Overview

Wendy Turner-Williams joins us to share her inspiring story.  She used her layoff as a pivoting point to start a community to bring people together.  She shares insights with the tech layoffs happening in this current time. Wendy also chats about the similarities of being a CDO and creating a community. 

About Wendy Turner-Williams

In her role as Chief Data Officer, Wendy manages Enterprise Data Strategy, Data Platforms & Services, Data Governance & Management Maturity, Data Risk, and Data Literacy. Wendy and her team are charged with helping fuel data-driven business innovation, transformation, and operational excellence across all areas of Tableau’s business.  

She joined Tableau after several years with parent company Salesforce, leading the Information Management & Enterprise Data Strategy.  She also worked at Microsoft in both Bing/Ads and Azure driving data strategy and data platform as a service. Wendy has over 20 years of data, strategy, business applications, process automation and management experience - spanning multiple business segments. Wendy graduated from Oklahoma State University with a B.A. in European History. 

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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-turner-williams-8b66039/

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