Walter Meyer

Walter Meyer spent six years in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Program, where he learned two things: how to operate complex systems under pressure, and that blindly following orders was not his strongest skill. In that program "done" meant demonstrated, and he has carried that standard into every job since.

He has been applying both lessons at startups, at the Big 4, and inside large organizations trying to change. Since then, his work has been enterprise transformation, leading business strategy, innovation, and R&D. He took a technology startup to profitability and through its acquisition, and held senior roles at two creative digital consultancies.

He has been on projects that were on fire and projects that went somewhat smoothly. He has been right more often than wrong, but not by as wide a margin as he would like.

He is the author of Inflicting Change, a field guide to the people, the politics, and the delivery discipline it takes to get a stalled program moving again, and Agents Decide, Tools Do, Gates Prove, a field guide to building agentic applications that survive the question "how do you know?" The points of view and the method in the second book were developed independently, through his own research, experimentation, and hands-on technical work, and the pipeline that reviewed and audited both books runs on that book's own doctrine of independent judges and gates.

He has walked amongst the control rods of a nuclear reactor. Your ERP migration doesn't scare him.