The Podcast
Conversations on the future of professional services.
Host Shashank Amarnath talks with the strategists, technologists, and operators shaping how consulting and professional services put artificial intelligence to work. Practical insight, not hype.
About the Show
How AI is changing the business of advice.
PPT & Beyond examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the work of professional services firms, from delivery and staffing to the value clients expect. Every episode is a direct conversation with someone doing the work, not commentary from the sidelines.
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Practitioners, not pundits
Guests who lead real engagements and answer for real delivery.
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Signal over hype
What is genuinely changing in how firms work, and what is not.
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Useful takeaways
Perspective you can carry back into your own practice.
Episodes
Recent and upcoming
Emerging technology and the Office of the CTO, with Nallan Sriraman
Nallan Sriraman · Chief Technology Officer, Mass General Brigham
What separates the organizations that turn emerging technology into real value from those that stall. The role of the Office of the CTO in that shift, and how junior professionals can pair technical fluency with strategic judgment.
AI in consulting, with Saurabh Vijayvergia
Where AI is delivering real impact for retail and consumer-product clients, where the market interest is heading, and how consultants are putting it to work.
Listen →The Host
Shashank Amarnath
Shashank is a strategy and technology consultant turned MBA candidate at the Kellogg School of Management. Over three years at Deloitte he led organization assessments, technology implementations, and agile delivery across government, retail, and energy, work that placed him inside the exact processes AI is now reshaping.
He started PPT & Beyond on a simple premise: professional services creates enormous value, and the leaders who understand where AI helps, and where it does not, will define the next decade of the industry.
Connect on LinkedIn →- NowMBA Candidate, Kellogg School of Management
- FormerlyStrategy & Technology, Deloitte Consulting
- CommunityAscend, New Jersey Chapter
- EducationB.S. Business Administration, Georgia Tech
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Spotify and Apple Podcasts coming soon.