Gregory S. Nelson

Author, The Analytics Lifecycle Toolkit


Greg Nelson is a global health care executive with more than 20 years of experience leading data and analytics organizations. Most recently, he was Vice President of Analytics and Strategy at an integrated health care delivery system in North Carolina. Prior to that, he was the founder and chief executive officer of a global analytics advisory firm where he helped health and life sciences organizations mature their analytics capabilities.

Nelson serves as an expert for the International Institute for Analytics and as adjunct faculty at Duke University, where he teaches advanced analytics to master’s students at the School of Nursing and the Fuqua School of Business.

As an analytics evangelist and futurist, Nelson brings his experience to life in The Analytics Lifecycle Toolkit, which addresses the people and process sides of analytics. Through this pragmatic treatment of the analytics life cycle, Nelson speaks to both the practical and human centeredness of analytics in a way that is accessible and useful for all.