Make metrics that make people act with Adam Thomas
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Make Metrics That Make People Act: Stop Building "Dumb Missiles"
Dashboards are where data goes to die. You build them, you stare at them, and nothing changes. Adam Thomas calls these "dumb missiles," metrics that fly without ever forcing a decision.
In this virtual workshop, Adam will show you how to build trigger metrics instead: the kind that tie a specific signal to a specific action. If X happens, we do Y. No more white noise, no more dashboards nobody acts on.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
1:00 to 2:00 PM CT
Virtual workshop (meeting link is shown to attendees)
What you'll walk away with:
- The difference between data-informed and data-driven, and why the gap matters
- How to run a "dashboard audit" so you can cut the metrics you can't act on
- A simple rule for setting thresholds that trigger a real conversation before a small problem becomes a big one
This talk is built for designers, researchers, product managers, data folks, and anyone tired of reporting numbers that don't change what their team does next.
Adam Thomas is an AI-first product leader and educator who teaches at Columbia University and MICA. Over 15+ years he’s led the SmartRecruiters ATS portfolio, directed product at Informed.co, and delivered AI initiatives from an EHR assistant at IrisMD to risk models at DTCC, advising enterprises such as Pfizer, Vanguard, BP, and First American.
His courses are intensely applied: learners pick a real problem, run discovery, and ship an AI-enabled prototype while learning orchestration, governance, and product metrics.
Adam’s Survival Metrics™ framework helps teams make tradeoffs, measure impact, and communicate clearly with stakeholders. He has coached 50+ PMs, and his graduate courses average 4/5 ratings. He is currently Head of Product at Flax and Teal.