Data Culture conversation with data leader and Tableau Ambassador Fi Gordon

People are at the heart of any thriving Data Culture, including the Data Leadership Collaborative (DLC). The DLC connects like-minded leaders along the journey to creating data-driven organizations. 

In our conversation series with DLC community members, we sat down with JLL’s Global Director of BI Strategy, Tableau ambassador, and Tableau user group leader, Fi Gordon, to talk about the importance of shared values, diversity, and integrity and why data leadership is table stakes for any great Data Culture.

Want to build a Data Culture? Started with shared values

Fi is the global director of BI Strategy at JLL, a global corporate real estate company, a Tableau ambassador, and co-lead of the Sydney Tableau User Group. Fi has been a part of the Tableau community for eight years, but her journey in data began over 20 years ago and her passion for data visualization is still as strong as ever. 

We talked with Fi about the importance of diversity when building a Data Culture. We’re bound together by a common set of values, says Fi, “so the most important thing in a Data Culture is to share those common set of values.”

As a leader, Fi strives to cultivate shared values and vision within her team and organization, to help hold her team accountable and give them concrete goals to work towards. Her extensive background in data leadership has helped to define that north star for her team to benchmark from as well as encouraging and enabling the team’s ability to make data-driven decisions. 

After all, she says, “If they can prove why they’re making decisions to their peers and why they need to make those decisions, it’s a much easier conversation than just ‘I think’ or ‘I feel.’”
 

Get connected

Follow Fi on Twitter, Linkedin, and Tableau Public. 

Check out the rest of our conversation series, then get to know more members of the Data Leadership Collaborative. The DLC community brings diverse perspectives and experiences, establishes valuable relationships, and builds a supportive network of other data leaders that empowers the community to redefine what’s possible—wherever they are in their data journey. 

Learn more about the Data Leadership Collaborative, and follow the DLC on Twitter and LinkedIn.