NLT for Teams is here. Here's why we built it, and who it's for.
For the past several months, Eva Murray and I have been doing something we probably should have done earlier.
We talked to people. A lot of them.
Tableau champions, analytics managers, data leaders, and product owners across the US, the UK, and Europe. We sat in on conversations with Tableau's own customer success managers and sales leaders. We wanted to understand what organizations actually need when it comes to developing their Tableau teams - not what we assumed they needed, but what they told us directly.
Three things came back consistently.
First: companies are hiring strong Tableau developers and struggling to keep them challenged. The training options in the market are almost entirely built for beginners. There is almost nothing designed for advanced users, and nothing that takes intermediate analysts all the way to the level their organizations need them to reach.
Second: analytics managers are under pressure to show that Tableau is delivering a return. Strong technical skills are what separate Tableau as a dashboarding tool from Tableau as an analytics engine that changes how an organization operates. The skills gap is a business problem, not just a training problem and organizations find it hard to close this gap effectively.
Third: people want real human support. They most certainly don’t want a bot or a help article. A person who understands their situation and can help them build momentum as they develop their data communities and Centres of Excellence.
We listened. And NLT for Teams is what we built in response.
What's included
NLT for Teams is a structured, ongoing training program for analytics teams of 15 to 10,000. Here is what your team gets access to:
Full NLT membership for your internal Tableau champions, including three weekly live classes, office hours, and a community of hundreds of analysts working at the same level
Live technical workshops with Andy for your broader Tableau developer team, built around your organization's specific data and the business questions your stakeholders have
Access to the full NLT content library for every Tableau creator in your organization: [X] courses, categorized by skill level and topic, including all class recordings, webinars, and masterclasses
A support vault with over 1,000 resources including templates, design guides, and datasets your team can put to work immediately
Concierge customer success support to help you build your team's learning pathways, shape your Tableau Centre of Excellence, and make sure your investment delivers the expected results
Who this is built for
If you're an analytics leader who has a capable Tableau team but knows they haven't reached their ceiling, this is for you. If you're under pressure to demonstrate ROI from your Tableau investment and you know the answer is in your people's skills, this is for you. If you're trying to build a data community that actually sticks, this is for you.
We work with teams of 15 to 10,000 across industries. The right place to start is a conversation so we fully understand where your team is today and what you want them to be able to do.
A note on who's behind this
I'm Andy Kriebel. Tableau Visionary Hall of Fame, 19 years in analytics, and the founder of NLT. I focus on the technical depth: Tableau mastery, advanced skill development, and the kind of training that turns capable analysts into the people their organization relies on.
Eva Murray is my co-builder on NLT for Teams, and her background is where this program gets its range. Eva is an expert in data visualization communication, presentation and storytelling skills for data professionals, and the organizational side of building analytics communities. She wrote the book on building data communities - literally - and works as a career coach helping analysts develop the soft skills that determine whether excellent technical work actually lands with the people it's made for. Between us, we cover the full picture.
Book a discovery call
The first conversation is about understanding your setup: your team size, your people’s current skill levels, your Tableau goals, and where the gaps are. From there we can show you exactly what NLT for Teams looks like for your organization and what you can expect to see within the first 90 days.
Book your call at nextleveltableau.com/teams
P.S. If you're an individual analyst or part of a small team, NLT membership is the place to start. It's where hundreds of individual analysts at every level come to build elite skills and get recognized for their work.
