In episode 4 of our “Bitesize Insights for Data-Driven Leaders” Series, Jeanne Holm is the Chief Data Officer at her hometown, the City of Los Angeles. She works at the cross-section of civic innovation, open data, and education, addressing issues ranging from homelessness to digital equity technology innovation, data and analytics, and public-private partnerships.

As CDO, Jeanne focuses on taking data, like the number of people trained in the city’s workforce centers or how sustainable their practices are, and making it available and accessible to the taxpayers. To enable this, she works with individuals within the government that are not data scientists, and provides support and data literacy training in order to facilitate their understanding on  how to structure, manage and put context around data. She also cooperates with entities outside the government, like academic researchers, businesses, and advocacy groups who want to use the data but need the information and context around it.

Quotes:

• "The thing that connects all of these different pieces is wanting to tell stories that help people create different actions."
• "A Chief Data Officer focuses on organising and helping to bring out the data from different parts of the organisation and then either to make it easier to share within the organisation or to also share that out with the public."
• "If you set the directions, set the pace, and support people and are compassionate to their own issues; I think you can build and lead an amazing group of people."

Read the full episode summary here: Episode #132 Enjoy Jeanne Holm in our “Bitesize Insights for Data-Driven Leaders” Series!