INQUANTIV
decision skills developed thoughtfully
teaching how to hone your insights into
profitable action
The INQUANTIV Difference
There is a clear thread across the founders of INQUANTIV – two data scientist, two engineers, all in the trenches –who tap decades of experience in both THEORY and PRACTICE for your teams.
The Theory ... teaching at Columbia Business School, Stanford University, and Stevens Institute of Technology, while producing dozens of academic papers and several provocative books.
The Practice ... 40+ year tenure across Amazon, American Express, Deloitte, Google, IBM, Microsoft
They have mastered working swiftly and effectively by developing specific techniques and tools leading to a fresh approach fusing focused analysis with practical learning.
Pragmatic techniques, immediately applied.
Personalized and immersive sessions
Quick, cost effective, and a boost to your leadership development
Christopher Frank
Vice President of Global Marketplace Insights at American Express and Co-faculty Director at Columbia Business School
Oded Netzer
Vice Dean of Research, and
Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, and an Amazon Scholar.
Paul Magnone
Head of Global Strategic Alliances at Google and Co-faculty Director at Columbia Business School
SKILL GAP
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Over a thousand seasoned executives indicate the greatest challenge is often not in the data and analytics but in defining the problem and converting insights into action
INQUANTIV Offerings
Transformative Learning Development + Skill Building
#2 Effectively Framing a Problem & Solution
Learn How To Quickly Gain Alignment and Drive for Faster Decisions
#4 Becoming a Fierce Data Interrogator
Math Camp is Not Required When Learning to Trust Your Doubt
#5 Building Pragmatic AI Skills
Precision Questioning Techniques for Effective Prompt Engineering
#6 Leading in a Data-Driven World
In-person Bespoke Training for the C-Suite
Custom designed training
#1 Recruiting Critical Thinkers
Evaluating a Job Candidate’s Critical Thinking Skills in an Interview
As featured in
#3 Building Smarter Strategies
Working Backwards for Better Data Exploration
Recruiting and Retaining Talent by Evaluating a Job Candidate’s Critical Thinking Skills
#1 Recruiting Critical Thinkers
Great leaders build great cultures.
Great cultures are built on curiosity.
This session teaches an unconventional method to evaluate a candidate’s critical thinking skills so you can recruit the best and brightest.
How do you evaluate a candidate during and after an interview? What if, instead of “interviewing” a candidate, you allowed the candidate to interview you? This 75 minute session introduces the notion of the flip interview which is far deeper and more meaningful version of the "sell me this pen" interview so many of us have had.
delivered virtually
minimize t&e
Corporate group
max 25 seats per session
personalized and immersive
90 min
FITS IN BUSY CALENDARS
$375
per SEAT
high value
Work Backwards From a Decision. To Make Sure Your Data Exploration is Actionable
We often fail by solving the wrong problem, not by getting the wrong solution to the right problem
#3 Building Smarter Strategies
This session focuses focuses on the power of working backwards.
In our survey of over a thousand executives we found that one of biggest pitfalls in making data-driven decision is in converting insights to actions. Working backward takes a top-down approach to decision making. It allows leaders to start with the decision at hand and find the path back to the problem’s conditions, to identify the minimum amount and scope of data and analyses that would enable you to make the decision.
This approach has been successfully used by companies we worked in like Amazon and Microsoft. We use case studies from these companies to guide executives on working backwards to maximize the actionability of their use of data
delivered virtually
minimize t&e
max 25 seats
personalized and immersive
90 min
FITS IN BUSY CALENDARS
$375
per SEAT
high value
Learning to trust your doubt
#4 Becoming a Fierce Interrogator
Math Camp is not required to become a Fierce Interrogator
This session focuses on teaching the ability to building intuition and honing your business acumen.
With so much information available, leaders often falsely expect the data to provide both the question and the answer. They think they're moving forward, but they're actually just churning, working hard but actually achieving little. This session teaches how to strike a balance between data intelligence and human judgment using the Fermi method, applying the context triangle and agile techniques to pressure test decisions in real-time.
delivered virtually
minimize t&e
max 25 seats
personalized and immersive
120 min
FITS IN BUSY CALENDARS
$485
per SEAT
high value
Use Precision Questioning Skills for Effective Prompt Engineering
#5 Building Pragmatic AI Skills
The smartest person in the room asks the insightful question.
This session focuses on teaching the ability to become a powerful questioner.
One of the best LinkedIn profiles starts with “I am insatiably curious.” What would it take to build a team of insatiably truly inquisitive people? A team that has a thirst for learning? To foster a curious culture you need to have a team that asks and embraces questions. Questioning is a skill. Like other skills such as active listening, time management, or collaboration, it takes training, practice, and application to become proficient. While we are wired from a young age to ask questions, we are rarely taught to develop the skill of questioning effectively. This skill is even more relevant with the growth of artificial intelligence.
While the AI technology trajectory is uncertain, prompt engineering—the ability to designing and refining questions or instructions—to elicit specific responses is transferable skill.
delivered virtually
minimize t&e
max 25 seats
personalized and immersive
90 min
FITS IN BUSY CALENDARS
$375
per SEAT
high value
Leading in a Data-Driven World
Decisions are made by leaders with clear, balanced thinking.
#6 In-person Bespoke Team Training
Your team has unique needs. We will partner with you to build a custom training for your team.
INQUANTIV is the intersection of intuition and quantitative. The combination of data with intuition — might sound like an oxymoron but is actually the key to effective decision-making. Bringing the head and the heart together is where leaders and teams struggle — to move forward with confidence teams need to learn how to quickly strike the right balance between these skills. We landed on this notion of quantitative intuition from our collective experience, from teaching 1,000s of executives and managers-to-be, and from our interactions with global teams in highly matrixed, competitive industries.
INQUANTIV bespoke training is designed to raise awareness of the power of thinking beyond big data without neglecting it and chasing the perfect decision while appreciating that such a thing can never really exist
INQUANTIV is an unconventional company teaching practical leadership skills to enable smarter decisions in a data-driven world.
delivered virtually or onsite
small sessions
personalized and immersive
1/2 Day,
1 day or
3 day sessions
$TBD
Learn How To Quickly Gain Alignment and Drive for Faster Decisions
The quality of your decision is proportional to the effort invested in framing the problem
#2 Effectively Framing a Problem and Solution
This session focuses on teaching the ability to identify, analyze, and delineate problems.
Agile decision-making is grounded in how you think, not how hard you work. Either through repetition or observation, we have all developed habits that undermine our ability to solve a problem. We jump into solution mode, accepting what is asked of us at face value, often confusing activity with impact. In our rush toward a solution, we neglect to frame the problem.
In this session you will learn the powerful “I wish I knew,” technique to identify the core fundamental issue that needs to be solved. As featured in Inc., Fortune and Forbes, IWIK accelerates a team’s thinking to establish awareness of what you know and what knowledge is necessary to make an informed decision.
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”
- Einstein
delivered virtually
minimize t&e
max 25 seats
personalized and immersive
90 min
FITS IN BUSY CALENDARS
$375
per SEAT
high value
