Customer Discovery Training for Academics + Educators
Looking to transition from underpaid work to something better?
As an academic or educator, adjunct, grad student, doctoral candidate or post-doc, you want a way to differentiate yourself from the competition. You're definitely going to need a lot more options.
Position Yourself for Growth
Our unique small-group training and coaching experiences embed 'Customer Discovery' - a unique and proven method that works! Slack, Groupon, HubSpot and numerous companies have used Customer Discovery to understand their customers' needs and pain points.
As an expert in Customer Discovery, Randy Fisher has consulted with many businesses, including tech startups and early-stage firms.
Position Yourself for Growth
Our unique small-group training and coaching experiences embed 'Customer Discovery' - a unique and proven method that works! Slack, Groupon, HubSpot and numerous companies have used Customer Discovery to understand their customers' needs and pain points.
As an expert in Customer Discovery, Randy Fisher has consulted with many businesses, including tech startups and early-stage firms.
Customer Discovery Interviews: Get the Inside Track for Success
In Phase 1, we help you get started with how to have valuable conversations with industry insiders, customers and hiring managers. You will increase your confidence - learning how to listen differently - and identify pain points and hidden career opportunities. You'll benefit from Randy's extensive knowledge, tech industry experience, connections and creative ideas, that will position you for success!
Skills You Will Achieve:
Skills You Will Achieve:
- Get clarity and stay focused and on-track
- Complement your current job search activities
- Avoid red flags, rookie mistakes and missed opportunities.
- Strengthen your critical thinking, analysis and listening skills
- Develop your confidence, assertiveness and ease in networking and communications
- Develop key messages and insights to excite your audiences
- Use curiosity and empathy to unlock the value of stakeholder conversations
- Validate your ideas and assumptions about how to get ahead
- Get insider information - to help position you for exciting opportunities in the fast-growing tech sector - from edtech to fintech, gaming and e-learning, e-commerce and digital applications - even tech transfer.
- Know when to pivot to better, more rewarding opportunities.
Workshop Activities (4 hours, online workshop)
- A small group / cohort for optimal learning - over 4 weeks
- Develop a career strategy for getting tech company experience - even if you don't have any!
- Bridge the gap between your knowledge and industry leaders
- Curate content for quality LinkedIn connections
- Create a targeted list of people to reach out to
- Gather evidence from customer interviews
- Analyzing the data and knowing where to pivot
- Randy's 20+ years of experience in strategy, marketing, research, communications and learning.
- Access to LinkedIn Community
- Access to WhatsApp real-time coaching (extra)
Introductory Pricing: USD $775 per person.
Other Services Offered
- Training if you want a side gig or consulting business.
What our customers say:
Phil Chatterton, Warmcall.com
Getting product/market-fit and user traction is essential to any startup's success. Randy is an invaluable asset for us - he is insightful, engaging and endlessly curious.
That approach has helped us build quality content, gain valuable product insights and improve user traction. His ability to engage customers on an authentic level has opened doors that I would not have thought possible.
Lastly, he is a joy to work with.
(Warmcall is a Vancouver-based startup focused on HR Screening & Lead Qualification.)
That approach has helped us build quality content, gain valuable product insights and improve user traction. His ability to engage customers on an authentic level has opened doors that I would not have thought possible.
Lastly, he is a joy to work with.
(Warmcall is a Vancouver-based startup focused on HR Screening & Lead Qualification.)
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