Dave Hora
Founder, Dave's Research Company
Dave Hora is a 6x first-research-hire, establishing the practice at companies including Instacart, PlanGrid, and ResearchGate. He's a former board member of the ResearchOps community, designing and co-leading the Research Skills Framework project.
In 2020, Dave moved to Portugal and became the founder and perpetual Employee of the Month at Dave's Research Company, consulting with teams throughout the US and Europe on strategic product initiatives.
Dave also writes a newsletter on the process of building good things, is a practicing brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and looks forward to spending all of January, 2025 as an unpaid sake brewing intern in Japan.
Rosenverse talks by Dave:
" Research alone is insufficient to solve complex organizational problems; it’s more about learning how to work with the teams and complexity. "
Research in the Face of Complexity: New Sensibility for New Situations
August 27, 2025
" We need to develop a theory of how research work unfolds in the organization to be proactive and opinionated partners. "
Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 16, 2024
" Sometimes hidden blockers come from power structures that prefer things stay the way they are. "
Advice for Establishing Research
December 8, 2022
" You can create a strategic capability profile of your team by mapping skills and desired growth across members. "
A Research Skills Evolution
March 10, 2021
