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W3: Sustainable Change Leadership

Thursday, June 6, 2024
08:30 AM - 04:00 PM
All Levels

Building a sustainable data governance program takes more than policies, processes, and standards. It requires cultural change to design new ways of working and make them stick. This workshop focuses on the human side of change, bringing together industry best practices, proven techniques, and case studies of successful change efforts. At the end of this session, participants will be equipped with resources to lead successful enterprise change efforts.

We will focus on practical approaches and tools needed to:

  • Align on future state and immediate next steps
  • Build stakeholder engagement despite limited resources
  • Create effective communication plans
  • Describe value in meaningful ways
  • Effectively mobilize executive sponsors
  • Evolve from an initiative to an organizational function


Becky Lyons

Becky Lyons

Principal Consultant
First San Francisco Partners

Becky Lyons, PhD, is a Principal Consultant at First San Francisco Partners. Her work focuses primarily on navigating the organizational and cultural issues around enterprise data management. She leads teams of all sizes to implement and manage systematic and sustainable data management strategies that create value through data. With an eye toward organizational improvement, she engages and empowers leaders to reach better decisions faster with trusted data. Her work is informed by a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Institutional Analysis from North Dakota State University, her thought leadership in Organizational Change Management, and a passion for helping individuals succeed. Becky is a thought leader in the area of data governance and organizational change management, regularly speaking at conferences and writing for industry publications and the FSFP blog.

Teri Hinds

Teri Hinds

Lead Consultant
First San Francisco Partners

Creating foundations of trusted data to guide our decisions is a consistent thread throughout my career. Building on decades of data-related work in higher education, I bring a broad perspective to data management conversations. Integrating my graduate studies in social service administration into my approach to project implementation enables me to work fluidly with leaders from a variety of sectors, combining change management and project management techniques to truly aid in successful organizational change.