Develop data-driven leadership
Learn evidence-based frameworks
Apply skills in real-world scenarios
Empower your leadership with a strategic approach to data. This course builds your capacity to ask better questions, interpret data effectively and drive organisational outcomes with confidence and clarity.
Who will benefit
Course is suitable for
Develop the mindset and capabilities required to lead with confidence in a data rich world. This course equips you with the frameworks, tools and practical insights to harness data strategically transforming business models, enhancing decision quality and delivering greater customer value. Guided by industry experts, you’ll gain the skills to embed data-informed thinking into your leadership approach for sustainable organisational impact.
Gain skills and tools to embed data into leadership practices and confidently navigate today’s data-rich business environment.
Assess your organisation’s data maturity and identify gaps, opportunities and strategies for improved data utilisation.
Learn to critically appraise evidence, ask the right questions and make impactful, informed decisions.
Translate insights into action by aligning data strategies with business goals and transforming your organisation's operations.
Leverage proven, research-based frameworks that help demystify complex data challenges and translate analytical insights into practical, strategic decisions.
Gain access to the insights and guidance of experienced data scientists and industry leaders who bring deep knowledge and real world perspectives to every session.
Engage in interactive workshops, peer to peer learning and dynamic case studies that foster shared insights and practical application in your organisational context.
Benefit from an integrated digital learning environment that supports ongoing development, offering resources to reinforce concepts and extend learning beyond the classroom.
You will emerge as a confident, data-literate leader with the ability to evaluate evidence critically, design and implement practical data strategies and make high impact decisions. By applying a data driven mindset, you will be equipped to lead transformation across your organisation, unlocking new opportunities, improving performance and driving sustained business growth through smarter, evidence-based leadership.
In this course, you will learn how to develop and implement data strategies aligned with organisational goals, assess data maturity and identify opportunities for growth. You will build the skills to critically evaluate the quality of data and evidence, apply ethical frameworks and make informed, strategic decisions. The program equips you to lead data driven transformation, foster a culture of evidence-based management and communicate insights effectively to influence stakeholders. Through practical tools, real world case studies and expert guidance, you’ll gain the confidence to integrate data into leadership practices, drive innovation and navigate complex business challenges in today’s data rich environment.
Course delivery
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This course is delivered across two full days.
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Future thinking – where is my sector and role heading? Evidence-based management: a framework for data-driven leadership and identifying assumptions Ask: Getting the question right (PICOC) Acquire: Collecting evidence |
Transforming your business model through data (BAM) Appraise: Interpreting the quality of evidence (MM) Decision-making and Assessment of outcomes. Ethical considerations Managing and Persuading others with evidence |
By completing this course, you will receive a verifiable digital badge issued by AGSM, certifying your achievement.
The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) will formally recognise your commitment to professional development and lifelong learning with the Certificate in Executive Management and Development (CEMD). The CEMD is a flexible program that allows you to build your leadership capabilities through stackable learning.
A CEMD is a unique pathway to future study that can directly contribute to accelerating the attainment of an AGSM MBA or Graduate Certificate if you choose to embark on this journey in the future. Each time you complete a short course with the AGSM, we’ll award you with CEMD points. CEMD points can be collected and stacked together to create a unique professional development pathway that works for you and your specific career goals.
Once you collect 12 points over a period of up to 4 years you will be awarded the CEMD. The CEMD is a specialised credential and can contribute to 2 course credits towards our AGSM MBA and Graduate Certificate qualifications.
This flexible model supports continuous learning and creates a recognised pathway from short courses to postgraduate qualifications at UNSW's AGSM.
Next steps
Enrol now in Data Driven Leadership, via the AGSM Navigator portal.
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