The Executive Who Quietly Changed How the World Sees Data
Ever been in a meeting where every report says something different? Marketing swears by one number, finance has another, and IT insists the dashboard is fine. By the end of it, everyone’s frustrated and no one knows what’s true anymore. That’s the world Danette McGilvray has spent more than two decades fixing. She doesn’t just work with data, she helps people trust it again. The Moment That Changed Everything Danette’s story began in the early days of tech, long before “data quality” became a leadership buzzword. Back then, data problems were considered boring IT issues until one company’s messy customer records nearly derailed a critical project. While others treated it as a system glitch, Danette saw something deeper, a business risk hiding in plain sight. That was her wake-up call. She realized poor data wasn’t a technical flaw, it was a trust issue. And trust, once broken, could take down even the best strategy. That moment sparked her life’s work: helping organiz...