Understand your options ... its a long road.
Make and market your name. Learn how to act, how to interact, how to sit, how to stand, how to be selected and recognized as that person for the task ... or the job.
A key area to invest. Employers often cite the skills gap. Knowing what the Skills Gap is and how to address this gap will yield positive returns.
Know how and when to use it and how not to use it.
These specialied talks and sessions are geared towards organizations that are looking to REALLY build a data analytics practice and to make use of data to improve.
Don't be the office jerk. There's plenty of them already.