About

 

Who We Are

Dative.works is a training and advisory studio helping leaders hold the line between data, systems, and values.

We operate at the intersection of technology, behavior, and governance—supporting organizations that want to move fast, but not blindly. Our founder, Christine Haskell, brings three decades of experience in data leadership, organizational psychology, and systems design to help people navigate complexity with clarity and courage.

We serve change agents: data leaders, educators, policymakers, technologists, and social sector innovators. People who know that the hardest part of transformation isn’t knowing what’s right—it’s acting on it, especially under pressure.

We’re not a consultancy that hands you a playbook and walks away. We’re a partner for the long game—where reflection becomes a leadership discipline, and courage becomes part of the system.

What We Do

We offer:

  • Reflective Leadership Training.
    Modular, research-based workshops that help leaders pause, think with discernment, and design with integrity. Our core programs—Lead From Within, Lead With Insight, and Move With Intention (coming soon!)—develop ethical awareness, systems fluency, and adaptive decision-making at scale.

  • AI + Data Governance Readiness.
    We help teams ask better questions—not just “Can we do this?” but “Should we?” Our frameworks support alignment across product, policy, and practice, especially in data-rich, risk-sensitive environments.

  • Thought Leadership + Strategic Advisory.
    Christine is the author of Driving Your Self-Discovery and Driving Data Projects, and publishes the Lead With Alignment newsletter. Through writing, speaking, and facilitation, we help leaders name the dilemmas they’re facing—and the ones they’re avoiding.

    We don’t chase hype cycles. We build discernment.
    In an era where AI is adopted faster than it’s understood, that’s not a nice-to-have. It’s infrastructure.

What We're About

We believe leadership isn’t defined by heroic decisions.
It’s shaped in quiet moments—between the data and the decision, between the outcome and the value.

That’s where real leadership happens:
when people slow down, think clearly, and keep their values in the room.

We call those moments Courage Breaks—small, intentional pauses that interrupt autopilot and restore alignment.

A few core commitments guide our work:

  • Self-awareness is a systems skill.
    Most misalignment doesn’t begin with malice. It begins with inattention.

  • Reflection is a form of resistance.
    Especially in organizations that reward speed over sense-making.

  • Governance is not a constraint.
    Done well, it’s a design for integrity.

  • Values don’t drift on their own.
    People drift from them—when pressure builds, when incentives skew, when no one is watching.
    Our work is to bring them back into the room..

Why Dative?

In grammar, the dative case marks the recipient of something given, taught, or told. It’s a quiet structure of generosity—used when something is offered for the benefit of another. That’s what leadership is, too: the transmission of meaning, responsibility, and care.

We chose Dative because leadership, at its core, is an act of transmission.

Dative.works exists to help people build systems that remember that.
Because values don’t scale on their own—they have to be intentionally designed in.