Founder/Principal
Martha J Tenney, MPH
Martha Tenney is a noted qualitative researcher and focus group expert with close to three decades of experience in the Rocky Mountain region and beyond. As a way to extend and provide her skills, Martha founded and operates Mined Insights Consulting, LLC. Since 1998 Martha has worked as a regional and national consultant with community-based and non-profit organizations, as well as educational, governmental, and corporate settings. She is a certified and practicing trainer for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment, a useful tool to improve work and team settings.
Martha is a talented, insightful, resourceful, and extraordinarily intelligent qualitative researcher and consumer/market research specialist. I was involved with a multitude of projects with Martha and no one compares in terms of her attention to detail, follow through, and diligence to “get it right.” Always a pleasure to work with!!! Mary B
Martha obtained her Masters in Public Health and graduated with honors emphasizing a specialty in health education, qualitative research and evaluation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate where she developed an interest in the deaf community and linguistics, leading to later employment in Bangkok, Thailand and Gallaudet University’s Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, DC. Martha enjoys learning languages with a special interest in national sign languages of the world.
We selected Mined Insights Consulting because Martha offered an ideal package of services combined with high quality professionals. Our customer service focus groups involved long standing clients in the health field- both providers and patients. We needed honest provider/patient input for reality-based health care services we were designing, and with Martha’s assistance, we got exactly what we hoped for. Kelly T
With a strong emphasis on health and business improvement encompassing a range of topic areas, Martha’s step-by-step expertise and warm, inviting personality will help keep your focus group or interview project on track for success. Martha works creatively and efficiently as your external consultant to define and custom design the best plan to help your business or organization; Mined Insights Consulting will get the information you desire for positive change. Ultimately, we ask your questions in an unbiased fashion, listen carefully to your customers/invited participants, and get the answers you need. Martha’s expertise stands out at the head of personally-led focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, both online and in-person.
For over 10 years, our organization has benefited from Mined Insights Consulting’s reliable, thoughtful, and tailored services. Martha’s expertise, professionalism, and personal style have made qualitative evaluation an essential part of our learning experience and program improvement. Martha always comes through to meet our needs while assuring our clients are valued and heard. Jill E
Mined Insights Consulting will help answer the “how” and “why” questions you find important, which can expand and complement initial or subsequent quantitative inquiry. Past clients report that focus group questions and in-depth interviews with key informants yielded answers for improved outreach to prospective customers, understanding key viewpoints, guidance in specific areas of interest, promoting superior responsiveness and effectiveness, and enhancing the ability to sell more, save more, and get results.
We are very pleased with Mined Insights Consulting’s work on the key informant interview project. The interviews, data analysis, and resulting report were informative and of high quality. Patricia L
I work in international business with a diverse group of people. Not only do the “usual” communication challenges arise, but also the challenges of cultural diversity at our company. Martha Tenney provided a Myers-Briggs training that was brilliant, the result of which was the achievement of a whole new level of understanding of how each of us as individuals communicate and the strengths we each bring to our company. The quality of teamwork in our organization increased dramatically following Martha’s session. David D
