You took this role because someone needed to deliver. The strategy. The transformation. The thing the company hired you to make real. Then six months in, the org isn't moving. The deck is correct. The team is in place. And you're carrying it alone. We've helped data leaders ship that work at CEFCU, Blount, Williams Lea, Kraft Heinz, McLarens, and the firms in our customer stories. The Data Strategy Workshop is where it starts.
30 minutes. No prep. No deck. You leave with a clear read on what's actually blocking your transformation, and one move you can make Monday.
Not consulting. Not a vendor.
XenoDATA partners with data leaders to deliver. Embedded methodology, AI-augmented governance, and the operator perspective that connects what you're doing to what your stakeholders care about. We're not handing you a deck and leaving.
What we actually do
We help you build the political capital you need, ship the beachhead use case that proves the value, and parlay every win into the mandate to advance. Same operator. Same methodology. Same engagement until the transformation lands.
What you walk away with
VP of Data · Head of Data · CDO
You took this role 0 to 24 months ago. You've built the deck. You have the strategy. The org isn't moving the way you need it to. Thirty minutes is enough to figure out why, and what to do first.
This is a working session, not a pitch. You bring the situation. We figure out where the leverage is.
A clear read on what's blocking you.
The actual reason your strategy isn't shipping. Not "you need executive sponsorship" - the named bottleneck specific to your org and your stakeholders.
Your beachhead use case.
The first thing to ship that proves the value. Where the political capital is real, the business case is unambiguous, and the outcome lets you advance. You leave with a one-page summary you can put in front of your sponsor.
A move you can make Monday.
A specific action: one stakeholder conversation, one piece of analysis, one alignment move that shifts the org's posture before the next workshop.
Learn more about the workshop
Taylor walks through what the session actually looks like, what you'll leave with, and why 30 minutes is enough to change what happens next.
Why this work is hard from the inside
The strategy isn't the bottleneck. The team isn't the bottleneck. The bottleneck is almost always the same: stakeholders who don't move, sponsors who half-engage, and political capital that runs out before the first real win lands.
You can't fix that with another deck or another framework. You need someone who's done it, and who knows how to make you the person who delivers, not the person who hires the consultant who delivered it for them.
Book a Data Strategy Workshop →How this actually works
Data leaders who ship the transformation aren't the ones with the best decks. They're the ones who get sponsored, win the beachhead, and earn the mandate to advance. The work is to do those three things in order, faster than the org expects.
In their words
Before the engagement
"My data team is a glorified service desk. For me, it's a weight that's there every day. I would finish a day of work and I'm like, I'm screwed. I have to do a data strategy, a technology strategy, figure out how to prioritize things, the structure of my team — basically, where to start."
After two months
"It's a little bit more of a weight lifted off because I actually see some light at the end of the tunnel now. It's less anxiety and less stress at the end of the day because I at least know we're moving forward and not stuck in one spot. Look at what we've done in 2 months."
TJ Polak
Director of Data and Technology, Blount Fine Foods
Before the engagement
"The biggest challenge was just trying to get our arms around what the problem is. I'm very comfortable with tackling problems — but with data, I saw a lot of different perspectives on what the problem actually was, and I didn't always have the language to name that. It often felt like we were trying to throw a solution at a problem and see if it stuck."
After the engagement
NPS: 10/10"You can start to figure out where your best intervention is going to come from. How you can make the biggest difference with the least resources. NPS — 10 out of 10."
Jen Flexer
VP, Analytics & Governance and Data Strategy, CEFCU
Data leaders who shipped
Data Management
Paulo Santiago
Kraft Heinz
"You identified $30 million of problems. We have $6 million in cost reduction in projects that are completely executable. People would bring me technology solutions, but I was still left alone to drive the change by myself — that's what changed."
Data Strategy Lead
Jen Barclay
McLarens
"You found something from nothing, and that nothing ended up being millions of dollars of benefit. When I speak to you, everything's chaos — and then we have a conversation, and you bring it back to the one core point for me to focus on."
Data & Analytics Product Manager
Jon Kugel
Williams Lea
"In 2 months, we've turned a single HR use case into a million-dollar opportunity, and brought clarity to our CTO, CEO, and head of HR. There are millions of dollars of problems that are completely unseen within businesses because they're not looking at data management the right way."
Global Data Leadership
Rodrigo Sabato
Global Director, AB InBev
"Identified millions of dollars of improvements directly attributed to improved data management."
175,000 employees · 50 countries · $2M in annual data waste eliminated
A note from Taylor
I've been the data leader. I know what it's like to walk into a strategy meeting with a deck that's correct, watch everyone nod, and walk out knowing nothing's going to ship. I led the analytics work at Williams Lea that became part of how the firm sells. I've helped data leaders at Kraft Heinz, CEFCU, Blount, McLarens, and others ship their transformations.
The reason this works isn't methodology. It's that I've been on your side of the desk and I know what makes the difference between a strategy that ships and one that stays in the deck. Most of it isn't technical. It's how you build the political capital and how you sequence the wins.
If the fit is right, you'll get a partner who knows the work, will tell you what you need to hear, and will help you become the person who delivered the transformation, not the person who outsourced it.
Taylor Culver
Founder & CEO, XenoDATA™
The proof
These aren't hypothetical benefits. They're real results from data teams who started with the same conversation.
7yr
Longest client relationship
$55M+
Measurable outcomes identified
759+
Business stakeholders engaged
We figure out what's blocking you. You leave with a read, a beachhead, and one move to make Monday. If a longer engagement is the right next step, we'll know by the end of the workshop.
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