A principal-led research consultancy
Measure & Meaning Research is a New York–based research and evaluation consultancy for organizations doing work that matters. We work primarily with healthcare, behavioral health, human-services, nonprofit, and other social-impact organizations.
Our work focuses on the people at the center of those organizations: the workforce delivering services, the members and communities receiving them, and the programs connecting the two.
Measure represents evidence — patterns, behaviors, outcomes, and change. Meaning represents interpretation, lived experience, significance, and the sense of purpose people attach to their work and the services they receive.
The model is deliberately simple: one senior researcher — Andrei Akhtyrskii, PhD — leads every engagement from design through delivery, coordinating specialist capabilities when a project requires them. Methods, assumptions, and limitations are documented, and findings are translated into decisions that strengthen people and programs.
How we work
Senior researcher involvement throughout
The person who designs your study is the person who analyzes it and presents it. Nothing is handed down to a junior team after the proposal.
Transparent methodology
Question wording, sampling, response rates, and weighting are documented in every report — the parts of research most firms keep backstage.
Clear assumptions and limitations
Every report states what the data cannot support, before the recommendations. Findings you can defend start with limits you can name.
Flexible specialist teams
Recruitment, fieldwork, and specialized capabilities are coordinated through vetted research partners when a project requires them — assembled for your study, not billed as permanent overhead.
Decision-ready deliverables
Reports are organized around the decision that commissioned them, not around the questionnaire’s table of contents.
No black-box reporting
You receive the datasets, the code where relevant, and the reasoning — so your team can interrogate, reuse, and extend the work.
Leadership
The practice is founded and led by Andrei Akhtyrskii, PhD, a survey researcher and applied sociologist. His full professional profile — education, research programs, methods, and publications — is on a dedicated page.