Evidence-Based Management

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions People working in evidence-based management can sometimes feel like they are swimming against the tide. But they are part of something much larger. In this episode we hear from science journalist Helen Pearson about her new book Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works. The conversation steps back from evidence-based management to look at the much wider evidence movement that has been unfolding across disciplines over the past few d...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Working with evidence-based management can be uncomfortable. It asks people to sit with uncertainty rather than reach for certainty — something many of us are rewarded for in organisational life. This conversation explores what that discomfort looks like in practice, and how uncertainty shows up when people engage seriously with evidence — whether they are managers making decisions, students learning to apply evidence, or educators supporting ...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode was updated in 2025 to reflect changes to the online course relating to how best to aggregate the evidence (via parallel or serial approaches) and the importance of cross-validation with the parties contributing to the evidence. This episode accompanies Module 12 of the course, which explores how to bring together the various sources of evidence gathered throughout the process. It’s the stage where the question becomes “What doe...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode was recorded live with three evidence-based management experts, Denise Rousseau, Rob Briner and Eric Barends, answering and discussing questions sent in by teachers and students of the subject. During the disucssion, we touched on many aspects of evidence-based management, including: Starting with basic principles rather than complex frameworks makes evidence-based management accessible to busy professionalsProblem identific...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode was updated in 2025 to reflect the use of AI tools such as Consensus and Google Scholar for searching academic databases. This episode accompanies Module 5 of the course, which focuses on gathering evidence from the scientific literature (academic studies) that will help us address the question we are trying to answer. This module aligns to chapter 6 of the Evidence-Based Management book. Modules 5, 6 and 7 all focus on the scien...