
Talk: Human Insights Podcast
Speaking the language of execs: it’s not about CX
To quote me: “I would evangelize business centricity to customer-focused professionals. That’s what’s standing in your way. We’ve tried all the arguments about why it’s so great to be customer-centered. We have to meet them where they are. We have to find the people who control the dollars….If you’ve been battling as a professional with evangelizing customer-centricity, then stop and ask yourself, how can I become more business-centered to achieve the same result.”

Talk: The State of Commerce Experience Podcast
Driving User Experience Design with guest…me!
Host Brian Walker and I talk about the evolution of the UX design profession, what it takes to get executives to truly understand their customers’ experiences and why the future of eCommerce may actually lie in reCommerce.

Talk: Content Strategy Insights Podcast
The Power of Personas
Tamara Adlin uses the power of user personas to align teams and help them develop better products. Tamara literally co-wrote the first book on how to develop and use personas. She has subsequently developed several practices that help teams align executives and other stakeholders on how to build genuinely customer-focused products and services.

Talk: UX Cake Podcast
Negotiate the Salary & Title You Deserve
Negotiating a salary or title in UX in general is not easy, a lot of people struggle with translating their value in UX into business metrics. So it can be challenging for anyone, but many women especially have other internal hurdles to jump.

Talk: UX Cake Podcast
Creating Personas that Align Stakeholders
“We’re talking with Tamara Adlin, a persona pioneer, about a process for creating personas that not only aligns executives and stakeholders, but that also actually gets those personas used. Tamara’s honed this process over the last decade, and she shares with ‘alignment personas’ are, how and why she creates them, and how you can create them too.