{"id":1529,"date":"2026-02-12T20:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/ldn\/?post_type=seminar&p=1529"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:45:24","slug":"coaching-the-gap-how-data-leaders-can-build-influence-alignment-real-data-culture","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/ldn\/seminars\/coaching-the-gap-how-data-leaders-can-build-influence-alignment-real-data-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching the Gap: How Data Leaders Can Build Influence, Alignment, and a Real Data Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
In technical organisations, it\u2019s common to promote brilliant analysts, engineers and data scientists into leadership roles \u2013 without preparing them to lead. These newly promoted data leaders understand the numbers, the tools, the models \u2013 but often lack the confidence, communication skills and cross-functional influence to land their message. And that\u2019s a cultural gap no stack upgrade can solve.<\/div>\n
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Drawing on 20+ years of experience in analytics and risk leadership, and now coaching senior data leaders and leadership teams across sectors, Alex Patient offers a compelling argument: the key to building a successful data culture isn\u2019t more tech \u2013 it\u2019s more trust, alignment and influence.<\/div>\n
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Using real-world stories from high-stakes projects like the COVID loan schemes at NatWest, and coaching lessons from cross-functional teams, Alex explores how to help technical leaders shift from expert to influencer, align leadership teams around shared understanding of data\u2019s value, use coaching questions to unlock trust, reduce friction, and foster strategic alignment and move from siloed decision-making to team-led, culture-driven impact.<\/div>\n
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  • Why technically brilliant people often struggle in leadership \u2013 and how to help them.<\/li>\n
  • How to diagnose and resolve misalignment in leadership teams using coaching techniques.<\/li>\n
  • A practical set of coaching questions to improve influence and trust across pillars.<\/li>\n
  • The difference between insight delivery and insight impact \u2013 and how to bridge the gap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1529","seminar","type-seminar","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"start_time":"2026-04-23 14:15:00","end_time":"2026-04-23 14:45:00","theatre":635,"speakers":[696],"businesses":""},"yoast_head":"\nCoaching the Gap: How Data Leaders Can Build Influence, Alignment, and a Real Data Culture - Data Decoded LDN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/ldn\/seminars\/coaching-the-gap-how-data-leaders-can-build-influence-alignment-real-data-culture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coaching the Gap: How Data Leaders Can Build Influence, Alignment, and a Real Data Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In technical organisations, it\u2019s common to promote brilliant analysts, engineers and data scientists into leadership roles...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/ldn\/seminars\/coaching-the-gap-how-data-leaders-can-build-influence-alignment-real-data-culture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Data Decoded LDN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DataDecoded\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-12T20:45:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/ldn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/SS005579-DATA-DECODED-LDN-SITE-HEADER-scaled.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@DataDecoded_HQ\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/ldn\/seminars\/coaching-the-gap-how-data-leaders-can-build-influence-alignment-real-data-culture\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/ldn\/seminars\/coaching-the-gap-how-data-leaders-can-build-influence-alignment-real-data-culture\/\",\"name\":\"Coaching the Gap: How Data Leaders Can Build Influence, Alignment, and a Real Data Culture - 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