Laura brings over 20 years of research experience to her work. Her perspective is far reaching: from shop-ability to usability, strategy to execution, qualitative to quantitative, across the country and around the globe. Laura’s professional research experience on the client side includes 12 years combined with Kraft Foods, The Quaker Oats Company, UNext.com (University of Chicago) and Leo Burnett.

Laura has also spent 12 years on the consulting side of the business with the Maya Group, as a moderator, as well as with the Brandimage (formerly laga) a global design consultancy serving as Research Director. During this time she was responsible for spearheading unique ways of combining research disciplines to offer value-added methods. In addition, she lead and conducted the process to design visually intensive creative qualitative approaches to support global client learning.

Laura received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Simmons College in Boston, MA, completing part of her studies at the University of London. Over her career, Laura has had extensive training in moderating skills/analysis and has earned her Master Moderator Certificate from the RIVA Training Institute in Bethesda, MD. Laura has been actively moderating in the US and Canada and overseeing significant international work for her clients for more than 15 years. She is also a CPSI trained facilitator.