About the Session: Data can help us peek into the future, uncover insights, break through our biases, and amplify our impacts. But we can’t just follow the numbers, because data can’t know where we want to get to or what we are willing to give to do so.
This session will guide you through a values-based framework for making meaningful decisions informed by data and directed by what matters to you and your organization. By starting with core values, building guide rails from those values and resource limits, and aligning data metrics with your mission, you can put data into service to enhance and accelerate the benefits your organization gives your community.
Together we will complete a worksheet that leads you through identifying your own values-based framework for data-informed decisions. We’ll walk through how to identify the relevant values to a key decision, define meaningful and practical constraints, and craft several actionable data points that will clarify your decision.
Intended Audience: Roles with some decision-making authority, from program managers to team leads to execs
About the Presenter: Alexandra Mannerings founded her analytic education and consulting company, Merakinos, to help social enterprises and non-profits harness the power of data. A decade of measuring what matters in low-resource environments from Ghana to Atlanta has taught her how to ask impactful questions of data - even if it's just you in the wilderness. She earned her PhD in Veterinary Science (Epidemiology) from the University of Cambridge, UK, and BSc in Biology from Emory University. She has also run the Data Center at a state hospital association, rowed for the Light Blues against that Other Place, built trails across Colorado parks, and is currently raising two spirited toddlers.
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