Data Leadership is Now ‘Brilliant People, Exceptional Teams’

Making brilliant people work brilliantly together

Data leadership is my background. When I first started creating content, it’s what I thought I would write about.

But instead, I found myself speaking about how to build exceptional teams and grow the brilliance within the people in them. In mentoring sessions, I helped other leaders find what makes them brilliant and work through the complex and hard parts of leadership.

So here we are — I am now writing about Brilliant People, Exceptional Teams.

Tomorrow, I’ll drop my article on “Incompetent Leaders” — those who disrupt and destroy everything we try to accomplish here.

Following that, I’m going to focus on providing practical frameworks for building high-morale, high-agency teams. Think: diagnostic tools for team dysfunction, systematic approaches to 1:1s, and processes for turning individual contributors into collaborative powerhouses.

Here’s a taster of future posts:

• Performance growth, not management

• Supercharging your team by keeping everyone in their creates-energy zones

• How to increase your impact and influence

• Why retrospectives are the most important growth process for your team — and how to run them

• How to excel in your first 90 days in a new role

• Giving your team clarity — and how not to do OKRs

• Questions to ask when you ‘interview’ your next company

• Ways to show your brilliance in a cover letter and CV

I’m also setting up conversations with people I think are brilliant, and sharing how they drive large impact at their companies. I think you will love it, and we will both get to learn a lot from them.

Thanks for being here through Data Leadership. There’s much more to come, and I hope you stick around for this next chapter.

Let me know what you think and what you’re looking forward to! You can respond to this email, it will reach me 😉