Data Reveal

🏆 Mark and IPC built a brand on doing analytics in a really unique way: combining Qlik and AWS. 00:51

📈 "The market is following Qlik and AWS": all in one solution for all the data Mark found in Qlik and the innovative solution of AWS to leverage technologies of their customers.  03:55

🚦 Comparing Waze to Qlik. 05:05

🤩 Why Mark threw away some BI systems: Data model patent Qlik made for fast reach of data. 08:00

😷 Mark became a TV personality: using data to inform the community during COVID and elections to reduce widespread fear in the community. 10:32

😇 The national, state and local data combined with COVID data, social vulnerabilities, and school data provide amazing results. 13:55

💪 Data helped the community organize communication, transportation, school breaks, and made decision-making more confident. 16:40

🤓 Breakthroughs: IPC’s first word chosen for values is humility 19:26

🌟 “IPC’s culture and core values of our firm are professionalism, integrity, loyalty, and family.” 22:05

💡 Mark’s ideas on implementing data for helping students with gaps create success journeys.  28:29

👉 Transparency and accountability in leveraging technology can magnify results in government agencies and funding programs. 34:37

🤝 Connect with Mark: www.linkedin.com/in/markmeersman

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 🌟 Andrew Churchill

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 🤩 Courtney Hastings:

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📚 Alan is Mark's old friend and a successful author. 00:35
✍️ Alan enjoyed writing a book called Sustain Your Game: writing books serves as a therapeutic way to serve himself as well as others. 01:29
🗝️ You have the key: “People have the power to change more than they most likely believe they do.” 03:10
🏀 From basketball player to coach to motivational speaker: Coming from a family of educators, Alan always had a natural affinity to be of service to and teach others.  05:04
💪 The best advice a coach gave to Alan about finding the Strength Zone. 06:21
🎯 The epicenter of being a coach is in transformational leadership: empowering others to improve behavior and improve results by believing in themselves. 08:33
😇 Be the leader you want to follow: having an authentic and appropriate vulnerability. 11:21
🤩 Making your team stronger with the diversity of thought, age, and background: we need to nurture respect, appreciation, and curiosity. 15:31
🏆 Diversity culture and data blended with respect for others: a story about a basketball coach with 4 key stats that heavily influenced winning and losing the game. 19:15
🤓 Leading indicators of success and performance, but what about stress? 22:16
🦸 The road to a settled mind is being at peace with the fact that we don’t control things in the world and channeling our response to those circumstances. 24:43
✅ Trying to live a truly mindful and physically fit lifestyle vs. checking the boxes of doing the ‘right’ things. 29:13
🧘 Is bringing mindfulness to business meetings possible?  31:38
🤯 Measure the things the right way and get the data to combine with the human aspect: do more of what works and do less of what doesn't. 36:54
❗ Keep things simple to make your business effective: find your goal and measurable behaviors and data that will get you to your goal. 40:20
👉 The acute problem in a generational change in the federal workforce. 43:03
📣 A message Alan would give to all in the federal government: being inclusive instead of divisive and highlighting the things that do unite us. 45:16
🌟 What did Alan learn from Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant? 46:23

Connect with Alan: www.alansteinjr.com
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🅰️ Andrew Churchill
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☑️ Courtney Hastings:
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👧 Loyal is nine years old, and she loves learning in STEM.  01:12

🌉 Fun engineering projects: building bridges with toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and marshmallows. 02:20

🎙️ Third graders are learning about history and social studies: Loyal’s favorite podcast. 04:43

🐇 Loyal’s friends talk about podcasts in school: when you got sucked into like the deepest hole of podcast. 07:04

😍 Word association game in the episode. 11:20

🤩 What Loyal wants to be when she grows up: she and her friends chose so many great careers! 15:36

🤖 Kids don’t talk about technology so much, but Loyal knows what the future brings. 18:47

🍦 Robots and machines do things for you: ice cream factory and robots in your computer. 20:16

😎 Loyal has some cool ideas on what adults should talk about a bit more. 21:14

⚡ Why Loyal doesn't have social media and what she thinks about followers. 24:04

😇 What adults should know about kids: a big manipulation adults don’t know about. 26:20

🧐 Are girls controlling everything? 27:26

👗 The unfair pink tax and double standards. 28:45

🚨 Mark’s favorite book and the disappearance of childhood. 31:34

✨ Loyal shares a couple ways you can use technology. 32:35

🌞⚖️ She explains how technology is affecting us in a good and a bad way. 33:58

🦸‍♀️ Lead with girls using data. 36:03

🔗Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.

✅ Mark Fedeli

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🅰️ Andrew Churchill

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☑️ Courtney Hastings:

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Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

 🏁 The end of season 01 and our impressions. 00:35

📻 College radio hosts and various topics in our podcast all centered around people. 02:05

🌉 Treating podcasting as a bridge between the human and business sides, not as a commercial. 04:51

🛣️ Daveed Gartenstein-Ross’ episode: a journey into radicalization pre and post 9/11. 06:20

🎯 Discussing the third-rail topics thoughtfully and not provocatively.  07:34

🤓 Chris Wilson and what the word joint means: translator, leadership, and interoperability. 

🧐 Monica McEwen and cognitive diversity with machines sitting alongside people, risks, and the stove-piped datasets. 

🤯 Defining data literacy as a soft skill and cultural part of it with Monica Breidenbach.11:18

⚡ Femi Ayanbadejo’s fundamental change in data usage: Our health is tied to each other. 18:09 14:15

🧱 Monica Breidenbach: Building the workforce for Gen Z, a digitally native audience. 21:53

🆙 Jim McHugh: true ability and readiness to use the data; organizations must adapt. 26:35

🌝 Two forms of intuition: Jere Simpsons’ innovations, challenging exclusionary structures and going beyond old tools. 31:15

🌞 Ian Mitchell: Living purposefully, fighting fraud, and protecting disadvantaged and vulnerable people. 36:10

🥅 There is evidence everywhere that data impacts our lives; once data reveals the ground truth, we can change the conditions. 37:50

🙃 The Qlik Federal Team has brought out its culture through this podcast. 39:25

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☑️ Courtney Hastings:

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Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

😱 Huge issues Ian is dealing with: 25 million people in human trafficking. $63 billion lost in unemployment scams. 02:25

🎯 Human Crime: fighting fraud since he was 28, Ian believes we all can get involved in solving these issues.

🤫 The financial intelligence community deals in secrets to find fraudsters, terrorists, and money launderers. 03:19

💸 The neural bank networks detect anomalous behaviors and fight fraud: Ian started in the risk management world. 06:57

🥊 Working on the cyber front, sharing infrastructure, data, and fighting fraud, money laundering, and financial crimes. 10:07

🙌 Burned out, focused on recording music; Ian met Matt Friedman, and The Knoble was born. 12:15

🤯 The mission of Ian’s nonprofit is to awaken, equip and deploy noble people into the fight of fighting human crime: The Super Bowl project and innovation. 15:59

🔗 Interconnectivity between small frauds and scams: an example involving money moving to human trafficking rings.  22:22

😟 Human trafficking:  labor trafficking and sex trafficking 25:27

🧐 Online sexual exploitation of children has gone up exponentially: Banks can detect online sexual exploitation  27:03

🚩 Innovative projects; Umbra and Super Bowl: working groups to find ways to share information outside of criminal investigations and launching Member Center for sharing red flag data. 29:19

💔 Heartbreaking story: Bank detected ten human trafficking rings, got scared, and shut down the pilot project. 35:26

👔 Agile leadership requires a quick response: 39:21

👍 Getting Gen Z involved: you can live a life of purpose and make money. Live a purposeful life. 42:53

🤩 Ian sings and plays his song “Old dirt road.” 44:42

👏 Ian’s song “I'm not done yet” 46:09

🥳 Many people joined Knoble on a voluntary basis after their great Resignation: living life with a purpose is different from just living. 48:31

Connect with Ian: www.theknoble.com

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✅ Mark Fedeli

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🅰️ Andrew Churchill

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Twitter: @FAChurchill

☑️ Courtney Hastings:

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Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

🙅‍♂️ It's not good for capitalism to be filled with false information or even misleading marketing information. 00:35

😮‍💨Jere’s article, negligent behavior towards veterans, and his traumatic experience on 09/11. 03:31

🤯 Taking care of veterans: Effective medicine is being pushed out. 08:40

😢 The suicide rate of veterans is extremely high: 4000 suicides before Veteran’s Day. 11:24

🤓 Studies about MDMA treatment and its effectiveness for helping with PTSD. 13:45

💊 Threat to finances and seeing shifts only when synthesizing herbal drugs is possible. 20:51

✌️ People who are supporting MDMA treatments for veterans. 24:08

🆚 Competition between capitalism and activism. 25:28

😨 Using the data, not the fear: what is the story of the data? 28:01

📂 When data is not aligned with the process. 30:24

🆙 Politics: when there is a will, there is a way. 32:29

🗽 The decision room with all parties involved in the issue: ideas are part of our functioning democracy. 33:54

🐌 Are we using the ground truth to make a decision: Data updates, quality, and handling until it gets into the decision-making room. 36:07

🖱️ Connecting data in one click and solving data loops. 41:07

🛋️ Getting help is needed to get through traumatic experiences. 42:19

🪜 Crossing the last bridge of efficiency: a shift from scarcity to abundance. 46:43

Connect with Jere: www.linkedin.com/in/jeresimpson

Read Jere’s article I’m Not OK: www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-am-ok-need-help-veteransokday-jere-l-simpson-1c

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✅ Mark Fedeli

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🅰️ Andrew Churchill

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Twitter: @FAChurchill

☑️ Courtney Hastings:

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Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

✅ Jim McHugh’s vast experience. 00:35

🤕 Many government agencies are not ready for AI and ML solutions. 04:09

😳 Real visionaries get frustrated and burned out and resign. 06:38

🚚 Supply chains are being rewritten. 07:44

👔 Not enough leaders are empowered. 11:58

👉 Supply management: a production, information, and financial flow. 13:10

🔧 AI and ML is not a panacea for decision-making; it is a tool that can help. 15:19

🕴️ Need to develop leadership intuition: relying too much on technology to make decisions. 18:50

🤔 Understanding the ramifications of a decision before you make it. 21:15

🤓 Can we capture all of that intuition? 24:15

👨‍🦳👨Multigenerational intuition: Get young people sitting alongside boomers. 25:31

💡 AI and ML are increasing confidence. 27:01

💻 Capturing the gut feel and information in boomers and putting it into the digital footprint. 27:59

🤝 Coaching and AI data as a perfect mix for the younger generations. 29:36

🦅 The driver of change is progress: we have to push forward to make sure the USA is safe. 32:11

😇 Our interaction with data is critical: democratize data science and crowdsourcing. 34:32

🧐 Your data source has to be trusted. 36:20

😎 The wisdom of the crowds: Gen Z's are actively involved in crowdsourcing and reviews. 38:43

🥳 A significant moment in the history of BigBear.ai. 41:27

Connect with 

BigBear.ai:  https://bigbear.ai/

Jim McHugh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmchugh/

🔗Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.

✅ Mark Fedeli

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🅰️ Andrew Churchill

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Twitter: @FAChurchill

☑️ Courtney Hastings:

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Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

🌎 Changes in the data world. 02:46

👉 The great resignation and the talent war are not that surprising.  03:19

🏛️ The federal government is the nation's largest employer. 04:53

📋 A need for a centralized dashboard for both comparison and benchmarking purposes. 06:25

📈 Agencies are not using the same HR systems, and a generalized platform would be beneficial. 07:56

🤔 How to bring a more diverse population into the workforce? 10:23

🧑‍💻 We need to grow and include more digital native Gen Z’s into the government workforce. 12:47

🌊 The wave of the future: being more flexible, allowing remote work, and understanding who Gen Z’s really are. 16:20

👴 “My grandfather's workplace”: looking at the changes in the workforce throughout history and accepting the change. 19:15

🤓 Young people don’t know where to apply for government jobs. 23:44

🧱 Is entering the federal government a brick wall? 27:47

▶️ Andrew is hiring for roles in the Qlik team: the labor market is incredibly tight. 29:55

🦾 Matrix structures vs. stifling outdated policies and criteria: creating new organizational structures 32:04

🕵️‍♀️ Are we identifying data literacy as a skill we need? 36:05

❓ How do we quantify data literacy and segment it? 39:14

🖐 From hierarchical to viral or visual: Five things we all need. 42:46

🤩 Monica wants to inspire individuals to serve a greater good. 44:48

🔗Connect with Monica 

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-breidenbach

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✅ Mark Fedeli

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🅰️ Andrew Churchill

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Twitter: @FAChurchill

☑️ Courtney Hastings:

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Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

🤝 How Mark and Femi met. 00:35

🙃 Entrepreneurs, like Femi, give us a different way of looking at disruptions. 01:59

🏈 Femi is a former NFL player. 04:09

☯️ Blending Eastern and Western philosophy and, medicine to maximize his career. 05:17

4️⃣ Four levers of self-health: Survival, information quality, awareness, and traditional health performance metrics. 07:17

🧘‍♂️Health and emotions are connected: Struggling through anxiety with exercising. 10:09

🤗 “We have the ability to heal others and heal ourselves. And when we don't, we ask for help.” 10:51

🎯 Take care of yourself and then of others: “Self-awareness, plus selflessness equals self-actualization” 13:48

🖐 Five stages of survival: Survive, assess, learn, deploy, and share. 15:21

🤕 Mental health drives everything, and non-addressed trauma creates deeper issues. 18:29

📱 HealthReel app: getting body composition assessment on any smart device and the holistic component. 20:57

👆 We normalize sub-optimal living but in reality, it's not normal. 26:01

👌 Femi has heard it all: myths and issues he is addressing in a 52-week health journey. 26:55

🙅 Giving people information, raw data without education, and entertainment value is not enough. 29:30

😎 Government, military, and corporate fitness all can be addressed with the app: b2b, b2c, and direct to consumer approach. 30:21

💚 Breaking things down on a human level--not an occupational level--to help people be better. 34:17

🤯 Preventing depression, obesity, suicide in the military with data from the HealthReel app. 38:14

⚙️ Focus on the NASA algorithm: body fat and corrected BMI. 40:27

📊 Data literacy and evolution of what types of metrics are acceptable. 41:04

🤩 Empowerment for self-health, through data, is so exciting. 43:24

📱 How to get the app? 46:04 

👉 Download HealthReel: www.healthreel.com

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✅ Mark Fedeli

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Twitter: @markfedeli

🅰️ Andrew Churchill

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Twitter: @FAChurchill

☑️ Courtney Hastings:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings

Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

👉 9/11  was a turning point in the government's willingness to try and use data more effectively. 03:16

💫 The pandemic has created a significant turn to data and cultural change within organizations. 04:32

👔 Requirements for data are now being driven much more by the business and not just IT today. 05:28

⏳There are so many new technologies that exist today that make data analytics more powerful.  08:05

💨 Moving to the cloud will enable agencies to move faster, remove technical barriers, and enable better data sharing, ultimately increasing the speed of decisions. 09:35

🤖 There's a vast misunderstanding of AI: building a trustworthy AI pipeline and describing AI in a more tangible way to increase acceptance. 12:11

⚡ The world's going to change in the next five years, and AI will be at the center of it. 14:36

🤨 Challenges faced with large-scale implementations of AI and data in the federal government. 15:44

🚦 Examples of using data and AI from Arizona and Las Vegas. 16:43

💻 About younger generations that are being raised with technology and STEM education. 18:20

😇 The gender gap in companies is going to close: The rise of women in technological fields. 22:01

📊 General inequity is being looked at more closely: Interesting use cases of data to drive change. 26:12

📈 Investing in explainable AI, having confidence in data models, and building foundations. 27:59

🏭 Data integration across all the silos that exist and creating a centralized data fabric is critical. 30:12

🙃 The next level of cognitive capability is coming. 31:51

🙌 All the use cases: from IT, through enterprise, government, defense, etc. 33:52

🎿 Lesson: "Don't get too far over your skis" 35:25

1️⃣ First step: let's get the data integrated to the point that we can get the data into the hands of the decision-makers. 37:58

Connect with Monica McEwen: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/profiles/monica-mcewen.html

Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.

Mark Fedeli

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Twitter: @markfedeli

Andrew Churchill

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Twitter: @FAChurchill

Courtney Hastings:

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Twitter: @chatrhstrategic