Douglas Knox

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ABOUT DOUGLAS KNOX

Great consulting isn\'t about having the right answer. It\'s about asking the right questions. I lead with curiosity: about your team, your dynamics, your history, and what\'s actually broken versus what just looks broken. I\'m equally comfortable in the boardroom and in the weeds. I bring compassion into rooms full of pressure and friction, and I stay until your team owns the work, understands it, and can run it with confidence.That curiosity extends to AI. I don\'t just use it. I lead a hands-on executive learning community where we test, build, and deploy AI tools together. If you want to know what AI can do for your Finance and Operations teams, I\'m already doing that work.I founded Knox Adaptive Solutions where Finance, Operations, and Technology meet, and where most organizations quietly fall apart.Over 25 years I\'ve led PMOs, software operations, customer success teams, and enterprise implementations, owned two companies, and optimized financial, HR, and payroll operations from the C-suite to the front line. That breadth is what I bring to every engagement.Platforms I work across: Workday · ADP · UKG · Oracle · PeopleSoft · Dynamics · NetSuite · Great Plains · Fidelity · Gusto · QuickBooks, Coupa, Concur.My deepest expertise is Workday: implementation, configuration, EIBs, parallel testing, tax configuration audits, prior-year jurisdictional remediation, and system-level bug identification escalated to Workday engineering.I build multi-system reconciliation frameworks: 4-way payroll matches, accrual engines, GL translators that compress days of manual work into minute and countless recons.I\'ve led $1.4B M&A integrations, built CFO PMOs from scratch, and designed close the books programs that have saved quantified hours in year one.AI: I lead AI Masterminds through Suite C, an invite-only executive community where I serve on the board as Head of Technology.In 2026 our entire focus shifts to AI Education: hands-on learning, speakers, and practical deployment frameworks for C-suite leaders at $100M to $2B organizations. We don\'t talk about AI. We build with it and we teach.When your problem needs a different leader, I can connect you. My network: CFOs, CROs, CMOs, CHROs, VPs of Finance, FP & A, Accounting, Marketing, full-time, fractional, or interim. If I can\'t solve it, I know who can. You get the gold star either way.Knox Adaptive Solutions is open for business. If your team is buried in work that should be systematized, your Workday instance isn\'t delivering, or you need the right executive in the right seat, let\'s talk.