Elevate Your Leadership Potential

Transform from a Skilled Researcher to a Strategic Leader who drives business impact.

I provide 1-on-1 coaching for researchers at all leadership levels—whether you're looking to excel as an individual contributor, research manager, or an executive.

My support is tailored to your unique goals.

Coaching for Research Leaders

I help research leaders and those managing research professionals transition into leadership roles, grow as impactful leaders, and effectively lead their teams.

My focus is on partnering with leaders to build careers that balance team and stakeholder success with personal aspirations.

Are you looking for help with?

  • Defining research strategy

  • Building a high-impact research function

  • Leading high-performing teams

  • Securing stakeholder alignment

  • Resolving conflicts

  • Budget planning

  • Career frameworks and development paths

  • Mastering salary negotiations

  • Navigating terminations

  • Advancing your career as a research leader

Coaching for Researchers

Are you looking for help with?

  • Making insights impactful

  • Stakeholder relationships

  • Product and business thinking

  • Cross-functional collaboration

  • Essential UXR hard and soft skills

  • Using AI to enhance your research efforts

  • Driving career progression

  • Transitioning into the UX research field

  • Job search strategies

  • Career materials

Great research skills are essential, but they’re not enough to propel your career forward. Success in UX research also requires mastering team dynamics, building trust, influencing decisions, and navigating complex environments.

I help research professionals at all levels increase their impact, build stronger stakeholder relationships, and advance their careers.

How we can structure our collaboration

1 Session

Get unstuck: Specific problem or challenge

5 Sessions

For focusing on one single topic

10 Sessions

For focusing on several topics

Custom Plan

More extensive or ongoing support

I'm Josipa Bauser.

I’m a UXR and leadership coach with 15 years of experience in product research and tech leadership. I've built and led UXR functions in both startups and large tech companies across Silicon Valley and Europe.

Throughout my career, I’ve guided teams of quantitative and qualitative researchers to deliver insights that have transformed decision-making, prioritization, and roadmap planning.

As a coach, I’m passionate about empowering leaders in research, tech, and beyond to tackle the following challenges:

  • Building purposeful careers that align with your values, vision, and sense of purpose

  • Maximizing impact and influence to drive meaningful change across teams, products, and organizations

  • Creating a powerful leadership vision for you, your team, or your department to inspire and guide growth