Episode 13: John Rudd

This episode of Leadership in Flux features John Rudd. John is a former turnaround CFO and Accenture M&A leader who now tells mid-market executives the uncomfortable truth: AI just handed the speed advantage to the company that was always too small to matter, and most leadership teams are quietly faking their way through it most leadership teams are quietly.

Co-founder of LightSight, an AI consulting and engineering firm advising middle-market leaders through the AI shift. Former CEO of SolutionsIQ where he and his brother built it into the largest Agile pure-play consultancy in North America SolutionsIQ was acquired by Accenture in 2017, where John a reverse merger of Accenture’s Agile practice into SolutionsIQ, he then ran the Accenture global Agile practice across five continents. Later he led Accenture’s North America technology M&A program. He currently holds board roles for private equity-owned companies. He has decades of fiduciary turnaround work as CRO, CEO, trustee, and receiver across dozens of distressed mid-market organizations.

More from John:

The age of the Speedboat: https://speedboatbook.com/

LightSight.Ai: https://lightsight.com/

See more episodes here: https://lithespeed.com/leadership_in_flux/

Learn more about LitheSpeed: https://lithespeed.com/

Connect with Sanjiv Augustine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjivaugustine/