What you'll learn

Most leaders are handed data and expected to act on it — but no one teaches them how to interrogate it. Dashboards get accepted at face value, analyses go unchallenged, and decisions get made on metrics that measure the wrong thing. In this course, Data-driven Leadership: Thinking with Data, you'll gain the ability to evaluate data as an argument to be scrutinized rather than an answer to be accepted. First, you'll explore how to deconstruct any metric, spot the moment a presenter's evidence crosses into interpretation, and catch motivated reasoning in your own reading of data. Next, you'll discover how to translate a vague business concern into a question data can actually answer, using a simple framework to define exactly who, what, and over what period you're measuring. Finally, you'll learn how to pre-commit to what would change your decision before any analysis is commissioned, and how to use an AI assistant to pressure-test your questions before anyone pulls a single row of data. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of data-informed decision-making needed to lead with evidence, ask the questions that matter, and own your uncertainty rather than hide it.