Published in the Winter 2018 issue of Cornell Enterprise, the alumni magazine for Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business

Meredith Amdur isn’t very often at a loss for words. But ask her what she’s passionate about in her career, and she pauses. Her path to becoming CEO of Rhetorik Solutions, a data analytics company headquartered outside of London, has taken a rambling tour of some of the world’s foremost companies. Finally she answers, “I think, ultimately, I do look at the world through the lens of a consultant. Like, ‘OK, so what’s the problem? What are we going to do?’ And you don’t have a lot of time — you have a week, two weeks, a month, and you have to become an expert like that.” She snaps her fingers. As she parses the question, it’s clear she’s thinking out loud — a classic trait, according to former colleagues.

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