Consulting Rainmakers Podcast

About Consulting Rainmakers Podcast

Featuring successful B2B consulting and advisory firms. Every episode is their story and what they picked up building it. Guests come from across the advisory world: strategy and operations consulting, sales and leadership development, finance and accounting, fractional CFO and tax advisory, IT and security, HR and people. My hope is that a founder a few years behind listens and takes something from it. Not so they avoid the same mistakes. Mistakes are fine if you learn from them. So they get there faster. If you run a firm like that, this show is for you.

Publisher

Agentee Digital

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Sept 2026

Latest episode

30 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

167 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Oct 2026

   27 Of 30 AI Ideas Belong In The Bin (Ron Cappello)

   Ron Cappello is the Founder and CEO of Infinia Group. Ron Cappello has spent some 30 years in brand consulting. After studying economics at the University of Colorado, he joined a brand firm inside the WPP group in the mid 1990s, a firm that later became Enterprise IG, where he went on to serve as worldwide president. His job was new business: when he arrived the firm was doing about $3.5 million a year in revenue, and eight years later, when he left, it was doing $33 million. Among the clients won in that time was NationsBank during its merger with Bank of America, a project of global research, a new identity and internal communications for a nervous workforce. In 2003 he founded Infinia Group, a branding, marketing and business development firm that helps organizations tell a quick, clear story about who they are, how they are different and what they do. In this conversation, Ron explains why a consultant sells an approach rather than raw intellect, how AI changes the work of a senior advisor, and why the human element still decides who wins the engagement. Expect to learn why change events like mergers create demand for brand consultants, what a big firm teaches you before you go out on your own, why being the best learner in the room beats being the smartest, what senior leaders really want from a consultant, why every brand project needs a sponsor at the top, why the job in the age of AI is curation rather than generation, how to test an idea until it is right, and why being generous in a first meeting wins clients, and much more… - 0:00 Cold open 0:31 Welcome 0:53 Growing A WPP Brand Firm From $3.5M To $33M 5:23 What A Big Firm Teaches You Before Going Solo 7:06 Be The Best Learner In The Room 9:34 Starting A Consultancy Today With AI 12:33 Why Every Brand Project Needs A Sponsor 16:13 If The Script Is Bad, Nobody Can Save It 18:37 Of 30 AI Ideas, 27 Get Thrown Away 21:30 Winning A Client Before You Are Paid 26:15 Where To Find Ron Cappello - 🔗 Guest & Resources Connect with Ron Cappello: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roncappello (https://www.linkedin.com/in/roncappello) Website: https://infiniagroup.com (https://infiniagroup.com) - Get in touch: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikulaszach/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikulaszach/) Apply to be a guest: https://consultingrainmakers.com/ (https://consultingrainmakers.com/) Email: mikulas.zach@agenteedigital.com (mailto:mikulas.zach@agenteedigital.com)

2. 

   30 Oct 2026

   This Is Why AI Pilots Die On The CFO's Desk (Chris Resch)

   Chris Resch is the Founder and Principal of Strong Tide AI. Chris Resch started his career as a network engineer at Hearst, where he spent years chasing whatever was newest, from interactive media to early podcasting. He then joined Amazon Web Services in the early days of cloud adoption as part of the original AWS Professional Services team, and went on to spend a decade leading revenue at private equity backed firms across the AWS, Google, Databricks and Snowflake ecosystems, including EVP at 2nd Watch and Chief Revenue Officer at 66degrees and Indicium. About six months ago he started Strong Tide AI, a vendor neutral firm that helps mid market companies take AI from pilot to production. In this conversation, Chris explains why AI adoption has to start with the business outcome, why most AI pilots never make it into production, and how he runs his own company on AI agents. Expect to learn where AI fits first in a mid market company, why he starts AI adoption with the sales team, the two reasons AI pilots fail, how an AI resource allocation tool helped a company place its field crews, how he uses a board of directors made of LLMs, why he runs his CRM and invoicing headless, what he thinks of the SaaSpocalypse, how a chief of staff agent builds worker agents for you, and much more… - 0:00 Cold open 0:31 Welcome 0:45 From Network Engineer To Strong Tide AI 2:57 Where AI Fits In A Mid Market Company 4:37 Why AI Adoption Starts With Sales 6:14 Why AI Pilots Fail In Production 7:54 Using AI To Place Field Crews 9:46 Running A Business On AI 15:48 Headless Apps And The SaaSpocalypse 20:40 Chief Of Staff Agents 25:09 Where To Find Chris Resch - 🔗 Guest & Resources Connect with Chris Resch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisresch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisresch) Website: https://strongtide.ai (https://strongtide.ai) - Get in touch: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikulaszach/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikulaszach/) Apply to be a guest: https://consultingrainmakers.com/ (https://consultingrainmakers.com/) Email: mikulas.zach@agenteedigital.com (mailto:mikulas.zach@agenteedigital.com)

3. 

   30 Oct 2026

   There Is No Talent Shortage In Accounting (Tim Miron)

   Tim Miron is the Founder of Pursuit CPA. Tim Miron spent years at a traditional accounting firm that billed by the hour, working Saturdays from January and 61 days straight through tax season, until he got sick and tired of only living for the second half of every year. With the help of a coaching program and a mentor, he rebuilt how his practice works and launched Pursuit CPA about five years ago, a firm that works exclusively with entrepreneurs on a monthly subscription, with no hourly billing and no timesheets. By its fourth year, his whole team went through tax season with no weekends and no overtime. In this conversation, Tim explains why most accounting firms do not have a talent shortage so much as a job problem, how his team uses AI, and why so many business owners show a profit but have no cash. Expect to learn why Pursuit CPA moved from billable hours to a subscription, the four financial pillars every entrepreneur should plan around, the pricing mistake that cost his firm two years of unpaid work, how AI took a three to five day bookkeeping job down to under 30 minutes, why accountants using AI will replace the ones who ignore it, and what to check in your numbers before a small problem costs you a year and a half of profit, and much more… - 0:00 Cold open 0:32 Welcome 0:54 A Firm Born Out Of Burnout 3:47 Subscription Pricing And The Four Financial Pillars 5:50 Lessons Learned The Hard Way 7:18 Hiring Without A Talent Shortage 9:22 How His Team Uses AI 12:25 The Downside Of AI And Who It Replaces 15:29 The Real Problem Is Lack Of Clarity 17:19 Profitable But No Cash 18:45 Your Numbers Are More Than Compliance - 🔗 Guest & Resources Connect with Tim Miron: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjmiron (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjmiron) Website: https://pursuitcpa.ca (https://pursuitcpa.ca) - Get in touch: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikulaszach/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikulaszach/) Apply to be a guest: https://consultingrainmakers.com/ (https://consultingrainmakers.com/) Email: mikulas.zach@agenteedigital.com (mailto:mikulas.zach@agenteedigital.com)

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