Jack Healey spent his career in the room when it mattered most. Sixteen years in public accounting, rising to Partner in Charge of Assurance Services. Then EVP, CFO, and Corporate Secretary of a publicly traded company, helping lead it through a "roll up" of nine specialty distributors that merged and went public on the NYSE, eventually acquiring 64 legal entities. As acting COO, his responsibility extended well beyond the finance function — HR, IT, Real Estate, Risk, and Facilities all reported through him, the kind of full-enterprise operating experience most CFOs never get the chance to build. Since 2019, he's advised acquisitive and turnaround organizations through the moments that make or break a leadership team — negotiating, closing, or participating in over 150 acquisitions along the way, and training formally in negotiations, crisis management, cyber risk, and board fundamentals.

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Along the way, something else happened: he never stopped mentoring. Thirty years of guiding college students toward their next chapter, alongside four decades of guiding executives through theirs.

 

Now, Jack is in what he calls his "give back" years, Jack has made a deliberate choice: no more hands-on engagements. Everything he learned the hard way — the audits, the acquisitions, the crises, the boardrooms — now goes into one thing: teaching it to the CFOs who need it, and the PE firms who depend on them.