Wise in Five with Parrish Arturi
Curiosity isn't optional anymore. It's the edge. Parrish Arturi has spent over 30 years across Wachovia, Fidelity, and TIAA learning how digital and CX transformation actually happens, and he's wat...
RoundtableThe Great Re:Imagining
Launching Products in the Age of AI
This roundtable brings together three operators who have been inside that change — building agentic platforms from scratch, launching regulated products to market, transforming digital experiences at scale — to share what's actually different, and what leaders need to do about it now.
PODCASTS
Wise in Five
Five questions. Bold insights that you can use for your business. Every episode, The Wisory CEO and founder Jason Wadler talks with Executive Advisors to unpack what actually works based on their decades of experience.
Wise in Five with Brian Carlson
Culture isn't what you declare, it's what you tolerate. Brian Carlson has spent nearly 20 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center learning where patient experience is actually won or lost, an...
Wise in Five with Jackie Woodward
In this episode, we sit down with Jackie Woodward — former CMO of Krispy Kreme and Bojangles, and veteran marketing executive across McDonald's, MillerCoors, and General Mills, with a career built ...
Wise in Five with Sean Naismith
In this episode, we sit down with Sean Naismith — former leader of Global Technical Product Management and Innovation at TransUnion, with deep experience at the intersection of AI, data, and financ...
Wise in Five with Joel Warady
In this episode of The Wisory Wise in Five, we sit down with Joel Warady, seasoned CPG executive, advisor, and former General Manager of Enjoy Life Foods, where he led the company through its acqui...
Wise in Five with Ryan McManus
In this episode of Wise in Five, we sit down with Ryan McManus — Founder & CEO of Tectonic.io, former Global COO of Strategy at Accenture, Board Director, and President of the NACD New York Cha...
The Last 10%
The Last 10% is a podcast about the moment where progress stalls and wisdom takes over — conversations with the people who figured out what others could not based on their purpose, passion and perseverance.
Founder of Therabody - Building a Category Nobody Knew They Needed
Dr. Jason Wersland, founder and creator of the Theragun and co-founder of Therabody, joins Jason Wadler, CEO of The Wisory for the very first episode of our new podcast series; The Last 10%. Befor...
ARTICLES
Tuesday Teardowns
The Tuesday Teardown is a series where Regis Hadiaris breaks down the ideas, habits, and assumptions shaping how PE firms make decisions — and what it actually takes to improve them.
If You Started Commercial Diligence From Scratch Today
Imagine a smart operator sits down tomorrow with a clean sheet of paper and a single brief. Design commercial diligence from first principles, knowing what the craft has learned in the last five ye...
The CIM, the Drive, the Email, the Meeting
In a typical engagement, the Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM) lives in the data room. The model lives in a shared drive. The notes live in email. The synthesis happens in a meeting nobody ...
Memory Is Not Culture. It Is Infrastructure.
A senior advisor with thirty years across sectors carries a kind of memory that does not show up on any org chart. Pattern recognition across engagements. Which questions matter. Which anomalies de...
The Iron Triangle Was Always a Historical Accident
Every services engagement starts with the same lecture. Scope, time, money. Pick two. Clients accept it. Advisors repeat it. Everyone nods. It is the oldest rule in professional services. It is als...
A Thought Experiment About Trusting a Number
Picture a deal team putting a number in front of an IC. Call it an operational health score of 62. Someone asks the natural question. Why 62 and not 70? What happens next is the whole game. Two ver...
The Bird Study That Changes How You Should Think About AI Plus People
The best senior advisors have always been in the driver’s seat. The tools were just slower. Researchers at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence ran a meta-analysis of more than a hundred expe...
Actual Intelligence
Our Actual Intelligence series shares real perspectives from Wisory Advisors on the business topics and trends that matter most right now, straight from executives who've built, scaled, and navigated the challenges your business is facing today.
What Makes a Brand Last
The Actual Intelligence series surfaces themes emerging from The Wisory’s exclusive Wise in Five Advisor conversations. Across our conversations with Advisors, common threads appear— patterns that ...
AI Makes Human Leadership More Important, Not Less
Three Fortune 500 executives share the specific frameworks and mindset shifts that help leaders understand what AI cannot replace, and how to lead more powerfully because of it. The Actual Intellig...
How to Lead Through Uncertainty: What the Best Executives Actually Do
We are in chaotic times on many levels. For most business leaders right now,uncertainty isn't a phase. It's the operating condition.Market volatility, AI disruption, shifting workforce expectations...
Everyone Has an AI Strategy. Almost No One Has the Right One.
Three executives who've shaped some of the most recognized brands in their industries share what AI actually changes, and what it doesn’t, for leaders making real decisions right now. Most boardroo...
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The Wisory® and IU Ventures Partner to Enhance Investment Evaluation with IntelliQ™-U
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The Wisory has partnered with IU Ventures to bring its IntelliQ-U platform to Indiana University's investment ecosystem. The collaboration gives IU Ventures a structured framework for evaluating startups faster and with greater confidence, while giving founders actionable feedback to strengthen t...
IU Ventures Presents 2025 Spirit of Venture Award and 2025 Mentor of the Year Award
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IU Ventures, Indiana University’s early-stage venture and angel investment arm, recently announced the winners of its Spirit of Venture Award and Mentor of the Year Award. IU alumnus Michael Arnolt was presented with the Spirit of Venture Award while IU alumnus Jason Wadler was presented with...
IU Angel Network invests in The Wisory, a membership-based platform that connects executives with advisors
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The IU Angel Network, an investment vehicle of IU Ventures, today announced an investment in The Wisory, an innovative membership-based platform that connects business executives with a network of highly experienced and accomplished advisors. Co-founded by Jason Wadler, an IU...