Chuck Boudreau

Thirty years across systems design, business architecture, marketing, and content creation. I've spent my career helping people and organizations get clear on what they do, reach the people they serve, and build the systems to support it.

How I Got Here

I started building systems — Texas Instruments, Exxon, McDonnell Douglas, Westinghouse. Along the way, the work our team was doing drew serious trade interest — groundbreaking technology in an enterprise setting that other development teams wanted to learn from. People started asking me to explain what we were doing and how. So I wrote about it. Then I spoke about it. Then I was consulting on it. I didn't set out to become an expert — the demand found me because what I knew was useful to people.

Those two threads — building systems and communicating what they mean to people — came together at Compassion International. Over 17 years and multiple roles, I designed systems, established the organization's first business architecture practice, and certified 40+ product managers in Pragmatic Marketing during growth from $55 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue.

I've been building software on the side since 1999. Candor, an AI-powered survey platform, is the latest. I co-publish Strategic Intercession, a podcast reaching 80+ nations. And over the past two years I've produced over a dozen books with people who had the expertise and needed someone to get it out of them.

Why MyImpact

I keep meeting two kinds of people.

The first is someone who's spent years — sometimes decades — getting genuinely good at something. They help real people solve real problems. But they have no idea that what they carry could reach further than it does. They shrug and say "I just know a lot about this one thing" — while the people who could benefit from their knowledge never find them.

The second is a growing organization that needs to see how things actually work — from the perspective of the people they serve — before they can improve them. The impact is real, but the clarity isn't there yet.

That's why I started MyImpact. Not because the world needs another agency — but because the hard parts that keep capable people and growing organizations stuck happen to be the parts I've spent my career learning how to solve: clarity, systems, content, and reach. Those parts are mine.

The Rest

Married to Melanie since 1983. Three children and grandchildren. Once a professional drummer — now for the joy of it. Colorado Springs.

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