TASHA RITCHSON
Tasha Ritchson — researcher portrait under pink and violet light
● Available for new projects · 2026
Tasha Ritchson — Researcher

Multi-market
beauty & lifestyle
research.

10+ years turning interviews and focus groups across Europe & Central Asia into executive-ready playbooks.

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Behavioral segmentationExecutive IDIsJTBDCross-market playbooksCultural insightTrend reportingBeauty · FMCG · FintechBehavioral segmentationExecutive IDIsJTBDCross-market playbooksCultural insightTrend reportingBeauty · FMCG · Fintech
[ 01 ] Summary

What I bring.

  • 01
    Multi-market insight craft

    10+ years running consumer and B2B studies across Europe & Central Asia; comfortable with cross-city comparability, translation workflows, and local partner enablement.

  • 02
    Behavioral segmentation > anecdotes

    I convert interviews and focus groups into segmented profiles with decision drivers, barriers, and occasions—delivered as visual, executive-ready playbooks.

  • 03
    Cultural sensitivity, regulated & "dark market" categories

    Tobacco and alcohol experience trained rigorous ethics, message control, and compliance—directly applicable to beauty standards that vary by culture.

  • 04
    Executive-level interviewing

    Skilled at extracting strategy-grade insights from founders and GMs—useful for aligning franchise owners across markets.

  • 05
    Insight-to-action

    Findings packaged as market playbooks: who to target, where to reach them, what to say, and how to prove it; not just qualitative transcripts.

[ 02 ] Point of view

A mixed-methods spine.

Beauty behavior is situational (task, time, place) and cultural (norms, aspirations). Output reads like a trend report with clear plays per segment—not a transcript dump.

↳ 01

Qualitative depth

10–12 IDIs per city; targeted micro-groups where useful.

↳ 02

Light quant overlays

Optional, to size segments and validate patterns.

↳ 03

Comparability protocol

City chapters align without flattening local nuance.

[ 04 ] Toolkit

Methods I reach for.

Qualitative
IDIs (remote & in-person)Mini-groupsEthnographic walkthroughsMobile diaries
Quant light
Rapid surveysSegment sizingPrice perception probes
Desk / OSINT
Cultural scansCompetitive landscapingPrivacy-first social listening
Synthesis
JTBDDecision treesBarrier/trigger mapsSegment archetyping
Visualization
Segment cardsCity tilesJourney maps"What to say / where" matrices
[ 06 ] Range

Categories & brands.

→ Categories
FMCGFood serviceAutoFinanceTelecomTobaccoAlcoholCryptoFintechEsportsRetail
→ Brands touched
Tide
Herbal Essences
Dove
McDonald's
Audi
Raiffeisen Bank
Sony Ericsson
Philip Morris
Baltika
Zatecky Gus
[ 07 ] Principles

How I work.

01/03

Clarity first

Co-define the decisions the research must enable.

02/03

Comparable yet local

One global skeleton, respectful local muscle.

03/03

Deliverables people use

Fewer slides, sharper plays.