Considerable time and effort are devoted to developing and executing a data governance strategy.

However, effective, and sustained communication is an often-overlooked critical factor. To formalize and foster a data-driven program and culture, organizations must remember to communicate clearly and often to drive buy-in and promote a two-way governance dialogue.

Topics Covered:

• Why DG communication is important at all stages from program kick-off to business-as-usual
  • Awareness/transparency/accountability
  • Change management
  • Empowering, identifying, and motivating stewards (data heroes)
• Different types of DG communication
  • General Awareness: what DG is and what it looks like within your organization (will differ based on the maturity of DG function) – the primary focus of this session
  • Specific Updates: targeted to DG initiatives and stewards/owners (calls to action)
• Components of CLEAR communication with examples to use
  • Creative: across multiple channels
  • Lingo-free
  • Efficient: get stewards and corporate comms involved
  • Applicable: connect the dots
  • Regular

Speaker:  Valerie Calvo

Data Governance Manager, CBRE Investment Management

Valerie Calvo is a Data Governance Manager for CBRE Investment Management. She directly supports data-driven ambitions by setting and realizing the firm’s Data Governance strategy and championing data democratization. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring consistent practices by creating policies, standards, and processes for metadata management, reference data, and data quality management.

Prior to joining CBRE IM, Valerie led a team responsible for the design and implementation of semantic models, reference data, taxonomies, and master data inventories as well as the enterprise adoption of data management practices at Bloomberg LP.

Valerie is a CDMP and holds Certificates in the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) v2.2 (EDM Council) and Advanced Data Analytics (General Assembly). She is also an attorney admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.