need for speed and efficiency with the quality and impact your work deserves.
Why coaching helps
Common challenges
- “I’m new to research management. Where do I start?”
- “My team is growing. How do we set up for success?”
- “I’ve been asked to do research, but I’m not confident yet.”
- “Stakeholders want speed; I want quality. How do I balance both?”
- “How do I get leaders to care more about customers?”
- “How do I lead in a way that feels authentic (without faking ‘exec presence’)?”
- “What’s next in my career and how do I get there?”
What we’ll work on together
- Starting plan: remit, research strategy, first-90-days
- Team shape & rhythm: roles, hiring, neuroaffirming rituals, quality bars
- Choose & run the right research: scope well and right-size methods
- Authentic leadership & influence: values → behaviours, exec presence that fits you
- Sustainable ways of working: pace, boundaries, and agreements that respect health & caring roles
- Career next step: strengths, positioning, action plan
Coaching for managers & individual contributors
Support tailored for research leaders, practitioners, Designers and Product Managers, and the operational backbone that makes research work.
Research Managers
- Strategy, remit, and success metrics
- Org design: roles, leveling, hiring
- Team rhythm: planning, crits, readouts
- Quality standards with lightweight governance
- Executive communication & stakeholder mapping
Research practitioners (ICs)
- Work more strategically: link research to business goals, bets, and decisions
- Grow your research toolkit: creative, varied methods and mixed‑method practice
- Communicate for impact at decision time
- Influence stakeholders and navigate trade‑offs
- Career development: strengths, positioning, next steps
Designers & Product Managers
- Right‑sized, effective methods alongside delivery work
- Reviews of plans, discussion guides, and artifacts
- Better questions → better conversations → better decisions
- Lightweight templates and coaching‑on‑the‑work
- When to bring in specialist researchers
Research Operations
- Intake & prioritisation that people actually use
- Recruitment/panels, incentives, privacy & consent
- Libraries & repositories that get used
- Evaluate AI for planning/analysis/synthesis; set sensible practices
- Balance speed/efficiency with rigor and impact
All of this stays conversational and hands‑on. Working with your real work, not generic playbooks.
About Leisa
Leisa Reichelt is an executive-level research leader and long-time practitioner. She’s built and led research teams, set strategy with senior stakeholders, and coached researchers across industries and continents. Her focus is practical impact. Helping people do good research that changes decisions, while balancing speed, quality, and the realities of product delivery.
I coach in a neuroaffirming, person‑first way. We’ll find your authentic leadership style and design sustainable rhythms, boundaries, and pacing that work with your life.
International clients welcome. I accommodate global time zones where possible.
What clients say
Leisa helped me move from running isolated studies to shaping a research strategy that changed product decisions.
Coaching with Leisa provided a safe space and expert guidance to help me define and take steps towards my professional goals.
With Leisa’s coaching I grew as a leader—set a clear remit, scaled the team, and raised quality without slowing delivery.
Book a discovery call
Tell me about your context and what you’re hoping to achieve. I’ll share how I’d approach our work together and answer questions about cadence and cost. If it’s a fit, we’ll make a plan.
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No obligation. No hard sell.