AI Is Everywhere. So Where Are the Business Results? w/ Dave Valliere

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AI adoption is accelerating across professional services — but for many firms, the promised gains in growth, margins, and predictability have yet to materialize. In this episode of Pursuit Power Half Hour, Brent sits down with Dave Valliere, Founder and CEO of Form & Function Consulting, to explore what separates firms simply experimenting with AI from those positioned to turn it into a true competitive advantage.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why AI productivity gains aren’t translating into business performance
What separates “AI-enabled” from “AI-ready” firms
How AI can capture and scale your firm’s most valuable expertise
Where services leaders should focus over the next 90 days
How to measure AI by outcomes that actually matter

To learn more about Form & Function Consulting visit: https://www.form-function.co/

Banoo Behboodi

Vice President, Success Engineering

Banoo Behboodi is a 20+ year software and services leader with extensive experience executing change initiatives with oversight of Customer Success, Professional Services and Delivery and Consulting functions. Banoo’s earlier experiences with AT&T Mobility, Coca-Cola Company and Ernst & Young leading key transformational and compliance projects, provided the foundation needed to be an effective leader and a change agent with a customer first mindset. Banoo is passionate about driving continuous improvement through sharing best practices and empowering resources through technology and analytics to optimize performance and job satisfaction while driving business outcomes.

Brent Trimble

Vice President, Value Engineering

Brent brings more than 15+ year’s of leadership experience in Management Consulting, Strategic Delivery, Marketing services and product development firms to his technology role at Kantata. As the VP of Value Engineering and the Managing Director of Marketing Service & Agency Vertical, he specializes in identifying process improvement potential, business optimization and key health metrics for alignment and orientation.

With deep business understanding through an operator lens - Brent works with Kantata partner firms to refine intrinsic and extrinsic value drivers - giving firm principals the focus required for adoption, mobilization, value realization and ultimately - success.

Prior to joining Kantata, Brent was a client of the platform and held positions at Interpublic Group, Accenture, WPP, and independent marketing consulting firms.