Who We Are
Joy Lynn, Inc. is a US-based qualitative market research and consulting company.
We specialize in mission critical projects – high impact, high exposure, highly sensitive, highly complex. We uncover learning that can build, rebuild, and even transform the business. Whatever you need to understand, we are the masters of deep dive exploration. Our clients find us to be such a valuable thought partner.
Today’s marketing environment is faster-paced than ever. It is critical to have research partners that can be flexible, quick on their feet, and able to adapt with ease. It is rare to find that level of service and flexibility in a company that can also contribute that little something extra at the same time. Insights. Ideas. Asking business questions that make you stop, think and focus. Adding a little fun here and there as well. That is Joy Lynn, Inc.
“Joy Lynn is the most valuable qualitative researcher I have ever used. She not only is a good interviewer and listener, but comes at issues from deep experience as a marketer, brand manager, and copywriter. If I rated every qualitative resource that I have used in my 40-year career on a 1 to 10 scale, Joy Lynn would rate a 12, true value added vs others.”
Our People
Joy Lynn Fields
President / CEO
Joy Lynn Fields founded the company in 1995 after an early career as a brand positioning and strategy consultant with Pyramid, where she founded the research division, trained aspiring brand managers and served as the company’s first Vice President. She grew up in a small southern town, but during her 25 year career in marketing and advertising, Joy Lynn has helped some of the world’s most revered brands build their businesses. In a focus group setting, as a moderator, she has the uncanny ability to get people to say anything. And because she has worked “on both sides of the glass,” she can easily adapt to any situation and any audience. Whether presenting to the board of directors or talking to a luxury traveler, a cardio-thoracic surgeon or an 85-year old woman about incontinence, you can be confident that Joy Lynn will bring out every participants’ most helpful insights.
Joy Lynn has received national and international recognition not only for her marketing talents, but for her success story as a self-made entrepreneur and the philanthropic contributions she has made to her community.
Josh PG Lane
Senior Qualitative Researcher
Josh Lane has over 25 years of experience of brand strategy consulting, marketing, and market research. Josh has worked with Joy Lynn for over 25 of those years, dating back to their days as brand strategy consultants for Pyramid. Josh has continued to be active in both the digital space and consumer packaged goods, serving in roles ranging from a CPG brand manager to VP of marketing for a social media startup and most recently, Head of Marketing for the CI Group of Google.
Josh’s research background spans a broad array of consumer and B2B categories ranging from on-site interviews & observations to interviews with high level executives & stakeholders. He is also well-acquainted with the need to be able to quickly adapt and adjust to the ever-changing retail environment in order to capture and maximize on-site learnings. Josh’s focus is IDIs, Executive interviews and multi-dimensional on-site projects involving feedback from both customers & staff.