Hunter Thurman's guest appearances

Hunter Thurman

Ponderings from the Perch

Data Gurus

Happy Market Research Podcast

Career Club LinkedIn Live with Bob Goodwin

OwlTail

So the story goes, a neuroscientist and an insights strategist walk into a bar. Well, that's not exactly how it went, but the interaction resulted in a unique collaboration with the goal of helping brands better understand human behavior using neuroscience.Priscilla is joined on the Perch by a good friend and colleague, Hunter Thurman, to discuss the behavioral psychology behind consumer behavior. Hunter is the founder and president of Alpha-Diver – the unique insights consultancy leveraging neuroscience to model, measure, explain and predict consumer behavior. He’s the author of the innovation book, Brand Be Nimble, and has been in the insights and strategy industry for over 20 years.Tune in to learn how leveraging neuroscience can provide deeper consumer insights and discover what it truly means to be "consumer-centric". Priscilla even gets Hunter to offer up his best tips and insights into the process of writing your own book. Hunter's book, Brand be Nimble ushers in a new era of brand innovation! You can grab your own copy here!

So the story goes, a neuroscientist and an insights strategist walk into a bar. Well, that's not exactly how it went, but the interaction resulted in a unique collaboration with the goal of helping brands better understand human behavior using neuroscience. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscillamckinney/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Priscilla</a> is joined on the Perch by a good friend and colleague, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunterthurman/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hunter Thurman</a>, to discuss the behavioral psychology behind consumer behavior. Hunter is the founder and president of <a href="https://www.alpha-diver.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alpha-Diver</a> – the unique insights consultancy leveraging neuroscience to model, measure, explain and predict consumer behavior. He’s the author of the innovation book, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24998289-brand-be-nimble" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brand Be Nimble</a>, and has been in the insights and strategy industry for over 20 years. Tune in to learn how leveraging neuroscience can provide deeper consumer insights and discover what it truly means to be "consumer-centric". Priscilla even gets Hunter to offer up his best tips and insights into the process of writing your own book. Hunter's book, Brand be Nimble ushers in a new era of brand innovation! You can grab your own copy <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24998289-brand-be-nimble" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here!</a>

How Neuroscience Enhances Behavioral Psychology with Hunter Thurman

How do you know when a company is the right fit for you? How do employers get better at choosing candidates who will best thrive in their culture? How can well-known consumer brands offer some insights into this? Join Bob Goodwin, Founder of Career Club, and Hunter Thurman, President of Alpha-Diver, to explore how behavioral science can help unlock the answers to these all-important questions.#alphadiver #hunterthurman #neuroscience #careeradvice #careerclub #bobgoodwin

How do you know when a company is the right fit for you? How do employers get better at choosing candidates who will best thrive in their culture? How can well-known consumer brands offer some insights into this? Join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgoodwincareerclub/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bob Goodwin</a>, Founder of <a href="http://career.club" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Career Club</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunterthurman/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hunter Thurman,</a> President of <a href="http://www.alpha-diver.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alpha-Diver</a>, to explore how behavioral science can help unlock the answers to these all-important questions. #alphadiver #hunterthurman #neuroscience #careeradvice #careerclub #bobgoodwin

Perception is Reality with Hunter Thurman, President of Alpha-Diver

Sima Vasa is excited to welcome Hunter Thurman, the President and Founder of Alpha-Diver, as her guest today. Hunter has been in the insights and strategy world for the last twenty years.Some background for Alpha-DiverIn 2011, Hunter got to a point where he felt dissatisfied with how he was doing insights and research and translating it into a strategy. (Subsequently, he learned that his approach had been model-free. And the industry had also been operating in a model-free way at the time.)Around that time, Hunter started exploring, stepping out of the industry, and hanging around with neuroscientists, psychologists, and people from the world of academia. He forged a copasetic relationship with the academics, which became the basis for the company, Alpha-Diver. They use mostly neuroscience. But they also use a lot of psychology, which they translate for business applications to answer the questions that help companies serve their consumers.A frameworkHunter later realized that when you have a framework, a place to start, a foundation, and a model, it’s much more rewarding. And it can lead to much richer discoveries.The pain pointWith the model-free approach, it was hard to explain how they were doing what they were doing. Although Hunter was in a leadership role, he did not feel that he could teach very well because he did not have a model from which to work.In a model-based spaceIn a model-based space, you are going out, and using an established model instead of collecting data broadly and bringing it back to an existing model.Some surprises when talking to people in academiaHunter was surprised at how applicable the academic knowledge that he received was. He was also surprised at how relevant those insights could be, how little connectivity there is from the academic world to the rest of the world, and how dissatisfied many academics are. He had always assumed that neuroscience would be far more technical, far more physiological, and much less applied than he discovered it truly is.Insights challengesGoing out, and looking at insights challenges, whether you are looking at the segmentation, the journey mapping, or the drivers and barriers of your brand or category, is very chaotic, noisy, and difficult to organize. That caused researchers to overlook what is going on between the ears of a consumer. Yet we have quite a simple explanation of human cognition and the lenses we use to react to the world around us.What a model-based approach meansA model-based approach can be likened to us using all five of our senses.NeuroscienceWhat neuroscience has discovered is that there are durable and predictable drivers and barriers, which are pretty simple, and happen mostly subconsciously in people’s brains.The 9 WhysHunter and his partners developed a framework that they call The 9 Whys. It tells us that there are four drivers and five barriers that can simplify the world.The driversThe drivers range from very rational and practical, to social and tribal, sensory and exploratory, to impulsive and instinctive. In a given context, one of those four drivers would become the primary lens that a person uses to make decisions. And in a different context, a different driver could apply to the same person.ContextWe have gained from neuroscience the recognition that context has an enormous impact on the driver that we are using. Currently, occasions are the incarnation of how the industry is looking at context.The five barriersThe five barriers are: 	Price (Price is the least punitive) 	Time 	Effort or Physical barriers 	Social 	EmotionalThe questionnaireThe questionnaire that Hunter and his team are using is simple in that it can get administered in a regular survey. The data from it provides them with certain tells of an individual's psychology, and their cognitive processes, in the context they are studying. And the algorithms on the back end let the computer know what those resp...

Sima Vasa is excited to welcome Hunter Thurman, the President and Founder of Alpha-Diver, as her guest today. Hunter has been in the insights and strategy world for the last twenty years. Some background for Alpha-Diver In 2011, Hunter got to a point where he felt dissatisfied with how he was doing insights and research and translating it into a strategy. (Subsequently, he learned that his approach had been model-free. And the industry had also been operating in a model-free way at the time.) Around that time, Hunter started exploring, stepping out of the industry, and hanging around with neuroscientists, psychologists, and people from the world of academia. He forged a copasetic relationship with the academics, which became the basis for the company, Alpha-Diver. They use mostly neuroscience. But they also use a lot of psychology, which they translate for business applications to answer the questions that help companies serve their consumers. A framework Hunter later realized that when you have a framework, a place to start, a foundation, and a model, it’s much more rewarding. And it can lead to much richer discoveries. The pain point With the model-free approach, it was hard to explain how they were doing what they were doing. Although Hunter was in a leadership role, he did not feel that he could teach very well because he did not have a model from which to work. In a model-based space In a model-based space, you are going out, and using an established model instead of collecting data broadly and bringing it back to an existing model. Some surprises when talking to people in academia Hunter was surprised at how applicable the academic knowledge that he received was. He was also surprised at how relevant those insights could be, how little connectivity there is from the academic world to the rest of the world, and how dissatisfied many academics are. He had always assumed that neuroscience would be far more technical, far more physiological, and much less applied than he discovered it truly is. Insights challenges Going out, and looking at insights challenges, whether you are looking at the segmentation, the journey mapping, or the drivers and barriers of your brand or category, is very chaotic, noisy, and difficult to organize. That caused researchers to overlook what is going on between the ears of a consumer. Yet we have quite a simple explanation of human cognition and the lenses we use to react to the world around us. What a model-based approach means A model-based approach can be likened to us using all five of our senses. Neuroscience What neuroscience has discovered is that there are durable and predictable drivers and barriers, which are pretty simple, and happen mostly subconsciously in people’s brains. The 9 Whys Hunter and his partners developed a framework that they call The 9 Whys. It tells us that there are four drivers and five barriers that can simplify the world. The drivers The drivers range from very rational and practical, to social and tribal, sensory and exploratory, to impulsive and instinctive. In a given context, one of those four drivers would become the primary lens that a person uses to make decisions. And in a different context, a different driver could apply to the same person. Context We have gained from neuroscience the recognition that context has an enormous impact on the driver that we are using. Currently, occasions are the incarnation of how the industry is looking at context. The five barriers The five barriers are: 	Price (Price is the least punitive) 	Time 	Effort or Physical barriers 	Social 	Emotional The questionnaire The questionnaire that Hunter and his team are using is simple in that it can get administered in a regular survey. The data from it provides them with certain tells of an individual's psychology, and their cognitive processes, in the context they are studying. And the algorithms on the back end let the computer know what those resp...