#65 Using the Love@Work Method to Improve Workplace Culture with Olivia Parr-Rud – Speaker, Award-Winning Author, and Data Scientist

Olivia is an internationally known thought-leader, speaker, best-selling and award-winning author, and a data scientist who focuses on the interplay between technology, corporate leadership, and personal growth and happiness.  Throughout her career, she has blended analytic tools and holistic organizational practices to deliver successful solutions for her clients. As a lifelong spiritual seeker, Olivia began to see patterns that revealed the importance of love as a driver of business success. In this episode, Olivia explains why she changed her major to statistics in grad school. Once she completed her degree, she joined a bank in San Francisco. Olivia built a model using logistic regression for the bank. It saved the company 17 million dollars a year in mail expense, making her an instant hero. Her desktop computer had a 500-megabyte hard drive when she was running SAS she couldn’t get into any other programs. Financial services had a vibrant climate for modelling because the behavioral data was so reliable. Behavioral data is so powerful because if a person has done something before, they are more likely to do it again. Enjoy the show! We speak about: [01:40] How Olivia started in the data space   [07:50] Data in the financial services industry  [08:50] Oliva’s career history   [13:35] Starting a consulting business  [17:10] Tips for explaining data science to non-technical people [18:30] Becoming a published author  [24:45] Learning about Holacracy   [29:00] Balancing Holacracy and teamwork  [31:40] Combing data and human skills  [40:20] The Love@Work Method [47:15] One of Oliva’s professional fails    [51:10] Using LEAP (love, energy, audacity, and proof) [54:30] Following our intuitions  Resources: Oliva’s Website: www.lovemakeityourbusiness.com Data Science Consulting: www.oliviagroup.com  My Big ‘Why’ - https://tinyurl.com/LOVENEWCOMPETITIVEEDGE LOVE@WORK now available at https://tinyurl.com/OLIVIAPRLOVEATWORK - A Silver Nautilus Book Award-Winner  The LOVE@WORK MethodTM now available at https://tinyurl.com/TheLOVE-WORKMethod What is your Corporate Love Quotient? Find out here www.corporatelovequotient.com  Oliva’s Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoveMakeItYourBusiness/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliviagroup/ Twitter handle: #OliviaParrRud   YouTube: www.OliviaOnYouTube.com Instagram: Love.MakeItYourBusiness Now you can support Data Futurology on Patreon!   https://www.patreon.com/datafuturology