Episode 4: Amy Avery

Amy Avery’s job is to make data more accessible to her company, but she doesn’t really love the word. Her atypical career start within a creative agency led to her perspective that democratizing data has as much to do with qualitative context as it does quantitative input and output. Amy is the SVP, Head of Analytics, Research and Insights at Bank of America.

In this episode…

3:59 – Switching from agency to client-side within her career
9:01 – Data can’t be everything; it’s art and science
11:55 – You have to pay attention to the human data, the qual with the quant
13:22 – People don’t want data democratization; they want knowledge democratization
14:31 – How does Amy measure success?
19:55 – Data teams can be the connective tissue across different functions
23:02 – Advice for people who are trying to make an impact with data
26:30 – What Amy finds difficult about this role
28:13 – A really good insight comes from tension – how can two things be true?
32:26 – What career advice do you have?
34:58 – Rapid fire questions!