S4 | Ep 7 | Servant Leadership; The Key to Value Creation with Tim Carmichael, Chief Data Officer at Chaloub Group

In Episode 7, of Season 4, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Tim Carmichael, Chief Data Officer at Chaloub Group, where they discuss the role of servant leadership in Data & Analytics success, which includes;

• Being the first CDO in the British Army
• Why the remit of all CDOs should be to enable evidence-based decision-making
• Solving the challenge of helping organisations find the tantalisingly out-of-reach value
• Why servant leadership is the type of leadership needed to get value from data
• What servant leadership is NOT!
• Why to be a servant leader you need to have a fundamental shift in mindset
• Why you have to play to your people’s strengths and not agonise over their weaknesses
• People are 6 x more effective if they’re playing to their strengths
• Why you have to help people understand the context of decisions
• The twin facets of the role of the Data Leader
• The role of trusting partnerships and the importance of communication
• Why you can never get to value without trust
• How moving away from “then and us” is the secret sauce to unlocking value
• The difference between leadership, line management and mentorship
• To be a great influencer you need humility and courage
• Why being an enabler doesn’t mean you’re less important
• Why, amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics
• Why Gen AI is unlocking awareness of Data Literacy
• Why ruling through fear means you can kiss goodbye to innovation
• How servant leadership is not servile
• Aligning team structure and operating model to play to people’s strengths
• Why communication is just a form of marketing
• Learning the hard way that beauty is in the eye of the beholder