Hi, Dave Zahoviac here, host of the Coaching for Leaders podcast. I'm bringing a few

extra conversations your way here over the next few weeks. This one today with one of our Academy

alums, Raj Bawa. Raj had an inflection point in his career not that long ago, and as a result,

he applied for the Coaching for Leaders Academy. I sat down with him recently to ask about his story.

Here's our chat. I'm speaking today with Raj Bawa. Raj is VP of Data at the Not. He is also an alum

of our academy. Raj, so good to talk to you today.

Thanks for your time. Likewise, Dave. Thank you so much for having me on the podcast.

Oh, it's an honor. Let's start with a little bit more about you and your background.

I mentioned you work at the Knot, and of course, you're at the executive level. Tell us a little bit about you and your role. I mentioned you work at the knot, and of course, you're at the executive

level. Tell us a little bit about you and your role. Yeah, so I currently lead the data

teams for one of the business area in my company. My background is in data science and machine

learning, and I've been doing this for close to 10 years, but my day-to-day includes like leading

various data,

ML, AI initiatives for the company that help us deliver some of the top priorities. The company has,

this includes like improving, let's say, like some of our existing products or processes or

trying to support a new product launch, for example. I've worked in healthcare, e-commerce, and

retail space before, and I guess now in a vetting planning space. As people know who are part of that,

and those even who don't, who have peers involved, how essential the work you and your team does

is for so many organizations these days, thinking about data, how to utilize it well, how to help

the organization to move forward with that information, which is a good lead into like how you and I first got

connected. How did you stumble across the podcast originally? Do you recall? Yeah, that's a great

question. So ever since I like transition to being a people manager and grew in seniority in my roles,

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