Christelle Govender: Becoming a Superhero Business Analyst

Christelle Govender and Joe Newbert explore the critical skills and mindsets needed for the future, and shape the essential characteristics of the superhero business analyst .

Christelle is a Business Analyst currently with the Spar Group. She has spoken at conferences, had an article published in BA Digest (Q2 2023), and is passionate about mentoring and growing others.

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• [00:41 ] Christelle shares her story of how she became an accidental business analyst


• [05:00 ] Imagining the superhero characteristics of the business analyst of the future


• [10:46 ] Getting involved in new technology early enough in the business change life-cycle


• [14:02 ] Moving beyond the business IT gap to bring the sexy back to business analysis


• [20:11 ] Christelle shares her hack for building relationships in a remote work environment


• [23:59 ] Future trends of remote work, data security, being nimble, AI, and change management


• [29:35 ] Adding strings to your bow and not getting pushed back into an IT systems corner


• [32:52 ] Being a general practitioner and referring stakeholders to specialist functions


• [37:11 ] Why the profession needs brave individual business analysts to drive the role forward


• [41:39 ] Ensuring people feel included, respected, valued, and safe enough to contribute to meetings

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