In this Women and Wine session, let’s chat about ways to use data to propel your leadership position in today’s business world. Katie Manty, Sloan SM '02 and Barbara Nichols will share some of the tactics that they have employed throughout their careers. They will begin with a 30-minute conversation and then solicit engagement from the audience on their experiences.

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Katie Manty, Sloan SM '02, is Acxiom’s Enterprise Data Strategy Consulting Practice Lead. Her team creates transformative data strategies that emphasize data as a corporate asset. These strategies include the integration, governance, usage, privacy and collaboration of data to drive business goals. Katie’s 25-year career spans technology implementations, data analysis and business growth. Prior to joining Acxiom, she spent 11 years at Fidelity investments in product management, marketing, contact center technology, and customer experience efforts. Katie also spent 9 years at Ernst & Young / Capgemini as a management consulting leading digital application development teams. Katie brings an action-oriented, KPI-focused mindset to her project work.  Katie graduated from MIT Sloan with a Master’s in Management of Technology and from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts double major in computer science and economics. Katie recently earned a Coursera certificate in Applied Data Science in Python.