Driven by Data: The Podcast S3 | Ep 21 | Building a Successful Data Academy with Hannah Davies, Head of Data Academy at Admiral Group
Mar 28, 2023
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In Episode 21 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Hannah Davies, Head of Data Academy at Admiral Group, where they discuss what it takes to build an effective Data Academy, which includes;
- The importance of stakeholder engagement
- Why it’s always about people
- The journey of building a Data Academy community of 700 people
- Why a Data Academy is so much more than training
- Why the first hire into the Data Academy was an engagement and content officer
- Having the ability to remove silos
- Why data is the answer
- The force that brings together; literacy, adoption, upskilling, development, community
- The different ways of working with different sizes of data teams
- Being a great place to work for data professionals
- The importance of giving people a way to engage without forcing it on them
- The 5 key pillars of the Data Academy
- Why the element of community is her proudest achievement
- What the community is made up of
- How to cater for different audiences
- Why many people have “taught fear”
- Removing the barrier of making a business decision with data
- How to change mindset and build confidence
- The difference between data training and data culture
- Tackling culture, adoption and literacy
- Things to think about if you’re in the process of building a Data Academy
- Upskilling, reskilling and retention