PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT | PACIFIC HEIGHTS CONSULTING
Lawrence Gingold
Senior business and data architect and strategy consultant with an extensive career delivering enterprise-scale transformation across financial services, health, consumer, and government sectors.
Recognised for rapidly diagnosing ambiguity, deconstructing complex operating and data environments, and shaping pragmatic strategies that deliver measurable commercial, risk, and compliance outcomes. A trusted advisor on enterprise data management, governance, regulatory reporting, customer data platforms, and operating model design, with a strong track record of improving data quality, integrity, and access to trusted information.
Has led major transformation initiatives including regulatory and industry reporting programs, enterprise data governance frameworks, customer data platform operating models, legacy system and personally identifiable information risk remediation, and new business and product operating models. Known for embedding governance, data integrity, and compliance into delivery rather than treating them as afterthoughts.
Brings a rare combination of financial management, strategy, enterprise architecture, data governance, and delivery leadership, enabling strong alignment between business outcomes and technology investment. Highly collaborative, with a reputation for building cross-functional teams and working effectively with all stakeholders.
Holds an MBA in Financial Management, a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Economics, and Prosci ADKAR certification, and is a member of the International Institute of Business Analysis and BP Trends Forum.
Presentation: Think Data, Deliver Value
As the expectation of an organisation to deliver more real-time response to activities and as AI pushes that boundary even further and faster, it becomes clear that data itself, its governance, its structure and its management has been lagging. At the same time, it is an organisation’s most valuable resource in delivering the business outcomes.
The presentation objective is to introduce you to how you as a BA can add significant value by interjecting data principles and requirements into programs of work and projects from beginning to the end.
What I hope you take away: a sense of urgency.
• Why Data Matters — Data as the lifeblood of business
• How BAs Impact the Outcome — From business information to data
• Key Concepts of Data — Governance, PII, traceability & more
• What You Can Do — Practical actions for the BA
• Helpful Hints