Speakers

Janet Funmi Beckley is a program and transformation leader who helps large organisations turn data into decisive action. Based in Barcelona, she drives strategic programmes within Gartner’s Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO), leading multi-squad, cross-domain initiatives that modernise data platforms, accelerate legacy decommissioning, and embed agile ways of working at enterprise level.

Funmi is playing a central role in the department’s evolution from a traditional service-delivery organisation into a true value-delivery centre—one that is outcome-led, insight-driven, and tightly aligned to business strategy. She is recognised for bringing clarity in complex environments, creating transparent governance, and enabling teams to shift from activity-based reporting to impact-based delivery. Her leadership style blends structured planning with empathy and collaboration, consistently raising both morale and execution maturity.

Before joining Gartner, Funmi spent more than a decade in fintech at Moody’s, delivering data, analytics, and workflow transformation programmes that spanned global product, engineering, and operations functions. Alongside her delivery achievements, she made a deep and lasting contribution to inclusion across Europe. She was a founding member and co-chair of Moody’s Black Impact Group (BIG), the first employee network dedicated to Black professionals across the entire region. Under her leadership, BIG became a visible and strategic community driving development, representation, and belonging.

Funmi also co-created Moody’s “Power to Act” reverse mentoring programme, a highly successful initiative pairing early- and mid-career minority ethnic professionals with senior executives. The programme aimed to accelerate representation of Black and minority ethnic talent at senior levels and helped reshape leadership understanding, sponsorship, and cultural awareness across the organisation.

Since relocating to Spain, Funmi has continued this mission by joining Black Women Lead, a vital forum supporting Black professional women in a country where representation remains extremely limited. She also mentors early-career technologists, contributes to women-in-tech communities, and shares practical playbooks on stakeholder influence, value realisation, and modern program leadership.

Colleagues describe her as strategic, trusted, and relentlessly constructive—a leader who simplifies complexity, builds strong partnerships, and consistently brings people with her. Across roles and regions, Funmi’s work reflects a clear throughline: using data, alignment, and modern delivery practices to build organisations that execute with excellence and lead with inclusion.