Charan Tadepally · Researcher · Strategist · Leader
16 years of learning what research can do.
I started by learning how to find evidence. Then how to tell its story, influence with it, grow people through it, build partnerships with it, and turn it into action. Somewhere along the way, I took “craft” quite literally. Then technology changed — and so did the questions I was asking.
I grew up around a rural sociologist. Long before I knew there was a profession called research, I was already travelling, watching, listening and learning that behaviour only makes sense in context.
Built the craft.
Evidence → Narrative → Influence
2018–2022Put the craft to work.
People → Partnership → Action
Pause · 2022I took the craft quite literally.
Fluency
2022–PresentReimagined what the craft could do.
Possibility → Value
Beyond the day jobTeaching.
Christ · St. Joseph’s · NMIMS · IIM Bangalore
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The spine
Evidence → Narrative → Influence → People → Partnership → Action → Fluency → Possibility → Value.
The methods changed. The problems changed. The technology changed. The job remained remarkably consistent: understand people well enough to make better decisions.