About Us

Driving your success through our people and mission.

Our mission and vision

Our mission – what drives us each day – is to help leaders uncover, unlock, and understand their data so they can better serve their people, their organizations, and their communities.

With roots established in 2008, Cornerstone Data provides data infrastructure, data culture tools, and training for businesses and organizations. Our team specializes in helping build data cultures that work in tandem with data infrastructures to propel you forward for competitive advantage and decision intelligence.

Our guiding principles

Bad data costs, not only financially but also in missed business and interpersonal opportunities. With a commitment to excellence in work, integrity in all things, and respect for the client and the team, Cornerstone Data works to equip leaders to serve better. 

We are dedicated to serving as thought leaders, sharing our expertise in data for the good and benefit of others. We have a demonstrated commitment to anticipating and providing the services our clients most need.

Cornerstone Data works for the good of its clients. The success of the client becomes the success of our company.

Our Leadership

Joy Eakins serves as founder and president at Cornerstone Data.

Joy Eakins

Founder & President
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Experience & Education:
Master’s in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado 
Master’s of Theological Studies, Gateway Seminary 
Bachelor’s in Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science, University of Southern Mississippi

In 2008, Joy Eakins founded what would later become known as Cornerstone Data. With a multi-disciplinary background in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Theological Studies, Joy was uniquely positioned to view data science in light of the people and organizations that produced it. The company was created to provide such a bridge.

Joy honed her programming, database, and analytical skills at Milliman, ICB Consulting, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies and Avaya.

Outside the Office: A champion of education, Joy served on the Wichita School Board from 2013 to 2018. She was recently education chair of FlagshipKansas.Tech, an organization promoting Kansas’ technology Industry. Board member since 2016 of Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce; currently its chair-elect. Board member, Youth Horizons, since 2020. 

Recognitions: Wichita Chamber’s 2015 Small Business of the Year. Wichita Business Journal’s 2020 Women who Lead in Technology, and 2016 Women in Business.

Why Data? I enjoy solving problems by breaking them into pieces, seeking patterns, and creating meaningful solutions. You can’t solve all of life’s problems that way, but data and most other technical challenges have concrete solutions, and that’s what I love about them.

A favorite part of my job is delivering a data visualization to a client and seeing the leaders in the room immediately begin considering the implications for their organization. When I see that, I know we hit a home run.

Join the Team

If you’re driven to help organizations uncover, unlock, and understand their data, we would love to talk with you.

We are always interested in growing our team with problem-solvers!

The top two skills we look for are curiosity and pattern recognition

Ready to take the first step?

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