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Welcome!
Gavilán Longino,
Strategic Research & Systems Designer
I help organizations understand complex situations, identify meaningful signals, and design practical paths toward better outcomes across technical, organizational, and human systems.
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Strategic Research
Digital Ad Performance: Connecting Youth to Vital Resources
User-centered research examining how vulnerable youth interact with digital outreach efforts designed to connect them to essential services. The project analyzed engagement patterns, message framing, and access barriers to identify which approaches most effectively reached users and supported connection to critical resources.
Strategic Comms
From Hostility to Support: 72-Hour Conversion Framework
A documented case study examining how hostile stakeholder dynamics can be systematically analyzed and shifted. By identifying behavioral triggers, information gaps, and escalation patterns across digital platforms, this framework clarified how targeted interventions could convert opposition into support, achieving a 25% hostile-to-support conversion rate within a defined 72-hour window.
CMO
Turning Political Rage into Strategic Engagement
A strategic intervention examining how intense political opposition can be analyzed and redirected toward more constructive forms of engagement. The project focused on identifying sources of anger, patterns of escalation, and points of leverage, then clarifying approaches that could reduce hostility and support more productive participation over time.
Strategic Media
SEC Filings Tracker MVP
An MVP web application designed to monitor and surface SEC filings in near real time, with a focus on reducing information overload and improving signal detection. The project involved examining how users interpret regulatory disclosures, structuring data for clarity and relevance, and designing interaction patterns that support timely, informed review of complex filings.
Business and Leadership
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice... by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
Biggest Bluff, The by Maria Konnikova
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza
Courageous Cultures by Karin Hurt & David Dye
Crucial Confrontations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, & Al Switzler
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, & Ron McMillan, & Al Switzler
Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
Disruptive Marketing by Geoffrey Colon
Fearless Organization, The by Amy Edmondson
Five Temptations of a CEO, The by Patrick Lencioni
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
Ideal Team Player, The by Patrick Lencioni
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, & Al Switzler
Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez
Lean Startup, The by Eric Ries
Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age by Miles Young
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Power of Habit, The by Charles Duhigg
Psychology of Trading, The by Brett N. Steenbarger, PhD
Quiet by Susan Cain
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
Scout Mindset, The by Julia Galef
Start with No by Jim Camp
Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner
Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
Switch by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
This is Marketing by Seth Godin
Trump University Marketing 101 by Don Sexton
Winning Well by Karin Hurt & David Dye
Psychology and Cognitive Science
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Cognitive Psychology by E. Bruce Goldstein
Cognitive Psychology by Mark Keane
Cognitive Psychology for Dummies by Peter J. Hills, PhD & Dr. J. Michael Pake
Black Swan, The by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Elephant in the Brain, The by Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Folly of Fools, The by Robert Trivers
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone
The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation by Robert Grudin
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Intentional Blindness by Arien Mack
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
Mistakes Were Made by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot by Richard Restak, MD
Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
Number Sense, The by Stanislas Dehaene
Opposable Mind, The by Roger Martin
Organized Mind, The by Daniel Levitin
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole by Allan Ropper & B. D. Burrell
Secret Life of the Mind, The by Mariano Sigman
Sludge by Cass Sunstein
Sluperforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Think Twice by Michael J. Mauboussin
Upside of Irrationality, The by Dr. Dan Ariely
Other Underappreciated Insights
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
Cluetrain Manifesto, The: The End of Business as Usual by Rick Levine, et. al.
Contextual Design: Design For Life by Hugh Beyer & Karen Holtzblatt
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Man Who Solved the Market, The by Gregory Zuckerman
Power of Now, The by Eckhart Tolle
Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
Tipping Point, The by Malcolm Gladwell
Upswing, The by Robert D. Putnam & Shaylyn Romney Garrett
You Have More Influence Than You Think by Vanessa Bohns
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