Rosenverse

Megan Blocker

Director of User Research, DigitalOcean

Megan founded McKinsey’s design research & insights practice, establishing and growing a team of one to more than 50 researchers, data analysts, and data scientists globally. As part of that transformation, she built the design research talent architecture and established McKinsey’s design research philosophy, operations, and tooling. In addition, Megan is deeply passionate about equity and inclusion. She co-founded McKinsey’s Women in Tech initiative and was a member of the DE&I global leadership team.

In her work as a researcher, Megan combines empathy with data to achieve deep understanding, craft inspirational vision, and deliver actionable insight. As a leader, she makes sense of ambiguity and thrives when building and leading teams where trust, transparency, and clarity of vision encourage risk-taking, innovation, and creativity. Most of all, she loves building something new and scrappy, then strategically operationalizing it for scale. She invests in people, Post-Its, insights, and LEGOs.

Rosenverse talks by Megan:

Megan Blocker

" Insight is that aha moment, a new understanding that helps us make decisions that move us forward. "

Positioning insight: Structuring teams, roles and careers for a changing research landscape

March 13, 2025

Megan Blocker

" Participants want to take ownership of their stories and demand participatory, non-extractive, trauma-informed research methods. "

Redefining the research toolkit: Expanding methodologies for a changing world

March 12, 2025

Megan Blocker

" Knowledge just isn’t created in isolation anymore. "

Theme 2 Intro

March 12, 2025

Megan Blocker

" Right sizing research respects communities by matching the scope to what participants can reasonably engage with. "

Day 2 Theme Panel

March 12, 2025

Megan Blocker

" If you don’t have researchers to shadow, lean on communities, data scientists, or industry organizations. "

Methodologies: Beyond the interview [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

September 4, 2024

Megan Blocker

" Bringing in expert interviews and secondary data gives you an outsider’s perspective to challenge the status quo. "

Getting to the “So What?”: How Management Consulting Practices Can Transform Your Approach to Research

March 26, 2024

Megan Blocker

" You can be an amazing researcher and have zero impact, or a bad researcher and have amazing impact. "

Panel: Excellence in Impact

March 25, 2024

Megan Blocker

" The longer I’m in UX, the less I think I know—there’s always more to learn and ways to develop. "

What UX research maturity looks like and how we get there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

November 9, 2023

Megan Blocker

" Offers of championship from leaders, like 'What do you need from me?' are strong signs of buy-in. "

A Selectively Scrappy Approach to ResearchOps

November 8, 2018

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