CEO & Principal Consultant, RBD Co. Author, The Intelligence Organization: Nature's Operating Model for the AI Era (RBD. Press, 2026).
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Megan C. Starkey is CEO & Principal Consultant of RBD Co., a Minneapolis enterprise AI advisory, and the author of The Intelligence Organization: Nature's Operating Model for the AI Era (RBD. Press, 2026). She advises C-suite executives on AI transformation, enterprise governance, and operating model evolution. Across two decades spanning Fortune 500 leadership, including digital transformation at Thrivent and data and analytics at Target and General Mills, she has led enterprise AI initiatives from vision to production. She created the Starkey Model for AI investment prioritization and the Intelligence Method for AI transformation, facilitates executive forums and strategic leadership programs for global organizations, and publishes enterprise maturity research at rbdco.ai. She lives in Minneapolis with her family and works to bring more women into building with AI. RBD Co. is based in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota. She speaks at conferences and executive events nationally and is available for interviews, panels, keynotes, and facilitated executive sessions.
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Companies have not been cutting people. They have stopped hiring at the entry level in the jobs AI touches most, and a hiring slowdown for one age group in one set of roles never reaches a headline or a headcount report.
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Nearly half of global GPUs are sitting unused because we're chasing infrastructure when the advantage is integration. We're solving the wrong problem.
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We spent a century building organizations to run like assembly lines. Then we introduced a technology that behaves like a nervous system. Only one of them can win, and today the machine is winning.
The modern corporation runs on a blueprint carried out of World War II and into Ford in 1946. AI is integrative. The org chart is divisional. Nearly every enterprise AI failure traces to that incompatibility. Starkey first exposes how the corporate machine was built and why conventional AI transformation is not working, then constructs the replacement across four capability bands: Right-Fit Technology, People & Purpose, Operational Integration, and Adaptive Governance.
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“Starkey shows why getting value from AI requires us to rethink the organization around it.”
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Megan C. Starkey, CEO & Principal Consultant, RBD Co. Author, The Intelligence Organization (RBD. Press, 2026).
Megan C. Starkey advises C-suite executives on AI strategy, capital allocation, and enterprise transformation. She is CEO & Principal Consultant of RBD Co. and author of The Intelligence Organization (2026). Previously leading digital transformation at Thrivent and data and analytics for Target and General Mills, she created the Starkey Model for AI investment prioritization and publishes enterprise maturity research at rbdco.ai.
Megan C. Starkey advises C-suite executives on AI transformation, enterprise governance, and operating model evolution. She is CEO & Principal Consultant of RBD Co., a Minneapolis enterprise AI advisory, and the author of The Intelligence Organization: Nature's Operating Model for the AI Era (RBD. Press, 2026). Across two decades spanning Fortune 500 leadership, including Thrivent, Target, and General Mills, she has led enterprise AI initiatives from vision to production, and she facilitates executive forums for global organizations.
Megan C. Starkey is CEO & Principal Consultant of RBD Co., a Minneapolis enterprise AI advisory, and the author of The Intelligence Organization: Nature's Operating Model for the AI Era (RBD. Press, 2026). She advises C-suite executives on AI transformation, enterprise governance, and operating model evolution. Across two decades spanning Fortune 500 leadership, including digital transformation at Thrivent and data and analytics at Target and General Mills, she has led enterprise AI initiatives from vision to production. She created the Starkey Model for AI investment prioritization and the Intelligence Method for AI transformation, facilitates executive forums and strategic leadership programs for global organizations, and publishes enterprise maturity research at rbdco.ai. Her commentary on AI and entry-level hiring appeared in the Minnesota Star Tribune in September 2026, and she has been a featured expert in Hitachi Vantara's The Array. She lives in Minneapolis with her family and works to bring more women into building with AI.
Megan C. Starkey believes AI demands more than technological adoption. It demands a fundamental rethink of how organizations work: how decisions are made, authority is distributed, power is shared, and people and intelligent systems work together. Her work explores how companies can redesign their operating models to realize AI’s potential while preserving human dignity and strengthening human agency.
A Fortune 500 advisor, author, frequent keynote speaker, and hands-on AI practitioner, Megan brings two decades of business and technology leadership to this challenge. She advises enterprise and public-sector leaders on AI strategy, investment, governance, and organizational transformation, with experience in AI deployments associated with millions in realized revenue.
Megan is the author of The Intelligence Organization: Nature’s Operating Model for the AI Era (2026) and creator of the Starkey Model for AI investment prioritization and the Intelligence Method for AI transformation. Her frameworks address AI economics, investment, enterprise transformation, and organizational design.
As CEO & Principal Consultant of RBD Co., an enterprise AI advisory firm, Megan advises Fortune 500 and other enterprise organizations across insurance, manufacturing, and consumer brands. Her work spans AI transformation, governance, executive education, and strategy. RBD Co. maintains federal procurement registration and holds SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) status and applicable state and local supplier diversity certifications, serving commercial and public-sector markets.
A sought-after speaker, moderator, faculty member, and guest lecturer, Megan is a leading voice in AI transformation and has contributed to ODSC AI West, Minnesota CLE, the University of St. Thomas, BI WORLDWIDE, and the Business Architecture Conference. She facilitates C-suite roundtables and executive sessions on AI strategy, workforce transformation, and the future of work.
Megan combines strategic advisory with hands-on technical practice, building AI-powered software, agentic workflows, knowledge graphs, retrieval systems, and custom tools using Claude Code. As a member in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network, she brings direct implementation experience to enterprise AI.
Committed to advancing women’s leadership in AI, Megan helps women executives build the fluency and practical skills to lead AI adoption. Her perspectives have appeared in the Minnesota Star Tribune and Hitachi Vantara’s The Array. She holds a Harvard Business School certificate in Organizational Leadership.
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