Women Lead Data

About Women Lead Data

Women Lead Data is an investigation into the underrepresentation of female leadership in the data industry. Join Lindsay Murphy as she learns from women in leadership roles in the data industry, uncovers helpful tips and advice for overcoming barriers to growth, and maybe even inspires those who are curious about entrepreneurship in the data industry to take the leap! Subscribe to make sure you don’t miss our new episodes.

Publisher

Lindsay Murphy

Category

business · education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Dec 2023

Latest episode

2 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

26 of 30 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Apr 2025

   Finding your Layer of the "Data Cake" with Akia Obas of Netlify

   We're kicking off season 2 of the podcast with a bang! In this episode, I’m joined by Akia Obas, Senior Director of Data, Insights, and GTM Business Systems at Netlify. We dive into her career journey—from econometrics to data leadership—and discuss how company size and reporting structure can influence your path. Akia shares her insights on how joining a startup allowed her to “own the whole cake” (from data pipelines and infrastructure to insights and influencing the business) and how sel...

2. 

   8 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Building a Unicorn Data Team with Veronika Durgin of Saks

   In this episode, I’m joined by Veronika Durgin, VP of Data at Saks, to learn more about her leadership journey in the data industry. Veronika shares more about her career journey: how she got into data from a background in biology, spent several years working in DBA roles at well-known companies like Monster, Vistaprint, and HubSpot, and then moved into broader leadership roles in data. We talked a bit about her experience starting a family while managing full-time work and completing a maste...

3. 

   27 Nov 2024TRANSCRIPT

   The Value of Data Literacy with Elizabeth Gilbert of Duo

   Elizabeth Gilbert of Duo shares her leadership journey and emphasizes the value of data literacy for business success and career growth in the data industry.

Inside a recent episode

Building a Unicorn Data Team with Veronika Durgin of Saks

Published 8 Jan 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And startups are great in a lot of ways, but I do think there's a bit of a trend where, you know, you can't know everything, but maybe you're the only person running a data stack. And so then you've just got to go buy all of these abstractions and all of these tools and stick them all together. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

33

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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