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Quincy Conley, PhD

Quincy Conley, PhD

Research Leadership · Product Strategy · Organizational Capability

Research that shapes product direction.

I connect research evidence to product decisions and build research capability across disciplines.

Selected experiencePearson · Boise State University · A.T. Still University

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Selected research & leadership work

  1. Product research

    Pearson · Athens / Global Learning Platform · 2016–2019

    Making the problem-solving process visible

    Contribution
    Secured another two and a half weeks of research and coordinated support across GLP teams.
    Scaffolding decision
    The additional research informed a decision to break engineering problems into explicit steps rather than ask only for a final answer.
    My research leadership described here is specific to Athens.
    Read the Athens case: Making the problem-solving process visible 

  2. Interdisciplinary lab leadership

    Boise State University · January 2014–January 2017

    Building a lab—and developing its researchers

    Contribution
    Built a student research lab and served as PI or Co-PI on funded projects totaling $317,600.
    Team scope
    The lab reached a peak of 22 student researchers, averaging approximately six students per semester. Student researchers reported to me; faculty and industry collaborators participated as partners.
    Read the Boise State case: Building a lab—and developing its researchers 

  3. Enterprise adoption

    A.T. Still University

    From Platform Availability to Platform Adoption

    Contribution
    Led sustained enablement efforts to help faculty integrate Canvas into instructional practice.
    Supported result
    The share of courses using Canvas features beyond the gradebook increased from approximately 11% in Fall 2021 to 59% in August 2026.
    This measure tracked course use of additional Canvas features, including pages, assignment submissions/dropboxes, assignments, discussions, announcements, and modules.
    Read the Canvas case: From Platform Availability to Platform Adoption 
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Evidence at a glance

20+

Years across research, learning, and technology

~11% → 59%

Expanded use of an enterprise learning platform

Courses using Canvas beyond the gradebook · Fall 2021–August 2026

~$500K

Annual departmental budget managed at ATSU

2M+

Users in Pearson's global product ecosystem supported by research

Ecosystem scale · not a research participant count or individually attributed impact

1,000+

Employees served by the five-person learning function I lead

22

Peak number of student researchers in the Boise State research lab I founded

Averaging approximately six students per semester

Supporting strengths

Research & Insights

Using human-centered, behavioral, mixed-method, and biometric research to turn user behavior into better product and organizational decisions.

Product and UX research · Mixed methods · Behavioral measurement · Eye tracking and biometrics

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AI Enablement & Transformation

Turning emerging technology into responsible, usable organizational capability through governance, workflow redesign, adoption strategy, capability building, and measurement.

Enterprise AI framework and governance · Responsible adoption · Workflow transformation · Organizational capability

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Enterprise Learning & Capability

Building scalable learning and enablement systems that help people perform differently, not simply complete training.

Enterprise learning strategy · Capability architecture · Learning technology ecosystems · Performance support

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Current research

Founder & Principal Researcher, Research IQ | 2024–present

Research IQ is my independent applied research consultancy. I help organizations frame consequential questions, design credible studies, and use evidence to guide decisions about products, learning, and AI.

Research strategy · Mixed-methods research · Human-AI evaluation · Learning & product research

Selected engagement

Evaluating AI-supported instructional decisions

Designed a research protocol to examine how instructional users interpret, validate, and act on AI-generated feedback summaries. The evaluation focuses on calibrated trust, source validation, decision confidence, and instructional actionability.

Initial phase conducted; analysis pending. Additional phases planned. No evaluation findings reported yet.

Selected experience

  • A.T. Still University

    Chair, AI Governance Committee

    Enterprise enablement, AI framework and governance, technology portfolio, and learning capability.

  • Pearson

    Learning science and UX research informing digital learning products used worldwide.

  • Boise State University

    Founded the iPerform Research Lab. The lab reached a peak of 22 student researchers, averaging approximately six students per semester.

  • Research IQ

    Applied research and human-centered technology consulting.

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