Ursula Spencer leads the work through NERD. She helps you make the right technology decisions, build what your business needs, and get teams using the tools you have invested in.
Clear decisions. Working systems. Tools your team can use.
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Where It Breaks
The platform is deployed. Daily work still runs around it.
Licenses are paid for. The rollout has stalled. The work still happens somewhere else.
Six failure patterns show up repeatedly. Pick the one that sounds like your Monday.
Reason 01
Select any reason to read it from your side of the desk.
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User Adoption Gap Calculator
Three numbers you already have. One useful read.
Your numbers, your gap.
Enter what you know. The read appears here without a form, sales call, or gated result.
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Next step: the User Adoption Gap Report. Find out why use is low, what is getting in the way, and what to fix first.
Estimate based on your numbers. Usage is one signal; the report also considers how people work, the support they have, and what is getting in the way.
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Work With NERD
Start with the problem you need solved
Need to build something, make a difficult technology decision, or get more from tools you already own? Start here.
Build & Technology Leadership
Decide what to build. Get it working.
Your product build is drifting. Your systems do not connect. A promising demo is not ready for real users. You need someone who can make the technical decisions and see the work through.
Get senior technology leadership without hiring a full-time CTO, plus help designing, connecting, and building the systems your business needs.
The pilot never becomes part of everyday work. Teams work around the system. Nobody is clear on who owns the next decision or whether the investment is paying off.
Find why people are not using the tools, make responsibilities and rules clear, and help teams put the changes into practice. Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Azure may be where the problem starts; we look at the work around them too.
The User Adoption Gap Report shows what is getting in the way, who needs to act, and what to fix first.
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Experience Behind the Work
Built where security, compliance, legal exposure, and daily use all had to hold.
Enterprise AI Adoption Lead
Microsoft Gold Partner, 2024 to 2025
While working at a Microsoft Gold Partner, Ursula Spencer helped people use AI platforms across 25 organizations, including 485% user growth in 90 days at UCLA Anderson.
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Federal oversight and eDiscovery
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2006 to 2021
At the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Ursula Spencer built the Federal Reserve System's first enterprise eDiscovery framework across 12 Reserve Banks.
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These results are Ursula Spencer's principal experience at prior employers, not NERD client engagements. She leads NERD as Chief Architect.
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The Framework
UserBridge™
UserBridge helps you understand why a rollout has stalled, decide what needs to change, and help people use the technology in their work.
Current stateSpan to crossSustained use
Layer 01
Find What Is Getting in the Way
Understand where people get stuck and which problems matter most.
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Decide What to Change
Agree on the decisions, who is responsible, and what to tackle first.
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Put the Changes to Work
Get help putting the changes into practice and checking whether they work for your team.
Start with a User Adoption Gap Report. Continue with senior technology leadership and hands-on support when your team needs help making the changes.
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Before You Book
The Questions You Are Already Asking
Question 01
Discovery White PaperWhy enterprise tools go unused and what helps people use them.
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Start
Bring the technology problem. Start a useful conversation.
30-minute technology discovery
Talk through what needs to work
Bring the business problem, the decision you are facing, and what is getting in the way. We will discuss the outcome, the technical constraints, and where NERD could help.
You leave with something useful whether or not we work together.