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Glenn Exton

How to Build a Data-Driven Culture

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Glenn Exton, Head of Customer Business Analytics, NatWest Group, and Luke Stanke, SVP Data Analytics, phData, look at three common data culture challenges and offer strategies to ensure that everyone succeeds in the journey.

Candra McRae

Make Yourself Essential: Tying Data to ROI

Candra McRae

Candra McRae

Lead Solution Engineer, Tableau Software

Sometimes the stars align and you can show remarkable bottom-line results through a strategic use of data. Candra McRae shares two anecdotes from her own career.

Neil Richards

Defining Data Literacy for the Enterprise

Neil Richards

Neil Richards

Global Data Fluency Lead, JLL

JLL’s Neil Richards argues for a more holistic definition of data literacy at the enterprise level that links to each person’s job role.

5 Tips to Make a Data Literacy Program Stick in Your Organization

Mark Palmer

M&A Advisor, Warburg Pincus

Mark Palmer offers up 5 tips to make a data literacy program stick in your organization.

Paul Chapman

Data Leadership

Building Data Leaders: Pitfalls and Possibilities

Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman

Global Director of Performance Management, BI and Innovation, JLL

JLL’s Paul Chapman outlines four areas where data leaders can guide their organizations into a more data-ubiquitous world.

Sarah Burnett

Data Leadership

Five Ways to Practice the Art of Data Persuasion

Sarah Burnett

Sarah Burnett

Executive Director, Metrics and Measures, Standard Chartered Bank

How should you best support your organization's growing data culture? CITI Group's Sarah Burnett discusses the different approaches to help guide users on their data journey.

Candra McRae

Executive Data Engagement and the Democratization of Analytics

Candra McRae

Candra McRae

Lead Solution Engineer, Tableau Software

Candra McRae looks into democratized analytics and what the trend means for data leaders.

Glenn Exton

Data Leadership

5 Ways to Promote Data Analytics Realism

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Luke Stanke, SVP Data Analytics, phData, and Glenn Exton, Head of Customer Business Analytics, NatWest Group, offer advice to data leaders on tempering expectations of what data analytics can do – and how quickly.

Kevin O'Callaghan

Data Governance in Hybrid Work Environments

Kevin O'Callaghan

Kevin O'Callaghan

Head of Data Analytics, Teamwork

Teamwork Head of Data Analytics Kevin O’Callaghan discusses how he manages data governance and security in today’s hybrid work environments.

Neil Richards

What’s Your Data Moment?

Neil Richards

Neil Richards

Global Data Fluency Lead, JLL

Neil Richards, EMEA BI Lead at JLL, discusses a new program to help employees at every level think about the way they use data in their lives.

Bridget Cogley

Why Data Ethics Isn't Going Away

Bridget Cogley

Bridget Cogley

Co-Founder & CVO, Versalytix

Former medical interpreter, Tableau Visionary, and Versalytix Chief Visualization Officer Bridget Cogley discusses the current state of data ethics, what needs to be done to formalize and advance the field, why data literacy is a data ethics issue, and five ways every data leader can make an impact.

Data Leadership

5 Data Trends to Watch in 2023

Sadie St. Lawrence

Founder and CEO, Women in Data

Data scientist and educator Sadie St. Lawrence shares her five top data trends for 2023, as well as thoughts for how data leaders should respond to them.

Data Governance vs. Data Management?

Laura Madsen

CEO, Moxy Analytics

Moxy Analytics CEO Laura Madsen delves into the overlap and potential synergies of data governance and data management.

What happens when we lose sight of data ethics?

Amanda Makulec

Executive Director, Data Visualization Society

Data Visualization Society Executive Director Amanda Makulec considers the importance of data ethics in a world that runs on data and offers three responses data leaders can mount to help ensure its appropriate, ethical use.

Paul Chapman

Data Leadership

9 Key Skills Future Data Leaders Will Need

Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman

Global Director of Performance Management, BI and Innovation, JLL

JLL’s Paul Chapman predicts nine core skills the next wave of data leaders will need to succeed.

Heidi Lanford

Data Leadership

The Evolution of the CDO Role – and How to Succeed as One

Heidi Lanford

Chief Data and Analytics Officer

To anticipate the evolution of the Chief Data Officer role, it’s helpful to look at how other C-suite roles have come to be.

Aaron Hillery

Data Leadership

Data Empathy, Translation, & Better Culture: Three Reasons To Be a Data Leader

Aaron Hillery

Allen Hillery

Adjunct Professor, Macaulay Honors College

Data Stories’ Allen Hillery shares how a data leader can impact an organization by building data empathy, acting as a data translator, and improving the data culture.

Three Strategies To Improve Data Literacy Within Your Organization

Adam Mico

Principal, Data and Analytics Strategist, Moderna

Moderna’s Adam Mico offers three strategies to not only improve your team’s data literacy skills, but how to move forward in the right kind of data literacy.

The Role of Data Literacy in Building a New Middle Class

Mark Palmer

M&A Advisor, Warburg Pincus

Board Advisor, Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, Talkmap, Mark Palmer discusses how greater data literacy among underrepresented groups could represent the next opportunity to rebuild new middle class in the United States.

Neil Richards

Moving beyond Data Literacy and Data Fluency

Neil Richards

Neil Richards

Global Data Fluency Lead, JLL

JLL EMEA BI Lead Neil Richards makes a case for building data skills that drive confidence at every level of an organization.