#51 The leadership team sport behind data-informed culture
From Make Data Talk by Dr Selena Fisk
April 14, 2026 · 16 min
About this episode
Dr. Selena Fisk discusses the importance of leadership alignment in fostering a data-informed culture within organizations.
In this episode, Dr. Selena Fisk explores data-informed culture and the leadership alignment required to make it stick. She breaks down why middle leaders and middle management can't carry data culture change alone, and why executive sponsorship and middle leader follow-through are essential if an organisation wants data to genuinely shape decisions. Listeners will learn what strong leadership alignment looks like between senior and middle leaders, how misalignment quietly stalls change management , and the practical signals that shift data-informed work from a project into "the way we do things here."
People in this episode
Host: Dr Selena Fisk
Topics covered
- data-informed culture
- leadership alignment
- change management
- executive sponsorship
- middle management
Keywords
- data culture
- leadership
- middle leaders
- executive sponsorship
- organizational change
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