Leslie Welch is the Principal Fellow of AI & Analytics at Excella with over 16 years of experience in automation, data analysis and visualization, and strengthening organizations’ knowledge of data. Leslie has worked end to end in the data arena from capture and ETL to database design/engineering to analysis and dashboard design to ML use cases with a focus on improving productivity, performance, and data quality. She has extensive experience in enterprise deployment of Power BI, both as an admin and Power BI architect and a trainer and technical community organizer. She is passionate about data governance, truth telling in data, and she creates collaborative environments across data practitioners and the numerous data stakeholders. Leslie is co-organizer of Power BI DC, and frequently attends and speaks at data community meetups in the DC metro area including but not limited to Data Viz DC, Data Science DC, Women Who Code DC, Washington DC Power Platform User Group, and Generative AI DC. Leslie was recognized as a 2023 New Power Woman in Tech by DCA Live.