Strategies and Guidance
for the Digital Age

Digital Stewardship Strategies offer expert insights and guidance to executives, investors and data leaders grappling with the challenges of AI governance and digital responsibility.

Developing and implementing a data strategy and governance is crucial, whether to enable machine learning and AI, data-first business models, data centric workflows, or, if your business is data itself.

A data strategy is designed to improve all of the ways you acquire, store, manage, share and use data, and first begins with identifying the business problems data and data systems are intended to solve.

We emphasize ethical and accountable approaches to meet the challenges of data innovation in the digital economy, with and emphasis on data governance and stewardship.

Digital Stewardship Strategies is Barb Lawler, a 25-year veteran of building and leading privacy programs and governance, beginning at the nascency of the privacy profession. She is the former Chief Privacy Officer of Hewlett-Packard/HP, Intuit and Looker Data Sciences (acquired by Google Cloud).

Services

Examples of past and current work: 

  • President and COO for 3 years of the Information Accountability Foundation (http://informationaccountability.org), an independent non-profit global policy think tank. The IAF conducts research and convenes stakeholders for projects on accountability-based stakeholder-focused data stewardship and privacy, emphasizing frameworks that incorporate artificial intelligence governance (2021-present).

  • Strategic marketplace analysis, messaging and content for a executive leadership of a privacy protective technology startup.

  • Strategic guidance on data strategy and architecture for technology leadership of a San Francisco-based non profit. 

  • Strategy, business development and product guidance for the founder of an ai-based data protection platform startup.

  • Built and led Privacy and Data Ethics Strategy and Program, and GDPR strategy and implementation for a data company.

  • Privacy Strategy and Risk Assessment, policy and operational strategies for technology leadership at a talent matching platform.

  • Data Stewardship and governance strategies and assessments for the CPO of a financial data processor.