Tom Goodwin

Hello, I'm a digital business transformation specialist, and the founder of All We Have Is Now (AWHIN, Inc), a consultancy created to help companies unleash the power of new technology, with a focus on making better products and services and on consumer centricity.

I'm the host of "The Edge", an original series on Euronews which reaches 250 million households, explores the future of business and culture through technology and spotlights the companies and people taking bold leaps into what’s next.

And recently I wrote  Digital Darwinism, a business book that has been translated into seven languages, now in a brand new edition.

As you can see I've got 700,000 followers on here, after being voted as the #1 Voice in Marketing. I'm a global Keynote speaker, delivering over 100 keynote speeches at leading public and private events across more than 42 countries.  I like to span the gap between pundit and practitioner. 

I now advise Fortune 500 companies and startups on business transformation and innovation. As a proponent of “nowism,” a more practical form of futurism, I think that we have all the technology we need at our disposal and we can drive meaningful growth by taking action and using our imagination to unleash its power. 

Over the past 20 years, I've built a career spanning digital, creative/advertising, and media agencies, and studied the impact of new technology, new consumer behaviors, and changing rules of business. 

This experience informs my work in digital transformation and innovation. My work has been referenced in The New York Times and The Economist. I've published over 500 articles in publications including The Guardian, TechCrunch, Forbes, Digiday, Quartz, Marketing Week, Adweek, and the World Economic Forum. 

I don't know more than others, but I know enough to ask good questions and listen to those who know more about things.  My style is provocative. I do this to get better and more passionate answers, not because I care one iota about engagement stats or building a community, but because I'm curious and like to learn.

I passionately believe that we're alive at the most interesting time in the world, that new technology is making incredible things possible and that it creates enormously exciting and profound new things achievable for many people and businesses.  I also think change is misunderstood, that many things are not changing, that many movements create existential threats and I'm here to try to provide guidance through this.

Co-Founder

Realistically if you were to build your company today, it wouldn't quite look like it does.

Ambitious CEO's, CIO's and CMO's are wrestling with the altered economics, dynamics, threats and opportunities of a world where technology has changed consumer behaviors, expectations and altered how companies are valued by the stock market.

It's very easy to change in a superficial way. It's fast, cheap, risk free, and requires no political risk or buy in. Deep change is what makes a difference.

We use imagination, clarity, and optimism to provoke ambitious companies into meaningful change.

It starts with well intentioned provocation, rethinking the assumptions you've made, generating a new vision, then building new processes, structures and protocols for your future. It then requires a change of culture to foster an environment of innovation and agility.

If you are happy with robust thinking, honesty, and unleashing the power of bold optimistic thinking, please get in touch to find out more about our program and booking a provocation session.

This is a fake story on Facebook and it's harmless, right? 

It's not the most damaging story ever, it's not like selling a cure for cancer that does't work, or making up political stuff to energize the base, it's not going to destabilize the world.

But this is just where we are now. It's just how life is. 

It's a fake AI image, with fake quotes, about a thing that's not happening.

It takes you a site where lots of ads are jammed into your eyeballs.

Because that's the model now.

- Facebook makes the money from promoting this fake story, because they don't care that 10% of their revenue comes from scams.

- The fake newsite (Vibetunes) makes a bit of cash, Dazzling Dolphins gets to make cash and gets some followers.

- Meanwhile the story goes a little viral as 3000 people jump in saying" hey guys, this is fake", and meanwhile some suckers think it's all real.

And everyone wins,  right?

I do wonder what the cost of the current media environment is. 

When you have a generation of people that, at best, don't know what to believe and, at worst, believe in stuff that's not true. 

When I started in advertising in 2001,  we had a painstaking process where EVERY claim made in a TV ad would need to be pre-approved by the BACC.

To TAKE money or PLACE money with ads was a big deal, it was a responsibility.

And now because we put things in the internet, we lost that oversight.

Everyone shrugs and nobody cares, because it could have been worse. 

I do wonder how we can take back the  high ground. 

How we can create a media environment that's based around informing people. 

Not tricking them. 

And how to we get Facebook and other providers of absolute junk to be smashed into a pulp like they deserve to be. 

You're not a platform that isn't technical culpable, you're the problem. 

When you said move fast and break things, you broke trust. You broke the tacit rules of society, of decency, or responsibility. 

AI is great, but let's not use it to destroy trust at scale.

Business Transformation Consultant- A focus on pragmatic use of AI and how it impacts culture, workflows and business structure | Author | Keynote Speaker | Trainer | 4 x LinkedIn #1 Voice in Marketing

Instrumentum

Changing the surgical landscape by offering reliable and efficient offsite instrument sterilization to Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Hospitals.

Chief Operating/Growth Officer

Cruxible Partners

Finding talent is a full-time job.  The best candidates aren't looking, they're performing somewhere else.  We'll find them. We've never failed to fill a role.  Period.

Chief Executive Officer

www.eatingcrowpodcast.com

If you are a leader or an entrepreneur this podcast will speak to you (well, I guess that's the point). These are stories of amazing people with the courage to lead and often admit they were wrong and challenge long-held beliefs to make change. Many of these everyday heroes have evolved into leaders and entrepreneurs, and most of their stories have never been heard, until now. Pete Durand interviews people from all walks of life - the military, finance, business, sports, government and education. We learn from their challenges, pitfalls, lessons and how, by eating crow, they used an open mind to adjust their way of thinking and lead others, including their families.

Host of the Eating Crow Podcast

Saebo, Inc.

Saebo, Inc. is a medical device company primarily engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of affordable and novel clinical solutions designed to improve mobility and function in individuals suffering from neurological and orthopedic conditions. With a vast network of Saebo-trained clinicians spanning six continents, Saebo has helped over 100,000 clients around the globe achieve a new level of independence.

Board Advisor

Netsertive

Chief Revenue Officer

RivalHealth

SaaS enterprise exercise and nutrition app.  Merged with gBehaivor to form www.gopivotsolutions.com

Integrian

Digital video solutions for public safety and transportation.  Sold to Catalyst Manufacturing

Entivity, Inc.

PC-based automation and control platform.  Sold to www. phoenixcontact.com

President and COO

Director of E-Business

ObjectAutomation

Director of Marketing

I'm fortunate to lead two great organizations.

After helping many companies scale with great talent, I've joined Instrumentum as their Chief Operating and Growth Officer, it was just too good to pass up.  My task?  Help the company scale profitably.  How?  People, Process, and Culture.  Fortunately, Cruxible Partners has provided the experience to do just that.

Instrumentum is doing great things - and Cruxible Partners is in the hands of an amazing team, so both are thriving.  Stay tuned as I share how Instrumentum is growing and changing the surgical landscape and how the leadership and talent lessons I've observed and shared over the last seven years at Cruxible are being applied.

Remember:

The average cost of hiring the wrong employee can go as high as $240,000, according to 2021 research from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Ouch.  Been there.

On the flip side, McKinsey & Co. states that hiring a ‘top performer’ over an ‘average performer’ yields up to 67% more productivity and profit.  

Been here too.  Much better place to be.

I've spent 30+ years in corporate America, worked at three startups, and founded two companies myself.  Building teams was and is the most challenging part of the job.

For the past five years I've been working with companies in the following areas:

-Product/market fit
-Marketing strategy and content
-Board advisory and consulting
-Attracting and retaining talent

If you'd like to learn more about how we can work together, please DM me or send me an email at

pdurand@cruxiblepartners.com

Pete Durand

"I'm so sorry, how can I help?" 

This response seems natural, but ACTUALLY helping tends to put us in a place of discomfort, and so we say it, but don't really mean it.

This hit me during my morning meditation.  The topic:  The Corporal Works of Mercy (Matthew 25:35-46): 

Feed the hungry
Give drink to the thirsty
Clothe the naked
Shelter the homeless
Visit the sick
Visit the imprisoned
Bury the dead

If I'm being honest, my batting average is low here.

Jesus wasn't pulling any punches.  How will we be judged by these works?

Time to reassess my priorities, which typically focus on "things of this world" and prayer, when action should the call of the day.

Visit the imprisoned?  

Pick any of the above; probably not at the top of most of our to-do lists.

Perhaps they should be?

President, Instrumentum | Host of the Eating Crow Podcast | Chairman, Cruxible Partners

Most companies have a plan.  

We do. 

2025 was about laying a foundation after several acquisitions and heavy integration. 

A few lessons, a few scars, and a few wins.  

Looking back it’s about the people who joined the team more than anything.   Amazing people.  

We laid the foundation together. 
We built this plan together. 

2026 is off to a great start - we are firing on all cylinders, well ahead of plan.

It’s rare air.  

Grateful for our team who work tirelessly to care for our customers, travel nonstop and support each other. 

Many of us go through entire work life without experiencing this feeling. 

I freaking love my job and am blessed to know how lucky I am.  Heard the same energy from our team today 💪👍👏

Hope everyone finds an opportunity to be part of a fast growing company who isn’t afraid to dare, think big, stumble now and the but get back up and go. 

It’s a blast. 

Jeff Eardley Dean E. Darby Hubbell Rachel Meador (Knorr) Austin Wratchford, FACHE Bradley Schoening, CFO, MBA, CPA Ken Maready Jennifer Del Real, MSHRM Candy Schlicklin

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