What Most Data Leaders Get Wrong: Lessons From a Top Data Coach
Presented By
The canvas-based BI tool
HOST
Oliver Hughes
CEO, Count
GUEST
Tristan Burns
Founder, TrisJBurns.com
ABOUT Tristan Burns
Tristan works as a leadership coach and consultant to data leaders in some of the world’s biggest and most well known brands. He's a former senior data leader himself, having operated within a US $1B+ global ecommerce business. He is highly analytical and has over 15 years experience in data, financial analysis and strategy roles.

What Most Data Leaders Get Wrong: Lessons From a Top Data Coach

What Most Data Leaders Get Wrong: Lessons From a Top Data Coach
April 15, 2025
2:00 pm
UK /
9:00 am
US Eastern
LinkedIn Live • YouTube Live
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What causes most data leaders to fail? And how would one of the top coaches around go about putting these things right?

That’s exactly what we address in this episode of More than Numbers Live as Ollie Hughes sits down with top data leadership coach, Tristan Burns. They’ll discuss the most common data leader challenges Tristan sees among his clients—and how to go about solving them.

Drawing on his years in banking, startups, and scale-ups, Tristan unpacks the structural challenges facing modern data teams, from unclear roles to a lack of strategic visibility, and why business acumen, not just technical skills, is the new superpower for data leaders.

Here's what Tristan will cover:

  1. Why understanding company strategy is non-negotiable for data leaders
  2. How becoming more business-minded empowers data specialists
  3. What shadow data teams reveal about unmet demand, and why they need to be unified, not siloed off

If you’re a data leader looking to make a bigger impact, then this episode is for you. Save your spot today to help align your team with your company’s strategy and drive real business value!