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

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