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Biography
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Ryan L. King is the founder of RLK Consulting and a former McKinsey and Deloitte strategist with fifteen years advising CIOs, CTOs, and boards on enterprise strategy, technology, and AI.
Ryan L. King is the founder of RLK Consulting, a strategy and technology advisory practice for senior leaders. Over fifteen years at McKinsey and Deloitte, she guided CIOs, CTOs, and boards across insurance, healthcare, financial services, and the federal government. She left the big firms to deliver the same rigor directly, without the overhead or the six-month timelines.
Ryan L. King is the founder of RLK Consulting, a boutique strategy and technology advisory practice serving senior leaders, from owner-led firms to Fortune 500 executives. She spent fifteen years at McKinsey and Deloitte advising CIOs, CTOs, and boards on enterprise strategy, cost optimization, technology modernization, and AI. That work is associated with more than $10 billion in documented value capture across twelve industries.
She built RLK on a single conviction: clients deserve blue-chip analytical rigor without paying for the overhead, the account teams, or the incentive to extend a retainer. Every engagement is led personally, scoped to a fixed or defined fee, and built around a return agreed before the work begins.
Ryan holds a BBA in Finance, cum laude, from the College of William & Mary, and is the author of The Human and Machine Company. She advises clients nationally from Richmond, Virginia.
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Speaking & Commentary
Topics Ryan speaks to.
The CFO should own the AI budget, not the CIO
The best AI programs are bought by the person who owns the P&L, not the person who owns the tech stack. Moving the AI budget to the CFO is the single change that ends the pilot-that-goes-nowhere cycle.
Most AI pilots are science projects
Ninety-five percent of enterprise AI pilots never reach production, and the technology is rarely the reason. It is an authority problem: no one is allowed to decide. How to build the decision rights that turn pilots into P&L impact.
Your next org chart includes agents
AI agents are becoming part of the operating model, not a tool bolted onto the side of it. How to design work where people and agents each do what they do best, who owns the handoffs, and what breaks when you automate a broken process.
Cost management is the CIO's ticket to the strategy table
The CIO's most dreaded job, defending spend, becomes their biggest lever the moment they can predict and model AI inference costs. Mastering the new cost curve turns technology from a line item the board questions into strategy the board funds.
AI rewards the nimble, not the big
The real AI advantage is speed and few approval layers, and small and mid-sized companies have both in a way no enterprise can match. They can do more with AI today than the Fortune 500. The catch is access: the advisers and integrators who could help are priced for the giants, so the companies best built to sprint with AI are the ones locked out of the help. AI is not just for the big guys.
You can run technology and still put your kid to bed
The hundred-hour week is not devotion. It is poor project management with better branding. What separates the executives who compound from the ones who burn out, and why the always-on myth quietly costs companies their best leaders.
AI enablement for the default parent
The person carrying the invisible load at home is the same person expected to adopt AI at work. What AI actually gives back to the default parent, and why the productivity conversation keeps missing the people who stand to gain the most.
Available for podcasts, panels, expert commentary, and contributed articles.
For producers & editors
Interview questions to start from.
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- Why do you think the CFO, not the CIO, should own the AI budget?
- Ninety-five percent of AI pilots never reach production. If it is not the technology, what is it?
- What does an operating model actually look like when AI agents and people share the work?
- How does getting a handle on AI inference costs get a CIO a seat at the strategy table?
- Why are small and mid-sized companies better positioned to win with AI than the Fortune 500, and what is keeping them from it?
- You say the hundred-hour week is bad project management, not devotion. What do you mean?
- What does AI actually give back to the default parent, and why does the productivity conversation miss them?
Booking & Media Inquiries
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Personally, typically within one business day.
Formats
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