May 26, 2017
We are excited to announce our next event which will see Women in Data (WID) back in Sydney. Join us for a topical networking session, “Stakeholder101: How to Communicate Data” – how you can use the data journey in your organisation to improve relationships between your tech and business stakeholders. The key learnings for the evening will include:
Key Learnings from WID:
- Providing ongoing feedback
- Planning and managing between multiple agencies and stakeholders
- Creating flexibility
- Building trust
- Developing the soft skills of Data Analysts
- Taking your client on a data journey where data is used as an educator and enabler
- Increasing the data literacy of people with a non-data background.
The evening will offer valuable insights from the client and agency perspective – Monica Ikladios from Toyota and Gina Papapetrou, Senior Data Strategist, from MercerBell.
What you need to know about our speakers
Who is Gina Papapetrou?
With a Mathematics background, Gina has over ten years’ experience in commercial analysis. Gina’s experience spans across the Finance Industry having worked in banking, insurance and superannuation. In all her roles Gina has focussed on customer retention and acquisition through improving the marketing communications, the customer experience at all customer touchpoints and building a Data-driven culture. Gina’s role at MercerBell is focussed on helping organisations use their data strategically to improve their customer experience and their brand positioning in the market.
What will Gina be presenting at WID?
Gina’s job is to ensure that the Data team is enabling business decisions underpinned by data insights. To ensure they get this right every time, she focusses on building a team that understands the value of data and TMCA’s objectives; this is done through the following fundamental principles:
- Building Trust on the Data Analysis which is done.
- Treating TMCA as if they are our employer and that their success is our success
- Working transparently with other TMCA partners and treating them as colleagues
- Focussing on ensuring good communication through the lifecycle of a project
- Effective planning and project management
- Enable project learnings and evaluations to constantly improve how we work
Who is Monica Ikladios?
Monica Ikladios is passionate about Strategy and Technology and has an IT background that spans 20 years. Monica has been with Toyota Motor Corporation Australia for 15 years and is currently the National Manager for CRM, Data and Loyalty.
What will Monica be presenting at WID?
Monica’s talk is about how to effectively use Data to drive business objectives and the way Toyota does that:
- Treating suppliers as partners and calling them partners, the small word change, changes the way business is done significantly.
- Sharing ideas with partners to work towards a common goal.
- Treating partners as experts to enable the drive towards to the common goal.
- Holding collaboration sessions with partners.
- Through collaboration building trust with partners.
- Ensuring collaboration is agile to get everyones’ ideas
- Data underpins all decisions
Who is Leisha Morrison?
Having worked closely with several organisations and particularly in data and analytics, Leisha identified the lack of women in data-centric leadership roles. Her experience in the data industry, in general, lead her to realise there was a need to build a community of like-minded professionals aiming at creating gender diversity in data analytics and data science teams.
Leisha is keen to educate businesses on positive discrimination and how this can be so detrimental to an organisation’s image and branding. Through mentoring and knowledge sharing, she believes that positive discrimination can be eradicated to move forward and foster change for the next generation of analysts.
What will Leisha be presenting at WID?
Leisha will be presenting on how she engages and communicates with data professionals of all levels to get to the core of their motivation for success. Main objectives covered will be:
- Communicating honestly and openly
- Identifying pain points for hiring managers and understanding what gaps filled will ensure success
- Understanding technical competencies and business relevance
- Building trust and rapport
- Identifying areas of success from small pieces of information
- Assessing and understanding personality to match culture fits
To find out more about this event and past events please visit the Women In Data website
Tickets are still available, however, are limited. Click here to secure your ticket today.
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