In Episode 49 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Karen Jean-Francois, Analytics Manager at Cardlytics, where they discuss how people can craft the career they want in Data & Analytics, her humbling career journey so far and how she overcame imposter syndrome, which includes;

• Moving from the Caribbean to Paris to London
• Her struggles of living away from home & her family
• The transition from performing at the European Championships into the world of Data
• Why she hosts the Women In Data Podcast
• How she was awarded the 20 in Data & Technology 2020
• Why she struggled to find her place & voice
• The importance of role models and networking on her career
• How she joined Cardlytics as the only female in the team
• Why she had a huge case of Imposter Syndrome and how she overcame it
• How she realised it was all in her own mind
• Why it prevented her from being promoted despite knowing she was doing great work
• The importance of opening up about Imposter Syndrome
• Why company culture is so important to deal with Imposter Syndrome
• How to go from diagnosis to action (to start addressing the problem)
• The journey from introvert with imposter syndrome to winning industry awards and podcast host
• The technical V commercial debate
• How she almost quit Data & Analytics to become a pastry chef
• That she realized that she had so far let others decide what my career would look like
• The importance of owning your own career and defining what you want it to be
• Her top questions for crafting your career:

1. Where are you at today?
2. Where would you like to be and why?
3. What's stopping you from getting there?
4. How are you going to overcome these blockers?

In Episode 45 of Season 2, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Lara Izlan, Director of Data Strategy at ITV, where they discuss the role of Data in business transformation, which includes;

• The group-wide, multi-year Data Strategy and what it incorporates
• How that supports the wider ITV corporate Digital Transformation Strategy
• The benefits of a cross-functional team structure
• Data-Driven Thinking V Value-Led approach
• The importance of cultural and mindshift change
• How ITV are realising the “promise of value”
• Why the iterative approach has been a key to success
• Why the product-way is realising commercial value
• Mapping every activity and idea to a financial figure
• Value V Prioritisation
• The importance of “better conversations”
• Moving from service centre to partner
• How to accelerate change
• Why transformation needs to be visible at all levels

In Episode 46 of Season 2, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Paul French, Director of Data & Analytics at First Central, where they discuss how to attract great talent, to build great teams, which includes;

• Why First Central defines its business as an “innovator in data”
• Why he decided to set up Data Culture & Product Team
• The 3 characteristics that made him join the business and how the business could articulate this clearly
• Why he prioritised building the team in his first 6 months
• Why you need a talent strategy just as you need a strategy for any business problem
• How they amplified their story across the networks to drive inbound interest
• How he worked with his internal TA team and figured out what role he needed to play
• Why the team you recruit will be the reason you either succeed or fail
• What Paul looked for as he built his team
• Attracting new talent with apprenticeships and raising the profile of the industry
• Retraining people from other business units through secondments and incubators
• Importance of raising the profile of data internally through upskilling sessions and building communities
• How to create that compelling narrative and what should go into it
• Why people have turned down more money elsewhere to join Paul’s team
• Some great tips on how to get the Diversity & Inclusion balance right

In Episode 47 of Season 2, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Adam Sroka, Head of Machine Learning Engineering at Origami, where they discuss everything that entails Data Science, which includes;

• An insight to Origami
• Adam's role/responsibilities and what he is tasked with achieving
• Some of the key challenges/complexities when it comes to using Data and Analytics to tackle global challenges, concerning the energy sector
• The role ML teams play, following this and examples of cases
• The main changes between Data Science of 5 years ago versus Data Science of today
• How to build a DS team that adds genuine business value
• Advice for DS's in terms of what they should focus on to ensure a successful career
• The importance of building a strong personal brand/social media presence
• Results you will experience following this
• Where the DS industry will be in the next 5 years

In Episode 48 of Season 2, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Ranil Boteju, Group CDAO at LBG, where they discuss the importance of enabling Data and Analytics teams into businesses, to help them transform, which includes;

• How Data and Analytics have evolved in Banking
• What the Data and Analytics transformation he is leading at LBG looks like
• What does winning in data and Analytics look like at a big organisation like LBG
• What the biggest challenges are
• Why they’re putting a huge emphasis on non-technical roles such as; Culture, Communications and Ethics
• Tackling Data Ethics and why it’s got its own role
• How he is ensuring that the Data & Analytics strategy ties to realising the business objectives
• Why it's unlikely there will be CDAO roles in 5 years' time
• Why Data Literacy will soon be taught in schools

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In Episode 49 of Season 2, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Zoher Karu, Vice President Chief Data & Analytics Officer for Blue Shield of California, where they discuss the framework of change & transformation, which includes;

• How to spot evidence of transformation
• The key ingredients of transforming organisations through Data & Analytics
• Why most organisations very rarely make a start with change
• The playbook to getting the change management piece right
• The role of the Data Leader in Change/Transformation
• How we know to start with a business challenge/opportunity and work backwards but why that doesn't happen
• The role of reporting lines and team structures in the ability to drive change
• The relationship between change/transformation and innovation

In Episode 50 of Season 2, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Joe Bradley, Chief Scientist SVP Data Science & ML at LivePerson, where they discuss Conversational AI, which includes;

• What the business benefits are of Conversational AI
• Hype V Reality of Conversational AI
• Who is doing it versus who isn't and why
• How organisations know when they are ready to implement this
• The Pros and Cons of Conversational AI & Personalization
• The relationship between Conversational AI & Personalization
• How it differs from building a general DS/ML capability
• The learnings of working at mammoth brands such as Nike and Amazon
• The future of Artificial Intelligence
• Top 3 tips for anyone looking at either entering into, or improving their Conversational AI journey

In Episode 1 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Davin Crowley-Sweet, Chief Data Officer at National Highways, where they discuss how to value your data like you value any other asset, which includes;

• Why CDO’s shouldn’t expect organisations to know what they want/need
• How data is an intangible digital asset that can be valued like any other asset whether you do something with it or not
• The difference between “value” and “benefits” are how we’re confusing them
• Why it makes no sense that our balance sheet tells us more about our furniture than it does about data
• How he was able to value the data asset at £60 billion which was 50% of the value of the roads and 10x more than their technology assets
• Why valuing your data drives proportionate capital investment into it
• Data Literacy V Business Literacy
• How the data strategy took 12 months to complete, included input from 300 people and identified circa £1 billion of potential upside
• The role that Anmut played in helping to value their data assets
• How they calculated it would cost £300m to realise £1bn in return and the strategy to do that cost £3m
• How one project cost £400K to deliver over 6 months and returned £60 million
• The difference between quick wins and being opportunistic
• Why you must be a business leader first and a data leader second
• Why you have to frame data in a language your business understands
• How being able to quantify & articulate the value and benefits of data has made attracting talent much easier
• The mistakes he made at the start
• Why you need to be disruptive but not cause disruption