Data Leadership for Everyone

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This week our guest is James Fair. James is a Senior Vice President for Executech. With over 35 years of experience in IT, 30 years in Leadership, and a dozen years in the interpersonal workspace, James combines his love for IT and cybersecurity along with his passion for Leadership development. Our conversation is sure to have something (likely many things) new you can do to make your digital life safer. Enjoy!

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About Our Guest:

With over 35 years of experience in IT, 30 years in Leadership and a dozen years in the interpersonal workspace, James combines his love for IT and cybersecurity along with his passion for Leadership development.

Having started as an entry level technician and worked his way through every position to Senior Vice President, James offers a wealth of knowledge and experience in all facets of IT.

Now James teaches other IT professionals and IT Leaders how to be their best.  He believes in creating high-performance teams through people-first focused leadership.  From corporate teams to individual coaching, James leads with a passion and purpose.

LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmfair/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/executech

Home: https://www.executech.com/

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This week we welcome Alex Castro. Alex is an aligner of execution to strategy for digital transformation & innovation, best-selling author and creator/founder of ReM Score™ Alex believes that the gap between ideas (strategy) and execution is a persistent problem that is sidelining too many high potential digital transformation and innovation growth opportunities.

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About Our Guest:

Alex Castro is an aligner of execution to strategy for digital transformation & innovation, best-selling author and creator/founder of ReM Score™ Alex believes that the gap between ideas (strategy) and execution is a persistent problem that is sidelining too many high potential digital transformation and innovation growth opportunities.

What will set companies apart in these uncertain economic times are those that reduce the falloff rate of good ideas during execution, seeing more of them create value, resulting in ultimately thriving in the ‘next normal’.

Aligning execution to your ideas for digital transformation and innovation is rooted in removing the biases that have us repeating the same errors in estimating our capabilities to execute.

There is a way to calculate your execution capability for each idea you have, so more of them come to life, and you and your company win more. Alex is a charismatic, intelligent and knowledgeable guest, with plenty of wisdom to share.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-castro-28b1148/

Home Page: https://www.alexcastro.io/

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Our guest this week is Ari Isaak. Ari is a GIS consultant and entrepreneur whose company, Evari GIS Consulting, has been involved with some of the largest city street lighting modernization efforts in the United States. Ari shares his wisdom about this lesser-known area of data leadership. Fascinating conversation!

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About Our Guest:

Ari Isaak is the Owner and Director of Operations and Strategy at Evari GIS Consulting. He has over 20 years in the GIS industry. Much of Evari’s work is in providing field audit and data management services to convert street lights from legacy technologies to LED. Evari GIS has been involved in many of the largest street lighting jobs in the US, including Chicago, Phoenix, San Francisco, Oakland Honolulu and many others. Evari GIS has provided services from Hawaii to Cape Cod and Alaska to Miami Beach. Ari bootstrapped Evari GIS after experience working in both the private and public sector.  As the Director of Innovation and Strategy he’s working on 2 primary efforts, EvariPLUS and EvariLUX. EvariPLUS leverages custom vision to streamline the collection of street light data. EvariLUX bring lighting data into a 3D GIS for review and analysis across an entire project. Ari holds a patent for using GIS to calculate the optimum performance of streetlights. Ari lives in San Diego with his wife and 2 girls.

EvariGIS: www.sdgis.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariisaak/
Company Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/evari-gis-consulting
EvariLUX: http://www.evarilux.com/

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Today we welcome Verl Allen, the CEO of Claravine, a company that helps leading brands take greater ownership and control of their data from the start, for better decisions, stickier consumer experiences, and increased ROI. We have an interesting discussion around data quality challenges facing organizations today.

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About Our Guest:

Verl Allen brings 20+ years of experience helping brands transform digitally while at Ancestry, Omniture and Adobe. During this time he helped accelerate the emergence and growth of SaaS applications within the enterprise while leading strategy and corp dev at Omniture and Adobe Experience Cloud. In 2018, he joined Claravine to address the emerging opportunity to support these same brands to address the growing challenge of data quality that was inhibiting their ability to derive the promised returns from their software and other digital investments. Today, Verl serves as CEO at Claravine which is working with hundreds of the leading global brands to address data integrity issues through the use of The Data Standards Cloud.

https://www.claravine.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/verl-allen-b83175/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/claravine/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClzbPpij2LMOHuzhgQWo4VQ

https://twitter.com/claravinesocial

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This week we welcome Peggy Tsai, Chief Data Officer for BigID. Peggy brings a unique perspective from building her career in data management, as opposed to starting deeply on the business-side or the technology-side and finding her way to data management at some point in the journey. We have an interesting conversation about the dynamics of driving data change in organizations. Enjoy!

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About Our Guest:

Peggy Tsai is the Chief Data Officer at BigID where she is responsible
for building the data strategy and enablement of data governance
capabilities for customers. BigID enables organizations to know
their enterprise data and take action for privacy, protection, and
perspective. With BigID, customers can proactively discover,
manage, and protect their regulated and sensitive data across
their data landscape.

Peggy has over 18 years of practitioner experience in data
management, stewardship and governance in the financial services
industry. Prior to joining BigID, she was Vice President of Data &
Analytics at Morgan Stanley where she helped run the data
governance program across the Wealth Management division. She
held various positions at Morgan Stanley where she supported the
data science teams on analytical data governance and led a project
team to document data lineage and business definitions across
enterprise systems in order to comply with Basel regulations. Peggy
was also Data Innovation Lead in the Enterprise Data Management
group at AIG. She was responsible for implementing enterprise data
management practices to support Anti-Money Laundering, Solvency II
and GDPR in the Latin American region and Commercial line of
business. Peggy also worked at S&P Global Ratings where she held
various positions in enterprise data group and technology in order to
drive the value of data between the business and IT.

Peggy has a Masters in Information Systems from New York University
and a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Cornell University. She is
currently an adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz
College CDAO certification program. In her spare time, she is a co-host
of a data and technology podcast called The Data Transformers. She is
also a founding member of the Women Leaders in Data & AI as well as
an advisor to several tech start-ups.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-tsai-data/

BigID: https://www.bigid.com

Episode Transcript

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anthony_algmin: Welcome the Da Leadership Lessons podcast. I’m your host, Anthony J.

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anthony_algmin: Algmin. Data everywhere in our businesses and it takes leadership to make

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