In Episode 49 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Karen Jean-Francois, Analytics Manager at Cardlytics, where they discuss how people can craft the career they want in Data & Analytics, her humbling career journey so far and how she overcame imposter syndrome, which includes;

• Moving from the Caribbean to Paris to London
• Her struggles of living away from home & her family
• The transition from performing at the European Championships into the world of Data
• Why she hosts the Women In Data Podcast
• How she was awarded the 20 in Data & Technology 2020
• Why she struggled to find her place & voice
• The importance of role models and networking on her career
• How she joined Cardlytics as the only female in the team
• Why she had a huge case of Imposter Syndrome and how she overcame it
• How she realised it was all in her own mind
• Why it prevented her from being promoted despite knowing she was doing great work
• The importance of opening up about Imposter Syndrome
• Why company culture is so important to deal with Imposter Syndrome
• How to go from diagnosis to action (to start addressing the problem)
• The journey from introvert with imposter syndrome to winning industry awards and podcast host
• The technical V commercial debate
• How she almost quit Data & Analytics to become a pastry chef
• That she realized that she had so far let others decide what my career would look like
• The importance of owning your own career and defining what you want it to be
• Her top questions for crafting your career:

1. Where are you at today?
2. Where would you like to be and why?
3. What's stopping you from getting there?
4. How are you going to overcome these blockers?

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