Data Transformation begins with Cultural Humility

Overview | Culture, Conflict & Change

A Leadership Workshop for Data Professionals

🧠 Why This Course Exists

Even in high-performing data teams, the real friction isn’t in the code or the tech—it’s in the conversations that aren’t happening.

This course is for leaders sensing tension in the room: the resistance no one can name, the team member who goes silent, the smart initiative that stalls with no clear culprit.

Most change efforts fail not because the strategy was wrong, but because the culture couldn’t carry it.

This workshop gives you the tools, language, and reflection space to diagnose misalignment and lead through complexity with clarity—not control.

If you’ve ever wondered:

  • Why your team avoids hard conversations

  • Why your governance efforts feel performative, not grounded

  • Why your data culture isn’t delivering the insight you expected

Then the signal isn’t failure. It’s misalignment. And this course will help you surface it.

🔍 What You'll Learn

  • How to use the Waterline Model to map surface behaviors to deeper patterns

  • What emotional lopsidedness is—and how it quietly shapes performance

  • Why values drift happens in principled people and organizations

  • How to recognize when silence is a strategy—and how to break it

  • How to lead reflectively in moments of ambiguity, resistance, or complexity

🗓 Course Format

  • 4 Weeks

  • 8 Live Sessions (90 minutes each)

  • Peer Dialogue + Reflective Prompts

  • Optional Capstone: Systems Case Study Challenge

All sessions are recorded. Each week includes:

  • A leadership tension or cultural paradox to examine

  • Stories and cases from real-world systems work

  • A tool or practice you can try with your own team

  • A complete workbook of concepts

  • FREE book with the course

These aren’t passive sessions. They’re structured Courage Breaks—designed to slow down the moment before a pattern repeats.

👤 Who It's For

This course is for:

  • Leaders managing high-functioning teams where something still feels off

  • Data professionals trying to protect clarity, trust, or values under pressure

  • People doing the emotional labor of holding a team together during change

  • Internal advisors navigating organizational drift, politics, or silence

Technical background not required—but a willingness to think systemically is a must.

🧾 Outcomes + Takeaways

By the end of this course, you’ll:

  • Understand how emotional patterns become organizational patterns

  • Learn to diagnose team resistance as signal, not failure

  • Build language to talk about trust, fear, silence, and conflict with precision

  • Use reflection as a leadership skill, not a luxury

  • Lead teams through change without sacrificing values or clarity

You’ll leave with more than insight. You’ll leave with a practice of pause that protects what matters.

🎓 Led by Christine Haskell, PhD

Christine is a graduate lecturer, author, and researcher on values-based leadership and decision-making in data-rich environments. She brings 30 years of experience leading information management initiatives across tech, government, and education—helping teams lead with clarity, not just capacity. She has also advised from the leadership development perspective, developing programs for culture change, coaching programs, and talent management.

💬 Questions? Custom Cohort? Group Access?

If you're considering this course for your team—or just want to know if it’s the right fit for your leadership season—reach out.

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