Apra-IL Webinar: HGTV Renovations - Tableau Edition

Apra-IL Webinar: HGTV Renovations - Tableau Edition

Building Tableau reports from the ground up is exciting, but what happens when you "move in" to a new team and inherit reports built by your predecessor? When Melanie Pozdol joined the Kellogg ARD team, she found that Prospect Management reports created by her predecessors had good "bones" but were due for remodeling/redecorating in order to make them more user friendly. Thus began a months long "home renovation" process where Melanie stripped the reports down to their foundations one by one and "remodeled" them to present ideas in a way that is more easily understandable.

Speaker Bio: 

Melanie Pozdol has worked in Prospect Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL since October 2019. Currently serving as Associate Director of Prospect Management and Analytics at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Melanie provides guidance to gift officers on portfolio management, assists with formulating prospect strategies, helps to plan and execute prospect pool analyses, and works closely with fundraisers to ensure they are effectively moving prospects through the fundraising pipelines. Melanie is passionate about data analysis and visualization in Tableau and is a member of several Tableau User Groups, including the HETUG, the Advancement TUG, and the ARD TUG, which she created for Tableau users across Northwestern's Alumni Relations and Development Department.

Previous roles include serving as Project Manager for data analytics and DonorScape at Grenzebach Glier + Associates and serving as the Principal Oboist of the Great Falls Symphony Association and Chinook Winds in Great Falls, MT. She holds degrees in music performance from the Eastman School of Music and the University of South Carolina.

In her free time, Melanie is an avid runner. She is a member of Team USA for the Women's Beer Mile and is a 3-time Beer Mile World Classic podium finisher, including serving as the 2022 Beer Mile World Champion. Other activities include performing as principal oboe in the Lakeview Orchestra, playing pickleball, and spending time outside.