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Tristan Burns

I am a data career coach and data consultant with a particular focus on data maturity and culture within organisations. As a coach I help data leaders devise and execute their career growth strategies. As a consultant, I work with individuals and businesses to create data-centric cultures the entire company can get around in order to build data driven organisations.

Leadership

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🧱 Community Service

Feb 19, 2026

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9 min read

🧱 Community Service

Creating alignment across distributed data teams

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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⛓️ Chain reaction

Feb 12, 2026

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10 min read

⛓️ Chain reaction

Exploring the data value chain

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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🚢 Hitchhiker's guide to strategy

Feb 5, 2026

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🚢 Hitchhiker's guide to strategy

Demystifying business strategy for data leaders

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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πŸ¦ΈπŸ»β€β™€οΈ Favourite superhero?

Jan 29, 2026

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9 min read

πŸ¦ΈπŸ»β€β™€οΈ Favourite superhero?

The power of mentoring in data leadership

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

πŸͺ¨ I'm absolutely crushed

Jan 22, 2026

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9 min read

πŸͺ¨ I'm absolutely crushed

Why ad hoc requests destroy data leadership

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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🀞🏼 A tiny ripple of hope

Jan 15, 2026

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🀞🏼 A tiny ripple of hope

And the hidden cost of reactive data teams

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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☒️ Weapon of mass distraction

Jan 8, 2026

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☒️ Weapon of mass distraction

Why data tech and tools are holding you back

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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πŸ₯± They don't care

Dec 18, 2025

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πŸ₯± They don't care

Why data initiatives fail to gather buy in

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
Dumbest one in the room

Dec 11, 2025

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9 min read

Dumbest one in the room

Why hands on leadership may be holding you back

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ What the hell is a data strategy?

Dec 4, 2025

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9 min read

πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ What the hell is a data strategy?

PLUS! Check out my new look newsletter!

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ Can I ask you something?

Nov 27, 2025

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πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ Can I ask you something?

Why data leaders need to have the best questions

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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πŸ’° Margin call.

Nov 20, 2025

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9 min read

πŸ’° Margin call.

Why data leaders should embrace an entrepreneur's mindset.

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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 πŸ—³οΈ Is democracy all that?

Nov 6, 2025

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πŸ—³οΈ Is democracy all that?

When data democratisation becomes a liability.

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
πŸ’πŸ» Talk data to me

Oct 30, 2025

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πŸ’πŸ» Talk data to me

How data teams should speak to business stakeholders.

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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πŸŒͺ️ Caught in a vicious cycle

Oct 23, 2025

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πŸŒͺ️ Caught in a vicious cycle

Why hiring in data is broken. And how to fix it.

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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βš”οΈ You've had your arms chopped off.

Oct 16, 2025

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10 min read

βš”οΈ You've had your arms chopped off.

The 5 key challenges holding data leaders back.

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns

Leadership

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πŸ›£οΈ On a road to nowhere?

Oct 9, 2025

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11 min read

πŸ›£οΈ On a road to nowhere?

Getting intentional about our data careers

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
πŸ‘©πŸΌβ€πŸ’Ό From maker to manager.

Sep 11, 2025

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πŸ‘©πŸΌβ€πŸ’Ό From maker to manager.

The guilt that plagues new leaders in data

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
πŸ‘¨πŸ» I'm Ron Burgundy...?

Sep 4, 2025

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πŸ‘¨πŸ» I'm Ron Burgundy...?

Why many data leaders are reading the wrong script

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
🦹 Villains and turf wars

Aug 28, 2025

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🦹 Villains and turf wars

Dealing with data-phobic stakeholders

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
πŸ”Ÿ Becoming a 10x data leader

Aug 21, 2025

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10 min read

πŸ”Ÿ Becoming a 10x data leader

The key to becoming a valued & strategic data leader.

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
🫨 Stop calling  them "soft skills"

Aug 14, 2025

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🫨 Stop calling them "soft skills"

Why soft skills are the actual hard skills in data leadership.

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
🌏 The time has come (to push the button)

Aug 7, 2025

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🌏 The time has come (to push the button)

From data person to entrepreneur?

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
🦾 Getting in on the action

Jul 31, 2025

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🦾 Getting in on the action

Why data teams need to lead the AI charge

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
πŸ›©οΈ Fighter pilot or data analyst?

Jul 24, 2025

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πŸ›©οΈ Fighter pilot or data analyst?

What data people can learn from fighter pilot training

Tristan Burns
Tristan Burns
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