S3 | Ep 21 | Building a Successful Data Academy with Hannah Davies, Head of Data Academy at Admiral Group

Driven by Data: The Podcast

In Episode 21 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Hannah Davies, Head of Data Academy at Admiral Group, where they discuss what it takes to build an effective Data Academy, which includes;

• The importance of stakeholder engagement
• Why it’s always about people
• The journey of building a Data Academy community of 700 people
• Why a Data Academy is so much more than training
• Why the first hire into the Data Academy was an engagement and content officer
• Having the ability to remove silos
• Why data is the answer
• The force that brings together; literacy, adoption, upskilling, development, community
• The different ways of working with different sizes of data teams
• Being a great place to work for data professionals
• The importance of giving people a way to engage without forcing it on them
• The 5 key pillars of the Data Academy
• Why the element of community is her proudest achievement
• What the community is made up of
• How to cater for different audiences
• Why many people have “taught fear”
• Removing the barrier of making a business decision with data
• How to change mindset and build confidence
• The difference between data training and data culture
• Tackling culture, adoption and literacy
• Things to think about if you’re in the process of building a Data Academy
• Upskilling, reskilling and retention