Evidence-Based Thinking For Senior Leaders

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 teachesempirical 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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