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Kailash Awati is a data and insights manager at a government organisation in New South Wales. Prior to this, he led a marketing insights team at a not for profit and worked in various data leadership roles at a pharmaceutical multinational. He has over two decades of experience in using principles of emergent design to help diverse organisations build data capabilities. In addition, he has held academic appointments at a university where he still occasionally teaches courses on machine learning and decision-making under uncertainty.

Earlier, in what seems to him like another life, he did research in fluid dynamics and other areas of physics and applied mathematics.

The articles on Eight to Late reflect his current professional interests which include data, decision making and collaborative approaches to problem solving in large organisations.

Kailash is the co-author of the Heretic’s Guides series of books. The first one,  Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices, deals with collaborative approaches to managing complex problems. It won an Axiom Business Book Award in 2012 and was nominated for the Foreword Book of the Year Award in 2013. His second book, The Heretic’s Guide to Management, is about managing ambiguity in organisations. It was a finalist in the General Business category at the National Indie Excellence Awards for 2017. His third book, Data Science and Analytics Strategy, was published in 2023.

The views ventured on Eight to Late are based on his opinions, and do not in any way represent the positions of his employers, past or present.

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