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🎙️ Podcast Guest: Meltem Naz Kaso (Mel) from Career with Mel 
In Today's episode, I am delighted to have a conversation with Mel, a globally recognised UX career coach with many years of experience supporting professionals across nine countries. She’s known for her direct and empowering style, helping people gain clarity, confidence, and momentum during career pivots, burnout, and major transitions.
🧠 Topics discussed
Why strong UX professionals can still feel blocked
Why strategic roles often seem out of reach,
How to make thoughtful career decisions in a market that isn’t particularly easy right now.
Mel's New Podcast 
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Career with Mel website 
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Mel's Email: [email protected]

📖 The UX Research Powerhouse, Vol. 1 — The Foundation of UX Research Strategic Leadership
Launching in November 2025, A playbook and manifesto for research leaders, with a 365-day leadership roadmap, tools to measure impact, and a bonus chapter on AI. 📘 Get the book on Amazon: here
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🎙️ Podcast Guest: Mujtaba Hameed
In Today's episode, I am delighted to have a conversation with Mujtaba, an anthropologist and innovation consultant with over 10 years of experience working across culture, technology, and strategy. He is a Project Director at Stripe Partners, where he has led strategic research for companies including Apple, Meta, Google, and Spotify.
A strong advocate for ethnography, Mujtaba has conducted in-person fieldwork worldwide, from Tokyo to Los Angeles. He is particularly interested in using AI to deepen human insight, rather than simply speeding up research.
🧠 Topics discussed
The value of in-person research and field work 
Using AI in research without the hype
The changing culture of tech and its impact on UX researchers
The future of research in an AI era 

🔗 Links
Mujtaba’s newsletter
Frames — Stripe Partners’ newsletter
Advancing Research conference
EPIC — the global ethnography community

📖 The UX Research Powerhouse, Vol. 1 — The Foundation of UX Research Strategic Leadership
Launching in November 2025, A playbook and manifesto for research leaders, with a 365-day leadership roadmap, tools to measure impact, and a bonus chapter on AI. 📘 Get the book on Amazon: here
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In this episode of the UX Research Club, Dr Emmanuelle Savarit introduces her new book, The UX Research Powerhouse: The Foundation of Strategic Leadership. She shares why she wrote this book, who it is designed to support, and how years of experience, patterns, and leadership lessons shaped the tools and frameworks inside it.
Emmanuelle reads a selected excerpt from the author's notes, offering listeners a first look into the themes of strategic influence, business alignment, and the evolution of UX Research beyond usability testing. She also reflects on the shift from practitioner to leader and on how researchers can strengthen their impact across organisations as they navigate digital and AI transformation.
If you’re a researcher, manager, or product leader seeking to elevate the role of UX Research in your organisation, this episode is a perfect starting point.

📖 The UX Research Powerhouse, Vol. 1 — The Foundation of UX Research Strategic Leadership
Launching in November 2025, A playbook and manifesto for research leaders, with a 365-day leadership roadmap, tools to measure impact, and a bonus chapter on AI. 📘 Get the book on Amazon: here
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In Today's episode, I am delighted to have a conversation with Linh Nguyen Slater.
Linh is a seasoned research leader with over 15 years of experience designing and testing cutting-edge products across industries, including financial services, healthcare, automotive, and consumer technology.
She’s passionate about leveraging customer insights to create meaningful, human-centred innovations and helping organisations design products that truly resonate with people.
Currently, Linh is the Head of Research at NatWest, where she leads the research division to enhance the digital experiences of Retail Banking customers.
Before that, she established the AI Research division at Jaguar Land Rover and led the Consumer Science team within Dyson’s Health and Beauty Innovation Labs.
Linh is widely recognised as a thought leader in human-centred design, and today she’s here to share insights from her journey as a UXR leader.

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📖 The UX Research Powerhouse, Vol. 1 — The Foundation of UX Research Strategic Leadership
Launching in November 2025, A playbook and manifesto for research leaders, with a 365-day leadership roadmap, tools to measure impact, and a bonus chapter on AI. 📘 Get the book on Amazon: here
Emmanuelle's LinkedIn

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In this episode, Emmanuelle explores the shift from doing research to leading it,  what leadership in UXR really means (influence, vision, impact), how to move from reactive delivery to shaping strategy, and reflection questions to grow your influence.
📖 The UX Research Powerhouse, Vol. 1 — The Foundation of UX Research Strategic Leadership
Launching in November 2025, A playbook and manifesto for research leaders, with a 365-day leadership roadmap, tools to measure impact, and a bonus chapter on AI. 📘 Get the book on Amazon: here
Emmanuelle's LinkedIn

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