SUMMARY

Consultant and author Christine Haskell helps organizations understand the human skills needed for effective Data Skills are the critical lever enabling the social circuitry of organizations.

Location:

Seattle, WA

Gender:

Female, She/Her

Available For:

remote or Face-to-face interviews

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Thought leader, author, and trusted advisor Christine Haskell helps organizations and individuals drive meaningful, sustainable change by cultivating strong data cultures and leadership practices. In recent years, her time has been spent writing, presenting, and consulting on incorporating the concepts of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and data effectiveness into project and change management for sustainable culture change.

Christine is the author of the book Driving Effective Data Projects: A comprehensive guide. The interest in Driving Effective Data Projects speaks to a pent-up need for more sustainable, connected, and intentional practices between data teams and business stakeholders that contribute not only to their own bottom lines but to the greater good of their partner ecosystems.

Christine’s work provides a unique approach that challenges traditional project and change management views and creates a new paradigm for technology-driven leadership firmly anchored in the business strategy perspective. She is passionate about data-driven transformations and believes in "data governance by design."

Christine provides new insights each week at DrivingDataProjects.com, contributing to many forward-thinking print and online publications.

Christine Haskell is a Leader in Information Management with 28+ years of experience advising leading technology organizations on leveraging data to build and sustain a competitive advantage. Christine has driven projects spanning data technology, quality and lineage, executive reporting, and governance. She has a master’s in Applied Behavior, Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology, and is certified in program management, change management, and executive coaching. Christine teaches graduate courses in informatics at Washington State University’s Carson School of Business and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Washington’s iSchool. She is a published author; her research focuses on values-based leadership, problem-solving, and adult learning, and data skills as a critical lever enabling the social circuitry of organizations.

Driving Self-Awareness, Driving Results Through Others, Principles of Success, Making Data Projects Work, Importance of Ambidexterity/Adaptability, Ruthless Prioritization, Developing Systems for Consistency, Cultivating Collaboration, Cultivating Partnership Ecologies, Data Translation, Data Governance (and AI), Data Strategy (and AI), Data Skills/Human Skills

  1. What are the most common mistakes data professionals make when delivering results?

  2. What are the hidden costs of miscommunication between business and analytic teams?

  3. What happens when business and technology teams lack trust?

  4. When to use the 5Whys v Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle “Why” — and why? :-) (interpersonal awareness, storytelling)

  5. What common traps do business leaders fall into, and how can they avoid them?

  6. What is a data translator, and why does your organization need one?

  7. Why do over 80% of data projects fail?

  8. How can we create a governance forum that truly engages and motivates the stakeholder group?

  9. Why do we need to tell a more holistic data story (and why only valuing data teams on cost reduction undervalues them)?

  10. What is an ordinary, overlooked skill that causes data projects to fail?

    BONUS: Should CDOs know how to code?