🔦NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Allison Esho. Dr. Allison is a systems architect and strategic advisor focused on the structural mechanics of healthcare delivery. She brings more than a decade of experience advising senior leaders across health systems, payers, and life sciences—including 7 years at McKinsey & Company—where she led initiatives spanning operational optimization, strategic planning, and […]
Monik Sanghvi highlights the growing trend of “unretirement”, the cost of discrimination against seasoned workers, and introduces his forthcoming book on how to navigate the shift. In April, PwC reported that 62% of Gen X leaders are being forced to quietly delay their retirement timelines. Today, my former colleague Anna E. Banks and her AARP […]
Yousef El Gammal shares his experience on building software with modelling computed in Python and LLM agents. Spent my sunny bank holiday refactoring the front-end of my personal workspace tool (no beer garden this time🥲), where I turn complex workbooks and ad-hoc spreadsheet models into living, interactive analyses I can actually trust. Trying to be […]
🔦NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Ryan King. Ryan is the founder of RLK Consulting and a former McKinsey and Deloitte strategist with fifteen years advising CIOs, CTOs, and boards on enterprise strategy, technology, and AI. Umbrex is a global community of over 8,000 independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms. We create opportunities for our […]
Andrew Meyer shares the third article in a four-part series that explores re-pricing fears and realities of AI transformations. Oak Cliff Consulting launched in 2026, founded by former middle-market executives and former Bain leadership. We have run companies as CEOs, CGOs, and CIOs, and clients worldwide rely on us as advisors and counselors. Our mission: […]
Julie Chatman shares her view of the CMMC Phase II suspension announcement from the United States Department of War. People are reaching out to ask me what I think about today’s hashtag#CMMC Phase II suspension announcement from the United States Department of War so here it is. Starting with what happened: In an effort to […]
Zach Capra shares five ways boards create real value and best practices for building a value-creating board. Boards are often seen as the guardians of compliance, ensuring that regulatory standards are met and risks are monitored. But the boards that truly stand out, the ones investors, executives, and stakeholders trust, do far more than tick […]
Thierry Brulé identifies the blind spots in focusing the quality and quantity of data in AI use. For a long time, we believed that AI was all about code. It’s about data. And soon—it will be about power. *** French version in the comments *** The algorithms exist. They are powerful. They are accessible. What […]
David Bros shines a light on an initiative in Ireland launched by the Climate and Health Alliance. Transforming Ireland’s transport system through active mobility to deliver healthier people, cleaner air, safer streets, and climate resilience. Active travel is emerging as one of the most powerful levers to improve public health, cut emissions, and create more […]
Milton Granados. Milton works with industrial, aerospace, and PE-backed businesses on operations strategy — cost takeout, capital and investment cases, and fixing how work gets done. He spent seven years as an engineer at American Airlines, leading structural and interiors workstreams on fleet-wide retrofit programs before adding the strategy toolkit at Chicago Booth and BCG, […]
Alex Brownstein explains why he sees Olmstead’s turnover of four CFOs in 14 months as a strategy problem and identifies the underlying issues. On July 9, Nate Olmstead becomes the fourth person to run finance at The Trade Desk in 14 months. The company calls the churn a changing of the guard. Coming from where […]
Usman Ghani shares an invitation to join an executive program on Agentic AI with key speaker Billy Schoenberg, a respected AI + SD Leader, currently heading the AI programs at isee systems, inc. (earlier, High-Performance Systems). The program takes place on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, 5:30 PM – 9 PM at the Dallas College Brookhaven Campus, […]