Evidence-Based Thinking For Senior Leaders
Published 8/2026
Created by Patrick Gallagher
MP4 |
Video: h264, 1920x1080 |
Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: All
Levels |
Genre: eLearning |
Language: English |
Duration: 16 Lectures ( 1h 1m ) |
Size: 2.7 GB
Evidence-based thinking is the missing skill to evaluate claims, interpret data, and make better decisions.
What you'll learn
⚡ Understand evidence-based thinking and appreciate its importance.
⚡ Understand the difference between data and evidence and why evidence is more important.
⚡ Gain a competitive advantage in making strategy, investing, and other leadership decisions.
⚡ Know how to recognize situations where evidence-based analysis is needed.
⚡ Learn a process for applying evidence-based thinking to sales pitches, AI output, data dashboards, and more situations.
⚡ Learn questions to ask and how to evaluate the answers to judge the strength of evidence.
Requirements
❗ There are no prerequisites for this course, but experience making decisions in a leadership position will help.
Description
Senior leaders deal with a constant stream of data - dashboards, vendor research, analyst reports, proposals backed by studies. The problem isn't a lack of information. It's knowing what that information actually proves.
This course teaches
empirical literacy : the ability to judge whether a claim is supported by evidence, and how strong that evidence is. It's a skill rarely taught in business schools, but one that can meaningfully improve the quality of your decisions.
The course covers three foundational principles of scientific reasoning (correlation, sampling, and what I call "missing fails" - with practical questions to ask whenever you encounter a claim that needs scrutiny.
You'll then apply those principles to three situations that come up constantly in senior roles: evaluating vendor sales pitches, interrogating AI-generated recommendations, and reading data dashboards. For each one, you'll follow a four-step process - identify the claims, find the relevant principles, interrogate, evaluate - with concrete examples of what strong evidence looks like versus what's just well-packaged noise.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to
✨ Explain what makes something evidence, rather than just data or a compelling story
✨ Apply three core principles of scientific reasoning to real business decisions
✨ Ask the right questions when a salesperson, a colleague, or an AI tool is making a claim
✨ Know what a good answer looks like - and recognize when you're not getting one
The course includes a practical quick-reference guide with interrogation questions and answer guides you can use immediately.
This is an introductory course. It's designed for busy leaders who want a working foundation in evidence-based thinking - not a statistics course, and not a philosophy seminar. The goal is a set of skills you can start using in your next meeting.
Who this course is for
⭐ Leaders in organizations who make high-stakes decisions and need to maximize the chances that those decisions will come out well.
⭐ Anyone looking to increase their critical thinking skills to evaluate sales claims, research findings, or your own information.
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Код:
https://www.udemy.com/course/evidence-based-thinking-for-senior-leaders
Evidence-Based Thinking For Senior Leaders
