Leigh Watson HealyChief Analyst
In her capacity as Chief Analyst, Leigh Watson Healy leads all aspects of Outsell’s activities in producing industry research, metrics and tools for assessing the impact and value of information, as well as user and enterprise information spending, behaviors, and consumption. Leigh leads the team of market analysts and researchers chartered to provide critical data about enterprise information benchmarks and best practices, vendor assessment and portfolio management, and all aspects of information use and consumption in the enterprise.
Based on her extensive experience in information publishing and technologies, strategic and business planning, and product planning, Leigh is an executive-level advisor to a broad range of Outsell clients and is a primary spokesperson for Outsell. Leigh writes and speaks frequently about key trends and issues in the information industry, and she also focuses on information impact assessment and ROI; Web 2.0 communities and expert networks; open access and new publishing models; and changing user, buyer, and advertiser dynamics in the information industry.
Expertise
- Information Industry Trends, Issues & Strategies
- C-Level Market, Competitive and Technology Issues and Trends
- User and Buyer Market Dynamics and Behaviors
- Market Analysis, Segmentation and Needs Assessment
- Information Impact Assessment and ROI
- Open Access Publishing & Business Models
- Education & Training
- Scholarly Communications
- Scientific, Technical & Medical Information
Experience
- Healy Consulting
- Primary Source Media (Thomson)
- The Faxon Company
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- The Coca-Cola Company
Education
Leigh received her M.L.S. and her B.A. with Honors in English from Emory University. She has participated in executive education programs at Harvard, Columbia, Wharton, and INSEAD, on a range of executive management and strategic marketing issues.
Contact Information
Telephone: +1 727-787-3027
LinkedIn profile
More About Leigh
Movies I like: Any Coen brothers, offbeat classics like Repo Man
Power lunch: Shrimp and grits in Charleston
Favorite cities: Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Boston, New York, Tokyo
Best vacation I've taken: Kyoto
Where I grew up: High plains of Texas
First car: '66 red Mustang
Activities outside work: Attending as many of my daughter’s college soccer matches as possible and renovating an old sharecropper’s cabin and farm in the deep South.
Most Recent Reports
- Information Industry Outlook 2013: The New Normal - December 20, 2012
- CEO Topics: 2012 Information Pricing Survey - January 3, 2012
- 2012 Information Pricing Survey - January 3, 2012
- Information Industry Outlook 2012: Break and Reset - December 22, 2011
- Top 10 Information Management Predictions for 2012 - December 21, 2011
Most Recent Insights
- Generation Gap Is Closing - December 15, 2009
- Meet Your New Customers: Millennials & Mobility - September 21, 2006
- Outsell, Inc. Acquires Electronic Publishing Services Ltd (EPS), Creating the Only Global Analyst Firm for the Entire Information Industry - August 25, 2006
- Real-World and Virtual-World Economies Merge in SecondLife - June 21, 2006
- Thinking Out Loud: Nobody's Neutral In The Net Neutrality Debate - June 9, 2006
