January 23, 2024

S4 | Ep 12 | Practical Tips on Building an Award Winning Diverse & Inclusive Team with Alex Sidgreaves, Chief Data Officer at Zurich Insurance

53 minutes

In Episode 12, of Season 4, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Alexandra Sidgreaves, Chief Data Officer at Zurich Insurance, where they discuss the practicality of building an award-winning diverse and inclusive, Data & Analytics team, which includes;

Being in an organisation for 19 years
Transforming from a traditional MI function to an end-to-end Data & Analytics function
Moving everything back in-house
Spending a lot of time externally to learn from others
Having the job description of “deliver value through data”
Why they’ve launched their 3rd data strategy
Having internally focused and externally focused strategies
25% tech, 25% value and 50% people
Putting a pound amount value to what they deliver
Why the business doesn’t want to talk about risk or technology, they want to talk about value
The link between D&A success and diversity
Building an award-winning D&A team
Why you need to destroy groupthink and promote positive challenge
Doing 175 interviews and realising they were getting a lot of the same type of applicants
What they changed to attract more diverse individuals and getting 170% more applicants
Why this isn’t about ticking boxes
How a diverse team is simply a by-product of doing the right things
Why organisations mistake Representation and Diversity
The power of apprenticeships and the two ways they’ve used them
The benefits of growing your own talent
Tackling skills shortages
Challenging yourself when identifying the essential versus desirable skills
The misconception that technical data people aren’t able to communicate
Why you don’t need a data translator
The link between diversity and inclusion, and Data and AI ethics
The AI ethics framework and ethical committee they’ve implemented
The key trends predicted from being a governing body member for DataIQ and Evanta

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