LEAD WITH DATA Podcast

Tanya Graham, who is the Executive General Manager of Strategic Programs at Healthscope.With a diverse career spanning across various industries, Tanya brings a fresh perspective and a wealth of opportunities for new ideas and technologies to the organisations she has collaborated with. Tanya joined Healthscope at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which presented her with the challenge of navigating an unfamiliar industry while operating in an environment that demanded swift responsiveness from the healthcare sector. During our conversation, Tanya shared her valuable experiences, highlighting the strategies implemented to address the challenges posed by the pandemic. She also emphasises the role of analytics in shaping their decision-making process and shed light on the initiatives being undertaken to aid in the recoveries that the industry was impacted with COVID-19.

David Rankin is currently the Director of Clinical Governance and Informatics at Cabrini Health. He is a highly accomplished Specialist Medical Practitioner with an impressive track record spanning over 30 years. Throughout his career, he has held numerous senior leadership positions in health service delivery and policy, demonstrating his extensive expertise in the field. David's experience is diverse and impactful. He has provided clinical governance to the medical services of a prominent teaching hospital, ensuring the highest standards of care. In this episode David shares with us his strategies and tips on how to overcome the challenges of getting data to specialists that then result in driving value. We talk about:What an ideal healthcare environment looks likeThe common challenges when delivering data to frontline staff such as specialists, doctors, etcStrategies that have worked for him and the importance of bridging this gap.

Wendy Chapman is the Director of Informatics at Melbourne University. She has a PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah. Specialising in natural language processing (NLP), her research primarily revolves around the extraction of information from clinical reports. Wendy's contributions to the field extend beyond her individual research. She led the American Medical Informatics Association NLP Working Group and she actively collaborates with others in the development of shared conventions and resources for NLP. Today's show focuses on improving healthcare through innovation and technology. We discuss:The role of universities in healthcare data.Challenges faced by the healthcare sector.Leveraging data and technology for better healthcare.Benefits of adopting innovation and technology for analytics.The importance of digital health training.Tune in to explore how innovation and technology can revolutionise healthcare delivery.

Our guest on the show is Emily Ryder - Chief Analytics Officer for St John of God Health care. Emily is a highly experienced executive who possesses a wealth of knowledge in the health and private health insurance industries. She is also a Board chair for an NFP specialising in family violence housing and support services. Emily's has a proven background in implementing change programs by harnessing the power of data analytics and technology. She excels in leveraging digital technologies to enhance customer engagement and achieve favourable outcomes.In our first episode of this season Emily shares her experience of what Analytics looks like in the private healthcare sector. We discuss the following:An overview of the types of analytics that occur in the private healthcare sector, with a specific focus on hospitals.The key skills she believes are crucial for establishing a robust and effective team. The significance of fostering partnerships throughout the organization when implementing analytics initiatives. Professions that can seamlessly transition into roles involving medical and health data.Emily's thoughts on the future evolution of analytics in this domain.

It was an absolute pleasure to be joined by someone as successful and humble as Kendra Vant for the final episode of my female leader’s season of the Lead with Data podcast. What a great way to end the season hearing about Kendras journey to executive leadership. This is one for all to listen to.We talk about her career journey and discuss more about her experience towards executive leadership.Roadblocks or challenges towards the journey of executive leadershipKey attributes of an executive leader in data todayWhat attributes should you look for in your teamLearnings that help shape your careerHow you can build credibility as a leader

Kathryn has spent more than 15 years in government and banking and financial services combining analytics, innovation and customer-first thinking in a variety of analytics leadership roles. Having begun her career as a practitioner in Advanced Analytics, Kathryn brings an appreciation for the technical capabilities required to generate insight out of data.On this episode we talk about the importance of having a data strategy that meets your business needs.We cover:What a Data Strategy is?What makes a good strategy?How to ensure that a good strategy is tightly anchored to you business strategyWhat things should a data strategy cover and addressHow you quantify the value of Data and Analytics to an organisation’s bottom lineHow do you get executive buy-in for a Data Strategy

Clare has an impressive Data Analytics career having spent the early years of her career in consulting. She started her journey in mathematics and engineering and has had the opportunity to advise and work with global companies as they adapt and transform to the challenges and opportunities that data, technology and AI offer.She enjoys the pace of change and constant innovation in the world of data, data science and technology. Working with the leadership teams of industry giants in retail, oil and gas and manufacturing to adapt to the change that data can enable as well as developed, Clare has led teams of designers, data engineers and scientists to create innovative data products.On the show today we discuss the importance of Building the protocol and patterns when delivering data projects.What we mean when we say building a protocol or patternWhat are the benefits and why do we need themStrategies on how to introduce them into your functions and rolesHow to balance process v creativity Who needs to be involved

Su Jella is the Director of Data & Insights at Tennis Australia and has been recognised as one of the Top 25 Analytics Leaders in Australia. Having worked for some well known organisations she has built up her career as an accomplished Data Leader entirely on her own merits and determination. In this episode we talk about Su's journey to becoming a data leader and cover the things that she believes helped her get to where she is now. For those of you, who have the ambition to become a leader, Su highlights the importance of what you can do to control the steer of your career.We cover:The reasons why there is an under representation of females in this fieldWhat qualities does good leadership requireThe skill of moving away from being a technical practitioner to a leaderWhy females hold themselves backThe things organisations can do to increase awareness in curbing the gap

Kylie is the Senior Manager of Data Governance at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. Having held several key roles across the business she is currently responsible for leading and rolling out the data governance strategy for the organisation. Being a topical subject where organisations are making this more of a priority, in this episode you will hear about Kylie’s experience and views on some the strategies that she has adopted to lead this enterprise level initiative.  We talk about: ·  How you get started with driving this on an enterprise level·  How to obtain the buy in and funding needed to set this up ·  The process of educating the business about data governance·  How culture and change play a key role in embedding data governance and how tonavigate the challenges.·  Whose responsibility is data governance

Deevya Kumar is an experienced Data leader who has worked across a broad range of industries and spent the last three years of her career focused on Data management and Data Governance. Deevya is passionate about Data Governance and building a community of Data Champions who can become advocates for driving best practice across Data management in organisations . She is recognized for her empathetic approach and abilities to lead and influence teams. In this topic we explore more about the role of data governance and how you can link data governance to drive business value and outcomes.

Lavinia Gordon is an experienced Data Leader who has forged her career from a medical science background to a Data and Analytics leader across the healthcare industry. Having had 20 years experience and significant healthcare acumen, she has been influential in driving strategy and decision making across some well known organisations. Lavinia is particularly passionate about data ethics, data strategy and the uplift of data literacy across organisations.In this episode we dive into her career coming from a medical background to leadership roles in a broader data and analytics role.We talk about:Transferable skills that can be bought acrossThe different approaches or processes could be adopted by having these skillsWhy people from a medical science background thrive in dataFuture developments in health and data

Episode 3 S2 – Scaling ML from Zero to 100 Machine Learning – Your organisation is ready but how do you get started and how do you successfully scale automation across your organisation? It was an absolute pleasure to have Sandhya Iyer on the podcast to share her experience and views on how to scale a ML function from Zero to 100.Sandhya is a well-respected Data leader and an active participant of the Data professional’s community in Australia. She is a Keynote speaker who has been voted amongst the Top 5 Analytics leaders in Australia by IAPA.Sandhya is passionate about introducing Technology and STEAM to the young female population and is a director and volunteer of an organisation called GO GIRL, GO FOR IT. They bring together roles models from the IT professions to excite and engage female students from Grade 5 to Year 12 by introducing them to the vast range of global, lucrative and varied career options in IT.In todays discussion we cover:•             How you get started with ML in an organisation that is new to ML.•             The process of scaling and taking ML to the next level•             The factors you need to consider to enable growth & adoption of ML.

We can all agree that mobiles have become one of most widely used pieces of technology given that it is literally at our finger tips. In todays episode I talk to Lexi Sydow who is the Head of Insights for data.ai (formerly App Annie) who are a company that combines consumer and market data to provide insights that are powered by AI. This is a really interesting discussion as Lexi provides some stats and insights into:What makes the Australian mobile market unique? Why mobile? And why a data-fueled mobile strategy? How have our habits changed during Are there any demographic differences we should note of? How does this data help businesses grow their top line? Definitely one to listen to whether you are in data or not.

As we kick off Season 2, I was delighted to have Dr Sarah Dods joins me to talk about her passion for Data Science and AI.Sarah has built her career at the cutting edge of new technologies, with a deep passion for realising economic and social outcomes from technology advances; bridging the gap between invention, market opportunities, and implementable solutions to create value that makes a difference. She is a fan of life-long learning, a driver of diversity, and an incurable optimist.  In this episode we cover:How Data and Data science has become it's own industryData V's Technology How does Data science and analytics in companies vary.How Data science can contribute to business value and ROI.Navigating challenges and driving in driving Data Science in organisations.By background, Dr Sarah Dods is a PhD qualified Physicist/Electrical Engineer with 20+ years of STEM-focused roles.  Her career spans Australia’s “deep-tech” innovation system, and includes industrial R&D, and a stint in academia solving problems in the NBN before it existed, co-founding a Silicon Valley spin-out.  She has led CSIRO research programs focused on helping our Health embrace Digital, and the Digital Economy, and was responsible for implementing CSIRO’s entrepreneurship program.  On the consulting side, she has run her own firm, as well as leading the data science practice at Arq Group.  Her corporate experience includes leadership roles with Telstra Health, Australia Post and AGL.

Joined by Cam Currie from Jugo Advisory, in this episode we discuss data transformation leadership and the emergence of data observability. Cam is a senior strategy and data transformation leader. He has a track record over 20+ years of setting strategic direction, transforming businesses, and delivering outstanding results, executing across large complex environments. Energised by leading strategic and data execution conversations, Cam joins the dots across senior executives and technology professionals to ensure a faster path to business and customer success.

Sandeep is experienced data, information and analytics professional adept in driving transformational change for organisations, leveraging good data management principles and industry best practices. An influential leader with the ability to develop business strategies to engage senior stakeholders and drive positive change in business outcomes. In this episode he shares his views on what data governance is and how you can use Data Governance to build a strong Data Culture.How to get buy in to roll out a data governance programWhere should data governance sit and whose ownership is itHow to define a data driven culture and strategiesHow to link data governance to data analytics practicesWhat key skillsets are essential to build your career and succeed in a data governance role

Darshil is an experienced data professional in developing and executing a use-case driven enterprise-wide Data Strategy aligned to the Business Strategy. Darshil has practical experience in all phases ofInformation Management like Big Data, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Data Governance, establishing data operations starting from conceptualization to implementation.He is passionate about driving strategic outcomes through data and AI/ML at the scale, empowering people and businesses with deeply relevant communication and recommendations. Darshil is advocate of ‘data literacy for all’ which helps organizations to truly become a data driven organization.In this episode we cover:Why is data literacy becoming more important? How to build a data literate culture?The challenges faced in rolling out data literacyCan technology help build data literacy?  Does the new ML & AI play a role?

Dhivian Govender is the Chief Data, Analytics and Strategy Officer at Recoveriescorp, overseeing the strategy around how data and analytics is used to effectively and efficiently engage with customers.With over 20 years of experience in the data and analytics space he has a passion for turning data science and analytical findings into actionable insight and building and growing successful teams. He started his career hands on as an information analyst, progressing into data science/modelling roles and thereafter into management and executive management positions.Outside of work, Dhivian enjoys spending time with his 3 and 5 year old sons.

We have Jonas Christensen on the show today, he is an international keynote speaker on data science and analytics leadership, a postgraduate educator and advisor in the field of data science and machine learning, co-author of ‘Demystifying AI for the Enterprise: A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation’ and host of the Leaders of Analytics podcast. He holds a Masters of International Finance and a Masters of Accounting from Deakin University as well as a Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.Jonas is passionate about what data science and AI can do for the world of business and beyond. He believes data science and AI will be as revolutionary to the way we do business and interact with each other as IT and personal computing has been over the past 40 years.

Cam Towt is the Founder and Director of Tiio which has a proud alliance partnership with Robinson Ryan. Cam has built a career in the data and analytics industry over the last 20 years starting out as a data analytics practitioner. He went on to forge a successful leadership career in developing data management, governance and risk management capability working for companies such as GE, Australia Post and AGL. He is a published psychology researcher and has led community partnerships and cultural change initiatives around mental health and gender equality. Cam's professional interests are centred around the intersection of the law, ethics, the use of data, and the rights of humans. Cam's goal is to be an influential industry leader in the data governance, ethics and risk field in Australia, and help others develop their data management careers and achieve success. 

Janice is an analytics leader with a strong commercial acumen gained from a 20 year career spanning analytics, business process improvement, strategy, internal audit and consulting. She is passionate about using data to drive informed decision making and has a proven track record in mentoring and developing successful teams.In her last role, Janice transformed her organisations approach to data analytics by introducing a cloud-based enterprise data lake and data visualisation tools which is what we dive into for this episode. She has held prior roles as GM of Revenue Assurance at Telstra, and has led large-scale data analytics programs of work and internal audit/consulting roles for both Ernst & Young and Arthur Anderson. Janice also recently completed a three-year board term for Retina Australia Victoria, a not-for-profit that funds research into curing blindness.

In this episode we talk about how to make Data a useful and usable part of everyone’s job!  I am joined by Kshira Saagar is the Chief Data Officer (CDO) of Latitude Financial Services. Latitude is Australia’s biggest non-bank lender, digital payments, and finance company with over 2.7 million customers across Australia and New Zealand. At Latitude, Kshira is currently working on enabling the enterprise to make faster and smarter data-driven decisions and oversees all the data science processes and infrastructure from data collection and governance to algorithmic decision tools development. He has been consecutively recognised among the Top 10 Analytics Leaders in Australia, for 2019, 2020 and 2021.Before Latitude, Kshira had performed in different senior and leadership data roles at Global Fashion Group, Equifax, Fairfax Media, and Mu Sigma Inc. He has over a decade of experience in data science solution development and analytics problem-solving for retail, telecom and insurance markets, including fortune 100 clients. He also has professional data analytics experience in media, healthcare, aviation, logistics, and FMCG industries.Kshira strongly believes that every organisation can become truly data-driven. At every place he has worked, working and will work - he likes to go back to the fundamentals, asking people to ask more questions of data and being a tough taskmaster on getting actionable outcomes from data, on all possible occasions. Outside work, Kshira spends a lot of time on advancing data literacy initiatives for high school and undergrad students.We cover if being fully digital make companies more data driven, how organisations can build and support self service capabilities, tips and strategies for increasing data literacy and the approach and framework for analytics capability for new products.

In this episode of Lead with Data, I had the pleasure of speaking to Bhavika Unadkat, who is the Head of Data Governance at Energy Australia. Enjoying a successful career to date, Bhavika is an impressive and knowledgeable Data leader and shares her journey and how Change Management is a key driver to enable the delivery of a successful Data strategy.We discuss:How she migrated to Australia and ended up in Data?  Her experience of when, as an intern, she was given the responsibility of playing a key role in delivering and driving BI Change in the organisation.How she has enabled Data driven change in more than five organisations, with one of her most recent Data Migrations and reboot of Data strategies at Momentum Energy. Bhavika is an extremely humble individual, with a positive energy and someone who demonstrates what can be achieved if there is something you are really passionate about. A real inspiration! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

On this very first episode of Lead with Data, I was joined by Paul Hunt, who is the Senior Manager Business Intelligence (APAC) for Club Assist. A consummate data professional, Paul has over 13 years’ continuous Business Intelligence and Data Strategy experience and has implemented multiple highly-complex data strategies, delivering solutions for over 2000 users. He shared his experiences from On Prem to Cloud “Nine”.  Going from On-Prem to a fully cloud solution is a journey that many companies have either embarked on, completed or are considering. With a vision to deliver better insights and enable business growth, Paul led the Cloud Data journey for Club Assist (APAC). In this episode he shared: Is Cloud better then On Prem?How to get started? Where do you begin?Which Cloud solution should I use?The strategy and the architectureHybrid Cloud and On Prem mix Why getting the right people is important?What are the things to watch out for when embarking on this digital transformation?He is an extremely knowledgeable data professional, so it’s an episode you don’t want to miss!