Louisa Barrett
Chief Data Officer Australia · Global perspective
Making trusted data useful in consequential decisions.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversationA point of view
Trusted data becomes valuable when people can use it responsibly in a decision. I connect ownership, quality and analytical capability to business purpose, with explicit limitations and human accountability for consequential uses.
Decisions in context.
Enterprise data ownership
Business functions were maintaining different versions of a critical performance measure.
Explore the work ↗Decision intelligence
An analytics initiative had produced technically sound outputs that were not part of the management routine.
Explore the work ↗Responsible AI adoption
Teams wanted to move AI experiments into business use without a consistent review process.
Explore the work ↗The leadership record
Trusted with consequential decisions.
In the boardroom
- Westmoor Housing FinanceIndependent Director · 2023 — Present
- The Responsible Data InstituteAdvisory Board Member · 2020 — Present
Recognition
- Data Leader of the YearThe Applied AI Forum · 2024
- Responsible AI AwardThe Technology Leaders Review · 2023
In conversation
- “Governing 220 models without slowing the business”The Applied AI Forum · 2025
- “The board's role in responsible AI”The Boardroom Review · 2024
- “Episode 120 — Data people can trust”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Made our data trustworthy enough to bet decisions on — and honest about where it was not.
An invitation
The most consequential work begins with a conversation.
For board, advisory and leadership conversations where data strategy matters.
- Board appointments
- Advisory roles
- Speaking invitations
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