New technology. Same humans.
Polymath is a digital, organizational, and personal transformation firm. We lead technology and AI transformations, manage the change that comes with them, and coach the executives responsible for them.
We have been founders, CEOs, COOs, and CTOs through every technology shift since dial-up, and coaches for the last decade. Technology moves fast. Organizations don’t. We close the gap.
Selected clients
What we do
Three practices, one firm.
Tech & Transformation
We scope and lead technology and AI work, embed as fractional CTOs and CxOs to run the change, write the AI policy, and manage the people side of the rollout.
Leadership & Coaching
We coach CEOs, founders, and executives, and we work with whole leadership teams on how they decide, disagree, and execute together.
Workshops & offsites
We design and run Breakthrough, custom workshops, executive offsites, and conference programming, end to end.
How an engagement runs
We listen first, then design the work with you.
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Listening tour & systems review
We talk in confidence with the leadership team and the people around them, and review the systems, data, and vendors already in place.
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Diagnostic & readout
We come back with a written readout of what we found across the organization and the technology, including the things you already knew and the things you didn’t.
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Roadmap
We design the work with you: what changes first, who leads it, what it costs, and which parts we run, coach, or oversee.
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Rollout
We do the work on a set cadence, with scheduled check-ins with the CEO and board.
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Recalibration & handoff
Every quarter, we check the work against what we agreed. Each engagement has a clear end, and we hand the work to people inside the company who can keep it going.
Case studies
We’ve done this work.
Goop
A Shopify migration and technology rebuild as Co-CTOs, the team changes that went with it, and the company’s first AI policy.
General Things and GoPro
A consultancy that ran digital transformation for Nike, National Geographic, Cisco, and TED, then sold to GoPro. We grew GoPro’s software team from 60 people to 250 and launched GoPro Plus.
The MAZE Group
A digital agency serving LVMH, Dior, and HelloFresh, rebuilt from the inside as it grew into a much larger firm.
What clients say
The reason I chose to work with Nick is simple: he cares deeply. He is someone that truly wants to know the whole person he is working with, not just what they want to do with their lives career-wise, but how that interacts with the other roles we play in life. His superpower is helping you to unlock the answers for yourself. Nothing has done more for my self-confidence than to understand that I actually have answers to my problems. Once you realize that, everything seems possible.
Nick and JT were great facilitators, bringing their experience (and energy) from the coaching world to our company.
From a recent executive offsite
Nick and JT are two of the most welcoming, warm people you’ll meet and get along with straight away. Their energy, passion, and the simplicity in how they do things adds true value to what you are learning.
Nick and JT are amazing. They bring a lot of expertise in areas such as team building, team bonding, and leading events.
Nick and JT were great, from how they got everyone on board to how they allowed us to be more comfortable in our deeper thoughts.
They make team bonding fun and effortless.
They brought the energy, fun, and care to the group in a way that can make these closed sessions awkward for people. It was reassuring and refreshing.
They made us feel right at home and helped us genuinely connect with teammates we were just getting to know. From small talk to fun deep dives, they created space for us to discover how much we have in common.
Who we are
Operators first.
Polymath is led by Nick Hodulik and JT Taylor, partners in business since 2008. They were operators long before they were coaches. They have founded, sold, and shut down companies, and taken one public. They have run technology and operations as executives at GoPro, Goop, and The MAZE Group, and shipped hardware and software used by millions of people.