Charles E. Dudley

Method Architect and Practitioner of Complex Systems Transformation.

I’ve spent thirty-three years where finance, architecture, and systems meet. I started at Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1993, during a graduate year abroad. I learned corporate finance in investment banking, and I ran the books and the capital structure as CFO of an energy company. I’ve been a strategy consultant to energy and utility companies, and an enterprise architect at a large US bank.

The finance is why the work holds up when someone opens the model. The architecture is why it still holds when the systems underneath have to change. Most problems I’m brought into sit where those two meet.

Since 2003 I’ve run change work the same way: find out what’s true, design what it should become, map the route, and carry it out. I’ve learned that each stage has to be worth having on its own, and that nothing gets built on a premise nobody has checked.

I do the work alongside the client’s own people and teach as we go, so that what stays behind is a capability, not just a report.

inLightinment is my independent practice, founded in 2010. Alongside it I’m writing a book series about how complex change is reasoned about.