NTC Data Workshop Series - Data to Action: Data Strategy for Leaders

Description

GO BEYOND INSIGHTS TO ACTIONABLE GOALS AND SOLUTIONS

Every NTC member company has plenty of data, but many leaders struggle to:

• Identify the real question and goal
• Define the insights needed to make decisions, and
• Take data and turn it into action solutions.

In this multi-week workshop, attendees will learn the skills to improve data decision-making and data storytelling within an organization. This new Data Mindset will take attendees beyond the night stage and past the story to create business value and actionable decisions.  The NTC is offering this professional development workshops to existing member and future member companies to enhance their own internal professional development opportunities.

Objectives

It takes more than tools and techniques to make strategic data decisions, it takes a completely different data mindset.  This program will fast-track participants in gaining the right skills and techniques to go beyond just insights. The workshop will cover the entire process from identifying the dilemma, to data discovery and insights through data storytelling that leads to actionable results.  By the end of this course, participants will have a different mindset for tackling problems that are both replicable and reliable.

Materials and datasets for the workshop will be provided and on the last day, attendees will participate in a data hackathon.

About the Workshop Instructors

Charlie Apigian, PhD.

Dr. Charlie Apigian is a professor, co-host of the Data 4 All Podcast and a community leader that looks to bring data, artificial intelligence and real-world problems together to solve problems such as health inequities, human trafficking, burglary prediction, and mental health in youth.  Through years of real world data projects, he has developed the Data Mindset Playbook, which allows leaders to transform data into action.  He believes that everyone should be empowered to think different with data and to have the data skills to complement and enhance what they are already doing.  Dr. Apigian has published over 30 papers in data and technology journals and is the recipient of the Nashville Technology Council Data Scientist of the Year (2020) and a Nashville Technology Council IT Community Leader of the Year in 2018 and in 2023.

Amy Henderson

Amy Henderson is a tech entrepreneur and executive who has a passion for improving the local technology community through innovation, business growth, advocacy, and education. She has consistently leveraged data-driven decision making to empower leaders and teams in improving speed and quality of decisions, including most recently as COO of Nashville Software School. In addition to leading Customer Success and Organizational Development in the startup ecosystem, Amy was Partner and CEO of Firefly Logic, a Nashville-based custom software development firm, where she led the company in delivering innovative solutions to achieve business success for their customers.

Target Audience

Senior to mid-level leaders and managers within NTC Member companies below who want to:

• Improve their data mindset approach, i.e., moving faster from understanding dilemma to executing on resulting actions.
• Improve their data driven communication (data storytelling) to the C-Suite or other leadership.
• Be more confident in their data driven decisions.
• Think different with data.

Delivery: A mix of weekly in-person and virtual sessions over a 4-5 week period beginning in August 13th, 2024