Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦

Gloria Osardu - Slowing Down to See the System


Listen Later

Gloria Osardu urges researchers to slow down, understand the business, and partner with intention—sharing why empathy, alignment, and asking the right questions are the foundation for research that matters.

Highlights include:

05:02 – How did your parents shape your worldview and curiosity?

15:22 – Why is success as a research leader about facilitating others?
24:26 – What does “understanding the business” really mean?
30:43 – What does “skin in the game” mean for stakeholders?
45:24 – How has embracing slowness changed your approach to leadership?

===

Who is Gloria Osardu?

Gloria is a Senior Director and Global Head of UX Research, Brand, and Consumer Insights at Yahoo!, where she leads initiatives to deepen Yahoo’s understanding of consumer behaviour, aligning the company’s brand, product, and marketing strategies with these insights.

Before joining Yahoo!, Gloria was Senior Director and Head of UX Research and Insights at Gusto, where she built and led Gusto’s Global Product Experience Research Team, overseeing both research and research operations professionals.

She has also held senior research roles at Amazon Web Services, where she led UX Research Operations and Programs, and at Capital One, where she headed UX Research for their Enterprise AI and ML Platforms.

With extensive commercial experience in customer insights and analytics, Gloria also brings an impressive academic background, holding a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, a Master of Science in Applied Health Informatics, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

A committed contributor to our field, Gloria is a long-standing mentor with the Computing Research Association and has been featured in User Weekly, as well as on podcasts like Black Stories and Saving UX.

===

Find Gloria here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloriaosardu/

======

Subscribe to Brave UX

Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen).

  • Apple Podcast
  • Spotify
  • YouTube
  • Podbean
  • Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content!

    • LinkedIn
    • TikTok
    • Instagram
    • Brendan Jarvis hosts the Show, and you can find him here:

      • Brendan Jarvis on LinkedIn
      • The Space InBetween Website
      • ...more
        View all episodesView all episodes
        Download on the App Store

        Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦By The Space InBetween

        • 4.3
        • 4.3
        • 4.3
        • 4.3
        • 4.3

        4.3

        6 ratings


        More shows like Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦

        View all
        99% Invisible by Roman Mars

        99% Invisible

        26,230 Listeners

        Afford Anything by Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

        Afford Anything

        3,549 Listeners

        Daily Creative with Todd Henry by Todd Henry

        Daily Creative with Todd Henry

        516 Listeners

        Pivot by New York Magazine

        Pivot

        9,539 Listeners

        Decoder with Nilay Patel by The Verge

        Decoder with Nilay Patel

        3,154 Listeners

        HBR IdeaCast by Harvard Business Review

        HBR IdeaCast

        167 Listeners

        The Daily by The New York Times

        The Daily

        112,408 Listeners

        Design Better by The Curiosity Department, sponsored by Wix Studio

        Design Better

        320 Listeners

        Finding Our Way by Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz

        Finding Our Way

        30 Listeners

        NN/G UX Podcast by Nielsen Norman Group

        NN/G UX Podcast

        106 Listeners

        Hard Fork by The New York Times

        Hard Fork

        5,512 Listeners

        The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

        The Ezra Klein Show

        15,931 Listeners

        Product Thinking by Melissa Perri

        Product Thinking

        148 Listeners

        The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis by Nathaniel Whittemore

        The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

        610 Listeners

        HBR On Leadership by Harvard Business Review

        HBR On Leadership

        168 Listeners