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
Mergers & Acquisitions
Organization Design
Employee Life Cycle
People Analytics
AI for HR & Workforce Strategy
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.
Assess
We begin by understanding your current state, including your business priorities, talent challenges, organizational structure, HR systems, workforce data, and internal capabilities.
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.
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
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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