Cole Napper is the Chief Evangelist at HRBench, the premier people analytics platform for helping HR leaders and executives make faster, more confident decisions. He is also founder of the Data Driven HR Academy, a practitioner-led skills platform, the host of Directionally Correct podcast and newsletter, and owner of Directionally Correct LLC. Cole is a globally recognized leader in the people analytics and workforce intelligence space. In previous roles, he brought a strategic focus and invaluable insights to both large, multi-national corporations spanning various industries (FedEx, Texas Instruments, Toyota, PepsiCo, Grainger), private equity backed ventures (Lightcast), and venture-capital backed startups (Motive, Booster, Orgnostic). His expertise extends to emphasizing the transformative power of people analytics and human capital labor data in contributing to organizational growth and efficiency.