Tom Meloche co-founded Menlo Innovations, the company featured in the bestselling book Joy, Inc. He’s trained over 20,000 people in Agile practices. He co-wrote four editions of Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising with Perry Marshall.

But here’s the thing most people miss about Tom. He’s not a technologist who talks about change. He’s the guy organizations call when they’re terrified of it.

He has spent decades walking into companies that were stuck, political, and paralyzed, and walking them out on the other side. At USAA, managers literally begged him not to cost them their jobs. Nobody lost their job. They saved $300 million. The executive who hired him got promoted.

That skill has never mattered more than it does right now. There will not be a single moment in Tom’s entire life where the world was changing faster than it is right now. The founders who win in this moment won’t be the ones who learn every new tool. They’ll be the ones who build systems that absorb change faster than the change absorbs them.

Tom is the author of Ceremony, Wildly Successful! The Intentional Culture Cookbook, The Art of Agile Living, and Remote Work for a Better World! He is the founder of A2Agile and holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.