Talento Consulting

Human capital strategy for organizations building what comes next.

 

Talento Consulting helps organizations build the people infrastructure, talent strategies, and HR systems needed to support growth, transformation, and long-term business performance. 

As part of the TalentoHC platform, our consulting practice extends beyond search to help organizations strengthen the structures, systems, and strategies that make talent successful. From workforce planning and organization design to employee lifecycle strategy, M&A support, people analytics, and total rewards, we help companies connect human capital decisions to business outcomes. 

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BUILT FOR GROWTH

Human capital consulting built for the realities of growth

Growth does not happen in a straight line. Organizations scale, restructure, acquire, expand, shift priorities, and navigate workforce challenges that require more than reactive HR support. 

Talento Consulting partners with organizations to bring clarity, structure, and practical execution to people-related business challenges. We help leaders assess where they are today, design what they need next, and operationalize the systems that support better hiring, stronger retention, clearer decision-making, and more effective organizational performance. 

CONSULTING SERVICES

Practical advisory support across the full human capital ecosystem.

Explore the core consulting areas designed to help organizations align people strategy, structure, systems, and execution.

Strategy & Transformation

Align your people strategy with your business strategy. We help organizations navigate growth, workforce planning, HR technology, change management, and transformation initiatives with a human capital lens.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Support the people side of transactions with due diligence, integration planning, culture assessment, retention risk analysis, readiness planning, and employee communication strategies.

Organization Design

Design organizational structures that improve clarity, accountability, and execution. We support operating model design, governance, job architecture, functional structures, and management-to-employee analysis.

Employee Life Cycle

Build stronger people systems across every stage of the employee journey, from talent management and recruitment to onboarding, development, retention, succession, transition, and total rewards.

People Analytics

Turn HR data into business insight. We help organizations build people analytics strategies, dashboards, reporting systems, AI-enabled insights, and executive-ready people metrics.

AI for HR & Workforce Strategy

Evaluate, govern, and apply AI across HR, talent acquisition, people analytics, workforce planning, and employee lifecycle processes.

WHO WE HELP

For organizations ready to move from reactive HR to strategic human capital planning.

✓  Companies navigating growth or restructuring

✓  Organizations preparing for or integrating M&A activity

✓  Teams with evolving HR technology or reporting needs

✓ Leaders strengthening retention, succession, and engagement

✓ Businesses building people infrastructure for the next stage of scale

HOW WE WORK

Assess. Design. Operationalize.

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Assess

We begin by understanding your current state, including your business priorities, talent challenges, organizational structure, HR systems, workforce data, and internal capabilities. 

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Design

We build practical strategies, frameworks, tools, and roadmaps aligned to your organization’s size, goals, budget, and stage of growth. Each solution is designed to be usable, scalable, and sustainable.

Operationalize

We help move strategy into action through implementation support, communication planning, reporting, manager enablement, and ongoing advisory as needed. 

ADVISORY TEAM

Meet the advisors behind Talento Consulting.

Talento Consulting brings together experienced human capital advisors with executive, operating, governance, technology, and transformation experience.

Mary Cheddie, SHRM-SCP, SPHR

Human Capital Advisor | HR Strategy Leader

Mary Cheddie brings executive HR, board, governance, transformation, and global people leadership experience to Talento Consulting. She helps organizations navigate HR strategy, M&A, business turnarounds, leadership development, culture transformation, and workforce change.

Areas of Focus: HR Strategy, Transformation, M&A, Global HR, Governance, Leadership Development, Change Management

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Laurie Villa

Board Member | Human Capital Advisor 

Laurie Villa brings deep C-suite HR, board governance, and enterprise transformation experience to Talento Consulting. She has led global HR teams through growth, change, M&A activity, labor strategy, organization design, succession planning, talent management, and total rewards. 

Areas of Focus: Organization Design, Executive HR Strategy, Change Management, M&A Integration, Governance, Succession Planning, Total Rewards

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Steven J. Smith, SHRM-CP, PHR

Practice Director, HR Consulting

Steven J. Smith brings more than two decades of experience across HR, recruiting, talent attraction, and HR technology. At TalentoHC, he helps organizations move from reactive hiring to strategic workforce planning across talent acquisition, employer branding, HR technology, people analytics, retention, and employee lifecycle strategy. 

Areas of Focus: Talent Acquisition Strategy, Employer Branding, HR Technology, People Analytics, Retention, Workforce Planning

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DISCUSS OUR SOLUTIONS

Build the people infrastructure your next stage of growth requires. 

Whether you are scaling, restructuring, preparing for a transaction, strengthening leadership capability, or building more visibility into your people data, Talento Consulting helps connect human capital strategy to business performance. 

CONNECTED TALENT SOLUTIONS

Consulting that connects to the broader TalentoHC platform.

Human capital consulting is only one part of the ecosystem. When organizations need support moving from strategy to hiring execution, TalentoHC connects consulting work with executive search, professional search, RPO, and talent acquisition solutions.

That means your people strategy, workforce planning, recruiting infrastructure, and hiring execution can work together instead of operating in separate silos.

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