AMANDA K GABRIELE
Analytics & Insights Leader · Healthcare · Financial Services · Fortune 500
I turn messy data into decisions leaders can trust — and build the teams that make it happen.
For nearly twenty years I've led analytics and insights functions inside regulated industries: a top hospital, a Fortune 500 insurer, national banks. I care as much about the people doing the work as the numbers they produce — I've learned the hard way that neither works without the other.
20
years leading teams
3
industries, one throughine
15
chapters, zero capes
Who I am
My name is Amanda Gabriele and I lead Analytics & Insights Teams
In practice, that's meant rebuilding a Fortune 500 insurer's data onto a single source of truth, migrating 70+ of a top hospital's web properties to a modern analytics platform, and running a $12M function with a team of 30. The through-line was never the tools. It's making data something an organization can actually trust, then building the people who turn it into decisions.
I've come to believe the hardest part of this work isn't technical — it's human. Telling people the truth when the numbers are inconvenient. Protecting a team's focus. Making sure the person closest to the problem is in the room when the decision gets made. That belief is why I write: a book on the leadership no one trains you for, and essays on where data and AI are taking this field.
Outside of work, I chair the finance committee for my town's Board of Education — a real, public $68M budget. Same job, really: make the numbers trustworthy, then help people decide well.
HOW I LEAD
Three Ideas, 20 Years of Proof
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Enabling, Not Doing
Your job stops being about your own output the moment you lead people. Success becomes collective, or it isn't real success.
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Clarity Is Kindness
Confusing people isn't neutral — it's a cost you're passing on to them. Clear, honest communication is a form of respect.
3
Accountability Without Fear
High standards and psychological safety aren't opposites. The best teams I've built had both, at the same time, on purpose.
The Book
Chapters
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01 — Redefining Leadership: No Capes Required
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02 — The Power of Purpose and 'The Why'
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03 — Vision, Clarity, and Psychological Safety
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04 — Coaching with the GROW Framework
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05 — Communication with Care and Empathy
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06 — Steeling Your Spine: Communicating Upward
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07 — Feedback That Builds People Up
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08 — Setting the Stage for Success
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09 — Strategic Prioritization and Focus
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10 — Clearing the Path: Removing Roadblocks
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11 — Empowering Talent, Spotlighting Wins
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12 — Kind Accountability
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13 — Navigating Change: The ADKAR Framework
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14 — Thinking Strategically
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15 — Credible Decisions: The RAPID Model
One Insight at a Time
Bite-sized posts pulled from the book — one framework or one hard truth per post.
CH. 1. Leadership
The Trap of the Superhero Manager
Why being the person with all the answers is quietly sabotaging your team.
CH. 6. Communicating Up
The Emperor's New Clothes, Corporate Edition
What it actually costs a team when no one will tell leadership the truth.
CH. 12. Accountability
High Standards, Low Fear
Accountability isn't policing. Here's what it looks like when it's support instead.
A Different Hat
I'm also a North Haven, CT Board of Education member and I do independent budget/data analysis for the town. That work lives on its own page, separate from the leadership brand.
