Sages, Icons & Heretics

Richard Mizuno is currently the Global Commercial Managing Director for Rockwell Automation’s digital consulting business, a.k.a. Kalypso. Prior to joining Kalypso, Richard was a Deloitte Consulting partner, who went on to serve as the Managing Director for EnterSys Group, which sold itself into HCL Tech. As a long-time leader in the profession, Richard shares his experience and lessons learned climbing the consulting ladder, serving difficult clients and leading (not managing) senior consulting professionals.

Greg Adkins is a former Deloitte Consulting Partner who went on to serve as a leader in two consecutive consulting ventures with former Deloitte colleagues, first at Avalion then at Kalypso for over a decade before retiring in 2020. Throughout all his stops, Greg built a reputation as a sage with clients, peers and staff – the true Yoda of Kalypso in the end. He has much wisdom to share about rising through the ranks of management consulting.

Randy has been a pioneer in defining consulting operating models by creating Deloitte’s first global industry consulting practice, which was dedicated to the retail industry. She then went on to apply her consulting chops to senior executive roles at Phillips Van Heusen and Kmart and then on to academia as an associate dean, senior lecturer and consultant in residence at the Samuel Curtis Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Randy shares her sage insights about the consulting profession and lessons learned creating such a dynamic career as a woman.

George Young is currently the VP of Global Digital Services for Rockwell Automation. He has also been the CEO and co-founder of Kalypso and a former Deloitte Consulting Partner. George is a true consulting heretic. He shares insights and anecdotes about his journey from punk rock band front man (and being knocked out with a beer bottle while performing, dragged off stage and stabbed!) to co-founding and building a 300+ professional strong specialty consulting firm, selling it into Rockwell Automation and finally serving as a digital transformation change agent for Rockwell.

John is a long-time consulting leader and a CIO whisperer. After building a consulting career foundation at Coopers & Lybrand, John went on to lead global technology strategy practices at PWC and A.T. Kearney before extending his career into boutique technology consulting. Learn why John earned the right to advise senior technology executives with his business approach to technology and his no-nonsense, tell it like it is style.