Operating leadership.
Business performance.
New ventures.

Zudnik works with businesses and entrepreneurs to improve performance, strengthen execution, build strong teams and healthy operating cultures, and develop new commercial opportunities.

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From strategy to execution, across
opportunities and industries.

Executive Advisory

Strategy, operating performance, transformation, governance, growth, market entry, and geographic expansion. Practical insights and solutions to help organizations build strong teams, healthy operating cultures, and scalable capability to expand into new markets and perform at a higher level.

Fractional Operating
Leadership

Senior operating leadership for organizations that need COO-level capability without a full-time executive commitment. Focused on execution, operational discipline, team effectiveness, culture, and measurable results.

Ventures &
Intellectual Property

Development, evaluation, licensing, and commercialization of proprietary concepts and selected business opportunities, bringing together the right teams and capabilities to turn ideas into market impact.

Practical, data-driven, and execution focused.

Strong businesses are built through more than strategy. They require disciplined execution, clear information, and teams that both understand what matters and have the authority to act.

Simplify
complex problems

Create
operating discipline

Build
strong teams

Empower people
to execute

Use data
to drive decisions

Build capability
rather than dependency

Mike Kear

CEO

Mike Kear is an operating executive with 25+ years of experience leading strategy, operations, analytics, and transformation in complex, highly regulated, and fast-moving industries. He builds strong teams and operating cultures where people are informed, motivated, and empowered, driving better execution, higher performance, and sustainable growth. By strengthening organizational capability, he enables leaders to spend more time working on the business rather than in the business.

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Zudnik works with organizations, entrepreneurs, and partners on advisory,
operating, and commercial opportunities.