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Wendy Batchelder is a three-time Chief Data Officer across financial services, technology & healthcare industries, with a wide understanding of how to take highly technical aspects of data management and translate them into simple, concise business valued solutions that are practical and simple to understand. Her background has led her to lead global data & analytics organizations at four Fortune 500 companies. She approaches situations with curiosity and humility, which has led to applying innovative data solutions to challenges with increased complexity to deliver value that companies can measure.

A lifelong learner, Wendy graduated from Miami University with a B.S. in Accounting and Information Systems, from Drake University with a Master ...more

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Your Desired Future: The Five Essential Steps That Take You Where You Want to Go

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“Like the tapestry, God has intentionally placed each of us in our exact spot to make His world just how he needs it to be.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

tags: adoption-memoir, dna-testing, family-of-god, finding-biological-family-memoir, finding-family-memoir, genealogy-memoir, identity-in-christ, identity-in-christ-memoir, search-for-biological-family

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“I think the unsaid truth about adoption for most is that it wasn’t the first choice. It’s hard for me to type these words and put them on this page because I know they hurt.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

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“It is because of this process, drawing near to God through prayer and through reading His Word, that I finally began to understand and accept that God loved me, for me.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

tags: dna-testing-memoir, genetic-testing, genetic-testing-memoir, quest-for-belonging, quest-for-belonging-memoir, search-for-birth-family, search-for-birth-parents, search-for-identity-memoir, using-dna-testing-to-find-family

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“At the sight of my newly found family packed into my living room as if it were the most natural thing in the world, people I had only known a few months were gathered in my home on Christmas Eve, from four states and made up four generations.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

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“Could that test be the answer to some of my lifelong questions about who I was? Could I really get the answer about my ethnicity or where I came from? Would I find people I was related to?”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree